This page contains some interesting facts about Press Your Luck that you may or may not have known :).

In 1984, during the Jim/Mimi/Mark game, Mimi is down almost $10,000 to Jim 's $17,550 and is passed 3 spins.  She then blesses herself with the Sign of the Cross, and comes back to win over $21,000!!!  Pretty cool!

• Not one time did PYL have 3 men or 3 women on the show at one time.  You could often tell if a man or a woman was the returning champion because there would USUALLY be 2 women if a woman was the returning champ and 2 men if a man was the returning champ.  Most of the time, this was the case.

• The light seemed to move slower after the board patterns changed after the Michael Larson episode for a couple of months until the patterns changed again.

• Pick A Corner worked ONLY in the mid-1984 episodes.  When it first appeared on the board, some possibilites of the corners were $2000, $1000+, $1750 and $2500, $1000+, $2250.  Finally someone noticed this and replaced the $2000 and $2500 in square 10 with prizes, which made it possible to pick $1750.  However, in mid-85, $2000/Lose 1 whammy was put into square #15, which made for the possibility $1400, $2000/L1W, Prize.  Then 2 prizes in #10 were replaced with $1250 and $1400, which screwed it up even more making $500+, $2000/L1W, or $1250.  It didn't make much sense to pick $1250 over $2000 :).

• Some squares never, or very seldom, showed up together.  Such squares included Pick A Corner and one of the squares in #10.  Two times, in the Larson episodes, I did see the $750s in #5 and #7 appear at the same time.  One of the squares in #15, the prize before 1985, $2000/L1W during 1985, and $500+ after 1985, never showed up with one of the squares in #1, $2250 before & during 1985, $1400 in early 1986, and $750 in mid-86.

• The board was actually a set of 18 screens at which 54 slide projectors were pointed?

• Each slide projector was capable of holding a total of six slides, meaning that each prize square could be rotated to show 6 prizes?

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