And the Mystery Event is....

[Andy]

The TGA 1 year anniversary mystery event is the classic game show...

PRESS YOUR LUCK

The event will be complete and will include the actual board from the game rendered by Sal and custom taylored for TGA. Never heard of PYL well, stay tuned for Sal's thread which will be posted tonight on the rules of the game. The event is going to be a lot of fun for all those who enter.

Once we figure out some programing glitches Sal and I are also going to have a new game show every month, we have a ton of great ideas too.

Thanks everyone and good luck!

Andy

[Dipstick]

o_O;;

This event should be comedy gold. Too bad I probably will not be able to see it. :\

One protip: Make sure the board is randomized. As obvious as it sounds, the original verson of Press Your Luck was deterministic, and had a predictable pattern. This flaw was exposed on one show where a contestant exploited it, and managed to constantly land on the "money and a free spin" spots on the board, going on for about an hour and making about $100,000 in the process. (This was in the early 80s, so this amounts to being a nontrivial sum of money.) There was even an explanation by the host (Dick Clark?) about how someone had haxored the game (and how they did it) and the episode was aired in two parts. Funny as hell; and I think the Game Show Network has aired this epsiode a couple of times over time if you are curious.

(There is your daily bit of useless random knowledge.)

-Dippy

[Bryan]

OH MY GOD
THIS IS MY MOST FAVOIRTE GAME SHOW EVER. I LOVE YOU BOTH, YOU ARE MY HEROES!

But yea Dip, I did see the episodes (they were online once) about that man who one over 100,000 playing that game. Peter Tomaken was the host, and the look on his face was of complete awe, because he didn't know what the hell was going on. But I guess this guy had the boards memorized at last I remember. If I find the episodes, I'll post the link up here. But back to what I was saying.

YOU GUYS ROCK!
OMG OMG OMG OMG!

Can I be Peter Tomaken? O_O!! Please?!?!?

[iceymoon]

One protip: Make sure the board is randomized. As obvious as it sounds, the original verson of Press Your Luck was deterministic, and had a predictable pattern. This flaw was exposed on one show where a contestant exploited it, and managed to constantly land on the "money and a free spin" spots on the board, going on for about an hour and making about $100,000 in the process. (This was in the early 80s, so this amounts to being a nontrivial sum of money.) There was even an explanation by the host (Dick Clark?) about how someone had haxored the game (and how they did it) and the episode was aired in two parts. Funny as hell; and I think the Game Show Network has aired this epsiode a couple of times over time if you are curious.

(There is your daily bit of useless random knowledge.)

-Dippy

um...but i doubt people will do this when they have yet to see how sal's reindition of the boards will work. and i doubt they'll be able to get their hands on it for long enough to figure out all the patters (if it is, indeed, patters). and i doubt anyone would really wanna do this since they're not gonna get thousand of dollars out of it. and i doubt anybody that's gonna play wants to cheat andy. ^_^; but yeah. i remember that guy too...he sorta earned the money, though, going through all that trouble...lol. too bad he's dead now.

but anyway, this game sounds like it's gonna be a lot of fun!! :] can't wait.

[Hi-C]

this is gonna be so awesome!!!! i love that game press your luck! cant wait till the 1st year anniversary, its gonna be a blast!! :)

[Andy]

You guys must have read our minds :gator: Sal actually has that clip of Mr Larson (I think that was his name) kicking major buttocks.

We spent the better part of an entire evening generating random board patterns so that it would be impossible to memorize.

The project is near completion! Sal did all of the work for this and deserves a MAJOR pat on the back!

Thanks Sal

Andy

[Zurden]

Big money big money big money no whammy and STOP!

Sorry, got in the moment ^^;;

Sounds like a load of fun!