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CONTENTS
Pilot   Round One Round Three
Charity Board May 11 '02 Round One Round Three
Halloween Board Oct 26 '02 Round One Round Three

The board configurations on this page are those that, for one reason or another, don't quite fit on their usual pages.

By the way, Whammy! had a counterpart to PYL's "blank slide" boards. During the question round, the board was filled with 18 Whammies (for Season Two, all the Whammies used the "Grin" pose).


Whammy! Pilot (R1) Click on the thumbnail to view the board at full size (13.1 Kb).

This setup was used for the pilot episode (Todd Newton hosting; it may have been used with Peter Tomarken hosting as well), and as you can see, the arrangement is not as orderly as it would eventually become. Note that the big cash square is centered on the board; this would not happen again until Season Two. Also note that no square was placed on the bottom, which means that of the remaining 17 spaces, 8 must go on the left side, and 9 on the right. On his page about the pilot, Brad Francini calls this a "scattered motif".

The clip that this board is based from only shows one spin taken from the middle of the round. Normally that would mean that one could not find out how Whammies were added to the board, but the rules were different on the pilot: each player began with 3 earned spins (no question round), and could pass to other players. Thus, there was no need to add Whammies to the board. By the way, there are nine up here (just like Classic PYL). The "G" (as in "General Motors") is where the first part of the car was located.

Whammy! Pilot (R3) Click on the thumbnail to view the board at full size (15.5 Kb).

See comments for R1. I couldn't tell where the "M" (as in "Motors, General") was; for all I know, it might have been hit before the clip took place. Due to the unusual placement of the monitors, "Move 1 Space" looks goofy. Even though there were a few spaces next to "Move 1", it still only gives you two options. $1000 or Spin Again premiers on this board. And, despite the addition of the dreaded Double Whammy, there are still only nine Whammies total on this board.



                
  $500 $1,000 Date aired: May 11 '02
STATISTICS
Cash: 24040
Avg: 442
PrEst: 0
Dir: 2335
Total: 26375
[$C] 48, 1:1.12
[P] 0, none
[Wh] 4, 1:13.5
[D5] 550
[D12(BB)] 1250
[D12(A2)] 535
  $350 $550 $1,250 $550  
  $300 $400 $600 $1,500 Whammy $300  
  $470 #3 $450   Back 2 #4 $400  
  $550  
Charity Board (R1)
Ran on Mother's Day, with TV moms playing
for charity (Karen Grassle, "Little House on
the Prairie"; Estelle Harris, "Seinfeld"; and
Mimi Kennedy, "Dharma and Greg"). And
since there isn't much a charity can do with
a Lobstergram... Big Font board. 		  $500 #1  
$350 $300 $450 #2 $350
$400 $450 $525 $400 #1
Whammy Whammy $740 #4 $450
$350 #2 $450 #1 $300 $300 #1
$400 $500 $500 $500
$500 #3 $600 $550 #3 $600
  $450   $400 #2  
  $555 $300 Whammy $550  
  $600 $350 Big Bucks $800  
  $400 Advance 2 #4  
Some additional comments about the Whammies: It seems that the board may have gone easy on our ladies, because only
three Whammies were added on each pass (except the first, which had four). There may be a more technical reason, though.
When compared to the Final Board in Season One, the cash values that were replaced with Whammies line up pretty well!
Here's what was "skipped over" during each pass:
  • Pass #2: Move 1, [2]
  • Pass #3: Pick A Prize, [13]
  • Pass #4: $300, [17]
As you can see, there is no Move 1 in [2], nor Pick A Prize in [13] (neither which would have made sense anyway). Rather than
assign another slot, that particular Whammy was skipped altogether. Pass #4 is a bit mysterious: first off, no spins were taken
after the fourth pass, so while we definitely know which monitors got a Whammy, we cannot know beyond a doubt into which
slots the Whammies were placed. The ones I have marked use the Final Board as a guide. Additionally, $300 in [17] should
have had a Whammy on the fourth pass, but it appeared that only the first three were added.


                
  $900 $3,000+S Date aired: May 11 '02
STATISTICS
Cash: 45630
Avg: 1141
PrEst: 0
Dir: 2984
Total: 48614
[$C] 33, 1:1.64
[$+] 7, 1:7.71
[$T] 40, 1:1.35
[P] 0, none
[Wh] 3, 1:18
[WD] 8, 1:6.75
[WT] 11, 1:4.91
[D3] 742
[D12(BB)] 1250
[D12(M1)] 992
  $1,100 Dbl Whm $4,000+S $525  
  $500 $1,250 Advance 2 $5,000+S $800 $500  
  $550 $1,500   $900 $750  
  Dbl Whm  
Charity Board (R3)
See comments for R1. 		  Whammy  
$600 $500+S $1,400 $500
$800 $1,000 $1,750 $600
$1,400 Dbl Whm Dbl Whm $740
$600 $1,500 $550 $900
$740 Whammy $1,000/Spin $1,100
Dbl Whm Dbl Whm $1,200 Whammy
  $525   $800  
  $1,000 $500+S Dbl Whm $1,200  
  Dbl Whm $700+S Big Bucks $2,000/W  
  $750+S Move 1  


                
  Prize $1,000 Date aired: Oct 26 '02
STATISTICS
Cash: 9185  
Avg: 612  
PrEst: 18972 (+612)
Dir: 3062 (-612)
Total: 31219  
[$C] 15, 1:3.6  
[P] 31, 1:1.74 (+1)
[Wh] 4, 1:13.5  
[D2] 588  
[D5] 612  
[D12(BB)] 1250  
[D12(A2)] 612  
[D13] removed  
  Prize Prize $1,250 Trick/Spin  
  $470 Prize Prize $1,500 Whammy $500  
  Prize Move 1   Back 2 Prize  
  Prize  
Halloween Episode (R1)
The Gem/Spin, Car/Spin pair has been
replaced with Trick/Spin in R1, and Treat/
Spin in R3. The grand prize for getting both
Trick and Treat is a trip to Count Dracula's
castle in Transylvania! To make it easier to
win, it appears 4 times in R1. Pick-Prize is
replaced with a prize in [13]. Sarah hits
Trick/Spin in [13]. Big font board. 		  Prize  
Prize $300 $450 $400
Prize Trick/Spin $740 Prize
Whammy Whammy Prize Prize
$350 $450 $550 $300
$525 Prize Trick/Spin Prize
Prize Prize Prize Prize
  Prize   $400  
  Prize Prize Whammy Prize  
  Prize Prize Big Bucks Prize  
  Trick/Spin Advance 2  

                
  $900 $3,000+S Date aired: Oct 26 '02
STATISTICS
Cash: 28150  
Avg: 1482  
PrEst: 28158  
Dir: 9520  
Total: 65828  
[$C] 13, 1:4.15  
[$+] 6, 1:9  
[$T] 19, 1:2.84  
[P] 19, 1:2.84  
[Wh] 3, 1:18  
[WD] 8, 1:6.75  
[WT] 11, 1:4.91  
[D1] 1339  
[D3] 1482  
[D6] 1291  
[D12(BB)] 4000  
[D12(M1)] 1408  
  $1,100 Dbl Whm $4,000+S Prize  
  $500 $1,500 Advance 2 $5,000+S Prize $750  
  Dbl Whm Prize   Prize Whammy  
  Move 1  
Halloween Episode (R3)
Due to Sarah's fortune in R1, we see that
Treat/Spin only appeared in [15], where
Car/Spin usually was. This was changed to
a regular prize after Sarah hit a Double
Whammy. 		  Move 1  
$700+S Prize $1,400 $500+S
Prize Prize $1,750 $750+S
Prize Dbl Whm Dbl Whm Prize
$600 Treat/Spin $700 Prize
Prize Whammy $1,000/Spin Prize
Dbl Whm Dbl Whm Dbl Whm Whammy
  Prize   $800  
  Prize Prize Dbl Whm $1,200  
  Dbl Whm Prize Big Bucks $2,000/W  
  Prize Move 1  


Sources:
Layout inspired by Jason Wuthrich's Board Configuration Page at Game Show Warehouse
Brad Francini's Whammy! Board page and Pilot Video at Game Show Central
Jeff Pfeifer for his contributions to the Charity Board and Halloween Board.

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