• Double Whammy

— Peter Tomarken's occasional response. A Whammy is a 's sadistic streak personified in a condition that takes from the unlucky player who gets it, usually everything. A player who gets a Whammy can pretty much throw in the towel right then and there, unless of course his opponents (if there are any opponents) also hit them. If the is the prankster that tapes a 'Kick Me' sign to your back, and the is the annoying roommate who thinks putting Saran Wrap on the toilet is the surest way to express his friendship, then the Whammy is the guy who mugs you with an AK-47.

There's no reasoning with the Whammy: he only takes, and just how much he takes is purely up to the show's producers. The opposite of the Whammy is the. Getting a Whammy during a situation generally amounts to an instant win for your opponent.

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Not related to a or, though either may induce the same kind of feelings. And (speaking of horses) not to be confused with. The 70s board game Which Witch employed the whammy in the form of a marble dropped through the central chimney, whose cap was designed to create an element of probability. One of four 'curses' could befall players depending on how the marble fell through the chimney: 1) a broomstick would fall; 2) part of the floor would shake; 3) a secret trapdoor would open and hit the player square in the jaw; 4) the marble would come rolling down the staircase, knocking down whoever's on it. Players could also find their pieces turned into mice, which meant that they could not move until they found the counter-card. The 'Whammy during the Golden Snitch situation' is invoked with getting the 'Advance To Boardwalk' card from Chance.

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When someone has a hotel there, it's usually an instant knockout or will knock you so far down you might as well concede). Inverted with the Property Assessment cards: It only hurts during your Golden Snitch time (you have lots of properties with houses or hotels). Multiplayer games leave open the possibility for this unlikely but incredibly ironic scenario: you are on the brink of elimination when a player who has narrowly survived an encounter with a third player's hotel by mortgaging many properties lands on your space and can't cover the rent, knocking them out. And causing you to inherit all their mortgaged properties, making interest in the amount of 10% of the loan due payable immediately, knocking you out too. Early in the game, landing on 'Go to Jail' or getting the Chance/Community Chest card that sends you to Jail can be this as it deprives you the chance to obtain properties. Inverted when your opponents have monopolies; the chance of landing on one makes staying in Jail much more desirable., a Milton Bradley children's game where color recognition was married to a racing motif, and the objective was to navigate the 134-space, multicolored path to the finish line. Depending on the vintage of the particular game being played, the Whammy spaces were as thus:.

Pre-2004: Landing on any space marked with a black dot was a 'cavity,' and — per the game's rules — the player had to stay put until drawing a card corresponding to the dotted space they were currently on. (Given the game's chance design, that could be quite awhile, allowing contestants to advance far ahead and, depending on where the unlucky player was 'stuck,' virtually sealed a loss.) Some editions of the game required the player to draw a card marked with two of the same color to become 'unstuck.' . 2004-later editions: The 'dots' were replaced with spaces marked with a licorice stick. The Whammy here is far less severe: The player simply loses his next turn.

There were also cards in the deck marked with the names of locations in the Candy Land, including 'Candy Cane Forest' and 'Gum Drop Mountain,' or people, such as Princess Frostine or Gloppy the Molasses Monster. Depending on where the player was on the board, drawing one of these cards could be a (move a trailing contestant far ahead) or a Whammy (a player with a large lead going all the way back behind the second-to-last contestant). has Go to Jail! When you land it.

You wait 3 turns to roll a double, Pay $50, or give out a get out of jail free card. If you fail on rolling a double in jail three times, You owe the bank $50. Often times it occurs:. When you land on Go to Jail!.

When a Community Chest or Chance card reads: 'GO TO JAIL! GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL! DO NOT PASS GO!, DO NOT COLLECT $200!. When you roll doubles three times!.

Chutes and Ladders: The children's game based on the ancient Indian game Snakes and Ladders, the game used a 100-space board and a playground motif to teach children basic morality lessons. A player landing on a space with a ladder (on which a 'good' behavior or deed was illustrated, ) allowed the player to advance a number of bonus spaces, but the trope kicked in by landing on a space marked with the top of a chute (always illustrated was 'bad' behavior or deed), which sent the player down a set number of spaces. While the misdeed illustrated wasn't necessarily tied to the length of the chute (i.e., the severity of the consequence), some of the chutes only sent players back a few spaces while others cost the player a large number of spaces (for instance, one chute starts at space 87 and landing on this spot sends the unfortunate player down, down, down to space 24. A 63-space loss!) and — especially in a tight game, could virtually seal a loss. In the Game of the Goose, landing on some of the spaces (such as the second bridge or the second pair of dice) sends the player backwards to the first bridge or pair of dice (although this is inverted if you land on the first, which allows you to advance to the second; in either case you are also allowed to roll again).

Other spaces (the maze, the inn, or jail) cause the player to lose a finite number of turns. The worst spaces, however, are #31 (the well, where you until someone lands there to relieve you) or #58 (death, a space five away from the end that sends you back to start). The 'death' space was carried over to. requires players to have all the cards in an outfit set to open the door, and call which outfit if they have more than one set. If the date who shows up doesn't match the set, the player has to discard all the cards in that set. Codenames has the assassin.

The game requires players to guess one or more words on a 25-word board that match their team's colour, based on a one-word clue provided by the team's captain each turn. Matching a bystander ends the turn, which isn't a big deal.

Matching the other team's colour gives them a free point, which is problematic. Matching the single assassin on the board, however, is an instant for the team. Because of this, it's very important for the captain not to give a clue that can in any way be linked to the assassin's word.

Non-luck-based variant in and: The form of called the. In Chess, it means all legal moves give your opponent an unstoppable passed pawn that will queen for a King-and-Queen checkmate net. It's even more immediate in Shatranj, since all legal moves enable your opponent to bare your King on the next move;, you lose. Disco.

Not only does the Whammy cause the player who gets it to lose all their money and prizes, but a player who gets is eliminated from the game. Adding to the sadism is the fact that players could pass their remaining spins (after taking at least one) to a designated player, and that player had to use all the spins passed to them (but all unused passed spins were moved to the 'earned' column once a Whammy was hit, provided it was not #4). Almost always done by the player who's ahead by a wide margin, and doesn't want to hit a Whammy, but occasionally (and entertainingly) done by a player who's far behind and whose only hope of victory is for the leader to 'Whammy Out'. The Whammy is so iconic that at least one revival actually uses! As the title.

PYL's predecessor, had Devils instead and no animations, but the same purpose. The raised the ante with the introduction of the Double Whammy in Round 3, which is just like the Whammy only it also throws in, like dropping flour, feathers, or even dirty laundry on the player.

'Sammy the Whammy' of Beat the Odds may be the, as the show debuted in July 1961. The idea was to make words of a certain length, determined at random, and beginning and ending with the letters dictated on the spinning reels. You could keep trying to make words as long as you wanted and freeze your score at any time, but Sammy was on each reel and took all your unfrozen points if one came up; getting a Double Whammy awarded a $50 gift certificate instead. The 1975 revival attempt hosted by replaced Sammy with a lightning bolt.:. Landing on Bankrupt (which is the for Whammy) or, calling a letter that is not in the puzzle, or incorrectly solving a puzzle results in control being passed to the next contestant.

Landing on Bankrupt also wipes out a contestant's winnings for that particular round. However, winnings from previous rounds are retained, and multiple Bankrupts won't cause a contestant to be eliminated. If, upon landing on a Bankrupt, a contestant has, the Million-Dollar Wedge, and/or any, all that are in the player's possession are forfeit. (The Wild Card and the Million Dollar wedge are gone for good. However, two '1/2 Car' tokens are in play during the first three rounds, regardless if any contestant lost one or both via Bankrupt).

The only tokens safe from Bankrupt were the Free Spin and the short-lived Double Play. The Season 25 exclusive Big Money Wedge notably could switch from a case award ($5,000, $7,500, or $25,000, which were all compatible with the Wild Card) to a Lose A Turn or a Bankrupt, making it a Whammy wedge on some spins. However, if a player was able to claim one of the cash awards, it switched to a $1,000 a letter space on all spins that game on.

As of Season 27, the Free Spin token has been replaced with a Free Play wedge, allowing a player to take another turn even if they call a wrong letter or incorrectly solve. However, landing on Bankrupt or Lose A Turn will always result in control being passed to the next contestant. In the shopping era, contestants could put their winnings 'on account'. That money would be added to the contestant's winnings in the next round.but if a contestant hit Bankrupt, the on-account winnings would be wiped out as well, similar to the Wild Card and Million-Dollar Wedge. On Wheel 2000, Lose A Turn was renamed 'Loser' and added the humiliation of that show's virtual 'Cyber Lucy' mocking the kid for landing on it by her making the 'Loser L' sign on her forehead toward the contestant.

Meanwhile, Bankrupt became 'The Creature', a CGI dragon-monster-thing that lived under the Wheel and came up whenever his wedge was hit to 'eat' the player's points or the player if it was landed on without points. The Olmec's Temple final round of had three 'Temple Guards' in random rooms. A contestant entering a guarded room would be immediately 'captured' and removed from the temple, leaving their partner to try and complete the run in their place. If the partner then got captured in turn, the game would end. To mitigate this, 'Pendants of Life' could be won in previous rounds and guards could be 'bribed' away with a full pedant (hence the name — they acted as extra lives), but only two pendants were available and any team that didn't completely ace the Temple Games would likely have only one (if they entered the temple with one and a half pendants, another half pendant was hidden in the temple's early areas that the second player could pick up to give them the second pendant). The Locker Room of has the dreaded.

The Red Herring is a character or item with no match at all. If the next match is that character or item, The player must pull the handle and continue making more match. A favorite Bonus Round format of (partner in the Jack Barry-Dan Enright Productions empire), where the designated picture would end the game in a loss if revealed before the contestant achieved a specific goal (usually, accumulating $1,000 through other good picks). Each of these games also offered the contestant a chance to end the game at his discretion and keep any winnings to that point or continue on at risk of losing:.: The Dragon of the 1978-86 and 1990 runs, where revealing the Dragon meant instant loss on the.

(A few weeks into the 1990 version, (and so did the Dragonslayer, which if found immediately won the game). Conversely, during the fifth and sixth seasons of the syndicated 1978 run, there was a 'Dragon Finder's Game,' an audience participation game where the player's goal was to find the dragon.

Was Game Show Network's true-to-the-original remake of the classic CBS game show, 'Press Your Luck,' and served as a companion to reruns of the classic series, which GSN began rerunning in 2001. Three contestants competed in this three-round game. Each contestant was spotted $1,000 to start the game. The first round was the Bonus Board, where contestants faced an 18-space oval-shaped PYL board containing cash amounts, the names of prizes and Whammy spaces (the latter explained later). One at a time, the contestants stopped a randomly-flashing cursor by pressing their signaling device (and usually the scream 'STOP'). The contestant wins whatever appears in the lit space. He/she could then 'freeze' with their winnings, or risk those winnings with increased odds they could hit a Whammy space (more such spaces were added as the contestant pressed his luck).

If they hit a Whammy space, a humorous 3-D computer-animated sequence starring the Whammy, a hedgehog-like devil played and. First off, I must say that this is a fun game show. Also, I'm not sure if I've seen every episode. However, I do know the show very well. Every time I've watched it, I've had a lot of fun playing along and watch. When new episodes were being filmed, this made me long to be a contestant.

The thing I liked most about it are the questions. Despite the fact that I don't know that many answers, I still have fun playing along. I hope the Game Show Network keeps it on so I can play along and watch again. If that happens, I will be really happy. Before I wrap this up, I'd like to say that I'll always remember this show in my memory forever. Now, in conclusion, I hope that you catch it one day before it goes off the air for good.