Press Your Luck (RC vs. doctorwho vs. NS)

[StrangerCoug]

...Yeah. After finals, I should be able to devote more attention to keeping this current.

Round 1 is the same layout as last time. Big Bucks could get you up to $5,000, and the whammies are still up there to take your money away. We start with the player with the fewest spins...

...and that's Nobody Special with four spins.

There are unlikely to be any more pictures of the board until after May 14.

That's the biggest drain for me in this game. If no one takes my hosting offer, then this will be the last episode of Press Your Luck.

Ready to make some money, Nobody Special?

[Nobody Special]

Original Roll String: 2d18

2 18-Sided Dice: (18, 3) = 21

[StrangerCoug]

Your first spin stops at $1,000 and a spin, while your second spin stops at a whammy.

No money, three spins, one whammy. Press your luck or pass?

[Nobody Special]

*sigh*

Original Roll String: 2d18

2 18-Sided Dice: (11, 10) = 21

[StrangerCoug]

$600, and then... a

TRIP TO PHOENIX W/6N STAY @ ARIZONA GRAND RESORT & RENTAL CAR

worth $1,491!

Two thousand, ninety-one dollars; one spin; one Whammy. Keep going or make one of your opponents take that last spin of yours?

[Nobody Special]

I have to keep going!

Original Roll String: 1d18

1 18-Sided Dice: (15) = 15

[StrangerCoug]

Acknowledged; my Excel program is being uncooperative right now.

[RedCoyote]

Just give him a whammy...

[StrangerCoug]

There's no whammy in square #15 in this round What there is is $700.

That gives him $2,791, and you're now up, RedCoyote.

[RedCoyote]

Spin it to win it!

Original Roll String: 2d18

2 18-Sided Dice: (1, 6) = 7

[StrangerCoug]

First spin is $900; second spin is Go Back Two Spaces to $3,000.

$3,900, four spins, no whammies. What now?

[RedCoyote]

Again!

Original Roll String: 1d18

1 18-Sided Dice: (1) = 1

[StrangerCoug]

Stop at $900.

$4,800, three spins, no whammies. Press your luck or pass?

(

Edit:

It should actually have been a whammy—I don't think the file got updated—but since the mod error is to your benefit, it'll stand.)

[RedCoyote]

Oh, in that case, let's go again.

Original Roll String: 1d18

1 18-Sided Dice: (18) = 18

[StrangerCoug]

$750 and a spin. You have $5,550, three spins, and no whammies.

[RedCoyote]

pass those spins, my friends

[RedCoyote]

SC, off-topic from the game itself, but do you know of any articles that talk about game theory as it pertains to this game? As in, if you give the concept of the game to a computer, what it would do to play the game optimally? I've always wondered that.

[StrangerCoug]

I swear I've seen one; I'd have to look it up again.

Nobody Special, you're forced to take three spins. You currently have $2,791 and one whammy. Good luck!

Original Roll String: 3d18

3 18-Sided Dice: (4, 2, 1) = 7

[StrangerCoug]

$5,000, then $1,500, then $900, giving him a grand total of $10,191 if I'm not mistaken.

doctorwho, you have eight spins and a long way to go to catch first. Are you ready to press your luck?

[Nobody Special]

Thank you, RC!!

[RedCoyote]

D:

This is not what I had planned!

[StrangerCoug]

doctorwho is prodded.

[doctorwho]

And doctorwho is finally escaping from the hell that is the end of the school year.

Original Roll String: 1d18

1 18-Sided Dice: (2) = 2

[StrangerCoug]

That's $1,250. What now?

[doctorwho]

C'MON, BIG BUCKS! NO WHAMMIES...

Original Roll String: 1d18

1 18-Sided Dice: (5) = 5

STOP!