Press Your Luck HD

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Press Your Luck HD
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A Lot or a Little?
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What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that Press Your Luck HD is an electronic home game of the popular television series. By answering a series of pop trivia questions, players can attempt to win fictional cash and prizes and avoid "Whammies" -- gremlins that cause you to lose all of your earnings and are accompanied by animations. Those animations show the Whammies in a variety of mischievous scenarios that always result in the critter getting smashed, blown up, or meeting some other dire fate -- but the violence is very cartoony.
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Is It Any Good?
The television version of PRESS YOUR LUCK is cheesy fun -- and the app has the potential to match that. Unfortunately, the current version is a buggy game that's prone to locking up and has a very limited number of questions. After you play just two rounds, you'll start hearing questions repeated. The single-player version is fairly boring, since the automated contestants pick answers seemingly at random -- and are never intellectual threats. (In one round, for example, the automated contestant guessed that Muhammad Ali was best known as a scientist.) Multiplayer, which is all done locally and not through online matchmaking, is a bit more fun, but still nothing incredible. Finally, the game moves at an incredibly slow pace -- and the host's continually repeated comments get old fast.
App Details
- Device: iPad
- Release date: September 15, 2010
- Category: Trivia Games
- Version: 1.0.0
- Minimum software requirements: OS 3.2
- Last updated: August 23, 2016
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