Press Your Luck (Dryicor)

Press Your Luck is a Dryicoran game show broadcast on DTV 1 since November 2019. Based on the, it quickly became one of DTV's biggest hits of 2019, with its big cash prizes and popular host.

Gameplay
Forty years before, Petra Magnusson, just starting out in the game show world, had presented a game show called Second Chance. Press Your Luck was a modified, perfected version of that show, and Magnusson was all too happy to host its reboot.

Main game
Three contestants compete on each episode, usually a returning champion and two new challengers (if a champion retires undefeated, then three new contestants appear on the next episode).

Each game began with a trivia round where the contestants vie to earn spins, which are then used on the show's gameboard, referred to as the Big Board. A question is posed to the contestants, who try to be the first to buzz in with a correct answer. Once a contestant gives an answer, the remaining opponents are given a choice of that answer or two additional answers provided by Magnusson and select one. If the contestant who buzzed in gives the correct answer, they earn three spins. A correct multiple choice answer is worth one spin. If none of the three contestants buzz in with an answer within five seconds, three answers are given to the contestants and they earn one spin each if they choose correctly. If a contestant buzzes in but fails to give an answer, that contestant is frozen out of the question and it is treated the same way as if nobody had buzzed in.

After four questions are asked, play moved over to the Big Board. The board consists of 18 spaces arranged in a 6×5 rectangle, each of which has a screen in it which displays one of three items which change rather rapidly, and a randomizer light which the contestants stop by hitting their buzzer. The most common spaces offer cash, with an extra spin attached to some of them, and prizes, with some being directional spaces that either allow the contestant to choose between two or three squares, or move their position to a different part of the board. Cash amounts and prize values are added to the contestant's score, while landing on any of several "Whammy" spaces resets the contestant's score to $0.

In the first Big Board round, play starts with the contestant with the fewest spins unless there is a tie, in which case the contestant seated furthest left started. For each square the contestant stops the randomizer light on, the value of that square is added to the contestant's bank and that contestant keeps playing ("pressing his/her luck") until running out of spins or deciding to pass. Any passed spins go to the contestant's opponent with the highest amount of money (or, if tied, the opponent chosen by the passing contestant). A contestant receiving passed spins must take them and cannot pass until all the passed spins have been used. Spins awarded from hitting spaces offering them are placed in the earned column, and hitting a Whammy causes the contestant's remaining passed spins to move to the earned column, allowing the contestant to pass. Play continues until the contestants exhaust all of their spins, or earn a total of four Whammies, in which they are eliminated from the game and their remaining spins forfeited.

Once all spins have been played, a second round of trivia questions follows with the same rules as before. A second Big Board round follows that, with much higher stakes in play. This time, contestants play in order of their scores (lowest to highest) unless there is a tie between two or more contestants, in which case the contestant with the fewest spins starts the round. Any passed spins, as before, go to the opponent with the higher score.

The contestant in the lead at the end of the second Big Board round becomes the day's champion, keeps his/her winnings, and returns on the next show. If two or all three contestants finish the match tied, they return on the next show. If two contestants reach four whammies and the third has any spins left, he/she can either stop playing at that point or continue taking one spin at a time to increase his/her winnings. In the latter case, the game ends when the contestant either chooses to stop after any spin, uses all remaining spins, or they themselves reach four Whammies. If a game ends with all contestants having reached four whammies, none of them return as champion and three new contestants are introduced on the next show.

500 000 Kr end game
In the bonus game, the champion faces the Big Board alone and can win up to 500 000 Kr in cash and prizes.

This game is divided into six rounds, each of which requires the champion to take a specific number of spins without stopping: five in the first round, four in the second, three in all others. In each of the first four rounds, specific prizes are added to the Big Board based on the champion's desires and preferences, such as a dream vacation or a luxury car.

Hitting a Whammy at any point wipes out the champion's bank, but does not affect any winnings from the main game; any specialty prizes in the bank are returned to the Big Board. If the champion accumulates four Whammies, the bonus game ends immediately.

The maximum amounts for the six rounds are 5 000 Kr, 10 000 Kr, 15 000 Kr, 25 000 Kr, 35 000 Kr and 50 000 Kr. Prize values increase from one round to the next. For the fifth round, all cash and cash-plus-a-spin spaces only show one of the five maximum values. A "7 000 or Lose a Whammy" space is added to the board in the third round, with the value increasing to 10 000 in the fourth and 20 000 in the fifth. If the champion hits a space that awards an extra spin, it must be taken in that same round.

If the champion finishes a round with a bank total above 0 Kr, he/she may either stop playing and keep all winnings, or continue to the next round. If the total is 0 Kr at the end of a round, the next one begins automatically. The champion receives all cash and prizes in the bank upon either choosing to stop or completing all five rounds. If the bank total exceeds 500 000 Kr, they win that amount.

Reception
Reception of Press Your Luck was extremely high among viewers, which surprised DTV executives. As such, a second series was filmed in the summer of 2020, to be aired starting in November 2020.

A Finnish version, Peli Paina Onneasi ("Game of Press Your Luck") is set to be filmed in April 2021, with an aim to air in July of that year.