Could PYL contestants see Whammy animations?

[mcfly95]

On Press Your Luck, were the whammy animations ever displayed anywhere to the contestants or audience in studio?  Or did only the audio play for them?  Peter would often crack jokes about the specific whammies, so I wonder.

[tvrandywest]

On Press Your Luck, were the whammy animations ever displayed anywhere to the contestants or audience in studio?  Or did only the audio play for them?  Peter would often crack jokes about the specific whammies, so I wonder.

Contestants are never in sight of a monitor on most game shows. It keeps them from seeing answers and from staring at themselves and primping. Hosts generally always have a monitor. The audience has monitors. The answer: No, we couldn't see the animations but could hear them, albeit not clearly enough to understand what was happening. We were encouraged to react to them.


Randy
tvrandywest.com

[MSTieScott]

Fun, not-entirely-related fact: On "Game Show Marathon," the PYL board consisted of 18 monitors. When a celebrity hit a Whammy, each of the ten monitors on the left and right sides of the board would display the shot of the celebrity and the Whammy animation.

Does anybody know whether they did something like that for "Whammy!"?