Speaking of addictive games: Game Show Network has started running old episodes of Press Your Luck — a program I found almost impossible to not watch during the few years it graced CBS's daytime schedule. The game is a bit complicated and, if you're coming to it fresh, you might want to brush up on the rules, which you can do at the website of one of its many fans. What you'll find, not every day but quite often, is that the rules yield an amazing cliffhanger of an ending. Someone did a real clever job of configuring this one.
By the way: If they keep running 'em two-a-day from where they started, Game Show Network will get to the infamous Michael Larsen episodes some time in mid-October. Those are the ones where an unemployed ice cream truck driver from Ohio figured out a "pattern" in the game show and walked off with more than $110,000. It made for one of the most amazing moments I've ever witnessed on teevee — one that so embarrassed CBS that they refused to allow the two half-hours to be rerun. Just in case they're in the package GSN is airing, I'll alert you when we get closer to when they might pop up.