I thought the increased Plinko money was only for the primetime specials? I swear I remember wathing it during the day a few weeks ago and hearing the familiar “$25,000!” announcement.
This actually happened during Bob Barker’s final years.
I know, :(, but the new guy is not up to snuff in my opinion. Viva la Rod!
It all happens so fast (and it’s such poor quality video) that I can’t see what I’m looking for. Clearly the guy had a plan going into it, though.
to win every prize in the Golden Road game, assuming strictly random guesses, is 24 -1.
The contestant has two numbers tocomplete the the amount on prize worth three figures.
If (s)he gets that one right, those three numbers carry over to complete prize with four figures.
If (s)he gets that one right, those four numbers carry over to complete a prize with five figures.
2 options * 3 options * 4 options = 24 different combos.
Prize #1 on the golden road that other day was relatively simple, the prize was an electic guitar and it was either going to be $200 + change or $600 + change . It was pretty obvious that it was a $600 guitar.
So the odds of the golden road went to 12 to one. The contestant missed the prize that was worth approximately $4000 and never had a chance at the Porsche.
FWIW, Plinko prizes are Cash, IIRC, TPIR does not get any promotional kickback from the treasury department to promote CASH. I believe TPIR does get some promotional assistance from GM or FORD or similar.
The game that has always annoyed me the most on TPIR is Three Strikes. When you get down to it, that is a game where the odds of winning or losing are TOTALLY random. You win if you pull the 5th number in the car before you pull the third X. You lose if you pull the third X before you pull the 5th number. No matter what, the best odds you get down to are 50:50 when all that remains in the bag is the 5th number and the X, and you have an equal chance of pulling either.
Lucky Seven is just plain evil, but then again, they usually give away luxury cars on that game. There’s another newer car game I’ve seen a couple times where you can win three cars (it uses a similar game as Golden Road, but you can’t quit in the middle of it)…strangely I’ve never seen anyone LOSE that game.
Another game where there’s no loser is that Punch Out game, where you win X punches in a big honeycomb like structure. Every cell is filled with a card with an amount of money, and you can decide whether or not to take the money or see what the next cell has in it.
That was pretty great. So was this one that I found listed in the related videos, titled “One of the Worst The Price Is Right Players Ever.” The reaction from Bob at the end is freakin’ priceless!
That was hilarious. The audience is chanting in unison: *Twenty-one! Twenty-one! *And it took her two more tries to get the clue.
QFT. The clock game is the easiest game on TPIR for anyone who has two cells of gray matter to rub together. You don’t have to know anything at all except how numbers work.
I didn’t mean it wasn’t easy for normal people - I meant it was excruciating to watch because it involved the most frenzied screaming and for some reason always involves the worst players in the audience. From a pure entertainment standpoint it’s just not appealing to watch two people shout at each other. If I wanted that I would be watching C-SPAN. 
Nope, upped to $10,000. Here’s some proof.
Yeah, but to be fair, didn’t he replace someone else who died before him?
Basically, he “turned on” the two middle columns of answers, and noted the number of answers he had right. Then he turned off the upper left answer in his first column of guesses and turned on the answer next to it in the upper left. If the number of right answers went down, he knows he had a right answer the first time. If it went up, he knows he turned off a wrong answer in favor of a right one. If it stays the same, he knows both are either right or wrong, and he comes back to it later. Repeat for the other answers.
One of the flaws of Wipeout (the game show in question) is that they had a tendency to use questions with non-objective answers for the bonus round (like “According to USA Today, six of these TV characters were the most admired in 1988”), so that strategy is almost required to get it right, IMO.
Yep, Johnny Olsen. With him went that neat little Johnny Olsen robot that sometimes brought out prizes. sniff
Yeah, I saw a guy just last week play that game for a Porsche. He was so excited, but I knew he didn’t stand a chance. I’d much rather play for some Toyota or something, but in a game where I stood a chance of winning.
Wow, the models on The Price is Right have gotten a lot hotter than when I was watching. In the Bob Barker days, they were all interchangable peroxide bimbos with too much makeup. Now they actually have some diversity and class.
I couldn’t read the screens, but then, the contestant pretty clearly wasn’t reading them either. I’ve played similar logic games where the only information given is the number correct, and you solve them in much the same way. It’d have been nice if it were a harder puzzle, though: I’d have liked to see the rest of his method.
Yeah, but what in the world do you do with a flag that big? If it can’t touch the floor, what do you use it for? A canopy?
I have no idea if this is true, but I always thought that the auto maker “gave” its cars to the show for free advertising, and thus the producers don’t have to pay anything when a contestant wins.
Some of the smaller prizes they get for free, but large things like cars they still buy, albeit at a large discount, I’m sure. At the end of the show they flash up a little message like “the following companies paid TPIR for their products:” and it’s a list of all the “grocery” items people guess the prices of, and then one like “The following companies provided their products at less than retail value” and it’s all the furniture and car companies.
You fly it high on Marky Mark day!
Yeah, but the Bob Barker days had sigh … Holly. Holly the redhead. From 1986 through 1989 (when I finally hit puberty), she was the only woman in the whole, wide world who was attractive to me.
Holly was not a woman.
Holly was a goddess.
And I’m not sure Airman does:
:dubious: 