One Away is always played for A car. A ‘wrong price’ is given, and the correct price is One Away from that price. That is, each digit in the wrong price needs one added or subtracted from it.
After a Price is guessed, you are told how many corrections you need to make.
A Contestant is given multiple attempts to get the right price, all you have to do is make one (additonal) correct guess per turn, and you get a nother turn. It is not uncommon to get three or four attempts in this way. When the game goes ‘right’, contestants get caught up in the numbers at the end of the price (The Hundreds, Tens and Ones)
The car shown was a ‘standard’ 4 door sedan. Nothing flashy about it at all.
The wrong price was something like: 32675
The Contestant changes that price to 23366*
She is told that she has 4 corrections to make.
:eek:
She makes them, keeping the 2 a 2, and opting not to make it a 4.
Bob plays along with this and adds “Do you think you’ve won?” in a tone that is at once ‘on board’ with what just happened.
*Im almost certain I have my numbers wrong, but the idea is conveyed just the same.
So the quality of the car makes it obvious that it is in the twenties, which means she needs to change every other number to their respective alternative? It seems that it is best to get a lot wrong like she did.
To the others above, I gather that she won the car. Hence it was perfectly wrong as she got it mostly wrong but that meant it was easy to then get it all right.
It’s not quite perfect though, perfectly wrong would be being told that she has five corrections to make. But I guess any pleb can get the first digit right.
P.S. Was the middle “3” a typo? Should be a 5 or 7 shouldn’t it?
I am missing the point, too, unless it happens to be that by getting four out of five wrong and realizing it wasn’t a fancy $40,000 car, made making the corrections trivially easy. Is that what you mean by broken? Also in your example you change the third number a 6 to a 3. If I understand correctly that couldn’t be right.
Yes, that must be it. There are only 5 numbers total, she changed all of them to start and 4 were incorrect, knowing that the first one is right all the others must be off by one in the other direction.
Ah, so it was perfect because if she’d got all five wrong she would not have been given another chance. So it made the game as easy as it could possibly be for her.
I don’t get it. So a Price Is Right game is played exactly as it should be played and it’s somehow a big deal?
Sure, it’s a nice little coincidence that she got the last four numbers wrong and then was able to easily win a car, but I’ve watched enough TPIR in my day to know that stuff like this isn’t uncommon.
I had to read it a few times, but I get it. Gangster Octopus was unsure if he/she got the point, but that’s exactly it. If she had gotten 3 wrong, it would have been much tougher, but they never (rarely?) have cars in the $40K range, so it was an easy win.
If I’m reading this right, the producers said “Let’s make it almost painfully easy for someone to win a car today!”
I have seen games like this where the first digit is fixed, forcing the player to determine if it’s a $34,XXX car or a $36,XXX car. Not quite as easy that way.
What happened was that the contestant actually had the best case scenario, besides actually guessing the correct price. Most TPIR contestants can guess the first number in the price of the car. It’s the other numbers that are harder to figure out.
As a longtime fan and watcher of the show, I can tell you that this happens every once in awhile.
I was in a rare mood TV this morning and decided to watch the price is right this morning. Well, I decided to watch something mildly entertaining, and the fresh prince was over. I actually got to this game, realized it was actively making me dumber and turned it off. To think, I missed television history by about twenty seconds.