[quote name=\'parliboy\' post=\'165813\' date=\'Oct 7 2007, 07:10 AM\']
[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'165809\' date=\'Oct 7 2007, 08:06 AM\'] Not meaning to be snarky, but I would think all of the games play just as they do on TV. [/quote]
And if you'd clicked on that eBay link, you'd have been as surprised as me. The people who made the 1974 game made a small attempt to create an actual board game, and not just a game show sim. The one-bid segment was apparently replaced with a rapid-fire simultaneous-reveal cancellation auction (the Three on a Match bidding system)[/quote]
Is this the version with the yellow box sides? (The link was to the first edition - the easiest way to tell, besides the fact that it doesn't say "2nd Edition", is that the first edition was called "The New Price is Right"; also, it was released before most of the games had names, which is why "Any Number" (which is called that in the second edition) is called "The Numbers Game" in the first edition.)
For those of you who don't know what's meant by the "Three on a Match bidding system": each player picks a number (from a set of cards) from 1 to 6 (3oaM used 1-4), and whoever picks the highest number that no one else picked gets to play the pricing game. (If everybody picked the same number, or two picked one and two picked another, treat it as if everybody overbid and do it again until someone wins.)
There might be a game or two that isn't played any more - I'm pretty sure Mystery Price was in the second edition. (If you don't know how that worked: there was one prize that had a "mystery price", and four other prizes you bid on. If you didn't go over the prize of a bid price, you won that prize, and your bid was added to the "bank"; if, after all four bids, the bank had at least as much money as the mystery price, you won the game's big prize.)
But if there is no "big wheel" like someone else mentioned, don't worry - they released this version of the game a few months before they had the first hour-long episodes.
-- Don
