Rat Race question

[wdm1219inpenna]

Pathfinder is a combination car & SP game.  Hole-In-One is a combination car & GR game.  Rat Race involves pricing 1 grocery item, and 1 SP item.  Is Rat Race considered a combination game, or just a pure car pricing game (similar to Any Number, Money Game, One Away, etc.)?

[clemon79]

Pathfinder is a combination car & SP game.  Hole-In-One is a combination car & GR game.  Rat Race involves pricing 1 grocery item, and 1 SP item.  Is Rat Race considered a combination game, or just a pure car pricing game (similar to Any Number, Money Game, One Away, etc.)?

Unless there is an official list with classifications kept by the production staff, you can call it whatever the hell you want to.

(That said, I utterly fail to see how it would ever fall in the latter category, since it's one of those games where knowing the price of the car has no bearing whatsoever on your ability to win it.)

[Brian44]

They must consider Rat Race a SP/car game because I don't recall ever seeing it played on the same show with another SP game.  However, they usually play a separate GP game.

About five years before Barker's retirement, they were more absolute about playing a GP and SP game in the same show, one in the first half and the other in the second half, but that went by the wayside with more time constraints and the reality that hardly any GP or SP items are sponsored these days.

[JasonA1]

I'll second what Brian said. With rare rare exception so far, Rat Race is functionally considered a small prize game.

-Jason

[Neumms]

Pathfinder is a combination car & SP game.  Hole-In-One is a combination car & GR game.  Rat Race involves pricing 1 grocery item, and 1 SP item.  Is Rat Race considered a combination game, or just a pure car pricing game (similar to Any Number, Money Game, One Away, etc.)?

A combination car/grocery/small prize game. How incredible, after 40 years, they're still pushing the envelope. What next, an improv comic instead of an announcer?