TPiR meets Match Game

[Sodboy13]

Bonus Game. Ugly, outdated game board, uglier gameplay. I really hope that thing breaks and dies soon.

[PYLdude]

Double Prices.

Seriously, it's the least taxing "game" on TPIR.  At least with Switch?, there's some degree of something happening when the models show the prices and/or move them from one prop to the other.

Yet that, Side by Side, Coming or Going, and Flip Flop all operate on that principle, don't they? And maybe to a certain other degree, Five Price Tags?

[Jimmy Owen]

The title of this thread led me to create a new pricing game using six stars writing down how much they think an item costs.  The contestant chooses a star who reveals what he/she thinks is the price.  It is up to the contestant to figure out if the star's price is higher or lower than the actual retail price.  Get all six right and win a new car.

[SuperMatch93]

The title of this thread led me to create a new pricing game using six stars writing down how much they think an item costs.  The contestant chooses a star who reveals what he/she thinks is the price.  It is up to the contestant to figure out if the star's price is higher or lower than the actual retail price.  Get all six right and win a new car.

That's a good idea for an April Fools episode. Have the Match Game set, get six celebrities, do the opening like Match Game (Get ready to price the prize!) and have a sign saying "The Match is Right".

[Ian Wallis]

For me, Punch-a-Bunch.  Don't get me wrong - I actually like the game a lot, but it's just that it's one of those games where a contestant can do everything right, and still come away with only $100 - and that senerio happens much more frequently than big wins.

[dmota104]

If I could get rid of one pricing game, it would be <BLANK>.

(card) [PICK A NUMBER]

In fairness, if there was some sort of mechanical break down with another game, easily put Pick A Number in its place.  (As a TV producer, I'm a firm believer in having a Plan B.)  

But when Pick A Number is actually listed on the rundown?  Give me a break.

[clemon79]

Yet that, Side by Side, Coming or Going, and Flip Flop all operate on that principle, don't they? And maybe to a certain other degree, Five Price Tags?

Well, the first two you mention, at least, are precisely Double Prices, just with a gimmick as to what the possible answers are. Flip Flop is effectively Triple Prices, which can also be said of Pick-A-Number, Squeeze Play (when it's a four-digit prize) and Balance Game (among others I'm sure). Five Price Tags is a bit of a reach since the number of chances the contestant gets is variable. But all of the others: one chance to select the right price out of a short, finite list of options. Nothing more.

(Note that I think there's a slight difference between "guess the price of this prize" and "guess the prize this price belongs to", which is why I'm not including One Right/Wrong Price in this discussion.)

I think the reason Pick-A-Number is coming up so often isn't just because of the lame binary/ternary (hey, I learned a word today!) format, but because the prop itself is just plain FUGLY. I mean, it's awful. The colors are garish, the font they use for the numbers is horrible, it's just bad.

[Matt Ottinger]

Late to the party, I agree that Bonus Game doesn't seem to be relevant so long as Shell Game is in the rotation.

[tpirfan28]

Late to the party, I agree that Bonus Game doesn't seem to be relevant so long as Shell Game is in the rotation.

Bonus Game is probably going to stick around as long as the new "get all 4 chips, pick the ball, get the prize + cash equivalent of said prize" rule is in place for Shell Game.

I really wouldn't get rid of any game, just stick a couple of them on an crazy slow rotation (looking at you, Punch a Bunch).

[Brian44]

Late to the party, I agree that Bonus Game doesn't seem to be relevant so long as Shell Game is in the rotation.

Remember, Bonus Game was almost retired in 1974 around the time of Shell Game's debut, so the production staff must have also considered Bonus irrelevant. Essentially, Bonus Game = Shell Game except if you win SP #1, you must put the chip beside shell #1 and so on down the line--and of course, no cash bonus opportunity if you win all four SPs.

Maybe I'm a little partial to Bonus Game since that was the game I played on the show in '96, but I think it's different enough to keep around, especially with its (on occasion nowadays--GRRRR...) unique turntable reveal.

[TimK2003]

I think the reason Pick-A-Number is coming up so often isn't just because of the lame binary/ternary (hey, I learned a word today!) format, but because the prop itself is just plain FUGLY. I mean, it's awful. The colors are garish, the font they use for the numbers is horrible, it's just bad.

Ditto for Pathfinder -- on the fugly-looking set point -- the color scheme needs to be redone, or at least get rid of the orange.

[alfonzos]

For me, Punch-a-Bunch.  Don't get me wrong - I actually like the game a lot, but it's just that it's one of those games where a contestant can do everything right, and still come away with only $100

A contestant can play Secret "X" and Pass the Buck perfectly and win nothing!

[Steve Gavazzi]

Remember, Bonus Game was almost retired in 1974 around the time of Shell Game's debut, so the production staff must have also considered Bonus irrelevant.

One of these days, I want to find out what was up with that.  The game was absent on the daytime show for almost the whole third season (and much of the beginning of Season 4, too), but it kept showing up on the nighttime show like nothing had happened, as did Shell Game.

[chris319]

No one has mentioned Pay the Rent. It's an overmounted white elephant IMO.

[SamJ93]

A contestant can play Secret "X" and Pass the Buck perfectly and win nothing!

Technically, not quite...if a Pass the Buck contestant prices both groceries correctly, they're guaranteed to win at least $1000.