At least for me, the fun of game shows partly lies in the unexpected happening. It would be far, far less interesting a genre if everything went according to Hoyle. Sometimes the champ does the math wrong and loses by a dollar even though he's right. Sometimes a person can solve the puzzle with a single letter. Twice this week in reruns contestants polled the audience on Q4 in the stack, and both of them on Movie Week. (this was when the game still had the standard difficulty stack) The Price is Right affords many more chances per time period of wacky stuff to happen, and I think the show is more interesting because of it. I certainly wouldn't deem it unwatchable because the contestants haven't formed their battle plan long before arrival and didn't stick to it once they got to play, even if it means they do something that hurts their chances of getting to further their interests.