TPiR Card Game

[catkins522]

Let me look at those figures again. Starting Bid $15000 with an up-to $5000 range, plus the possibility of cars >$20000...this is making my head hurt.  I think they're holding on to a format that no longer works.  If they want a short game, consider making the cards worth X1000 instead of X100, no starting bid.

/and what the happens if you draw an ace?

I like this.  Number cards are value x1000, face cards are 1000 each.  Aces still wild.

Can aces have a negative number?  Let's say, a player goes WAY over the MSRP and knows it. They draw an ace and goes lower.  Will Drew and the producers allow it?

Charles Atkins

[JasonA1]

Can aces have a negative number?

No.

-Jason

[BrandonFG]

Unfortunately, around the same time the show began to offer extravagant Showcases and reduce the average amount spent during the pricing games on vehicles.

The result is what you see today, a game that is a shell of its former self.

Not necessarily. At the risk of spending other people's money, simply offer a higher-end car, say a < $20,000 Accord, or don't allow the possibility of a high-range card with a low-end compact car.

The game still works, but a range of as much as $5,000 makes it way too simple, considering a fair portion of the cars offered still go for between $15,001-20,000. Unless you're doing a primetime show, the max range should be $2,500, but make damn sure the car you're offering goes for $17,501 or more.

/Or keep the $5,000 card and make sure the cars sell for $20,001 and up

[Steve Gavazzi]

The game still works, but a range of as much as $5,000 makes it way too simple, considering a fair portion of the cars offered still go for between $15,001-20,000. Unless you're doing a primetime show, the max range should be $2,500, but make damn sure the car you're offering goes for $17,501 or more.

The problem with this was that until the $3,000 and $5,000 ranges were added in 2005, people were routinely losing the game by bidding way too low.  The new ranges were added to take away from that problem.  I agree that the $5,000 card creates a new one, but it kind of ended up being the lesser of two evils.

[Kevin Prather]

Is there any particular reason we have to start at $15k? Why not start at $10k or $12k like before? Doesn't make the game cheaper, just longer.

[Matt Ottinger]

Why not start at $10k or $12k like before?

The correct answer is...

just longer.

These days, they need to do everything they can to keep things moving along.

[Steve Gavazzi]

Why not start at $10k or $12k like before?

The correct answer is...

just longer.

These days, they need to do everything they can to keep things moving along.

You know, it occurs to me that this probably isn't as much of a problem as it used to be, although not for reasons I like.  The show is edited to pieces now because Drew does whatever he wants, so Roger's need to make things faster so that the show will come in on time isn't really present anymore.  It makes me wonder now why they haven't taken the starting bid back down to $12,000 -- I'm sure most viewers wouldn't notice.

[Hastin]

It makes me wonder now why they haven't taken the starting bid back down to $12,000 -- I'm sure most viewers wouldn't notice.

"And you drew a 6, it's now $12,600. Stop or keep going?"
"And you drew a 5, it's now $18,600. Stop or keep going?"
"And you drew a 10, it's now $23,400. Stop or keep going?"