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TLEberle

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Re: The Definitive Ranking Of “Price Is Right” Pricing Games
« Reply #45 on: February 04, 2015, 04:59:58 PM »
You specify the criteria. The games aren't so identical that one can't rank at least 25.
I think you're completely wrong on this. There are hardly 25 games where I have an opinion other than apathy, and now you're asking me to stack rank Lucky Seven, One Away and Switcheroo? I'm not going to bother doing that because I don't care enough. It's one thing to pick twenty-five or fifty game shows because the range is near a thousand, so it means something to choose a small group from a much larger group. Picking ten or twenty hosts from a pool of a few hundred, same deal, which made the results interesting. You're asking us to choose nearly one-fourth of the whole pool. Does it really matter if Spelling Bee 19th as opposed to Safecrackers?

I could do that for ten, and opening it up to retired games means I could go to fifteen, but asking people to rank twenty-five items out of a range of over 100 is asking way to much of your survey group, and I believe you are going to get back results that would look similar to those those that you'd get from pulling ping-pong balls from a bag, at least for the bottom ten or fifteen entries.
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Re: The Definitive Ranking Of “Price Is Right” Pricing Games
« Reply #46 on: February 04, 2015, 06:25:45 PM »
Since no one has gotten around to organizing this just yet, I took the liberty of starting the project myself. I've already posed the question over on Golden-Road and created a separate web form for the Game Show Forum voting.

For those of you interested, you may submit ballots here with your rank of the top 50 The Price Is Right pricing games of all time.

Instructions are simple: Submit your list, #1-50 along with your name so I can assure there are no duplicates. I'll take submissions through Friday, February 20, 2015.

Funny.  I said the following on Saturday...

I'd be willing to compile the numbers for this board if we can find a counterpart to run it on G-R.

If speed is the issue (and goshdarnit, I saw tons of people clamoring for ways to rank the games between Saturday and now), life happens.  About a foot and a half of it is on the ground now with more happening at this moment.

I will give up what I volunteered for and have worked on since Saturday.  I'm not too appreciative of the stepping of toes which happened since the weekend, since I volunteered.

CJBojangles

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Re: The Definitive Ranking Of “Price Is Right” Pricing Games
« Reply #47 on: February 04, 2015, 06:37:04 PM »
I will give up what I volunteered for and have worked on since Saturday.  I'm not too appreciative of the stepping of toes which happened since the weekend, since I volunteered.

What you aren't mentioning is that I contacted you privately before doing anything and offered to do the job, you answered immediately and said nothing of the work you were doing "since Saturday" and then didn't respond to me for three days. If that's "toe-stepping", then you have my apologies. If it means that much to you, go for it.

MikeK

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Re: The Definitive Ranking Of “Price Is Right” Pricing Games
« Reply #48 on: February 04, 2015, 06:46:45 PM »
It doesn't mean that much to me.  I'm a bit perturbed I volunteered for the job, worked on this since then, told you privately the parameters, and I stopped conversing because it was a dead issue to me.  I was looking for someone to handle the G-R side of things, not have someone grovel to me asking if I can forego this project because they wanted to do it.  As I said earlier, I have too much on my plate (and my driveway) to do this in a timely manner, completed within the month.

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Re: The Definitive Ranking Of “Price Is Right” Pricing Games
« Reply #49 on: February 04, 2015, 06:48:31 PM »
Well, this certainly turned.

dale_grass

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Re: The Definitive Ranking Of “Price Is Right” Pricing Games
« Reply #50 on: February 04, 2015, 09:01:55 PM »
Can't we just all agree that 10 Chances is our favorite game and leave it at that?

\ As opposed to contestants' favorite game, The Barker-Has-A-Senior-Moment-Resulting-In-A-Technical-Win Game.

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Re: The Definitive Ranking Of “Price Is Right” Pricing Games
« Reply #51 on: February 04, 2015, 09:48:50 PM »
Bullseye 1.0 for dayz.

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« Reply #52 on: February 04, 2015, 10:54:23 PM »
"Switch".  Because, don't you see?  You can "switch" them!  Or NOT switch them.  Brilliant!
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« Reply #53 on: February 05, 2015, 08:02:41 AM »
Bump, because everybody wants to see the models swivel their hips.

OK, seriously, I'd pick Switcheroo.  Good and smiple game mechanics, a difficult decision for the contestant, and lots of play at home value.
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CJBojangles

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Re: The Definitive Ranking Of “Price Is Right” Pricing Games
« Reply #54 on: February 05, 2015, 09:33:59 AM »
Alright, it would make sense that the site devoted to TPIR would have much more interest in the previous format. So here's a much more simplified checkbox-style form. This should be much easier.

Just select 10 games here to vote.

Matt Ottinger

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Re: The Definitive Ranking Of “Price Is Right” Pricing Games
« Reply #55 on: February 05, 2015, 11:34:37 AM »
Alright, it would make sense that the site devoted to TPIR would have much more interest in the previous format. So here's a much more simplified checkbox-style form. This should be much easier.

Just select 10 games here to vote.

Done.  I encourage everybody to do the same.
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TLEberle

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Re: The Definitive Ranking Of “Price Is Right” Pricing Games
« Reply #56 on: February 05, 2015, 12:25:37 PM »
That was a much more pleasant user interface, and a thought-provoking question. I eagerly await the results.
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Re: The Definitive Ranking Of “Price Is Right” Pricing Games
« Reply #57 on: February 05, 2015, 03:59:41 PM »
I found myself putting the whole list in front of me on Excel, putting my definite favorites aside, and deleting any I know I didn't care for from the remaining list. After that, it got easier to sort out the remainder to round out my ten.

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Re: The Definitive Ranking Of “Price Is Right” Pricing Games
« Reply #58 on: February 05, 2015, 06:08:38 PM »
Bullseye 1.0 for dayz.

Watching an Aussie "Price" the other day, I was reminded how they used a Bullseye-1-like game as their Showcase Showdown, which I thought was kind of brilliant.  Their rank-all-the-prizes-in-order Showcase game, on the other hand, was maddeningly difficult.
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Re: The Definitive Ranking Of “Price Is Right” Pricing Games
« Reply #59 on: February 05, 2015, 09:05:56 PM »
I actually had a lot of fun doing that one. Look forward to the rankings!

Add me to the list of people who loved how the Aussie's did it.

/Didn't mind the solo "range finder" bonus round from Davidson's TPiR
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