The Definitive Ranking Of “Price Is Right” Pricing Games

[CJBojangles]

Slight bump... The form is still live for those of you who wish to make a submission.

Interestingly, the frontrunner in each poll (the one here and over at G-R) is very different. The pricing game holding the top spot from this forum is currently ranked #6 on the other. Also, 36 of the 107 games haven't received any votes at all, 23 of which are in active rotation.

[MikeK]

Since I'm not up on my terminology, what defines "in the active rotation"?  Are those only games that are played weekly or every other week?  Do those include games like Rat Race and Magic # which appear once a month?  How many games are in the active rotation?

[SuperSweeper]

Since I'm not up on my terminology, what defines "in the active rotation"?  Are those only games that are played weekly or every other week?  Do those include games like Rat Race and Magic # which appear once a month?  How many games are in the active rotation?

The active rotation consists of all of the games that are still being played on the show, no matter how often they are played.  There are exactly 75 games in the active rotation.

[MikeK]

Okay, that makes sense.  I thought the active rotation might be those games seen on a regular basis, not including games played maybe 3 times per year like Golden Road and Triple Play.  By active rotation, it's all active games.

[Jeremy Nelson]

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.

You call it maddeningly difficult. I call it great TV. I watch the Showcase now to guess the prices, but it's really not good TV when someone wins 9 times out of 10. Any Showcase round where a player plays against the house is A-OK with me.

[TLEberle]

You call it maddeningly difficult. I call it great TV. I watch the Showcase now to guess the prices, but it's really not good TV when someone wins 9 times out of 10. Any Showcase round where a player plays against the house is A-OK with me.

The fact that TnPIR was modeled on LMAD isn't lost on me, so it doesn't surprise me that the showcase round has winners more than it doesn't.

[Neumms]

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.

It just think Bullseye-1 and that Showdown aren't much fun. There's no skill, no strategy, just two people going back and forth, back and forth until ultimately one takes a stab at $36,482 instead of $36,483. I'd like it more if they displayed, say, 10 price tags (or, heck, five price tags and re-use that prop) covering a broad range of prices and the two took turns picking. At least there would be play-along value.

While crazy hard, the Aussie Showcase itself is a crazy huge amount to win, isn't it?

[Jeremy Nelson]

For many years, it was just the standard showcase. It wasn't until later (03/04?) that they added a $500K condo. They then scrapped that for a six figure cash prize that normally took the showcase into the $200K range.

[CJBojangles]

While the number of responses may be a bit underwhelming, here are the results for those interested:




I'm still tabulating the results for Golden-Road, but I'll tell you there's a similar affinity for Super Ball. There's just something really fun about Bob Barker and skee-ball.

[chrisholland03]

Pick-a-Pair would have rated higher had it retained its Ferris Wheel 

[Matt Ottinger]

Ten Chances is a pleasant surprise to see on the top spot.  I also think this shows that the show is a lot fonder of Lucky Seven than the fans are.  Other than that, I'm not wildly surprised by anything, including that we as fans aren't super into Plinko.  I'll be interested in how the Golden Vote plays out.