Author Topic: $ale of the Century (Read 3868 times)

jmangin · « **on:** November 28, 2005, 03:35:31 PM »

Although they fluctuated by a few dollars here and there, does anyone have the values for the superprizes of the shopping end game? I'm looking for both pre-jackpot values and the values used when there was a cash jackpot. Also, did the daytime values differ from the nighttime ones?

The only ones I remember are $85 for the first prize, about $445 for the super-trip, $530 for the car, $640 for all the prizes and $750 for the jackpot.

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

TLEberle · « **Reply #1 on:** November 28, 2005, 04:01:21 PM »

If you mean the value in SOTC dollars, typically on the nighttime show the scale would go:

85-170-265-330-445-530-640-750. And yes, the 170 through 445 could change by as much as ten either way.

DJDustman · « **Reply #2 on:** November 28, 2005, 04:10:22 PM »

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They differed by 10 or so. On the daytime show, it was $75 for the first prize, $540 for the car, $650 for the cash jackpot, and $760 for EVERYTHING.

For the first two weeks in the nighttime version, $830 got you everything and the cash jackpot.

Ian Wallis · « **Reply #3 on:** November 28, 2005, 04:14:55 PM »

I remember a few months into the daytime version in 1983, Jim Perry stating that the prices of the end game prizes had dropped. IIRC, the producers felt that it would take too long for contestants to get to each new level, and they made it a bit easier. I don't remember what the exact figures were though.