Author Topic: TPiR Cheat Sheet (Read 11061 times)

tvmitch · « **on:** December 10, 2009, 08:13:16 PM »

My sister called today to say she and her college band are going to a TPiR taping over spring break. Her band is registered as a group so she is guaranteed to get in. Beyond the traditional audition advice, I want to make a Cheat Sheet for them to study in case they get called up.

Formatted something like:

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Ten Chances
The prices in this game always end in zero. If in doubt, remember that the prices always end in zero.

Any other quick suggestions I can add to the sheet? Let's keep it on topic and relevant to the current rotation of pricing games...

Sidenote: the group is 50 members and they were told to split up between tapings on a Tuesday. My first thought of advice to them would be to design different group shirts for each taping. Right? I would think that two people wearing the same shirts on different shows wouldn't get called?

CJBojangles · « **Reply #1 on:** December 10, 2009, 08:18:05 PM »

I'm pretty sure they still do this... but the game "Now... or Then" always has four "Now"s and two "Then"s.

Strikerz04 · « **Reply #2 on:** December 10, 2009, 08:39:40 PM »

About 7 years ago, for my AP statistics course, I did a craptacular, yet A-worthy collaborative paper on "Price." I can try to pull it up for you sometime in the next couple of days.

chris319 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 10, 2009, 09:37:35 PM »

Aren't there strategy guides on golden-road.net?

tpirfan28 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 10, 2009, 09:38:40 PM »

When in doubt, small prizes (the items in Plinko/Cliffhangers/Secret X) are expensive anymore. Except for the TPIR 2010 games - $20/PC, $30/DS, $40/Wii.

Also it would pay to just simply pay attention to your surroundings. If you can (I've never been to the studio), listen to descriptions and look at stuff - especially in Now or Then...if it says NEW on the pack...

JayDLewis · « **Reply #5 on:** December 10, 2009, 10:46:50 PM »

Safe Crackers always ends in 0 too.

IUFBs are never less than $400 and are rarely over $3K.

Twentington · « **Reply #6 on:** December 10, 2009, 11:29:29 PM »

From what I've seen, there're often $x99s on Clock Game.

Dbacksfan12 · « **Reply #7 on:** December 10, 2009, 11:50:19 PM »

If you're playing a game such as "Bonkers", ignore the crowd and get as many guesses as possible in.

Unrealtor · « **Reply #8 on:** December 10, 2009, 11:50:39 PM »

Going $20-$30-$40 in order will usually win you Cliff Hangers and get you all three of the prizes/picks in Spelling Bee.

Designer prizes are usually way more than you would expect if you aren't familiar with the brand.

Plinko85 · « **Reply #9 on:** December 11, 2009, 12:15:20 AM »

Nowadays, add about $10,000 to your showcase guess for every trip.

Steve Gavazzi · « **Reply #10 on:** December 11, 2009, 12:28:08 AM »

Golden Road: The first two prices will never contain repeating digits.

Secret "X": Should she happen to get this for a car, make sure to mark the bottom row. It's a Roger trick that I don't know if the current staff knows about, but every car playing for at least the last 10 years he produced had the secret X on the bottom.

Push Over: The first price is always wrong.

...God, there aren't nearly as many of these as there used to be.

Bill Neuweiler · « **Reply #11 on:** December 11, 2009, 12:51:46 AM »

[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'232092\' date=\'Dec 11 2009, 12:28 AM\']Golden Road: The first two prices will never contain repeating digits.

Secret "X": Should she happen to get this for a car, make sure to mark the bottom row. It's a Roger trick that I don't know if the current staff knows about, but every car playing for at least the last 10 years he produced had the secret X on the bottom.

Push Over: The first price is always wrong.

...God, there aren't nearly as many of these as there used to be.[/quote]

I was just thinking that very same thing.

clemon79 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 11, 2009, 02:59:44 AM »

[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'232092\' date=\'Dec 10 2009, 09:28 PM\']Secret "X": Should she happen to get this for a car, make sure to mark the bottom row. It's a Roger trick that I don't know if the current staff knows about, but every car playing for at least the last 10 years he produced had the secret X on the bottom.[/quote]
Out of a sample size of....?

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...God, there aren't nearly as many of these as there used to be.

I just don't see this as a bad thing. At all.

Craig Karlberg · « **Reply #13 on:** December 11, 2009, 04:12:53 AM »

[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'232088\' date=\'Dec 10 2009, 11:50 PM\']If you're playing a game such as "Bonkers", ignore the crowd and get as many guesses as possible in.[/quote]

Not only Bonkers, but it also applies to Race Game.

Dice Game: Rolling either a 1 or 6 will always insure you of winning a car because there are no 0s & no # higher than 6(unless you somehow misunderstand THAT part of the game).

Steve Gavazzi · « **Reply #14 on:** December 11, 2009, 08:38:23 AM »

[quote name=\'Craig Karlberg\' post=\'232099\' date=\'Dec 11 2009, 04:12 AM\']Dice Game: Rolling either a 1 or 6 will always insure you of winning a car because there are no 0s & no # higher than 6(unless you somehow misunderstand THAT part of the game).[/quote]
That's not a trick, ya dip.