Price is Right Games List
Heath Doerr
very incomplete now, please add to the list, and correct my descriptions
with the real names. Maybe this will someday turn into the PIR FAQ!
Poker
Penny Antee
Clock Game
Run around and change prices and pull the handle game
Price of car takes up entire wall, doors open to reveal one
number at a time, buy the car with one dollar left game
Write with a pen, hit the button, switch around numbers game
Safecracker
Write a big check game
Punch your fist through paper and take out a ticket game
Pick number cards, back of card reveals half of car, get both halves
win car game
Pick numbers 0-9 and win car, prize, or piggy bank game
Take numbers from price of prizes to form price of car game
Plinko
Mountain Climber
Super Ball
Dice Game
Grocery Game
21
Squeeze Play
The many 50% chance, pick one or the other games
(Barkers bargain bungalo or something like that)
Please add to the list!
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Janna Vesey
Don't forget *Hole in One* (or Two) : one of the best games because Bob puts
first, and he almost always makes the shot.
And also the game where there are four prizes one of which is a car, and
the contestant has these square numbers from 0 to 9, and he or she has to place
all the numbers under a price, see how many they have right and then change
them around if they want.
There are many more I can't think of at the moment, Please Post and help.
Janna
Fred Byon
> very incomplete now, please add to the list, and correct my descriptions
> with the real names. Maybe this will someday turn into the PIR FAQ!
>
>Poker
>Penny Antee
>Clock Game
>Run around and change prices and pull the handle game
"The Race Game"
>Price of car takes up entire wall, doors open to reveal one
> number at a time, buy the car with one dollar left game
"Lucky Seven"
>Write with a pen, hit the button, switch around numbers game
"Ten Chances"
>Safecracker
>Write a big check game
"Check Game"
>Punch your fist through paper and take out a ticket game
"Punchboard"
>Pick number cards, back of card reveals half of car, get both halves
> win car game
"Money Game"
>Pick numbers 0-9 and win car, prize, or piggy bank game
"Any Number"
>Take numbers from price of prizes to form price of car game
Offhand, this sounds like "Temptation".
>Plinko
>Mountain Climber
>Super Ball
>Dice Game
>Grocery Game
>21
>Squeeze Play
>The many 50% chance, pick one or the other games
> (Barkers bargain bungalo or something like that)
"Barker's Bargain Bar". There another called "Double Price", which I
believe has been around since "TPIR" started (select the right price among
the two prices displayed and you win the prize).
Some others....
"Pathfinder" -- Step on numbers to get the correct price of the car.
"Bullseye" -- Buy a certain quantity of a product to hit the "bullseye" of
$10-$12.
"Credit Card" -- "Buy" prizes without exceeding your preset "spending limit".
"Hole in One (or Two)" -- Get the hole in one and win the car!
"Super Ball" -- The SkeeBall game.
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>Poker
I think this one has a different name.
>Run around and change prices and pull the handle game
>Price of car takes up entire wall, doors open to reveal one
> number at a time, buy the car with one dollar left game
Lucky Seven
>Write with a pen, hit the button, switch around numbers game
10 Chances
>Write a big check game
>Punch your fist through paper and take out a ticket game
This one doesn't really have a name, I don't think. All that's really
referred to is the "Punchboard."
>Pick number cards, back of card reveals half of car, get both halves
> win car game
Money Game?
>Pick numbers 0-9 and win car, prize, or piggy bank game
Any Number
>Take numbers from price of prizes to form price of car game
Temptation
>Please add to the list!
Car games:
Spelling Bee
Card Game
3 Strikes(+)
One Away
Hole in One (or 2)
Other games:
Secret 'X'
Hi-Lo
Grand Game (for $10K)
Phone Home (not seen this in years)
Pick A Pair
Shell Game
Range Finder(? - "It moves slowly up the scale!")
That's all off the top of my head... There's tons more I know.
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Blitzer T. Wolf
>In <CGr1M...@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> doe...@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Heath Doerr) writes:
>
>>Poker
>
>I think this one has a different name.
>
>>Write a big check game
>>Punch your fist through paper and take out a ticket game
>
>This one doesn't really have a name, I don't think. All that's really
>referred to is the "Punchboard."
>
>>Pick number cards, back of card reveals half of car, get both halves
>> win car game
>
>Money Game?
>
>Car games:
>Spelling Bee
>Card Game
>3 Strikes(+)
>One Away
>Hole in One (or 2)
Price Tags yet? Dice Game (Deluxe)? Switcheroo? Golden Road?
>
>
>Other games:
>Secret 'X'
>Hi-Lo
>Grand Game (for $10K)
>Phone Home (not seen this in years)
>Pick A Pair
>Shell Game
>Range Finder(? - "It moves slowly up the scale!")
And more --
Danger Price, Cliffhangers (the mountain climber), Clock Game, Switch?, One
Right Price, Pick a Number, Take Two, Buy or Sell, Penny Ante, Most Expensive,
Swap Meet, Squeeze Play, Bonus Game, Now or Then, Plinko, . . . and that's
all I got.
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Enice Eugene Bradley
Heath Doerr <doe...@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> wrote:
> I'm trying to make a list of all the Price is Right games. It's
> very incomplete now, please add to the list, and correct my descriptions
> with the real names. Maybe this will someday turn into the PIR FAQ!
>
>Poker
>Penny Antee
>Clock Game
>Run around and change prices and pull the handle game
that was called the Race Game... you had 45 seconds to do all this.
>Price of car takes up entire wall, doors open to reveal one
> number at a time, buy the car with one dollar left game
That was called Lucky 7. You started off with $7. Each time you got a
number wrong $1 was taken off for how much you were off that number (i.e.
you guess 6 answer is 4 you lose $2; guess 7 answer = 8 lose $1). You had
to have $1 or more to "buy" the car.
>Write with a pen, hit the button, switch around numbers game
That was "10 Chances" in which you had 10 chances to get three prize amounts
right. Prizes usually consisted of something worth tens of dolars
, something worth hundreds of dollars, and something worth thousands
of dollars (usually a car).
>Safecracker
>Write a big check game
>Punch your fist through paper and take out a ticket game
>Pick number cards, back of card reveals half of car, get both halves
> win car game
>Pick numbers 0-9 and win car, prize, or piggy bank game
>Take numbers from price of prizes to form price of car game
>Plinko
>Mountain Climber
>Super Ball
>Dice Game
>Grocery Game
>21
>Squeeze Play
>The many 50% chance, pick one or the other games
> (Barkers bargain bungalo or something like that)
>
wish I could remember the rest -- it's been 3 years since I watched TPIR
with school and all...
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Brian Wibbenmeyer
: I'm trying to make a list of all the Price is Right games. It's
: very incomplete now, please add to the list, and correct my descriptions
: with the real names. Maybe this will someday turn into the PIR FAQ!
The following was posted awhile ago to rec.arts.tv, I believe. It was
created by Chris L - wlam...@acoma.ucs.indiana.edu
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THE 1970's
Any Number- 0 through 9 represented on board. Contestant calls #'s until
completing car, $$$ prize or $.cc piggy bank
Bonus Game- call higher.lower on 4 prizes, be correct on the random "bonus
prize" and win $$$$ prize
Bullseye- How much of a product would total between $6 and $7 (now $12
and $14. Easiest game of em all: Only 1 loser I have ever seen
Card Game- cards worth $100xface: contestants bid on car, cooming within
specefied range w/o going over
Cliff Hangers- price 3 prizes, mountain man climbs cliff 1 step for each
$1 your price is off. keep him from going over the edge
Clock Game- price 2 $$$ prizes in 30 secs. Bob sez "Higher/Lower"
Danger Price- avoid 1 of 4 $$$($) prizes with the danger price, win all4
Dice Game- try to roll all 4(5) #'s in price of car
Double Prices- Is it this much or this much? Exciting.
*Extra Digit- I don't remember.
*Finish Line- Ditto.
Five Price Tags-Earn right to pick up to 4, car on the line
Give Or Keep- 4 $$ prizes, keep more than you give back
Golden Road- can of vegetables leads you eventually to a $50,000+ car
Grocery Game- buy between $6.75-7 (later $20-21) in plugged groceries
Hi-Lo- pick 3 of 6 highest priced $ groceries
Hole In One- price 6 items lo-to-hi to increase odds of sinking
putt for new car
*Hurdles- Don't remember, but I think the prize was 2 cars
*It's Optional- You Got Me.
Lucky Seven- guess #'s of price of car w/o losing all your $7
Money Game- Pick 1st 2 and last 2 numbers in price of car
Most Expensive- this prize, that prize, or that other prize?
One Right Price- which of 2 prizes costs this much? opp. of Danger price
Penny Ante- 3 guesses on choice of 4 prices for each of 2 products
Poker Game- using prices of prizes, build winning poker hand
Punch-A-Bunch- punch holes out of gameboard; worth $50-$10,000
Race Game- run over there and put these prices on those products!
Range Game guess price of $$$$ prize within $150
Safe Crackers- dial price of 1 prize to win 2
Secret "X"- tic tac toe: you're given 1 x but you dont know where
Shell Game- which one is the ball under?
Squeeze Play- take right number out of price, win the prize
Switcheroo- 1 # left out of 4 $$ prizes and car,win what you get right
Take Two- take 2 outof 4 prizes to reach predet. total exactly
Temptation- keep $$$$ in prizes or go for the car?
Ten Chances- to win a $$, a $$$ "or...a new car!" (Olson. 1972)
Three Strikes- Draw all #'s of car (& know where they go) before XXX
THE 1980's
*Add 'Em Up- total of all 4 #s in price of car given, pick the
#s from 0 to 9. Lame game.
*Balance Game- price of 3 prizes in Barker dollars; place them on
opp. sides of huge scale to win $$$$ prize
Barker's Bargain Bar- which of these 2 prizes is a bigger bargain?
Blank Check- write check; win if check+ prize is in target rang.
Grand Game- 4 out of 6 products cheaper than set amount wins $10,000
Hit Me- blackjack with multiples of product prices
Master Key- car & other prizes behind huge locks, the right
key(out of 5) opens all 3, one opens nothing.
Now...or Then- guess 3/6 prices as current or 6 years old
*On The Nose- sink a basket or throw football to win car. # chances det.
by how close your guess of the car's price was.
One Away- each # in car price is 1 too high or 1 too low.
Pathfinder- walk to each # in price of car. I love this one.
*Phone Home Game-pick the right prizes and you split up to
$15,000 with a home viewer(always a moron)
Pick A Pair- pick 2/6 products with same price, win $$$$
Plinko- Is anybody else sick of this one yet?
Superball!- '50s arcade skeeball comes to TV
Spelling Bee- Pick letters C-A-R and win a...
Super Saver- pick 4/6 products, save $1.00 and win even more.
*Trader Bob- in 4 trades, keep taking the higher value prize.
2 for the price of 1- form price of $$$ prize, win it+ a $$$$ prize.
THE 1990's
*Art Gallery- finish drawing the last # in a prize to win it.
(come on guys, you can do better than that!!!)
Buy or Sell- Pick discounted prizes, avoid markups.
Credit Card- pick 3/5 prizes without exceeding "credit limit".
same old idea, but great new way to do it. A fave.
Magic Circle- Cool game. set a price in between two prizes to win both.
Make Your Move- create 3 prices out of 9 #s to win three prizes.
Swap Meet- which of those 3 prizes has same price as this one?
Switch?- Are these prices right, or should we switch 'em?
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Blitzer T. Wolf
Brian Wibbenmeyer <bwib...@saucer.cc.umr.edu> wrote:
>THE 1970's
>*Hurdles- Don't remember, but I think the prize was 2 cars
the one of the two that was less. No cars that I remember.
>*It's Optional- You Got Me.
other one behind it. Had to add options (air conditioning, power
locks, tinted glass, etc.) to bring less expensive car up to price
of other car.
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Anthony Bonillo
> number at a time, buy the car with one dollar left game
Is that one "Lucky Seven"? The one where you get seven dollars and you must
pick each number and get as close to the number as possible. If you don't get
it, you pay the difference from your seven dollars. At the end, if you have
at least one dollar left, you can buy the car and win.
Stephen Eckert
Shell game
The game where there are five car "price tags" and you say true or
false at the prices of products to win chances at 4 of 5 of the price tags
If the price of the car is on one of your price tags, you win
Tic Tac Toe
This is an old one. There are four prizes you have a chance to win, and
4 cards (with prize names on them) are aligned vertically on a board.
Bob happily slides the card one way if you win the prize, the other if
you lose it. There is a window next to each prize. At the end, one
of the windows lights up with the phrase "BONUS". If you've won that
prize, you get the bonus prize.
HI-LO, where there are 6 prizes, and you have to pick out the
three most expensive.
Three Strikes
Other notes:
-- The music in the race game is classic. (Rearrange prices and pull handle)
-- They are still giving away those 70's looking fireplaces.
-- Bob seems to have become mean-spirited, in that he always waits
and waits and waits to see if the person has won the prize. I
saw be really cruel to this one older woman who kept saying
"just push the button, just push the button" and he wouldn't.
(They were playing temptation, and she wanted to win the
car for her granddaughter.)
I really dislike this about Bob.
Stephen