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Title: Plinko Story from "Now I Know"
Post by: tvmitch on November 12, 2021, 11:56:30 AM
This is one I haven't heard before...I imagine it was shared on the Golden Road board, but I wasn't able to turn up anything from a quick search here.

In yesterday's (excellent) Now I Know email newsletter from Dan Lewis, he told the story of a July 2008 taping of TPiR where the contestant played a rigged game of Plinko with a great outcome.

Unfortunately, I don't see a way to link to his telling of the story, other than copy/pasting the whole text here, which could be problematic.

Here is the Reddit thread (https://reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/z1p67/til_that_a_contestant_on_the_price_is_right/c60vfjz/) referenced in the newsletter, which is the first-hand account. A good read if you had not heard this before.

I'd be interested in seeing the version of this game that made it to air if anyone had that episode handy.
Title: Re: Plinko Story from "Now I Know"
Post by: Jeremy Nelson on November 12, 2021, 01:54:45 PM
I remember Drew telling this story around this time in an interview. I believe it was a promo for the first Ludia Price is Right game that caused this.
Title: Re: Plinko Story from "Now I Know"
Post by: Mr. Armadillo on November 16, 2021, 08:02:22 PM
I'd be interested in seeing the version of this game that made it to air if anyone had that episode handy.
I can tell you the air date of that episode is December 5th, 2008, but a couple searches on YouTube didn't come up with anything for that date.

EDIT: I scanned the Golden-Road recap from that day (http://www.golden-road.net/index.php/topic,9514.0.html), and it doesn't look like much out of the ordinary made it past the edit.