I would have misremembered the spelling. I believe Eye Guess have out his home study course to contestants that flubbed some number of questions consecutively.

Harry Lorrayne?

It's not just you. It doesn't appear to be on Prime anymore. It is still on some other services such as Plex.

Thanks for the confirmation, although the whys of it still baffle me. What's weird is that I had been watching The Bowss like two days before and was just ambushed. No warning, nothing, just poof.

Any idea of what some of those other services might be? I was searching through old press releases and what not and wasn't able to find it on things like Tubi and so forth. I'm wondering if there is a more obscure one my friend and myself can install where it will just sit peacefully. (I do have Plex of course but that's a little more complicated for my friend.)

Indeed it is an unspoken rule about not spinning the big wheel backwards, although a few times when contestants tried doing just that, Barker immediately stopped the proceedings and reprimanded the contestant for doing so.

As for Classic Concentration, it would drive me absolutely bonkers when the contestants would jibber jabber or worse, when Alex would jibber jabber for a while during the game.  I even recall once a contestant snapped at Alex semi-playfully when he was asking "Can so and so remember where that match was?  We just say it a moment ago" and she said something like "I could if you'd allow me to just pick already..." or something to that effect.

I suppose there were three logical points though with that going on...

First, indeed the show would be rather dry if they used the same method used during the 50s - 70s, just picking 2 numbers, the host saying "Not a match, the board goes back"...so to avoid monotony I suppose that's why the chattering was more prevalent on C.C.

Second, I suppose the show wanted to try to not have two huge potential payoffs during the rebus rounds since back in the late 80s, sometimes single game totals were even higher than the lower priced automobiles up for grabs during the Winner's Circle bonus game.

Third, if players were truly outstanding at concentration skills, no amount of jibber jabber would distract them from remembering where matches were on the board.

I for one whenever I play along always try to associate the number selected with the prize shown... (e.g. Luggage under # 14, I think "Luggage needed for a 14 day vacation", or "Refrigerator under #23, I associate 23 degrees being cold, freezing even, like a Refrigerator...of course that logic could work with all 25 numbers on the board!

Also, I just re-watched the 50th anniversary playing of Card Game and Drew specifically told the contestant that he had to pick at least one card from the standard deck. I don't watch TPIR often enough anymore to know whether he says that with every playing nowadays. Does he? And has that always been the rule, at least since it became New Card Game (not that a contestant with even the slightest concept of car pricing wouldn't)?

I think we asked Roger about this once, and the answer was no -- you don't have to draw any cards, although not doing so is generally pretty stupid.

Honestly, I question whether or not it's even really a rule now that you do have to draw one, rather than something Drew just assumed because it seemed like common sense that no one bothered to tell him was wrong (or even knew was wrong).