Winners' Board on Sale of the Century - the CAR and the $10K had to be matched by revealing a WIN card first. (Therefore, revealing either CAR or $10K before revealing a WIN card took that prize out of play.) Notice bofh CAR and $10K were printed askew instead of regular centered horizontally. It was never mentioned, although the contestants were made aware of that beforehand. I distinctly remember a contestant went to the Winners' Board with only a piano and the car remaining on the board. Four numbers - two were the piano, one was the WIN card, and the other was CAR. Contestant makes his first pick -- CAR -- and the contestant immediately winces. He then picks the WIN card, and he knows he's going to win the piano, even though Jim Perry still tries to keep it suspenseful.

Seems like, by around season 32 of TPIR, in Card Game, if you drew an ace, the unwritten rule became "give me your total bid on the car" rather than being given the option of playing it immediately or holding it for later. Bob still said they were wild and that you could make them any amount you wish, but by that point I rarely heard him discuss holding the ace. Time constraints surely had something to do with that.

Even when I was a child watching the show, I never understood the option of holding the ace. If you have the option to make the bid anything you want, why WOULDN'T you want to just use it to make your bid exactly what you want instead of continuing to pick?

Not only that, but as the sell to the front game was to test the players' abilities to "judge human nature", it becomes really boring really quickly if there's nothing something to add personality behind the guesses the contestants make.  Particularly with the NBC version (since it's the one I've seen the most of and enjoyed the most that I'll comment upon it), they were good at casting energetic personalities who could spin good yarns for why they think thirty kids out of a hundred (or more or fewer than that) have ever been bullied out of their lunch money, or other platitudinous questions

That is kind of what happened on Classic Concentration:  In the rebus games, it seemed like the contestant's were "encouraged" to say a few words before calling out the number.  Of course, the car game was pretty much calling numbers only.

Oh God yes I’ve had the subscription now for 7 years.  It’s how I found (and befriended) several Woolery and 80s Wheel players, scoop on Price is Right shows, and even tea on prize suppliers and their subsequent legal battles (like Classic Roadster).  I know the State Historical Society of Missouri is partnering with NDC on digitizing their holdings of smaller town MO papers which is great.  The digital archive site on SHSMO is horrible to search.

One improvement they need is allow us to use Booleans, and after reading lots of news stories I’ve learned extra keywords to include.  Example: you search Price is Right, include a pricing game, “come on down”, “showcase”, or “Bob Barker”.  Also use “(insert network) game show” before or after a title.

Christmas for me is when a new title gets added to NDC or Genealogy Bank.  The latter just got the Savannah GA newspapers and I’m over the moon.  Also, go to The Ancestor Hunt blog that lists free digital newspaper archives by state.

Quote from: PYLclark86 on November 23, 2025, 01:49:42 PM

Speaking of Whew!, I don't recall them ever mentioning that you had to place your blocks from bottom to top. Per the contestant agreement:

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17. When blocking, I may start on any level, but having selected a level, I can not put a block on a lower level.

I think they ended up dropping that when the celebs came on.

Yes.  Often the first block placed was the Level 6 block by the civilian.