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Aspects of The Price is Right that you miss
Kevin Prather:
--- Quote from: chrisholland03 on August 29, 2022, 08:56:11 AM ---I've always been surprised they didn't go Shell Game with Bonus Game in the "Contestant gets them all right" scenario.
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Count me as one who doesn't like the $500 option on Shell Game. When a player wins all four shells but doesn't win the $500, the game ends feeling like a loss.
SuperMatch93:
--- Quote from: Kevin Prather on August 29, 2022, 04:46:34 PM ---
--- Quote from: chrisholland03 on August 29, 2022, 08:56:11 AM ---I've always been surprised they didn't go Shell Game with Bonus Game in the "Contestant gets them all right" scenario.
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Count me as one who doesn't like the $500 option on Shell Game. When a player wins all four shells but doesn't win the $500, the game ends feeling like a loss.
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I agree; incidentally, for the past few years the bonus has been the cash equivalent of the prize on offer.
Neumms:
--- Quote from: Brian44 on August 27, 2022, 05:29:00 AM ---At what point in time would you say Bonus Game wasn't a rigged set-up? Because my observations lead me to believe that the producers have made it incredibly easy or incredibly difficult to win since day one.
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Monitors would be easily changeable while the game is going on. Not that they would ever bother, it just looks dodgy. It's why Mark Goodson didn't let them put the Family Feud front-game on the Solari board. Making it easy or hard, yeah, they do that in lots of games.
When it comes down to it, there's not much reason to play any windows other than the one with the bonus. I've always wanted them to scrap it and play Shell Game instead, which fixed the problems.
clemon79:
--- Quote from: Neumms on August 25, 2022, 06:30:19 PM ---I suppose the heavily practiced preternatural enthusiasm is here to stay, but I'd love to see the whole audience again. Just check for vaccinations at the door.
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The primary purpose of the vaccine is to keep you from degrading to the point of requiring hospitalization, not to bring spread of the virus to a screeching halt. Filling that place up with hooting and hollering people again would be incredibly irresponsible at this point. If they were masked it MIGHT be ok, but as producer that's not the downer reminder I want to be pumping into people's homes every day.
Otm Shank:
--- Quote from: SuperMatch93 on August 27, 2022, 01:22:09 AM ---This shouldn't bug me as much as it does, but I miss the days when contestants weren't directed to run over to their prizes every. single. time.
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On one of the reruns, I heard Barker tell a player that they could not go see their prize, because S&P was worried that contestants would see something backstage. There must have been a change at some point before the introduction of Easy as 1-2-3, which is the only game at the time (if memory serves) where the contestant goes behind the doors, other than the showcase winner. But, I agree, the histrionics of celebrating with your prize (and the dopey license plate frame a car winner has to point to the camera) are just so forced and unnatural.
But, that's what they figure the audience wants, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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