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5 Least Favorite Current Pricing Games

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nowhammies10:
1. You can't
2. rank pricing games
3. in this manner, every
4. game is someone's favourite
5. Stack the Deck

TLEberle:

--- Quote from: nowhammies10 on December 16, 2024, 02:20:54 PM ---1. You can't
2. rank pricing games
3. in this manner, every
4. game is someone's favourite
5. Stack the Deck

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I remember having this exact conversation with Steve G. and wondering for whom that answer is "Double Prices," and then finding out that STYDFan/CarShark did in fact proclaim that it was his favorite game because it generated wins.

Kevin Prather:

--- Quote from: TLEberle on December 16, 2024, 02:32:31 PM ---I remember having this exact conversation with Steve G. and wondering for whom that answer is "Double Prices," and then finding out that STYDFan/CarShark did in fact proclaim that it was his favorite game because it generated wins.

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I'll just leave this here without comment.

beatlefreak84:
It has taken me a few days to mull over this, but I tried to come up with ones that really aren't just "quick plays" since those are there purposefully:

(In no particular order)

1.  Pay the Rent (clearly designed to not be won often, but most contestants will stop at $10,000 anyway, so it feels like a letdown almost every time)
2.  Gas Money (way too high of a cash consolation prize, and the mechanic of "avoid the right price" seems counterintuitive to The Price is Right)
3.  Bonus Game (not a bad game per se, but Shell Game does the same mechanics so much better it's a wonder this game hasn't been retired)
4.  Double Cross (so much chrome/explanation for a game that's really a 1/3 guess...you know they will never put the correct answer as the default setting!)
5.  Pass the Buck (get a 1/6 chance of winning the car without needing to know anything about prices...at least Let 'em Roll makes it a 1/32 chance if you don't know anything about prices)

I absolutely agree Plinko is way overplayed, but I don't hate the game.  Likewise, I don't hate the idea of Stack the Deck or Time is Money; it's just painful to see so many contestants play it suboptimally.

Honorable mentions:  That's Too Much (way too challenging to win, and again, seems counterintuitive to the show's title, but at least it plays quickly) and Gridlock (pretty much a quick-play version of Money Game; chrome is nice, though)

Anthony

TLEberle:

--- Quote from: beatlefreak84 on December 16, 2024, 04:41:42 PM ---5.  Pass the Buck (get a 1/6 chance of winning the car without needing to know anything about prices...at least Let 'em Roll makes it a 1/32 chance if you don't know anything about prices)

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One way that I would improve PTB at least in my mind is that if the contestant doesn't win either extra number choice that Drew reveals the location of the car and then the contestant chooses from what is left.

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