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Improve One Pricing Game...
JasonA1:
--- Quote from: whewfan on May 05, 2025, 09:17:48 PM ---
--- Quote from: TLEberle on May 05, 2025, 08:57:56 PM ---I would have kept the goal of Grocery Game at $21 and allowed a win at $19.
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I didn't think making the range $20-$22 was all that necessary. I haven't seen the show much lately so I don't know how many have fallen short of the original $21 mark to necessitate the change.
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The change to Grocery Game was made in season 45. A quick look at seasons 42 through 44 shows the game had a win-loss record of 2-9, 3-6 and 0-9 in those years respectively. But had the range been changed earlier, those ratios would have improved to 6-5, 5-4 and 4-5.
Inflation affected that game suddenly, as season 41's record was 4-1.
-Jason
Joe Mello:
--- Quote from: JasonA1 on May 05, 2025, 08:27:35 PM ---My longstanding suggestions were to update Grocery Game and Range Game for inflation's sake. They got to Grocery Game within the past decade, so now it'd be Range Game's turn. It's gone so long without changes, a $1000 rangefinder on a $4000 scale would be most inflation-appropriate. For someone who grew up with '90s shows, that's sort of eye-opening as to what the original intent of the game was.
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The problem I would forsee with this is the precision of the scale. I assume the current scale is $1 for every 1/8 inch because that was the most manageable at the time to make, view on camera, and quickly adjudicate. Maybe with the advances in printing and cameras you might be able to get the scale down to, say 1/32 inch you still have to deal with the impact of the range being manually operated. You could also just change the scale so it's 2 or 5 per tick, but I feel like that feels also feels imprecise and displeasing.
I think my request would be to tweak Pocket Change to turn the zeros into nickels. It may only change the expected value of all 4 envelopes by 2 cents (from 1.19 to 1.21), but it may turn a loss or two into a win and makes bad luck feel slightly less bad (or a different kind of bad from drawing a 0).
MSTieScott:
--- Quote from: BrandonFG on May 05, 2025, 10:01:32 PM ---Maybe call it Cash Advance or Do the Math or something
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Hey!
Let me have my one significant contribution!
BrandonFG:
Okay so there is a game that goes by that name. This is what I get for not Googling. :P
Kevin Prather:
--- Quote from: JasonA1 on May 05, 2025, 08:27:35 PM ---My longstanding suggestions were to update Grocery Game and Range Game for inflation's sake. They got to Grocery Game within the past decade, so now it'd be Range Game's turn. It's gone so long without changes, a $1000 rangefinder on a $4000 scale would be most inflation-appropriate.
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I'm reminded of the time we played "Gag Price is Right" in Palace. We played Range Game for a house, and kept the $150 range.
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