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Title: All-Plinko PIR on NPR
Post by: Bill Neuweiler on July 04, 2013, 11:03:05 AM

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2013/06/28/196630957/let-us-now-have-a-heated-argument-about-plinko-ill-start


 


My friend just sent me this link, enjoy :)


Title: All-Plinko PIR on NPR
Post by: Matt Ottinger on July 04, 2013, 01:04:25 PM

I am amused.  I imagine others of our ilk won\'t be.


Title: All-Plinko PIR on NPR
Post by: clemon79 on July 04, 2013, 02:34:40 PM

She\'s missing a very basic point in the name of her faux-outrage, though, which is that if you take away all of the chrome, *most* games on TPiR utterly suck balls. Chrome is what makes the show work.


 


(And then she cites Cliff Hangers as her gold-standard...and her reasoning wholly cites chrome.)


Title: All-Plinko PIR on NPR
Post by: TLEberle on July 04, 2013, 03:43:04 PM
Did The Onion buy out NPR?
Title: All-Plinko PIR on NPR
Post by: Fedya on July 05, 2013, 02:44:18 PM
Cliff Hangers, at least, requires reasonably guessing the prices of items to win the prize. Plinko is as much dumb luck once you get the chips as the inanimate carbon rods of Set For Life.

Granted, my favorite game is probably Switcheroo, which doesn\'t have any chrome that I can think of.
Title: All-Plinko PIR on NPR
Post by: clemon79 on July 05, 2013, 04:07:17 PM

Cliff Hangers, at least, requires reasonably guessing the prices of items to win the prize.


Not disagreeing, but her reasoning was IT\'S DRAMATIC BECAUSE OMG HANS COULD DIE.
 

Granted, my favorite game is probably Switcheroo, which doesn\'t have any chrome that I can think of.


Granted Switcheroo is largely chrome-free, but don\'t underestimate the prop: is the game as interesting to you if the player is moving index cards around on a corkboard and the reveal changed to a call off-camera to ask if it\'s right a la Coming or Going?
Title: All-Plinko PIR on NPR
Post by: TLEberle on July 05, 2013, 04:14:44 PM

She\'s missing a very basic point in the name of her faux-outrage, though, which is that if you take away all of the chrome, *most* games on TPiR utterly suck balls. Chrome is what makes the show work.

Isn\'t this the case for every game show since Password? If you could play the game on the radio and not miss anything at home, something\'s wrong.

Years ago I put forth the idea that you could play all of the grocery games on a little tray like the one Jay Stewart would bring down for the LMAD pricing games, and all you have to do is hang a sign that says Grocery Game, Pick-a-Pair, Bullseye or Check-out. Lots of the quick games can be reduced to variations on Double Prices (which has always seemed like an odd name to me). But it misses the point that people have to watch the show, and it is fun to have bright colors, moving bits and stuff happening as opposed to three-by-five cards or blackboard magnet numbers for everything.
Title: All-Plinko PIR on NPR
Post by: clemon79 on July 05, 2013, 04:22:16 PM

Isn\'t this the case for every game show since Password?


Absolutely it is.

But it misses the point that people have to watch the show, and it is fun to have bright colors, moving bits and stuff happening as opposed to three-by-five cards or blackboard magnet numbers for everything.


That\'s correct.
Title: All-Plinko PIR on NPR
Post by: TLEberle on July 05, 2013, 04:24:48 PM
So she\'s a doof and we agree. This round is on me.
Title: All-Plinko PIR on NPR
Post by: gamed121683 on July 05, 2013, 05:53:05 PM


...f you take away all of the chrome, *most* games on TPiR utterly suck balls. Chrome is what makes the show work.

 

(And then she cites Cliff Hangers as her gold-standard...and her reasoning wholly cites chrome.)




In that case, are there any \"chromeless\" TPiR pricing games in the present rotation?
Title: All-Plinko PIR on NPR
Post by: BrandonFG on July 05, 2013, 11:06:08 PM
Double Prices and Two for the Price of One come to mind.
Title: All-Plinko PIR on NPR
Post by: TLEberle on July 05, 2013, 11:10:35 PM
What counts as chrome? The big clock? The golf green? The cash register?
Title: All-Plinko PIR on NPR
Post by: clemon79 on July 05, 2013, 11:40:52 PM


What counts as chrome? The big clock? The golf green? The cash register?




 


Actually, you\'ve hit three that are relatively chrome-free. (Though the cash register certainly doesn\'t have to be there.) Shell Game would *almost* be a fourth.


 


(That said, when Clock Game was played on TNPiR with a Chyroned clock, I felt like it lost something. Take out of that what you will.)


Title: All-Plinko PIR on NPR
Post by: jjman920 on July 05, 2013, 11:56:14 PM

I\'d say One Right Price, One Wrong Price, and Most Expensive with its previous set are relatively chrome free.


Title: All-Plinko PIR on NPR
Post by: Steve Gavazzi on July 07, 2013, 12:37:54 PM
How does Most Expen$ive\'s current set have any more or less chrome than the other ones did?
Title: All-Plinko PIR on NPR
Post by: Mr. Armadillo on July 08, 2013, 12:23:23 PM

Five Price Tags is about as chrome-less as it gets.  The only electronics in sight are the backdrops behind the car.


Title: All-Plinko PIR on NPR
Post by: tvwxman on July 08, 2013, 12:52:55 PM


What counts as chrome? The big clock? The golf green? The cash register?




Pick-a-Number?

Title: All-Plinko PIR on NPR
Post by: Unrealtor on July 09, 2013, 01:44:44 AM


Five Price Tags is about as chrome-less as it gets.  The only electronics in sight are the backdrops behind the car.



 



 


There\'s more to chrome than just flashy presentation. Shell Game is about as visually simple a game as it gets, but the shell part of the game is a form of chrome to generate a random outcome. It is, as Chris L said earlier in the thread, pretty necessary chrome, because \"you get a 25% chance of winning the big prize for each small prize you win\" is pretty dry on its own. Or even considering how many different games have some form of giving the contestant options for the missing digit(s) in the price of a prize and the contestant has to say which one is correct in order to win.