According to the gameshownewsnet.com website, a new pricing game is unveiled on the season premiere of TPIR on Mon., Sept. 23. It\'s called \"Do The Math.\" There\'s also a thread about this on the golden-road.net website. I do believe this is the fifth new game being introduced during Drew Carey\'s tenure as host. I will be sure to record it.
And taken from that golden-road.net thread, here\'s a video posted by CBS showing a playing of the new game (minor spoilers)
http://www.cbspressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/video?watch=4zwc1ahy6h
If people couldn\'t figure out that a box of goldfish crackers at $25.70 is ten times $2.57, this game is going to be a blast.
I believe this game was created by Scott, so at least they have this pricing game to remember his tenure on the show.
It took me a second to grasp that...am I the only one who thought Drew kinda fumbled the explanation?
The game itself is actually pretty clever...seems like a spin on Check Game. But yeah, I could see contestants getting tripped up on this one.
I was really hoping for a game where you had to guess which prize had its actual retail price was multiplied by π, and which one was multiplied by e.
I was really hoping for a game where you had to guess which prize had its actual retail price was multiplied by π, and which one was multiplied by e.
\"Stop being irrational!\", said the math teacher.
If this is the fifth new game Drew has introduced, what games have been retired in the past six years?
If this is the fifth new game Drew has introduced, what games have been retired in the past six years?
Barker\'s Markers/Make Your Mark, Buy or Sell, Clearance Sale, Credit Card (we think, hasn\'t been played since October 2008 but no announcement of it being retired), Joker, Poker Game (both of those last two had their last playings with Barker)
I dunno, I thought Make Your Mark was a clever twist on the Monty Hall Problem. It\'s a shame that it met its end due to nothing more than a silly mistake by Drew that could have easily been corrected.
I dunno, I thought Make Your Mark was a clever twist on the Monty Hall Problem. It\'s a shame that it met its end due to nothing more than a silly mistake by Drew that could have easily been corrected.
I\'m not calling shenanigans on you specifically, but has a source for this reason for retirement ever been confirmed by someone affiliated with production of the show?
If anyone here would know if a staffer has confirmed the story, it would likely be Steve Gavazzi, since it\'s in the Golden-Road.net FAQ (which he largely wrote) about why that game was retired (Drew mangling the rules and them retiring it on those grounds).
Not quite the reason. Per the FAQ...it\'s in the Golden-Road.net FAQ (which he largely wrote) about why that game was retired (Drew mangling the rules and them retiring it on those grounds).
Sure, the mistake could\'ve easily been corrected, but nobody wanted to.In order to avoid embarrassing Drew, the staff decided on the fly that these would be the game\'s \"new rules\" and allowed the playing to proceed; after the taping, they also decided that it would never be played again.
Of all the games that have been put out to pasture, the one that I say \"huh, that\'s too bad\" is Buy or Sell.
I was partial to Poker Game and Credit Card myself. Didn\'t realize they played the latter up until \'08...thought that one was retired in the Barker era.
It took me a second to grasp that...am I the only one who thought Drew kinda fumbled the explanation?
The game itself is actually pretty clever...seems like a spin on Check Game. But yeah, I could see contestants getting tripped up on this one.
Given the current staff over there, I wonder if they\'re deliberately not giving the obvious \"If you think the motorcycle is more than the TV, add the $1160; if you think it\'s less, subtract it\" explanation in order to make it seem unique.
Also, I think that reveal is going to be really awkward when someone loses. I think I would rather have the sum/difference calculated and shown separately from the price of the second prize.
Given the current staff over there, I wonder if they\'re deliberately not giving the obvious \"If you think the motorcycle is more than the TV, add the $1160; if you think it\'s less, subtract it\" explanation in order to make it seem unique.
Fun read, and good for him. He put a lot of work into it.
I think it would be more fun set up the same way with chalkboards replacing the monitors. The two small ones with the prizes could flip for the reveal. The big board in the middle would have both the plus and the minus drawn in, then a model erases (with some flourish and a giant prop eraser) the one not picked.