During his appearance on The Late Show with Craig Ferguson, clips from The Price is Right were shown and Drew confirmed that there is going to be a Big Money Week sometime soon. During the week they will offer over $1 Million in prizes.
They showed three short clips:
1. Punch-A-Bunch will be played for $250,000.
2. A Ferrari will be offered in a pricing game. (Drew kind of spoiled the result of that)
3. Plinko will be played for $500,000, with a $100,000 slot affixed over top of the normal $10,000 one.
Sounds like a cool idea that can be pulled off, especially since Million Dollar Spectaculars have fallen by the wayside for now. The only thing I didn\'t like from the little that was shown was how easy it is to win so much money in #3.
Video preview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxYMm6qJ46E
Wow, all I needed to see was the keyframe. :)
It seems like, at least for Plinko, it\'s way too easy to walk away with six figures. Granted, they\'ll probably up the small prize difficulty to keep someone from getting five chips, but it still seems too easy. Why don\'t they just play like normal, then trot out that Gold Plinko Chip that\'s been gathering dust and play a bonus chip for 10x?
When exactly is this going to air??
It seems like, at least for Plinko, it\'s way too easy to walk away with six figures.By WolframAlpha\'s calculating you have a 23.7% chance of parking at least one chip in the center slot. Either they\'re flush with cash, Drew or some marvelous benefactor is helping out, or maybe they\'re going to do the cash as an annuity.
This isn\'t going to move the ratings one bit - why wouldn\'t they do this for a prime time ep - to garner interest in the daytime show?
When exactly is this going to air??
Educated guess...Sometime during May Sweeps.
The Big Money week starts today (April 22). LMAD also has brought back the \"Super Deal\" for this week.
The Big Money week starts today (April 22). LMAD also has brought back the \"Super Deal\" for this week.
And, \"The Talk\" is doing a Big Money week too. I don\'t know what that entails, nor would I care.
The Big Money week starts today (April 22). LMAD also has brought back the \"Super Deal\" for this week.And, \"The Talk\" is doing a Big Money week too. I don\'t know what that entails, nor would I care.
A male audience member is placed in a booth, with a buzzer. If he can endure the hostesses\' cackling for at least :60 without pressing the buzzer, he wins a progressing jackpot that starts at $10,000, and increases 1/10 each day. From what I read, no man made it past :07 in the beta testing.
/Hell, I\'d watch
The Big Money week starts today (April 22). LMAD also has brought back the \"Super Deal\" for this week.And, \"The Talk\" is doing a Big Money week too. I don\'t know what that entails, nor would I care.
A male audience member is placed in a booth, with a buzzer. If he can endure the hostesses\' cackling for at least :60 without pressing the buzzer, he wins a progressing jackpot that starts at $10,000, and increases 1/10 each day. From what I read, no man made it past :07 in the beta testing.
/Hell, I\'d watch
Clearly the test subjects were all heterosexual, then. Because I know some guys who could win that easily.
I can just hear a lot of general managers of CBS stations ask, \"Why didn\'t they save this for sweeps?\"
Did they change the distribution beyond multiplying the dollar amounts by ten? I know they decreased the number of $50 and $100 slips in regular play when they added the $25,000 slip, but the number of $500 and $1,000 slips yesterday seemed lower than what I thought I remembered.
Today\'s episode featured the \"Grand Game,\" for up to $100,000!
For this, the contestant started with $10, and proceeded the same way as usual.
I wondered, since there are six products on display, if it would\'ve been more challenging and suspenseful if they started at $1, and had FIVE products priced lower than the \"target\" amount--thus requiring the contestant to win $10,000 for the usual FOUR correct picks, and risk it all for the $100,000 by correctly picking the fifth one!
I wondered, since there are six products on display, if it would\'ve been more challenging and suspenseful if they started at $1, and had FIVE products priced lower than the \"target\" amountStatistically, it is easier to pick 5 out of 6. So, no.
Did they change the distribution beyond multiplying the dollar amounts by ten? I know they decreased the number of $50 and $100 slips in regular play when they added the $25,000 slip, but the number of $500 and $1,000 slips yesterday seemed lower than what I thought I remembered.
Probably because there were more $10,000 slips than regular playings!
When did they eliminate the \"Second Chance\" opportunities?
I wondered, since there are six products on display, if it would\'ve been more challenging and suspenseful if they started at $1, and had FIVE products priced lower than the \"target\" amount
Statistically, it is easier to pick 5 out of 6. So, no.
-Jason
How about putting a 7th product up there? How does that change the math?
The fact that there are more winning combinations is irrelevant, as far as I can tell.
The chances of winning if you pick randomly are 1/15 (6.67%) for 4 out of 6, 1/6 (16.7%) for 5 out of 6, and 1/21 (4.76%) for 5 out of 7.
When did they eliminate the \"Second Chance\" opportunities?
When they raised the top prize to $25,000 (September 29, 2011).
A very minor, yet noticeable quirk I caught during today\'s 100 Grand Game playing:
The computerized board reset to $0, although I (correctly) thought she won $1,000 because of the non-risk involved of choosing the wrong item at that level. I read that the board was not coded to address the augmented top prize for this special playing.
By no means did it detract from the gameplay for me, but the part of me who likes to pay attention to detail thought it should have been properly coded before being used for taping. Now that the board is modernized, I\'m sure it can be altered to however they see fit.
That could be, though I don\'t get that they\'d even need to relay a loss to the scoreboard unless it\'s at the final pick. Maybe to make it turn red, but it didn\'t turn red when the contestant lost on the first pick a few weeks ago. Either way, yeah, that bugged me too.
Maybe to make it turn red, but it didn\'t turn red when the contestant lost on the first pick a few weeks ago.
That\'s because if you lose on the first pick, you still win a dollar. Under regular play, if you risk the $1,000 to try for $10,000 and miss, you win $0.
Maybe to make it turn red, but it didn\'t turn red when the contestant lost on the first pick a few weeks ago.That\'s because if you lose on the first pick, you still win a dollar. Under regular play, if you risk the $1,000 to try for $10,000 and miss, you win $0.
I know, I meant they could\'ve programmed it to turn red to indicate the game was lost while still keeping $1/$10/$100 on the display, but they apparently didn\'t.
How about putting a 7th product up there? How does that change the math?
Forget the math, where are you sticking a 7th product cubby?
How about putting a 7th product up there? How does that change the math?
Forget the math, where are you sticking a 7th product cubby?
Redesign the front of the board by making slightly narrower cubbies. Not that hard.
Or get one of the models to hold something so Grand Game is no longer the only game that involves zero models.
/Jeez, that was a long walk for a short dive.