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wdm1219inpenna

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Which Car Pricing Games Were Not Affected?
« on: August 29, 2008, 10:40:35 PM »
I'm running down a list of all the pricing games played for a car on "The Price is Right", and trying to figure out which pricing games were not at all affected by the advent of 5 digit prices for cars.

Cover Up obviously was not, as that has always been a 5 digit car game.

More or Less because individual digits or series of digits (Money Game) are not part and parcel to the game itself.

Golden Road, as that has always been played for a 5 digit (or 6 digit) vehicle.

Triple Play, (see More or Less explanation)

*One Away.  I put an asterisk beside it because although the game itself remained virtually the same, meaning no free digit given, it was changed from a 4 to a 5 digit readout.

That's Too Much, not affected because whole prices are used, and not digits or series of numbers, plus the game was created well after the advent of 5 digit cars.

Line Em Up, again the same deal, created well after the advent of 5 digit cars.

Pocket Change, another game created well after the 5 digit cars came into being permanently.

Gas Money, the newest game, appears to be played for with price tags, not individual digits.

5 Price Tags, Master Key, Spelling Bee & Switcheroo all were not affected by 5 digit car prices, in other words, these games did not give a free digit.  Only Pathfinder has done so, with regard to the SP games currently played for automobiles.

Let Em Roll, Hole in One, Pass the Buck & Stack The Deck all have not been affected by the advent of 5 digit car prices, especially since all but one (Stack the Deck) really doesn't involve the price of the car at all, which is what makes Stack the Deck a really awesome game, to me anyway.

I think that's the entire list of existing car games, at least the ones not affected by 5 digit car prices vs. 4.  Any Number, Money Game, Lucky Seven, Temptation, soon 3 Strikes, Dice Game all give a digit for free, and Ten Chances was affected of course because now all 5 digits are used instead of just 4 out of 5.

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« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2008, 10:46:01 PM »
Thank you ever so much for that. Now I can sleep at night.

(A faster way to run through the laundry list would be to just cut all the games where you don't have to call for the digits one by one. Which is most of them. And in most cases, the actual game play didn't change all that much, but the set changed.)
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Kevin Prather

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« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2008, 10:56:35 PM »
[quote name=\'wdm1219inpenna\' post=\'195502\' date=\'Aug 29 2008, 07:40 PM\']
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« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2008, 11:34:30 PM »
I don't see Card Game in your list.  That hasn't been retired, has it?
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wdm1219inpenna

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« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2008, 05:36:52 AM »
[quote name=\'Fedya\' post=\'195513\' date=\'Aug 29 2008, 11:34 PM\']
I don't see Card Game in your list.  That hasn't been retired, has it?
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No, not to my knowledge, Card Game has not been retired.  I would say however that falls into the category of games affected by 5 digit cars, as the opening bid went from 0, to 2000, to 8000 (I thought for a time 5000 was the opening bid but I don't recall), then did it not jump to 10,000 then 12,000 and now 15,000?  It seems like since all of the other playing card themed pricing games have been axed (Joker, Hit-Me), and the other pricing game very loosely based on cards (Poker Game), coupled with the fact that the opening bids on this game and the price range cards are both so ridiculously high, I for one wouldn't weep if this game were retired.  Perhaps if the network were to give back some commercial time (never going to happen), Card Game could be played more often, and not rushed, but then, aren't just about all of the pricing games rushed anymore?  It's no mere coincidence that they have a dozen quicky pricing games for just a single prize in the rotation.

And to the other poster, I am very glad you will be able to sleep better at night now.  I am much more affordable than Nytol, or any other OTC or prescription sleep aids.

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« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2008, 01:38:46 PM »
[quote name=\'wdm1219inpenna\' post=\'195527\' date=\'Aug 30 2008, 02:36 AM\']
(more tldr)

And to the other poster, I am very glad you will be able to sleep better at night now.  I am much more affordable than Nytol, or any other OTC or prescription sleep aids.
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« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2008, 03:26:38 PM »
[quote name=\'Kevin Prather\' post=\'195549\' date=\'Aug 30 2008, 10:38 AM\']
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Actually I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that was sarcasm. :)
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« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2008, 06:43:51 PM »
« Last Edit: August 30, 2008, 07:01:40 PM by WhammyPower »

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« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2008, 06:52:32 PM »
[quote name=\'WhammyPower\' post=\'195568\' date=\'Aug 30 2008, 06:43 PM\']http://i33.tinypic.com/2cwrkp4.jpg[/quote]
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« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2008, 09:50:36 PM »
[quote name=\'wdm1219inpenna\' post=\'195527\' date=\'Aug 30 2008, 05:36 AM\']No, not to my knowledge, Card Game has not been retired.  I would say however that falls into the category of games affected by 5 digit cars, as the opening bid went from 0, to 2000, to 8000 (I thought for a time 5000 was the opening bid but I don't recall), then did it not jump to 10,000 then 12,000 and now 15,000?[/quote]
Here, you've moved away from anything special about 5-digit cars, and are just talking about inflation and the show's response to it. And inflation has done the same thing to lots of car games--for instance, it's (on average) harder to get the thousands digit right in Dice Game now than it was 20 years ago, because $1,000 is an effectively smaller range than it used to be.
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« Reply #10 on: August 30, 2008, 10:51:44 PM »
[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' post=\'195578\' date=\'Aug 30 2008, 07:50 PM\']
because $1,000 is an effectively smaller range than it used to be.
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Reminds me much of the Check Game discussion of a month or so ago... :)

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« Reply #11 on: August 30, 2008, 11:18:58 PM »
[quote name=\'isucgv\' post=\'195583\' date=\'Aug 30 2008, 07:51 PM\']
[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' post=\'195578\' date=\'Aug 30 2008, 07:50 PM\']
because $1,000 is an effectively smaller range than it used to be.
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Reminds me much of the Check Game discussion of a month or so ago... :)
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« Last Edit: August 30, 2008, 11:52:05 PM by Kevin Prather »

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« Reply #12 on: August 30, 2008, 11:27:41 PM »
[quote name=\'WhammyPower\' post=\'195568\' date=\'Aug 30 2008, 03:43 PM\']http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/1671/no...hitagainep0.jpg
[/quote]The best part of that is that you see in his 5.5m jumps, the three Xs denoting of course...

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