Author Topic: TPIR Impossibilities... (Read 10719 times)

clemon79 · « **Reply #30 on:** January 05, 2005, 08:03:03 PM »

[quote name=\'Dsmith\' date=\'Jan 5 2005, 03:35 PM\'][quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 5 2005, 04:46 PM\']A person simply having a run of bad luck can go 0-for 4 or 5.
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Luck has nothing to do with not being able to tell whether a piece of merchandise is "Higher" or "Lower".

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Sure it does. Say you happen to get a group of prizes you know nothing about? I've been shopping for a stick blender lately. I go on TPiR, I see a stick blender, I know what it costs. I go on TPiR, I see a gravy boat, I'm screwed. No fault of my own, just the bad luck of getting items outside of my body of knowledge.

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #31 on:** January 05, 2005, 08:05:29 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 5 2005, 05:03 PM\'][quote name=\'Dsmith\' date=\'Jan 5 2005, 03:35 PM\'][quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 5 2005, 04:46 PM\']A person simply having a run of bad luck can go 0-for 4 or 5.
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Luck has nothing to do with not being able to tell whether a piece of merchandise is "Higher" or "Lower".

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Sure it does. Say you happen to get a group of prizes you know nothing about? I've been shopping for a stick blender lately. I go on TPiR, I see a stick blender, I know what it costs. I go on TPiR, I see a gravy boat, I'm screwed. No fault of my own, just the bad luck of getting items outside of my body of knowledge.

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Well put. Unless you obsess over supermarket products, there will be luck involved. Same goes for any quiz show. You're bound to hit questions you don't know. Someone getting shut out on J! doesn't usually get labeled as a misplay, so why getting shut out on TPiR?

Frank15 · « **Reply #32 on:** January 05, 2005, 08:12:38 PM »

[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Jan 5 2005, 07:33 PM\']A contestant can be way off on their guesses for all five products in Check-Out and still win as long as their total for all five guesses is within $2 high or low.[/quote]
Suddenly, that infernal Hanson song is getting stuck in my head....

Desperado · « **Reply #33 on:** January 05, 2005, 08:24:00 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 5 2005, 08:03 PM\']I've been shopping for a stick blender lately.[/quote]
What the h*ll is a stick blender anyway???

SRIV94 · « **Reply #34 on:** January 05, 2005, 08:49:02 PM »

[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Jan 5 2005, 06:33 PM\']A contestant can blow all three small prizes in SPelling Bee and still get one of the CAR cards with their two free cards. It's happened before.

A contestant can be way off on their guesses for all five products in Check-Out and still win as long as their total for all five guesses is within $2 high or low.

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"Spelling Bee" I'll grant you. You get two free picks just by winning your way up on stage and getting that game assigned to you. So that makes five.

"Check Out" is a little trickier, only in that you're not allowed any freebies--you still have to price each product (which, as Kevin pointed out, could actually be a strategic device in some cases). But unlike the other five games mentioned ("Spelling Bee," "Let Em Roll," "Pass The Buck," "Half Off" and "Plinko") where you could win something just for essentially getting up on stage, you can't do that in "Check Out."

Doug

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #35 on:** January 05, 2005, 08:55:51 PM »

Hell, you can win any game without any effort if they screw something up, as has happened a number of times in recent months.

clemon79 · « **Reply #36 on:** January 05, 2005, 09:25:08 PM »

[quote name=\'Desperado\' date=\'Jan 5 2005, 06:24 PM\'][quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 5 2005, 08:03 PM\']I've been shopping for a stick blender lately.[/quote]
What the h*ll is a stick blender anyway???

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That's an awfully hostile way to ask about a fairly innocuous piece of kitchen equipment.

This:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...garden&n=507846

...is a stick blender. Great for chopping herbs, pureeing soups and sauces, and many other applications.

curtking · « **Reply #37 on:** January 05, 2005, 09:32:47 PM »

[quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Jan 5 2005, 08:49 PM\']"Spelling Bee" I'll grant you. You get two free picks just by winning your way up on stage and getting that game assigned to you. So that makes five.

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You can win $4K-$6K in prizes in Temptation without any effort. (Unless you consider "quitting" to be effort...)

And what about the can of French's Fried Onions you get at the start of Golden Road? <g>

Curt

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #38 on:** January 05, 2005, 09:36:05 PM »

[quote name=\'curtking\' date=\'Jan 5 2005, 06:32 PM\']
And what about the can of French's Fried Onions you get at the start of Golden Road? <g>

Curt

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Don't grin, Curt. You have no idea what the black market value on that stuff is. ;-)

SRIV94 · « **Reply #39 on:** January 05, 2005, 09:46:35 PM »

[quote name=\'curtking\' date=\'Jan 5 2005, 08:32 PM\'][quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Jan 5 2005, 08:49 PM\']"Spelling Bee" I'll grant you. You get two free picks just by winning your way up on stage and getting that game assigned to you. So that makes five.

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You can win $4K-$6K in prizes in Temptation without any effort. (Unless you consider "quitting" to be effort...)

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We've got six (which is more than the current number of wins of my alma mater's one-time proud basketball program).

Technically, you still have to go through the motions of trying to pick each digit for the car before you're given the opportunity to walk away, but that's a great call nonetheless.

Doug

zachhoran · « **Reply #40 on:** January 05, 2005, 10:00:21 PM »

[quote name=\'curtking\' date=\'Jan 5 2005, 09:32 PM\']
You can win $4K-$6K in prizes in Temptation without any effort. (Unless you consider "quitting" to be effort...)

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But what could one win on Temptation Island without any effort.....

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #41 on:** January 05, 2005, 10:36:44 PM »

[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Jan 5 2005, 07:00 PM\'][quote name=\'curtking\' date=\'Jan 5 2005, 09:32 PM\']
You can win $4K-$6K in prizes in Temptation without any effort. (Unless you consider "quitting" to be effort...)

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But what could one win on Temptation Island without any effort.....

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More than you could ever imagine, Zach...

sshuffield70 · « **Reply #42 on:** January 05, 2005, 11:30:53 PM »

[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Jan 5 2005, 10:00 PM\'][quote name=\'curtking\' date=\'Jan 5 2005, 09:32 PM\']
You can win $4K-$6K in prizes in Temptation without any effort. (Unless you consider "quitting" to be effort...)

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But what could one win on Temptation Island without any effort.....

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I don't know which was worse.....that comment or Ashlee Simpson's singing.

Seems like they both deserve something.....

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

That Don Guy · « **Reply #43 on:** January 05, 2005, 11:54:13 PM »

[quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Jan 5 2005, 09:46 PM\']We've got six (which is more than the current number of wins of my alma mater's one-time proud basketball program).
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(#1-6: Let 'Em Roll, Plinko, 1/2 Off, Spelling Bee, Pass the Buck, Check-Out)
#7: Hole In One Or Two - you can win the car even if the second price is lower than the first one.
#8: Dice Game (roll a combination of 1s/6s/correct digits)
#9 (a stretch, but so is Check-Out): Hit Me - you can stand on the first two cards and it is possible for the house to go over.

(And if you're counting retired games, include On The Nose and, to a lesser extent, Mystery Price (you can bid, say, $1 on each item) and Give Or Keep (you get the three items you "kept" even if they total less than the items you "gave"). If winning one item counts, add Trader Bob, as losing players kept the last item received in a trade.)

Meanwhile, there are the games where you can know every price and still not win the main prize:
Plinko
Punch-A-Bunch
3 Strikes
Secret X
Joker
Spelling Bee
1/2 Off
Let 'Em Roll
Pass The Buck
Hole In One Or Two (at least two people have missed from the closest line, although this was back in the "Hole in One" days)
Card Game (if the "range" is $500, you can, for example, draw to within $600 of the car and then draw a 7, putting you over)
(although Bob never says it any more, I assume there is always an ace and a 10 in "Hit Me")

-- Don

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #44 on:** January 06, 2005, 12:03:13 AM »

[quote name=\'That Don Guy\' date=\'Jan 5 2005, 08:54 PM\']Card Game (if the "range" is $500, you can, for example, draw to within $600 of

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I was actually thinking about this the other day. Is there a rule against using aces as negative numbers to bring your bid down? They do say you can make them anything you wish.

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