What the Heck Is That Game Called?!
From Golden-Road.net FAQ
Over the years, I’ve noticed that most people don’t know the names of most of TPIR’s games, so I’ve come up with a way to identify them using vague information. Look down the list of descriptions below this paragraph; when you find one that sounds like the game you’re thinking of, click the description, and you’ll be taken to its name. Every game on the show is in the list.
The game with the car and the piggy bank
Any Number
The game that looks like a gigantic plus sign
Add 'em Up
The higher-or-lower game with the blue lights
Bonus Game
The 2-prize game with bargain prices
Barker's Bargain Bar
The game with 3 prizes and 4 prices
Barker's Marker$
The game where the models bumped the buses off the table
Bump
The game where you buy or sell each prize
Buy or Sell
The game where you have seven tries to guess a car's exact price
Bullseye ('72)
The grocery item game with the bullseye
Bullseye ('76)
The game with the blue discs and the weird music
Bonkers
The red game where you have to balance the scales by dumping coins out of buckets
Balance Game ('84)
The purple game where you have to balance the scales by guessing the price of the prize
Balance Game ('06)
The game where you have to write a check
Check Game (formerly "Blank Check")
The game where you draw cards to bid on a car
Card Game
The game with 2 prizes and an analog clock
Clock Game
The flower-shaped game where the numbers slide across a platform
Coming or Going
The grocery item bidding game that used to have the giant calculator
Check-Out
The game with the mountain climber
Cliff Hangers
The game with 5 prizes and a credit limit
Credit Card
The game where you cover up the wrong numbers with the right ones
Cover Up
The 3-prize game with sales prices
Clearance Sale
The game where you roll the dice for the numbers in the price of the car
Dice Game
The 4-prize game where the prices look like they're on stop signs
Danger Price
The game where you pick which of two price tags has the right price
Double Prices
The game with two people bidding on a car
Double Bullseye
The game where the small prizes' first digits are in the price of the car
Double Digits
The 3-prize game with the blocks
Eazy az 1 2 3
The game with the eight rotating numbers
Freeze Frame
The true-or-false game with the five blue price tags
Five Price Tags
The red and white game where you can flip the first two and/or last two numbers
Flip Flop
The game that involved a horse race
Finish Line
The game with the gift boxes that's played for $5000
Fortune Hunter
The green game that's played for $10,000
Grand Game
The grocery item game with the cash register
Grocery Game
The game with 2 prizes and a really, really expensive car
Golden Road
The game where you had to keep three prizes and give the other three back
Give or Keep
The game where you had to paint in the missing number
Gallery Game
The game where you choose the three highest-priced products on the counter
Hi Lo
The game with the 16 numbered boxes
1/2 Off
The blackjack game
Hit Me
The game where you play golf
Hole in One
The game with the guy jumping over hurdles
Hurdles
The game with the grocery bags for $16,000
It's in the Bag
The game for two cars that involved car options
It's Optional
The game where you have to discard the joker
Joker
The game that's based on Yahtzee
Let 'em Roll
The game where you move the prizes' prices back and forth to make the car's price
Line em Up
The game where you need $1 left at the end to buy the car
Lucky $even
The game where you move the number up and down with a lever and a cool noise
Magic #
The 3-prize game where the prices can't overlap
Make Your Move
The game where you have to unlock the prizes
Master Key
The game where you guess whether the real prices of three prizes and a car are higher or lower than the ones shown
More or Less
The game where you choose the most expensive prize
Most Expensive
The game where you have to find the car's first two numbers and last two numbers
Money Game
The red game where your bids had to total more than a certain price
Mystery Price
The now-or-then game than looks like a pie
Now....or Then (formerly "Now....and Then")
The game with the car horns
One Away
The game where you choose which of 2 prizes a price goes on
1 Right Price
The game where you choose which of 3 prizes has a wrong price on it
1 Wrong Price
The game where the floor looks like Wheel of Fortune
On the Spot
The game where you throw a basketball, football, etc.
On the Nose
The game with the pennies and the cool sound effects
Penny Ante
The game with the envelopes that looks like a pants pocket
Pocket ¢hange
The game where you drop the chips down the board to win money
Plinko
The game with the punchboard
Punch a Bunch
The blue game that used to be played on a ferris wheel
Pick-a-Pair
The green game with a bunch of digits scattered around its props
Pick-a-Number
The game where you walk on the numbers in the car's price
Pathfinder
The game where you push the blocks off the table
Push Over
The game where you use the numbers in the prices to make a poker hand
Poker Game
The game where the life-sized puppet asked general knowledge questions
Professor Price
The green game where the board hides the car, money, and "Lose Everythings"
Pass the Buck
The game where you and a person on the phone cooperated to win money
The Phone Home Game
The game where the rangefinder can't be started again for 37 hours
Range Game
The game where you have to put the four prices on the right prizes in 45 seconds
Race Game
The game where you pull the wrong number out of the price and the rest of them squeeze together
Squeeze Play
The game where you have to open the safe
Safe Crackers
The tic-tac-toe game
Secret "X"
The game where you fill in the prices' tens digits with red blocks
Switcheroo
The game where you have to spell "car"
Spelling Bee
The game where you have to buy four groceries and save at least $1
$uper $aver
The game where you play skeeball
Super Ball!!
The game where two numbers go to the left or the right of the other two
Side by Side
The game where one of the last three prizes has the same price as the first one
Swap Meet
The game where you have to spend as much money as possible
Shopping Spree
The game where the numbers in the car's price are on playing cards
Stack the Deck
The game where you try to pick a prize more expensive than the last one you picked
Step Up
The game where you have to decide whether or not to switch the prices of two prizes
Switch?
The higher-or-lower game with the shells on the table
Shell Game
The game whose board is made of a bunch of arrows
Split Decision
The game with the six shower stalls
Shower Game
The game where you draw the numbers and strikes out of a bag
3 Strikes
The two-prize game where you have to give the price of the prize on the left
2 for the Price of 1
The game where you have 10 chances to win two prizes and a car by unscrambling their prices
Ten Chances
The brown and red grocery item game that looks like a big, weird machine
Time Is Money
The game where the contestant has to shout, "That's too much!"
That's Too Much!
The 4-prize game where you have to pick the two prizes whose prices total a certain number
Take Two
The game where you make the car's price from the numbers in the prices of the gifts
Temptation
The game that looks like a log cabin
Trader Bob
The game where you can win three cars
Triple Play
The game where you match a price to a prize by calling the prize on the phone
Telephone Game
The game with the stars and the autograph books
Walk of Fame
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