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Offline TPIR75

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Pricing game classifications?
« on: January 25, 2009, 01:50:55 PM »
Just a real quick question.

How are some pricing games classified?

I'm mostly curious about the following:

Are Temptation, Ten Chances, Safe Crackers, and Make Your Move SP games, or multi-prize games? 

For example, if Ten Chances or Make Your Move were played, would an SP game like Bonus Game still be played, or would either of the aforementioned games knock out the SP game for the episode?
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Re: Pricing game classifications?
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2009, 01:55:41 PM »
Temptation and Ten Chances are straight-laced car games.  It has happened when Roger was still there that an SP game was played on the same show as games like those.

Examples are:

9/13/96: Shopping Spree/Cliff Hangers/Ten Chances/Squeeze Play/Any Number/Hi Lo

2/24/97: Range Game/Switcheroo/Most Expensive/Safe Crackers/Bullseye/Temptation (This was the final time that Temptation was the last game of the day)

Safe Crackers and Make Your Move are two-prize games.  The latter was probably considered a 3-prize game briefly in Season 19, when two 3-digit prizes were offered in addition to the 4-digit prize.
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Re: Pricing game classifications?
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2009, 01:59:37 PM »
Quote from: goldroadfanatic on January 25, 2009, 01:55:41 PM
Temptation and Ten Chances are straight-laced car games.  It is possible and I think it has happened when Roger was still there that an SP game was played on the same show as games like those.

To quote our good friend Steve's masterpiece, the FAQ (bold added by me)...

Quote from: the FAQ
Temptation was originally considered a small prize game; it does not appear in any lineups with Bonus Game, Give or Keep, Mystery Price, or Shell Game for the entire first three seasons, nor during any of the half-hour weeks of Season 4. Interestingly, it began appearing with them, as well as with Five Price Tags, immediately upon the inception of the hour format.

And I don't know why, to be honest.
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Re: Pricing game classifications?
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2009, 02:03:27 PM »
Quote from: WarioBarker on January 25, 2009, 01:59:37 PM
And I don't know why, to be honest.

Because the game was offering prizes in the SP price range.

As far pricing game classification goes, Scorpz has it spelled out pretty well here.
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Re: Pricing game classifications?
« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2009, 07:38:01 PM »
Officially, there are four classifications of games considered by the Production Staff:

GROCERY GAMES
SMALL ITEM GAMES
CAR GAMES
OTHER GAMES
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