TPIR - 2012 Australian Series - 11/5/12

[brosa0]

The Price Is Right – 2012 Australian Series                  
Airdate: 11/5/2012                  
Mic Handoff: Renee                   
                  
Susie is playing Danger Price for a TV (LG 32” HD), Cross Trainer (Action), Dining Setting (Fantastic Furniture), Mattress (Sleep Solution)                  
                  
The Danger Price is $398.                  
                  
Prizes   -   Choice   -   Price      
TV   -               
Fitness   -   Second   -   $398      
Dining Setting   -   First   -   $699      
Mattress   -               
                  
LOSS                  
                              
Greg is playing Check Out for a $1500 shopping spree (Big W)                  
                  
Items                  
Cadbury Picnic Bar / Band Aids (24pk) / Paper Towels (3pk) / Cadbury Drinking Chocolate (400g)                  
                  
Choices                  
$2.00 / $3.50 / $7.00 / $5.00  = $17.50                  
                  
ARP                  
$1.74 / $2.88 / $3.98 / $4.34 = $12.94                  
                  
Difference = $4.56                  
                  
LOSS                  
                  
Carole is playing Cliff Hangers for an outdoor timber dining set (Table, bench seats, wicker chairs)                  
                  
Item   -   Guess   -   ARP   -   Steps
Digital Scales   -   $22   -   $30   -   8
Esky (27L)   -   $45   -   $49   -   4
Digital Photo Frame (20cm)   -   $57   -   $78   -   21 ... and Cliff crashes off the mountain for the first time in 7 years.
                  
LOSS                  
                        
Tie-breaker                  
Prize: 14.1MP GE Digital Camera (Tasco)                  
                  
Susie   -   $79            
Greg   -   $180            
Carole   -   $69            
ARP   -   $269            
                  
Susie and Greg progress to the Showcase Playoff                  
                  
Showcase                  
Prizes                  
Floor Rug (Carpet Call)                  
51” TV (Samsung)                  
Pen Set (Cross)                  
Cordless Phone System (Uniden)                  
Coffee Machine (Delonghi)                  
Nissan Micra                  
                  
Playoff                  
Range - $24,000 to $25,000                  
                  
Susie bids first; Greg second                  
                  
S   -   $24,101   (H)         
G   -   $24,122   (L)         
S   -   $24,117   (L)         
G   -   $24,116   (L)         
S   -   $24,107   WIN         
                  
Susie places the prizes as follows:                  
Least $                  
1   Rug               
2   Phone System               
3   Pens               
4   Coffee Maker               
5   TV               
6   Nissan Micra               
Most $                  
                  
Is she right?                  
                  
Least $                  
1   Rug   -   $549         
2   Phone System   -   $399         
3   Pens   -   $440         
4   Coffee Maker   -   $1799         
5   TV   -   $1199         
6   Nissan Micra   -   $19,721         
Most $                  
                  
LOSS                  
                  
Show Result                  
Games – 0 out of 3                  
Showcase – lost                  

[brosa0]

Shots from this episode, namely the new unseen games...






Old man Cliff goes over the edge...

[GuyWithFace]

Not revealing the other two prices in Danger Price feels very...off. As does not having the Danger Price look like the number at the top. (Also: a mattress? Really?!)

Cliff Hangers seems like it was a forced loss.

Check-Out was played well except the paper towels. Not only is $7 far too much for three of them, but he failed to underprice the drinking chocolate.

The tiebreaker looks even more stupid now. Not only do the two closest advance, but Carole did not even bother to bid between the others. And what if the other players are over, what then?

And the Showcase is lost, leaving Price to clean up the tomato juice over the weekend. And hopefully make their props not suck.

[brosa0]

Not revealing the other two prices in Danger Price feels very...off. As does not having the Danger Price look like the number at the top. (Also: a mattress? Really?!)

In fairness, they did reveal all the prices in Danger Price when she lost, but they didn't give a very good shot of it (they cut to a zoom in of the model turning the TV price, who was blocking the camera angle).

Check Out probably should've been won.

Having seen all the games except one now, I think it's an okay selection of 13 (+1).   Danger Price and Secret X by their nature look unique enough, as do Cliff Hangers (certainly now the marquee game in Australia), Plinko, Check Out, Safe Crackers, Hole In One and It's In The Bag.     

Gameplay-wise, the best games are the ones which don't remind us of how cheap the prizes are. In that regard, Take Two was perhaps the most disappointing game of the week.    Squeeze Play amd Push Over were the other disappointments as they flat out don't belong in this rotation of games as quick games (Push Over would be so much better with its normal rules).