Spoiler
So they showed Million Dollar Plinko with a $200K slot, plus announced a new daytime TPIR record. Golly gee, how about that.
I like Big Money Week, but each year I still roll my eyes at Million Dollar Plinko. I get that they want me to cream my pants at the prospects of somebody hitting the $200,000 slot, but I really can’t bring myself to really care. It’s not like the contestants had to take some great risk, or perform some tough test of pricing knowledge to earn it. Hitting center slot is still about as impressive a feat as it is any other time the game is played. I just can’t get excited over it. Especially since they’ve tried it so many times now.
Congratulations to the eventual record-breaking winner, whomever they may be and whatever game they end up playing. But if what I think happened ends up happening, I hope the show does the inevitable media tour, says “It finally happened! Mission Accomplished!”, and takes the opportunity put Million Dollar Plinko to pasture next year now that it’s lived out it’s usefulness.