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Offline DRPrice

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Re: Unusual Game Show prizes on shows past or present...
« Reply #15 on: September 12, 2018, 06:39:53 PM »
     One unusual Price prize that should have never been offered, IMO:  toilets.

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Re: Unusual Game Show prizes on shows past or present...
« Reply #16 on: September 13, 2018, 10:23:16 PM »
A trip to Cuba among the bonus prizes on Canadian Supermarket Sweep (as well as an occasional prize on the early '90s French-Canadian TPIR)
A limo ride to work (Strike It Rich) or school (Fun House) for a week
A 1964 Bentley on TPIR one time

Speaking of which, a vintage Rolls Royce was the grand prize on PBS' "Top Of The World" in 1982, hosted by Eammon Andrews (What's My Line? UK) and pitted contestants from the US, UK and Australia which were linked via satellite and co-produced respectively by WPBT (Miami), Thames Television, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation; the three finalists would meet in London for the finals.

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Re: Unusual Game Show prizes on shows past or present...
« Reply #17 on: September 16, 2018, 11:31:55 AM »
The Price is right a scooter that senior citizen uses as a prize.
French-Canadian TPIR 90s version- Rental Cars



Most of the prizes on Joe Pasquale price is right. I don't know they did it for comedy or the budget.
A bar thats shaped like an old car
Some up right dryer.

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Re: Unusual Game Show prizes on shows past or present...
« Reply #18 on: September 17, 2018, 02:26:37 PM »
TPIR offered lots of classic cars several years ago; I remember when Snoop Dogg helped model a '64 Lincoln Continental convertible, and lots of 1940s and '50s-era cars (mainly Chevrolets and Buicks) were used as well, plus a few other 1960s and '70s examples.

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Re: Unusual Game Show prizes on shows past or present...
« Reply #19 on: September 23, 2018, 03:15:11 PM »
High Rollers--the infamous $10,000 antique fishbowl. (Trebek era)

This one still remains debatable; it was never shown on camera during the episode. Only if and when the penultimate (6/19/80) episode surfaces will the truth be known. Many have hypothesized that the "fish bowl" was really just a regular bowl stuffed with cash—the way TPIR frequently did in "Temptation".

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Re: Unusual Game Show prizes on shows past or present...
« Reply #20 on: September 24, 2018, 02:12:33 AM »
Didn’t the Alex Trebek version of High Rollers once offer a trip to the Kentucky Derby with $100 bets on each horse?  (The $100 bets on each horse at the Kentucky Derby is very unusual)

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Re: Unusual Game Show prizes on shows past or present...
« Reply #21 on: September 24, 2018, 02:43:26 AM »
Its given that people love to win a lot of loot on game shows.  Let's think outside the box here.  The cash, cars and trips are out of play for this question.

From my perspective some unusual game show prizes:

Classic Concentration--200 California Lottery Tickets

High Rollers--the infamous $10,000 antique fishbowl. (Trebek era)

What prizes from any game show past or present did you find unusual?

Speaking of Classic Concentration, their 1000th show offered a huge party for 25 people.

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Re: Unusual Game Show prizes on shows past or present...
« Reply #22 on: September 24, 2018, 03:47:37 PM »
1.Bars of gold and robots as items up for bids on TPIR.
2.Puppets and stuffed animals offered for trades on $ale of the Century
3.Hovercrafts, airboats, and other amphibious vehicles on TPIR.
4.Nintendo Entertainment Systems with the Jeopardy! game as a consolation prize on Jeopardy! in the early 1990s. 

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Re: Unusual Game Show prizes on shows past or present...
« Reply #23 on: September 24, 2018, 03:50:01 PM »
Unusual for a kids' game show yes, but the car prize made sense since it was the parents playing as well. The show became successful enough that their budget allowed for giving a car away.
Didn't Family Double Dare also have a cash obstacle, that went up by $500 every time the designated obstacle (usually 6 or 7) wasn't reached.  The jackpot once got up as high at $5,000.00, which could buy a decent used car back in 1988. 

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« Reply #24 on: September 24, 2018, 03:56:16 PM »
^Yes, it was the 1988 FOX version of FDD that had the cash jackpot obstacle you're thinking of (which was always obstacle #7).

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Re: Unusual Game Show prizes on shows past or present...
« Reply #25 on: September 24, 2018, 11:23:00 PM »
One Wheel episode from 1998 had a bonus prize combo: a Dodge Durango with a barbecue and a picnic basket full of stuff.

Some others that I found weird: A Texas week from 2001 had a bonus prize of 1,000,000 American Airlines Miles, and a NASCAR week from 2002 had a lifetime supply of gasoline as a bonus prize.

I think Wheel has also had some expensive art as bonus prizes during the W-H-E-E-L era.
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