Important Rat Race question

[LoyalFriendAndTrue]

Hello other TPIR nuts!

I was watching the game Rat Race (the one with the bright slot rats zipping along the track) and *spoiler redacted*. I'd have been like a wet hen but she took it okay. So how does anyone know that the game doesn't cheap out and make one of the rats go faster if Drew or whoever the powers of be are don't like the contestant? I'm sure they can save alot of money and prizes that way! Has anyone thought of this? Should someone let them know in case there's an investigation or something like on that game show movie? I don't want the show to go off the air!

If this situation has already been resolved then let me know and I'll erase all this writing. Thank You!!!!!!

-Herv

[ooboh]

Hello other TPIR nuts!

I was watching the game Rat Race (the one with the bright slot rats zipping along the track) and (spoiler removed). I'd have been like a wet hen but she took it okay. So how does anyone know that the game doesn't cheap out and make one of the rats go faster if Drew or whoever the powers of be are don't like the contestant? I'm sure they can save alot of money and prizes that way! Has anyone thought of this? Should someone let them know in case there's an investigation or something like on that game show movie? I don't want the show to go off the air!

If this situation has already been resolved then let me know and I'll erase all this writing. Thank You!!!!!!

-Herv

It’s literally federally illegal to rig any gameplay aspect of a game show. They can’t control who ultimately plays the game. Drew Carey always makes it a point to explain that the five rats are randomly picked from hundreds, and there’s no guarantee the rats will even finish, let alone finish in the top three.

[LoyalFriendAndTrue]

Thank you for the fast answer ooboh! I thought it was probably illegal so I got worried. Knowing that it's all been checked out above the board will let me relax until tomorrow's show. I just want it to be a fair race for the rats and contestants. I had no idea they had hundreds of rats backstage or wherever though! I wonder where they buy them (do they sell them in the Price is Right gift shop?)

-Herv

[Grand_game2004]

do they sell them in the Price is Right gift shop?

I have to admit, I find that to be an interesting thought!!!

[RatRace10]

I remember a behind-the-scenes video on priceisright.com when Rat Race debuted. Drew said he bought the rats on the internet, and a shot in the workshop showed a blue box of wind-up mice.

I'm pretty sure these are the mice they use, with the fur recolored. https://www.thetoynetwork.com/6-wind-up-mouse.html

[gamesurf]

A game played for $25,000+ in prizes using what looks like a $100,000+ set, and the most important feature is sold to the public at 88 cents a pop?

Just goes to show good presentation can get you invested in anything.

[MSTieScott]

I'm pretty sure these are the mice they use, with the fur recolored. https://www.thetoynetwork.com/6-wind-up-mouse.html

Those are the ones! The top is recolored and a pin is added to the undercarriage to help guide the rat along the track.

The colorful tops can be removed from the chassis and switched, so even if a chassis performs very quickly in one playing, that same chassis might be attached to a different color the next time it makes it onto the stage.

[LoyalFriendAndTrue]

I'm pretty sure these are the mice they use, with the fur recolored. https://www.thetoynetwork.com/6-wind-up-mouse.html

Oh wow I might get a bunch of these and set up a track of my own since my carport is empty now! Where do they get the fancy color furs though? (I won't use SHAMazon)

--Herv

[RatRace10]

Oh wow I might get a bunch of these and set up a track of my own since my carport is empty now! Where do they get the fancy color furs though? (I won't use SHAMazon)

--Herv

I was going to ask Scott the same thing. I would think they just paint the fur with some special neon paint.

[CBSpromoman]

I was going to ask Scott the same thing. I would think they just paint the fur with some special neon paint.

Paint fur?
I can't imagine that would possibly go well.

It makes so much more sense to have different "covers" in a variety of colors that they can just switch at random.

[GobGlom]

Perhaps they meant dying fur.

[Thatgameshowguy]

This image is on the CBS site, and it should answer the original question as to how the game is indeed fair by randomly selecting rats from a box full of them.