It isn’t that register won’t allow more than 20 of an item, right? It’s that they have a sheet next to the register that tells how many of an item costs and it only goes up to 20 - do I have that correct?
Correct.My nomination for worst playing of a pricing game is the debut of Clock Game. It was only the eighth daytime episode taped, so everybody was still getting their bearings in general.
A full three seconds ticked off the clock before Bob told the contestant whether her first bid was higher or lower because he was surprised by how bad it was (she bid $1,000 for a $300 grandmother clock). With 20 seconds left on the clock, she bid $325, Bob said higher, and he didn't correct himself until the clock was at 17. The clock kept running while the contestant was confused about what she was supposed to bid lower than -- when the clock was at 12, Bob finally announced that he would give her two free bids (which was written into the rules from the beginning), although the clock wasn't actually stopped until it was at about 10.
The contestant won the prize with only a couple seconds left on the clock. And then, just to top the whole thing off, when the clock started up again for the second prize, the second hand stopped moving before it quite reached the 0, so they had to sound the horn with the clock stuck at half a second.
After the show, the contestant was awarded the second prize because she had been disadvantaged.
