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First IUFB: His-and-her athletic clothing (Puma; ARP: $612) (Lanisha and Manuela)
Alexis is playing Double Prices for fitness equipment. (treadmill, upright and recumbent exercise bikes and home gym) (Lanisha and Manuela)
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Second IUFB: Chaise lounge (CarolinaChair.com; ARP: $1,560) (Amber)
Janet is playing It's In The Bag. (Lanisha and Manuela)
UGH! Only one wrong! Been a while since only one was wrong. |
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Third IUFB: Designer accessories (13-pcs w/belts, hats, scarves and bags; ARP: $1,471) (Lanisha)
Bradley, a Philosophy major in college, is playing a brand new game, Rat Race, which is a car game. Its prize presentation is similar to Ten Chances. On-stage is a large slot car track with five lanes, each for a different colored toy rat. The contestant can win up to three rats to "bet" on to win the race by guessing the prices of three different items. The first item has a margin of error of $1, the second has a margin of $10, and the third has a margin of $100. (You have to be within that margin, below or above, no over rule) If one of the rats is first, it wins the car. If one of the rats is second, it wins the second prize. If one of the rats is third, it wins the third prize.
Item Guesses (Lanisha)
Race Results...
And it's Yellow over Blue by a head, with not a single ARP in sight for the race prizes... (BTW: Unlike grocery games, he actually won the cheese. So remember that next season.) |
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SCSD #1
Bonus...
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Fourth IUFB: Set of 3 scooters (Pulse Kick-&-Go Accelerators; ARP: $540) (Manuela)
Lawrence, who drew himself and Drew on his shirt, is playing Most Expen$ive.
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Fifth IUFB: Sailboard (ARP: $1,599) (Amber)
Jessica S., the last of our First Four, is playing Flip Flop for an outdoor fire pit seating group. (C.W. Lee; loveseat, 2 club seats and a fire pit centerpiece) (Lanisha)
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Sixth IUFB: Karaoke package (Party Tyme Karaoke; Karaoke unit, 2 microphones and selection of CDs; ARP: $680) (Lanisha)
Dana is playing Any Number for a 2011 Scion xB. (2.4-litre engine, 4spd automatic transmission) (Manuela) Order of numbers chosen: 8, 6, 2, 9, 4, 1, 0, 3
Car ARP: $18,674 |
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SCSD #2
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SHOWCASE
ROUND
Before the Showcase round, Drew plugged the website, where there is a behind-the-scenes featurette on the making and set assembly of Rat Race. (BTW: the iMac's ARP was $1,799. Thank you for winning the Showcase, Bradley.) |
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Show
Results: 1 out of 6 THIS RECAP IS THE PRODUCED
SOLELY FOR GOLDEN-ROAD.NET |
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There is NO EXCUSE for today's showcases. NONE. It is absolutely unacceptable IMO to have a car THAT STARTS AT BASE IN FOUR DIGITS.
I thought "Rat Race" had a cool setup, and the mice were kind of cute. However, I fear the mechanical problems that this game may suffer. I know that was the reason why Hurdles and Finish Line were retired. I hope "Rat Race" doesn't suffer the same problems and suffer the same fate.
Rat Race, was accompanied with 3 Games from the 1st ever show.I don't recall Bonus Game being played today.
Rat Race is the first game with grocery item and small prizes.
In this episode there is another grocery or SP game?
With today's technology, I'm sure "Rat Race" will last longer than Hurdles & Finish Line COMBINED. There's a Big difference between 1970s mechanics & the mechanics of today, and if there are any problems down the road, I'm sure they will be fixed with great ease.
That said, Rat Race looked like a fun game (Give or take a detail or two...which there already is a forum for)!
There's a very simple excuse: the show is over budget, and it is the end of the season.There is a better way to implement it. The show's over-luxurious ways are now being paid off with this nonsense.
What was the 6th pricing Game and was it won? Beacuse my affilate skipped it for some reason.It was Any Number, and the secondary prize (I forget what it was) was won.
There is a better way to implement it. The show's over-luxurious ways are now being paid off with this nonsense.If someone told me I could win a car, even a $10,000 one, I'd be pretty darn happy. I'd hardly call it nonsense.
It's in te Bag was the Grocery Game
Intersting how a new Game, Rat Race, was accompanied with 3 Games from the 1st ever show.
Instead of those furry little rats, I would have designed it to incorporate the cartoon character used in the logo, driving around in 5 different coloured cars. (It is a car game afterall ;-))
Tomorrow I think that one game is pick-a-pair... :-D
I know everyone's going to be talking about one thing, but I seriously want to point out another today.
There is NO EXCUSE for today's showcases. NONE. It is absolutely unacceptable IMO to have a car THAT STARTS AT BASE IN FOUR DIGITS. Today's Tuscany villa trip WAS MORE THAN THE CAR BY AT LEAST $3000.
I understand we are in budget mode for whatever illicit reasons, but do NOT LOOK CHEAP, MIKE. When you have offered 25k+ packages in Pushy and Rangey this season, have had 5-digit Squeezy so many times, and the showcases have breached 50k, 60k when they shouldn't have WEEKLY for two months straight. Today it was so obvious EVERYONE noticed, not just us who sniffed it at the first sight of the Hyundai Accent in Rolly in May.
People offended by the budget issues amuse me. What can they do? Seriously. What can they do? As I said, watch LMAD once. Much cheaper than Price. 90% of the cars they offer are subcompact and/or manual transmission.Well, People who are totally oblivious amuse me. The thing is....LMAD's budget is WAYYYY smaller and they have those types of cars ALL THE TIME....but for a show like price to make us being used to having ocassional Porsches and other things...and even go as low as maybe a $17,000 car, but have a nice 20k-25k average per car in a showcase to all of a sudden bring out a car that even with every option be less than $11,000....there is just no reason at all.....They might as well not even give it away and just replace it with 2 trips...i mean come on....a $9,000 car in a show thats used to haveing $20,000 cars....comeon now...
Have you seen LMAD lately? :) They've been offering those all season. People offended by the budget issues amuse me. What can they do? Seriously. What can they do?
Unlike those games, the only mechanical parts are the rats themselves. They're small and should be relatively easy to fix compared to say, the motor in Range Game or Squeeze Play.
Rat Race is the first game with grocery item and small prizes. In this episode there is another grocery or SP game?Games that use just 1 grocery item (like Golden Road) or just 1 small prize (like Make Your Move) are not officially considered grocery or small prize games.
Obviously the finish involves some electronic sensors, as the prizes lit up after the fifth mouse finished. The slo-mo into commercial was obligatory and looked pretty cool. (And correct me if I'm wrong, but the leftmost mouse has further to travel than ones to its right. Over time, there should be a statistical advantage shown to the mice today's contestant selected.)
Plus, depending on how much it costs to build the rats themselves, I imagine they'd probably have a few spares laying around.
Incorrect. The reason the racetrack curves twice is to make sure every rat travels the same distance.
Have you seen LMAD lately? :) They've been offering those all season. People offended by the budget issues amuse me. What can they do? Seriously. What can they do? As I said, watch LMAD once. Much cheaper than Price. 90% of the cars they offer are subcompact and/or manual transmission.
Yowzer! What cheap, cheap Showcases — particularly when the combined value of today's packages (around $35,000-$36,000) is less than several of the more opulent Showcases this season.
First of all, whinbaby's totals confirms (hopefully) that the Nissan Versa offered in the Showcase was not a stripped down base model retailing for under $10,000, but a nicely-equipped version that went for $12,830. The end price is what I look at, not the beginning.
And for what it's worth, when is our next Cadillac DTS going to be offered? That's the luxury car that's been MIA (missing in action) for way too long. And load it to the hilt while you're at it.
To those who brought up Let's Make a Deal, I'd venture to guess that if LMAD went prime time, we'd see Cadillacs and Porsches as deals. Much akin to the original 1970s ABC version when it ran concurrently with a higher-budget primetime version. Anyone out there who remembers the original ABC version can correct me, but wasn't the "big deal" cars on the daytimer subcompact econo-models like the Chevrolet Vega and AMC Gremlin, while we got much better cars — ergo, the Cadillac Eldorado and Chevrolet Corvette — on the nighttime show?
As for "Rat Race," I did catch a clip, and it appears to be a solid game. Yeah, there's the element of luck (you can still come away with just the <$1000 prize, even with three rats), but pricing groceries and items is at the heart of it all. Two questions on this, and I apologize if it's been answered already: 1. Am I correct in that this the first game to use pricing questions involving both groceries and small prizes? 2. How are the speeds of the rats controlled? Do they have motors that are pre-set, or do they just run at random and may the best rat win? (In other words, is anyone in control of the outcome of the race portion of the game?)
Oh, and I bet I'm correct in assuming that if the contestant misses all three pricing questions, the game automatically ends, the race is cancelled and the rats get eaten by the cats! ;)
Brian
The one thing I'd like to see implemented is $500 per rat won, kind of like Half Off, so that way a contestant never walks away empty handed.
Isn't that what the two small prizes after the grocery item is for? Granted, they're indeed Small Prizes, but they should still count as Consolations, right?
I'm surprised there haven't been any posts about how the race itself works.
I don't see the reason for any consolations. If they win all three rats, they're (99.99%*) guaranteed to win something, and if they don't...well, there are a whole lot of games that don't give you anything if you don't guess everything correctly.
But anyway. I just want to comment on these complaints about the budget and the cheaper car in the showcase. You do realize that daytime television is dying, right? Soap operas that dominated the airwaves for 40 or 50 years are dropping like flies. I’m old enough to remember when you could spend your entire morning watching game shows: $25,000 Pyramid, Press Your Luck, Price is Right and Family Feud, in that order. Those were glory days. But those days are gone. They aren’t ever coming back. The show has stricter financial limitations now. It can’t use the “unwritten rules” anymore that lead to the big pay days. You remember those: The price of the car always ended in zero…Except for Lucky Seven when it always ended in a five.
They’ve been hired to make a show and bring it in under a certain amount of money.
If they don’t pull it off, they’ll be replaced by people who will do it.
About the occasional cheap car. (And, I’m sorry, but if I won a freakin’ CAR on a game show, I wouldn’t be sitting there going, “Ewwwww…That free car you’re about to give me is only worth $11000, I’m going to have to pass”.)
Give 100 people a choice between winning a new car or a trip to Dubai and the Arctic Circle, what are most people going to pick? Even if they just bought a new car the day before, which is going to be easier to sell?
I’m rambling now so I’ll get off the soapbox. It just sometimes irritates that people have such little patience with this show (and then continue to watch it!). It’s a different world. They’re not made of money anymore. It’s called a budget. We should be grateful that the show is still on the air where everything else on daytime is dying. I still enjoy the show…It’s fun! But then again, I’m not so busy keeping track of showcase values and car prices to lose sight of that.
You can't produce a game show based entirely on how people in the studio will react. You've also got several million people watching from their living rooms...and to those people, offering a $12,000 car in 2010 makes you look cheap.
Ironically, the current incompetent people were given their jobs after the person who did understand how to control the budget was fired.
On the contrary -- you aren't focused enough on it to understand why it's happening.You’re right. I’m not. I watch it because, I hope like most people, it’s fun and a nice break for the day.
Then that brings up the question: Does the contestant have a chance to win a small prize in every "small prize" game, or are there some instances where they're used strictly for show — that is, for use in the pricing questions? For instance, in 1/2-Off, in addition to the $500 bonus, does the contestant win any small prizes where the correct question is given?
Has the show ever offered anything that couldn't be won?
Yes. The first three items in the correct trading sequence in Trader Bob could not be won, the setups of the final two playings of On the Spot resulted in some of the small prizes being unattainable, and the design of the Rat Race track makes it possible for the entire game to become unwinnable.
Dude, really? Have you been on this forum in the past couple of days? Just go to Talk Is Right, and read through the 10 pages of the poll. Just that will get you started!My bad - I was referring to just in this thread. I usually don't go to the other sections, and missed that entire thread on the game.
As for the FAQ statement, "Rat Race is the only game which can, through no fault of the contestant, become impossible to win." I presume this means, the contestant wins one or two rats (and presumably, whatever prizes are connected to them) and it/they come in (either) fourth and/or fifth.By that logic, Master Key can be unwinnable by the contestant winning only one key and it is the one that opens none of the locks. The contestant chooses the rats, and if they happen to break down, well, the contestant should have chosen different rats - it's that simple.
Why is there no "multi-quote" capability on this forum (so I don't have to make consecutive posts)?One thing you can do is, when making your post, click the "Insert Quote" button find at the top right of each post. If you are quoting for two sources in radically different places (Ex: the 2nd post and the last post), click "Quote" for the 2nd post and then click "Insert Quote" for the last post--since the 2nd post will probably not be shown in the "Topic Summary" section when you make a post.
In case it hasn't been covered before, since I just hit reply without reading the thread: Yes, you do win the guessing items you get within the margin in Rat Race.
Even the cheese.
But see I’d rather have a cheaper car on one show if it meant them saving money to give away something really extravagant on another show. Doesn’t it make for a more exciting show when they can give away the $40,000 cars and $60,000 showcases sometimes instead of your same old $17,000 to $24,000 cars day in and day out.
How did this other person, who was so adept at his job that they fired him, do things that was so different?
You’re right. I’m not. I watch it because, I hope like most people, it’s fun and a nice break for the day.
...wow, Steve. You went there in the FAQ, too? Despite the fact that it actually happening is about in-line with the odds of Three Strikes being made unwinnable by Drew dropping a number chip on the ground and nobody noticing?
As for the FAQ statement, "Rat Race is the only game which can, through no fault of the contestant, become impossible to win." I presume this means, the contestant wins one or two rats (and presumably, whatever prizes are connected to them) and it/they come in (either) fourth and/or fifth.
By that logic, Master Key can be unwinnable by the contestant winning only one key and it is the one that opens none of the locks. The contestant chooses the rats, and if they happen to break down, well, the contestant should have chosen different rats - it's that simple.
No, they had one new show today, and then they have one on June 25th, and one more on July 2nd. Then, that's it.
And [Dob] wasn't fired because of the budget. He was fired because Drew didn't like being on a leash.
$40,000 cars appeared far more frequently before the current regime took over, so I'm not really sure I see your point here.
Then it may be wise not to try to overanalyze something you yourself have just admitted you haven't tried to understand.
Two things: The show, and daytime in general, are making as much money and having as high as ratings as they've seen in years past? If you can tell me yes, I'd be really surprised.
And secondly...I'm the one over-analyzing?? I'm not the one doing the math to figure out exactly how much the car was in a showcase full of other prizes! I'm not the one keeping track of the last time they played for the $23,291 jeep, or whatever it was.
No. It means that it's possible for none of the rats to finish the race.
They are "wound up" before the act. A mechanical failure would cause a rat not to finish. And, in the most unlikely of circumstances, all 5 rats would not finish that day.
Obvious solution: fire Drew, (re)hire Dob and a competent host.
Such as Regis Philbin or Bob Barker.
In that extreme circumstance, that that should be a "do-over," and I believe S&P should be able to enforce that. Since prizes are at stake (and thus, legal payoffs), logic says that at least three rats need to finish the race to constitute a legit contest (since the fourth- and fifth-place rats win nothing it wouldn't matter if they "dropped out"). Otherwise, couldn't a "technical win" be declared due to mechanical failure?
But honestly, we're wound up (pardon the pun) over the possibility of an extreme circumstance — all five rats not finishing — ever happening. If it does, then we'll talk.
Brian
Yowzer! What cheap, cheap Showcases — particularly when the combined value of today's packages (around $35,000-$36,000) is less than several of the more opulent Showcases this season.
First of all, whinbaby's totals confirms (hopefully) that the Nissan Versa offered in the Showcase was not a stripped down base model retailing for under $10,000, but a nicely-equipped version that went for $12,830. The end price is what I look at, not the beginning.
And for what it's worth, when is our next Cadillac DTS going to be offered? That's the luxury car that's been MIA (missing in action) for way too long. And load it to the hilt while you're at it.
To those who brought up Let's Make a Deal, I'd venture to guess that if LMAD went prime time, we'd see Cadillacs and Porsches as deals. Much akin to the original 1970s ABC version when it ran concurrently with a higher-budget primetime version. Anyone out there who remembers the original ABC version can correct me, but wasn't the "big deal" cars on the daytimer subcompact econo-models like the Chevrolet Vega and AMC Gremlin, while we got much better cars — ergo, the Cadillac Eldorado and Chevrolet Corvette — on the nighttime show?
As for "Rat Race," I did catch a clip, and it appears to be a solid game. Yeah, there's the element of luck (you can still come away with just the <$1000 prize, even with three rats), but pricing groceries and items is at the heart of it all. Two questions on this, and I apologize if it's been answered already: 1. Am I correct in that this the first game to use pricing questions involving both groceries and small prizes? 2. How are the speeds of the rats controlled? Do they have motors that are pre-set, or do they just run at random and may the best rat win? (In other words, is anyone in control of the outcome of the race portion of the game?)
Oh, and I bet I'm correct in assuming that if the contestant misses all three pricing questions, the game automatically ends, the race is cancelled and the rats get eaten by the cats! ;)
Brian
And for what it's worth, when is our next Cadillac DTS going to be offered? That's the luxury car that's been MIA (missing in action) for way too long. And load it to the hilt while you're at it.
It was Bob's penultimate MDS taped in early 2005 and I remember CBS held it from the air for over a year
When the new Most Expensive set debuted earlier in the year, all five of the backdrops were mainly blue with the yellow and orange outline. However, today the 3 backgrounds to the prizes were mainly yellow with blue and orange trim (i.e. the blue and yellow were inverted). I haven't seen much of the show in the past two months so can someone please tell me how long that has been changed?