With inflation at an all time high, I wonder if this could negatively impact certain pricing games on the show, specifically certain grocery item games.

Back in 1989, Grocery Game's range was raised from $6.75 - $7.00 up to $20.00 - $21.00 and more recently, $20.00 - $22.00.

It seems like it would be and is more challenging to make that game work.  For this current season, according to tpirstats.com, Grocery Game has been played 9 times and has a 4 win 5 loss record.

Check-Out is another game which I love but am concerned could be affected negatively.  The range started at 50 cents when the game debuted in 1982.  It was raised to $1.00 in 1996 (14 years after the debut) and then just 7 years later it was raised to a $2.00 range and has remained as such since 2003.  According to tpirstats.com, Check-Out has been played 10 times this season with a 3-3 record.  According to priceisrightfandom.com, when Check Out debuted in 1982, Bob was concerned that the 50 cent range was too small, yet 80 percent of the time the game was won.  Now it is at 50 percent for this season.

Bullseye on the other hand has an almost perfect record 9-1 this season and an 8-2 record from season 51..  Could it be that inflation has made this game too easy?  Might they need to up the ranges on the game board from $3 to $18 or more?

With bonus prizes used in these games also being more expensive, I would imagine the network and the show want these games to be won, but not necessarily at a super high percentage.  I am guessing if the show is not in budget mode, Bullseye would be used in lieu of the much more challenging Grocery Game or Check-Out.

Your thoughts and feedback would be greatly appreciated.

People who work at grocery stores, especially ones at the check out lines, I would think might have a bit of an advantage with grocery item pricing, especially if said employees live in California which is where the show is taped.

Ditto for car salespersons or people who work at retail stores for smaller prized prices, such as ones used in Bonus Game, etc.

Teachers might make for great contestants, e.g. Ted Klaussen.

I forget the one contestant's name, but I think he might have been on the autistic scale.  He had an exact bid of $2,148 for a scooter and then played Buy or Sell flawlessly, becoming that pricing game's biggest winner.  I do not know if this young man was employed or not.

I don't know how many, if any, professional gamblers ever make it to the show, but they are very in tune with statistical probabilities which might come in handy with certain aspects of certain pricing games.

Those who are not employed, be it college students, retired people, or those who simply are unable to find work and who are home and able to either watch the show when it airs or stream it at their leisure could make for ideal contestants too.  The basic premise of the show it seemed way back in 1972 was geared primarily for housewives of the era, but that is by far a bygone era.

Regarding that apple juice in It’s in the Bag, my first impression when I saw it was “blecch!” Something about it just looked unappealing to me; how odd it ended up being recalled due to arsenic!

It took me a moment or two, but I recognized the prize cues they used for the vertical broiler and paint kit in Back to ‘74.  This was not so much from classic TPIR eps, though; rather, I recognized them from reruns of Jack Narz eps of Concentration that were airing on Buzzr ~3 yrs ago.  Of course, I know that the Goodson-Todman shows shared a number of music cues, esp TPIR, Concentration, and Now You See It when they were airing concurrently.  Just funny that Back to ‘74 got me thinking about 70s Concentration.

JBK

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