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This idea occurred to me this morning and I wanted to share it with you all.
While Plinko seems to be the most beloved pricing game on the show by many, I know several of us here have a certain amount of disdain for the game.
On at least one occasion I seem to recall an older woman won all 5 chips, having played the pricing portion of the game perfectly, and all five chips ended up in the 0 slot. That was quite an unfortunate incident. I seem to recall too that after the break, Bob joked by saying something like he wanted to give the woman a Plinko chip as a souvenir but she ended up throwing it at him instead. It's a fuzzy memory at best and I could be wrong, but I seem to recall something like that happening.
I can understand the allure of the game as the chip goes down the board and when it flirts with the center space how that can prove rather exciting. That said, I came up with the following idea to make a $50,000 win possible.
My idea, which I know will never happen, and will no doubt be unpopular here, is to have the center slot be progressive.
For example, if a player wins all 5 chips, before the first chip is dropped, the center spot is $10,000.
If the first chip lands in it, it stays at $10,000. If it lands in anything other than the center spot, the center spot would increase to $20,000 for chip #2, and if the center spot is not hit then it increases to $30,000 for chip #3 and so on...
During the past couple of years in my life, I have begun to experience some mobility issues with respect to steps, curbs and other inclines that are not a ramp, and it got me to thinking, if I ever appeared on the show and Plinko was the game, I don't know if I'd be able to make it up those stairs too easily.
Has the show considered possibly making Plinko a bit more user friendly in the future? Also I often wondered if somebody has vertigo or a fear of heights and Plinko came up and the contestant would be unable to go to the top of the board for those reasons, would the show and/or CBS Standards & Practices allow the contestant to have a proxy?