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Studio 33 - Price is Right Discussion => The TALK Is Right => Topic started by: wink87 on June 17, 2020, 12:17:45 PM
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Thought I'd post my nomination of the worst playing of a pricing game.
November 1, 1993: Contestant Virgil comes to a total of $16.99 in Check Out. The actual total was $7.64 for a difference of $9.35.
Feel free to post your nominations.
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The worst that I can remember was actually from this season. Contestant Elaine played 10 Chances for an omelet maker, espresso machine and Mitsubishi Mirage. She used one guess on the $40 omelet maker........and the other nine chances on the espresso machine. Guesses included $947 and $709, and of course the now-infamous FOURSEVENNINE...which the audience shouted almost completely in unison.
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For me there's probably a 13-way tie, but I guess I'd have to go for the first one that came to mind.
March 22, 1991: Contestant Cathy struggles somewhat but manages to control her own destiny by the time she gets to the last number. Probably have to try to lose whereas there isn't a number possible for the final digit to deny Cathy by saying it's a five.
I thought of someone blowing it in Season 11, but one could argue that the contestant might have tried to go for perfection
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I remember a playing of Cliff Hangers in 2010 or so where a female contestant guessed single-digit prices for all three prizes.
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Two immediately came to mind:
1) A lady named Lavron played Lucky Seven and got the first three numbers exactly right...AND STILL LOST!!!
2) Another lady named Janice played One Away, got the first digit wrong, got a second chance and STILL didn't change the first digit! The whole audience was screaming at her!
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For me there's probably a 13-way tie, but I guess I'd have to go for the first one that came to mind.
March 22, 1991: Contestant Cathy struggles somewhat but manages to control her own destiny by the time she gets to the last number. Probably have to try to lose whereas there isn't a number possible for the final digit to deny Cathy by saying it's a five.
Last number of what? and playing what?
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It's hard to play Cliff Hangers worse than this:
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Last number of what? and playing what?
Last number of the truck she was playing for in Lucky $even. She had 5 dollars left on the last number.
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Two that come to mind are Lucky Seven being lost on the first guess (guessed a 9, second digit was 1) and a no-horn loss in One Away when it was played for a Lincoln.
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It's hard to play Cliff Hangers worse than this:
I wish I could find the clip of the dude that thought a $10 toy guitar was $2,000. He ended up guessing $750 and Bob had a fit!
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Last number of the truck she was playing for in Lucky $even. She had 5 dollars left on the last number.
Out of my entire post, I don't know how I omitted the name of the pricing game. Sorry about that, Casey (and thank you, wink!)
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Out of my entire post, I don't know how I omitted the name of the pricing game. Sorry about that, Casey (and thank you, wink!)
Thanks! :). I knew I had to be missing something, but didn’t know what :)
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My vote: a playing of Secret X - it was bad enough that the free X didn't go into a corner, but after the contestant missed the first prize but got the second, he placed his second X in a corner. To make things worse, the secret X was in the center, so he would have won.
Here's an "honorable mention" for the worst playing...by pretty much everyone (including Bob) except the contestant: a playing of Temptation for what looked like a bare-bones compact car (think Subaru Justy) in the days when cars tended to start around $6000. This was in the 4-digit days, and the choices for the first digit were 5 and 8; the contestant chose 8. Everybody in the audience moaned, and when it came time to reveal the price, Bob said, "Nobody has ever gotten the first digit wrong...until now," then he pressed the button - and (DING) an 8 appeared. Apparently, the contestant was the only one who listened to the incredibly long list of options the car had.
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Two that come to mind are Lucky Seven being lost on the first guess (guessed a 9, second digit was 1) and a no-horn loss in One Away when it was played for a Lincoln.
I've told this story many times and I'm still hoping to see this come up on YouTube, but I'll re-tell it.
It's 1982 and Lucky 7 is being played for a Jeep Renegade, a fairly nice vehicle and more expensive than most cars seen on the show. But, they haven't started playing Lucky 7 (or many other games, for that matter) for 5-digit cars yet. As Bob finished explaining the game, the contestant seems not to completely understand, and the dialogue between him and Bob goes something like this:
Contestant- "Oh, I guess it costs about...$11,000."
Bob- "OK...well, then what do you think the first number in the price is?"
Contestant- "A one!"
Bob- (looks at studio audience and then into the cameras) "I hate this. I hate to do this to him, but now I have to show him. He says one. What's the first number?"
The first number is revealed to be a nine. The contestant has lost on the first guess, for the first time ever...something I'm sure Bob made a point of mentioning just then.
Setting aside the fact that the contestant should have noticed that there were only spaces for 4 numbers on the board, would Bob really have been giving away too much information to say there are only 4 numbers in the price? A few years later, Bob would very frequently say "This car is worth over $10,000" or "There are 5 digits in the price of this car."
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This playing of It's In The Bag:
Also, this playing of Bonkers (starts at 8:23):
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This Cover Up playing from Christmas week 2012 (link: gets my vote. You could argue that some type of strategy was trying to be used, but the rarity simply makes it the worst to me. I've looked high and low, but I can't find another such wipeout. If there is another one, let me know.
Contestant- "Oh, I guess it costs about...$11,000."
Bob- "OK...well, then what do you think the first number in the price is?"
Contestant- "A one!"
Bob- (looks at studio audience and then into the cameras) "I hate this. I hate to do this to him, but now I have to show him. He says one. What's the first number?"
The first number is revealed to be a nine. The contestant has lost on the first guess, for the first time ever...something I'm sure Bob made a point of mentioning just then
If it happened exactly as you said, that's a bit harsh for Bob to have allowed the guess. It's one thing I'd the player simply said 1. It's entirely different if you hear the player's line of reasoning AND know that what they're saying directly contradicts their logic.
There were plenty of Ten Chances playings where the contestant would start the car with an 8 and Bob would say something highlighting their error. It shouldn't be any different. Either way, that player gets to live infamously in the record books. :-D
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If there is another [Cover Up wipeout], let me know.
It happened just a couple of months ago:
Jump to 17:00 to see the Cover Up disaster playing.
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The last playing of Split Decision. The contestant makes a first somewhat educated guess, then decides to waste almost the rest of his time fumbling around and ended up with the same guess as his first guess.
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It happened just a couple months ago:
Oh wow, I would never had thought it happened again since 2012, let alone this season! This one is arguably worse, considering she was going to pick the 1 at first.
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It happened just a couple of months ago:
Jump to 17:00 to see the Cover Up disaster playing.
Probably my pick for the worst playing I've seen in recent years.
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Jacqueline's One Away playing on 1990. I'm pretty sure you all know what happened there:
And this infamous playing of Any Number by what Drew dubbed as Mr. 1-2-3.
Videos courtesy of pressmin.
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At the one taping I attended, aired June 8th, 2004: the worst Race Game playing I'd ever seen, with the lady wasting half the allotted time just setting up her first guesses for each prize, then, after finding she had 2 right, wasting the remaining time switching the wrong two.
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This Cover Up playing from Christmas week 2012 (link: gets my vote. You could argue that some type of strategy was trying to be used, but the rarity simply makes it the worst to me. I've looked high and low, but I can't find another such wipeout. If there is another one, let me know.
If it happened exactly as you said, that's a bit harsh for Bob to have allowed the guess. It's one thing I'd the player simply said 1. It's entirely different if you hear the player's line of reasoning AND know that what they're saying directly contradicts their logic.
My question would be like what Tice asked, why would Bob NOT point out ahead of that that there were only 4 doors to be opened, and not 5, thus rendering a price of $11,000 impossible? Would S&P have really been that tough on a situation like that?
I also don't think incidentally that the comparison to him saying there was 5 digits in the price later or that a car was over $10,000, really is a fair one in that anytime he did (outside of a game like 3 Strikes or One Away), you would get a digit, the 1st one typically, for free anyway. So would sorta render that whole aspect moot.
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One that sticks out in my mind is a Ten Chances playing from 2006 which was played really badly... but won anyway! Chance #9, in particular, was a hilarious train wreck! And then Bob's disbelief at the end when she miraculously won :oldlol:!
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One that sticks out in my mind is a Ten Chances playing from 2006 which was played really badly... but won anyway! Chance #9, in particular, was a hilarious train wreck! And then Bob's disbelief at the end when she miraculously won :oldlol:!
"You've used the 1 twice Joy!"
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That one's on Youtube for your viewing, umm, "pleasure"...
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One that sticks out to me is the Grocery Game playing on the 10th Million Dollar Spectacular with the contestant losing buying 25 Bruce's yams. Brandi who was running the cash register could not even enter that many in because the register only allowed up to 20 of an item to be entered.
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A couple more that deserve an honorable mention include a contestant stuggling with Make Your Move in December of 1998 (felt a little bad for her but it still was no good) and definitely Mohini's efforts playing Super Ball!! That was late in 1991, about a year before the game's only perfect playing and over six years before it was never played again. Forget that the game was too long to play (even though I still love it), but Mohini's performance might have been more than enough for the game to get retired right after that!
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Adding on that I think the Lucky Seven playing I’ve been talking about is from the October 22, 1982 show.
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Don't you all remember Bryan from 1999 playing Clock Game?
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Don't you all remember Bryan from 1999 playing Clock Game?
I was about to suggest this famous clip. "What kind of a show do you think this is?"
(Not sure why the link won't work. )
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You need to remove the "s" from the "https" to make Youtube links work here, e.g. [ youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGMILpA4iOY[ /youtube] does the trick (without the bolding or extra spaces in the brackets):
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Can't find the clip, but Cover Up has been completely wiped out while Bob was hosting. I remember Bob nearly yelling "NOT A ONE?!" when the losing horns played.
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You need to remove the "s" from the "https" to make Youtube links work here, e.g. [ youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGMILpA4iOY[ /youtube] does the trick (without the bolding or extra spaces in the brackets):
You can also just copy the code after the v= which is wGMILpA4iOY, then hit the Youtube link button. That would also work.
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One that sticks out to me is the Grocery Game playing on the 10th Million Dollar Spectacular with the contestant losing buying 25 Bruce's yams. Brandi who was running the cash register could not even enter that many in because the register only allowed up to 20 of an item to be entered.
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? (Why she didn’t just do 20 and 5, I’m not sure).
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I wish I could find the clip of the dude that thought a $10 toy guitar was $2,000. He ended up guessing $750 and Bob had a fit!
Here's the playing in question:
I would like to add this 1994 playing of Clock Game to the thread. A contestant keeps lowballing the price of a baker's rack and leaves Bob tongue-tied when he ultimately wipes out:
Another one, from 1992, one of the last times, if not the last time, Money Game was played for a boat or a non-car prize: A contestant seems to pick numbers at random, but she ultimately finds the last two numbers in the price. However, she cannot figure out the bow of the boat:
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Carolina (Money Game) wasn't amused by the fact that she's playing for a boat. I think she did that on purpose.
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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. (http://www.golden-road.net/gg/displayimage.php?album=14&pid=939#top_display_media)
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.
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Oh, Mark Goodson must have been livid. That sounds like a total trainwreck (on both the clock and Bob's parts).
EDIT: Could that be considered the first "tech win" in the show's history?
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Oh, Mark Goodson must have been livid. That sounds like a total trainwreck (on both the clock and Bob's parts).
According to the FAQ, they had such a hard time getting the clock to work during rehearsal, that Mark Goodson nearly had the game scrapped before it even went on air.
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Can't find the clip, but Cover Up has been completely wiped out while Bob was hosting. I remember Bob nearly yelling "NOT A ONE?!" when the losing horns played.
I've seen complete misses on the first guess, but they weren't necessarily poor playing. In one of the ones I saw, the two choices for the first digit were 1 and 2, and two of the three for the second were 0 and 9; either the contestant chose 19 instead of 20, or vice versa.
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Can't find the clip, but Cover Up has been completely wiped out while Bob was hosting. I remember Bob nearly yelling "NOT A ONE?!" when the losing horns played.
It’s also happened once in the Carey era; a contestant fudged the Cover Up strategy in regards to the first two numbers and missed on the remaining three.
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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? (Why she didn’t just do 20 and 5, I’m not sure).
Yes, the list not the register itself. My mistake.
Not quite the worst, but I also remember when Golden Road was played during the military salute specials in season 30 the contestant chose 1 for the price of the first prize a bunch of power tools (I think they were $704).
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I've seen complete misses on the first guess, but they weren't necessarily poor playing. In one of the ones I saw, the two choices for the first digit were 1 and 2, and two of the three for the second were 0 and 9; either the contestant chose 19 instead of 20, or vice versa.
Definitely not the worst playing. If anything, just a mild bad beat or close to a painful loss based on the odds of winning had a contestant survived. IOW, the contestant could've gotten lucky by getting either of the final three numbers correct, and then a win would've been more probable than not
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Wouldn't you consider this playing as the worst in Flip Flop?
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IOW? What's that mean?
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He pressed the button without even flipping or flopping a panel, even after Bob showed him what to do.
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IOW? What's that mean?
In other words. I had to look it up too. Is it me, or do we have WAY too many acronyms. Far too often I find I need to look up what it means, it's annoying. Ok I'm done ranting now....back to our regularly scheduled thread lol.
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I guess the overuse for acronyms comes from the norm as it relates to Twitter, Facebook, etc. IIRC, those were common during the AOL days. Speaking for myself, but I've believe the habit comes from the fact that there's a character limit (for Twitter and AOL AIM (America Online's Instant Messenger))
He pressed the button without even flipping or flopping a panel, even after Bob showed him what to do.
Probably a worse act since that woman from Shell Game back in the the 80s. While not cool (given the rules added to the fact that the game's been played several times before the contestant's appearance), I personally had to laugh, because, come on man!
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Probably a worse act since that woman from Shell Game back in the the 80s. While not cool (given the rules added to the fact that the game's been played several times before the contestant's appearance), I personally had to laugh, because, come on man!
Your signature says it all! It's Deborah playing Shell on 1986. She still placed the chip under shell, even after Bob told her to put it by the shell. Like Bob's words, she cheated and got away with it!
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The time on Make Your Move when the contestant wouldn't make a decision and Bob had to play the game for her. Looking back on it, I wonder if the lady was unwell.
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Probably a worse act since that woman from Shell Game back in the the 80s. While not cool (given the rules added to the fact that the game's been played several times before the contestant's appearance), I personally had to laugh, because, come on man!
You know when I watched it back yesterday for first time in years, I wonder if he somehow wanted to do the flop to 95.....but either something happened or he thought he could lock in his answer or something by hitting the button. I say this because he went through all the motions of getting audience support, tried to flop seemingly, and was "right" in his reveal. Could be wrong on all this but just thinking here.
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The time on Make Your Move when the contestant wouldn't make a decision and Bob had to play the game for her. Looking back on it, I wonder if the lady was unwell.
I think on this one, this contestant simply did not have a clue as to how to play the game, despite Bob explaining it about as thoroughly as he could. I've seen the clip and she seemed to have a deer-in-the-headlights look, and she seemed to be looking to the audience for someone to help her.
Sometimes, this happens ... and not just on game shows: You explain something to about the simplest of terms and they still don't understand. A non-game show example might be "Homer's Triple Bypass," where Dr. Hibbert is explaining to Homer the heart surgery they are going to perform on him.
Which leads me to wonder: How many game shows has this been the case, where you explain the rules and they either are completely clueless or, perhaps they say they understood what they were just told and then they prove (by their gameplay) they really didn't?
Brian
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From October 18, 2006: A contestant is playing for a car in Bonus Game, and ends up wiping out. With a car on the line, I understand pricing the small prizes has to be more challenging, but I wonder if these fake prices were too tricky, or if the contestant missed at least one that could have been won with a reasonable guess.
That said, I do feel bad for the contestant. She commented she was "the biggest loser" when she lost. Bob tried his best to sympathize with her.
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EDIT: Could that be considered the first "tech win" in the show's history?
It looks that way. Although the win wasn't awarded until after the taping ended -- giving the contestant the second prize would have made her the top winner in the showcase, but she was positioned as the runner-up.
(She wound up winning the much nicer showcase, so I don't think she was complaining about it.)
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It looks that way. Although the win wasn't awarded until after the taping ended -- giving the contestant the second prize would have made her the top winner in the showcase, but she was positioned as the runner-up.
(She wound up winning the much nicer showcase, so I don't think she was complaining about it.)
I wonder if there was ever discussion to give her both given that discrepancy.
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I wonder if there was ever discussion to give her both given that discrepancy.
Not when the double showcase rule had yet to be introduced.
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It looks that way. Although the win wasn't awarded until after the taping ended -- giving the contestant the second prize would have made her the top winner in the showcase, but she was positioned as the runner-up.
(She wound up winning the much nicer showcase, so I don't think she was complaining about it.)
I remember a tech win in the half-hour days where the producers took showcase positioning into account. There was a Race Game playing where the indicator lit up "4" but only one price was right. Bob commented that, since she would qualify for the showcase as the runner-up anyway if only the one actual correct prize was counted (I am assuming it was the third pricing game that day), they could give her all four prizes.
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Not when the double showcase rule had yet to be introduced.
Did she get what woulda been the first showcase? Was it passed to her?
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How could I forget...the two (that I know) playings of Hole in One (not "...or Two"; that would have really been disastrous) where the contestant got to the nearest line, and missed the putt.
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How could I forget...the two (that I know) playings of Hole in One (not "...or Two"; that would have really been disastrous) where the contestant got to the nearest line, and missed the putt.
I wonder if that woulda somehow played into the eventual change to allow for two putts, thereby giving a contestant who managed to miss even from the nearest line, a mulligan. Might be me just reading too deep into it, but I could possibly see that discussion happening at some point.
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I forgot who the contestant was, but there was yet another playing of Clock Game during the Barker Era where the contestant took several seconds at a time giving her bids. Which caused Bob to sit on the steps afterward and slowly recount the contestant's bidding strategy. :lol:
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I forgot who the contestant was, but there was yet another playing of Clock Game during the Barker Era where the contestant took several seconds at a time giving her bids. Which caused Bob to sit on the steps afterward and slowly recount the contestant's bidding strategy. :lol:
Speaking of, I've mentioned it previously and I'm still hoping to see this again eventually, the "I'm gonna kick you in the ankles" lady from Season 30 would sorta fit here. The contestant (named Carly best I can tell), repeated a bid Bob already had already told her to go lower on from earlier in the game (after a stoppage to clarify that once already too since he mistakenly said higher first). This lead to him yelling that at her, but she did win after it. So it's not the worst exactly, but maybe an honorable mention.
Recap of the show is here for posterity:
http://tpirstats.com/Season30/March/Fri29.html
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I wonder if that woulda somehow played into the eventual change to allow for two putts, thereby giving a contestant who managed to miss even from the nearest line, a mulligan. Might be me just reading too deep into it, but I could possibly see that discussion happening at some point.
Pardon me for going off on a tangent from the topic...but I think it was more along the lines of, they wanted to give away cheaper cars (remember, in the earliest playings, they played for Golden Road-level prizes like RX-7s and mobile homes) and they wanted to make it a little easier to win, the way that 3 Strikes briefly switched to cheaper cars and giving the contestant the first digit.
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I think it was in 1997 (per a clip that was posted here by Carlos) when a contestant bought 17 eggs in Grocery Game, and the total was $50.83.
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I couldn't find video, but on April 19, 1994 there was a Magic # playing for a rocking horse and a motor scooter and the contestant set their magic # at... $110. Here is a recap- http://tpirepguide.com/?p=1813 (http://tpirepguide.com/?p=1813)
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Two that come to mind are Lucky Seven being lost on the first guess (guessed a 9, second digit was 1) and a no-horn loss in One Away when it was played for a Lincoln.
Oh yea, she guessed "One" for the first number on a Lincoln. Hard to top "Joy's" playing of "Ten Chances" I can't remember if she pulled out as Bob would call it, "We are in the presence of a miracle" on the last chance and won or if she lost all the way through. But it was a nightmare to watch! While I can understand the pressure and the lights, and the cameras, some of these contestants play like they have never seen the show!" "Clock Game" Brian's $89 bid on dinnerware is a classic! "Brian, what kind of a show do you think this is?" Bob hears his last bid as "Eight or nine hundred." " Brian, for both our sakes, I'm glad our time is up!" LOL!
And I can't spell her name, "Mohini" the lady from Fiji who played "Superball" and could not understand the concept of rolling the ball underhanded. She kept throwing the ball AT the board! LOL Bob goes, "The way you play, somebody could be hurt badly! Possibly me!" (And when he went to get one of her many "do over" practice balls, he banged his shin on the game!) He also goes "Your pretty and your sweet, you just have no talent" (audience explodes with laughter!) Bob says "For this game, I said for this game!!!" But no one in the studio heard his last three words!
Joe
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Mohini has the record of being the player of the longest playing of Super Ball!! which lasted 8 minutes!
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The time on Make Your Move when the contestant wouldn't make a decision and Bob had to play the game for her. Looking back on it, I wonder if the lady was unwell.
I think this particular contestant just really didn't get what she was supposed to do, but your post about being unwell reminded me of another contestant.
Does anyone remember Zarie from the May 3, 1976 episode? It was rerun on GSN back in the day and I have the episode in my collection. Anyway, she was an older woman who was called as the very last contestant of the day. She was seated toward the back and took forever to come on down. She had to be nagged for her bid and unfortunately got onstage. She played Poker Game, or rather she just randomly chose prizes (with heavy prompting from Bob) and lost. Thankfully, she didn't make it to the showcase.
Seriously, this lady seemed really out of it. She had a blank expression on her face and seemed like she didn't really totally know where she was. It wasn't really funny or even terribly infuriating, just kinda sad. It legitimately appeared to me like she was in the early stages of dementia. I don't have my DVD handy to watch it again and explain everything, but anyone else who has seen the show can attest that the whole segment is...awkward, to say the least. Sorry to be such a downer, but that immediately came to mind.
As far as bad playings that were entirely within the contestant's control, I'll never forget the infamous Joy who played Ten Chances in 2006. She was far from a joy to watch and really kind of got lucky when she finally won the car.
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This doesn't qualify as a bad pricing game, but a lady named Beatrice in 1983 who was shown two cars in her showcase, and had no expression or emotion at all when presented. Bob even prompted her, "Are you alright? We just showed you two cars and you seem like, "Who Cares?"
How she got chosen to "Come on Down" is mind-boggling!
Joe