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Studio 33 - Price is Right Discussion => The TALK Is Right => Topic started by: Hockeyman on March 23, 2023, 04:02:03 PM
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Today marks 4 months since the last playing of Triple Play occurred. Is the game taking a break due to logistics issues or did the management decide to scrap the game. There are some logistics issues which can be the blocked access to the first door on the left or because of the game length and budget.
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If Triple Play is gone forever, I'll admit I'm not going to miss it. However, there's a chance that one of the delayed episodes that was slated to air not too long ago includes it (specifically an episode that was taped in 2022 & slated to air during Week 14 as well as 0102L).
TBH, I hardly think Triple Play's length & the budget are reasons for its absence. IMO, you would want to see Triple Play to help maintain the budget, and unlike Super Ball, the game's over right away following a mistake
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I'm not Triple Play's biggest fan. I've always noticed the impracticality of winning 3 cars. Unless you are a car collector (which most people aren't) what could you use 3 cars for? If I were a contestant, I'd rather play for 1 car and have a most realistic chance to win. I'll admit that a Triple Play win is super exciting. However, given that Triple Play is rarely won when it's played and that it is rarely played to begin with, seeing a Triple Play win is extremely rare. It's a game that whatever it is in theory is mostly "whatever" in practice. And if we ARE going to see a game played for 3 cars, I'd just as soon see Most Expensive played for 3 cars. While I sometimes defend hard games such as That's Too Much, One Away, and Stack the Deck under the premise that winning a car isn't supposed to be easy, Triple Play I do think takes the difficulty a little too far. And given the impracticality of winning 3 cars, I say it's better to play for 1 car and actually have a chance at. FWIW, Triple Play isn't my favorite set either as I'm not fond of pale purple.
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I'm not Triple Play's biggest fan. I've always noticed the impracticality of winning 3 cars.
Good news - now you can have one great car (http://www.golden-road.net/index.php/topic,33873.msg501940.html#msg501940).
I would miss the game if it was gone but there's no doubt it needs to be won more than once every five years.
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I had heard once that Bob himself didn’t like the fact that the game, while it did produce a win (rarely), it was usually a crap out by car two. and while the reveal of the game was good for TV, the result was (as stated above) usually not.
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Do these games still offer a cash option if you decide you don’t like a prize?
For cars, didn’t they just give you some kind of paper slip or something crediting your with the amount of the car won? So that, for instance, if you didn’t like that particular model of car, you could apply the amount to a different car?
(To wit: Win Triple Play, and thus all three cars, you’d get three of those pink slips. You just want one car and can now apply the combined amount of the slips toward one vehicle (possibly $60,000 or more)).
Otherwise, I dunno what the procedure is then if you win all three cars but didn’t want one (or more) of them, other than decline it outright.
Brian
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In Season 37 it was played exactly once. Triple Play taking a break isn't unprecedented.
Do these games still offer a cash option if you decide you don’t like a prize?
Nope. You get the prize. Take it or leave it. The exception being the whole "merging cars" aspect mentioned earlier.
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*cough*
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Yes Triple Play is dead. I saw it floating up to the Great Pricing Game Warehouse In The Sky just moments ago.
Rest in peace, Triple Play.
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