Yay for Punch a Bunch
finally coming back to prime time! With a pretty unexpected prize increase, too! Not sure how I feel about the $50,000 top prize. On one hand, it seems unnecessarily high, but on the other hand, Plinko has a $100,000 top prize. Guess it's nice to see
something else that can compete with Plinko!
Yay for the Punch a Bunch frequency chart close-up! I do wonder which four amounts had second chances, though. Could a $5000 slip have actually had a second chance?
Still speaking on Punch a Bunch, I hope the new hole coverings aren't brought over to daytime: the Pricedown dollar sign paper was hardly visible on camera. The old bold generic dollar signs are a lot more vibrant on TV.
And yet still speaking of Punch a Bunch, on one hand, no one's ever going to give up $25,000 if they get a $25,000 slip. On the other hand, that's pretty much the same situation with the $5000 slips in daytime, so it's not really a problem anyway.
And because four paragraphs isn't enough, I do wonder whether or not the $50,000 slip was hiding in a corner. I mean, I know the show has no reason not to try to give the $1 million away, but who the heck knows the exact stipulations for the insurance policy? I can kinda' see them wanting more money if they were going to put it in a corner.
And because I'm writing a novel about Punch a Bunch, even though it was just a dumb, completely random, corner-analysis notwithstanding, this was one of the better $1 million pricing game executions. Mostly because winning it was both actually possible, unlike with Range Game, Plinko, and Safe Crackers, and didn't require risking anything, unlike with Half Off and Safe Crackers.
And yay! Two SPs again! So even if the "final" show next week is SP-less, we're still coming out ahead, with at least five SPs played in four shows!
Speaking of "other SP" Cliff Hangers, when did the space bag suddenly jump up in price? I actually thought that was the first SP in years to be under $10 in Pathfinder a couple weeks ago.
Tonight's Grocery Game basically proved that Roger can make Grocery Game difficult without resorting to nothing but $5.00+ products. Two Midol seemed like a very good way to start. No normal person would've guessed they were even close to only 99¢, and before someone complains that they knew, please remember we're not normal. Crystal actually played the game well, starting with a small amount of a medicinal product, which is usually a great starting move. Just not with that el cheapo Midol. Built her total up pretty nicely, but just didn't have any elbow room to win in the end. Always a shame when someone loses like that. Even if, technically, she did have a sub-$1.00 product she could've very theoretically bailed herself out of the situation with.
Thank God Lacretia ignored the bizarre shouts of "7" from the audience in Squeeze Play. Seriously... 7?! I'm disappointed in you, audience. So meant to be won. Happy Lacretia ignored that abysmal advice.
And... what the heck was Robert doing with his bidding in the showcase? Starting with $28,000, gradually getting higher due to the audience pressure, and decides on $48,000. Then, from seemingly outta' nowhere, bids $66,000! Pretty drastic increase from $28,000. I'm also curious why he decided to raise his $48,000 bid, which he seemed like he'd settle on, by so much.
I thought Punch-A-Bunch as the million dollar game was kind of stupid - they should really be based on pricing skill (like One Away and Switcheroo), and not luck...
Maybe, but on the other hand, aside from One Away, this was actually the most likely for the $1 million to actually be won! Just 1 in 50, which is better than almost everything else.
