Price is Right pricing game "Check Game." Watch as this contestant got it exactly the highest amount possible. Bob Barker hosts. The range back then was $5,000-$6,000 before they increased the range between $7,000-$8,000.
Before they changed the win range to 7000-8000, the magic check amount that worked with the 5000-6000 range was $2,000. Later on in the 5-6 range, the prizes were usually in the 3000 -4000 range
To whoever asked if he was the 1st one to win the highest amt possible: he was the 1st and ONLY one to do it! I remember watching this episode when it was originally aired: 1/4/99.
@@themonkeyhand If number crunching is gaming...so be it. If you can calculate numbers in your head...that is one calculator that can't be taken away...nor should you be disqualified. Do The Math...wait now their is a pricing game called that.
And Dian Parkinson, Annette Marroquin, Chantel Dubay, Lisa Lopez, Tamara, Tina, Nikki Ziering, Jennifer England, Melissa Cortez, Gena Lee Nolin, Cindy Margolis, Debbie James, Mindy Kennedy and the rest of the Barker era TPIR models!
it's kind of like Range Game. You gotta have some idea of the price of the prize. Then you add an amount of money to add to the price of the prize. If the total of the money and the prize are within the $1000 range, you win. If you're outside of the range, you lose. EX: Prize worth 3400. Player has an idea the price is 3500. they write a check for 2500. The total of the check + price of prize(2500+3400=5900) and a win. If the prize was $1k less, it would be a loss
In this case, it's just a maximum win; this playing had a maximum cash payout of $2,200. I don't know many games that give a bonus on being exact when guessing the price, aside from One Bid.
@tomgene1976 Currently, the game is in hiatus. Fremantle Media is redesigning it, so when it reappears, it'll probably look terrible, just like any other game they updated, that never should've been updated. (Some games always got updates, so I'm not upset about those.)
If they had the rules that a bank uses then he would have lost because the bank goes by what you spelled and not the numbers written, so he would have went way over.
OK...the contestant had to figure a rough amount of the prize being offered, the price being LESS than $5000 and write a prop check to bring that amount between $5000 and $6000 (at the time). If the check was less than $5000 or greater than $6000, the contestant would lose the prize offered AND the check would be "void" and the model would stamp "VOID" on the check as well as the amount of money the check was written for. If the contestant was between $5000 and $6000, the contestant would win the prize offered (here a bed) AND a cash award (in the form of a valid check) in the amount written. In this case it was $2200. Pretty simple actually. There are other videos here where Bob explains how to play the game better than I can.
Or how about the fact that people just don't really use checks anymore? It has nothing to do with being stupid. In this day in age there are just too many easier and faster alternatives to writing a check.
If college students spent more time between classes watching Price is Right and less complaining about Donald Trump then the world would be a better place LOL
technically he should of lost. the legal part of a written check is the numbers spelled out in word form not the numerical part.. and he wrote it for 22,000 ..
It's not a legal cheque though, it's a game prop. This _is_ Bob's game show after all, so he has the final say on how it's treated which shows how much of a good sport he is.
