The Price is Right - 5/7/12 Episode (Part 2)

In the first part of today's The Price is Right episode review, we saw plenty of win.

Let's see some fail.

We'll start with Megan's tutorial of how not to play "The Race Game":

Let's break down this performance:

1) When will people learn to not look back to the crowd during a timed game? If Drew Carey is yelling at you, you're doing it wrong.

2) Upon learning she had zero correct prices on her first pull, Megan then changes just two of the prices. This wouldn't be a bad strategy... if you had more than eight seconds left for the second pull.

3) After discovering she had one correct price on her second pull, Megan then goes back and changes the two prices she switched after the first pull - when she had zero. Savvy.

4) Megan apparently thinks a desktop computer goes for either $2,880 or $5,299. In 2012. With a motorcycle and fancy kitchen range also in play. Fascinating.

Next up we have Thomas playing "Hi-Lo."

Here's the setup:

The premise of the game is simple: pick the three most expensive of the six items, and you win the prize (today, it was a new dining room). Today's items were Bailey's non-alcoholic coffee creamer, Unisom sleep tablets (48 count), Kraft American cheese singles, children's Allegra, Aspercreme heat gel...

...and this thing of makeup:

Like Thomas, I'm a dude who's never shopped for makeup (I'll give him the benefit of the doubt). While I'm aware these kinds of products can probably be expensive, I don't think this little thing quite measures up in price to, say, sleep tablets. Yet when Drew asked Thomas for the one thing he was sure was the most expensive, while all six items were still on the table, he went with the makeup ($5.51). He then picked the sleep tablets ($12.39) and heat gel ($6.79). Not that it matters what order you pick the three most expensive items in, but that still struck me as curious.

Thomas left the children's Allegra on the table. That cost $10.78, so he was drawing dead after picking the makeup.

A classic game
I've watched The Price is Right everyday since I started this blog a little over a month ago, and had been watching it pretty consistently for a couple months before that. Every once in a while, a game that I haven't seen since I was kid will still pop up.

Today, that game was "Spelling Bee":

You get two free chooses of those 30 cards, and if you can guess the price of three small prizes with reasonable accuracy, you get three more cards. Alicia got one of the prizes right on the nose, giving her the three extra cards automatically.

The point of the game is to spell "car." There are 11 C's, 11 A's, six R's and two automatic winners that say "car." Each of the cards is also worth $1,000, so you can stop at any time and just take whatever money is left.

Personally, if I got all five cards, I'd just take the $5,000 and run (which would make for boring television, I realize). Nobody ever actually does that, though, and Alicia got off to a good enough start with a "C" and an "A." Unfortunately, it was three C's after that. Cue that losing horn.