Today was one of those days, as in the first round on bidders' row, he had a tough time discerning who had won. Apparently, the contestants couldn't quite figure it out, either.
Observe Pamela's and Jermaine's Pavlovian response when Drew points to them, even though they had overbid.
So Jeffrey gets on stage with the opportunity to win a car in "Let 'Em Roll." The game looks like this:
You get one free roll of the dice, with the chance to win two more by guessing the prices of a few grocery items. Jeffrey went 1-for-2, so he had two rolls. Each of the five die have three car symbols and three cash values (one each of $1,500, $1,000 and $500). After your first roll, you can keep the cash that comes up (assuming you didn't roll five cars) or take the die that didn't come up car and try again. If you don't have five cars after your last roll, you get whatever cash you got on that last roll.
Here's the result of Jeffrey's first roll:
Again, here's why I'd be a boring game show contestant: I'd pocket the $3,500 and call it a day. Maybe if the odds of rolling three cars were a little better than the 8-to-1 that it is here, I'd consider taking the risk. But $3,500 is a pretty good cash haul from this game.
Jeffrey, naturally, went for the car. He didn't get it, and took home $2,000 instead.
Drama and intrigue
Today, we saw why "Any Number" is the best game on The Price is Right.
Josephine got herself in a position where there were three numbers left, and her next pick would win her a car, a set of cameras or the piggy bank. Such a wild swing of fortune riding on one digit, with a little strategy involved - it doesn't get any better.
With a 1, 3 and 5 left, here's how it played out:
Given that it was the last digit, Josephine probably made the logical choice. The Price is Right likes to set these kinds of traps, however, and it worked here.
Bidders' row FAIL
Today wasn't exactly a "how-to" on how to play on bidders' row.
Let's take a look at these bids for an X-Box Kinect and eight games (starting with Sheri on the far right):
Jermaine (far left) apparently missed the "and eight games" part (not to mention the eight games on display with the console), a very key piece of information there. Then, Pamela bids $1 over as the third bidder, opening the door for Martina to one-up her as the last bidder.
Martina won, obviously.
Bizarrely, Pamela elected not to go $1 over anyone - despite now being the fourth bidder - in the next round:
Sheri won.
Pamela finally made it on stage in the fourth round, thanks in part to Kendra's (second from right) dodgy final bid:
First of all, bid $1 there if you're going to go low. Secondly, the prize was a sundress and two pairs of sunglasses from Gucci, which should have been a sign for a $901 bid (which would have won).
Starting with Josephine (second from left), here's the bidding for a small fireplace:
Kendra goes $1 over as the second bidder, and John (far right) essentially does the same thing going third, paving the way for Jermaine to finally get on stage.
Lastly, you're the fourth and final bidder in the last round. The three bids before you are, in order, $1,050, $560 and $1,100. What do you do? Bid $1? $561? $1,101? If you're smart, it's one of those three.
If you're this meathead, though...
Plinko disaster
When you win just one extra chip on Plinko, you introduce the possibility of having this happen to you:
Buzzkill. Major buzzkill.
Almost an 0-fer
As you can probably tell, there wasn't a whole lot of winning today. Contestants were 1-5 in pricing games. Martina was the lone winner, correctly flopping in a potentially tricky setup for a new living room (with leather furnishings and an HD television) in "Flip-Flop." The setup was $7,959, meaning she could "flip" the first two numbers to $9,759, "flop" the last two to $7,995, or "flip-flop" all four numbers to $9,795.
That flip-flop looked pretty plausible, considering what was at stake, but Martina made the right decision. And she saved us from a The Price is Right skunker in the process.
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