More duos - in this case, engaged couples - bidding and playing pricing games! Because the Mothers' Day and "New Drivers" specials that we've had in the last month weren't enough!
And - here's a shock - it was such a happy occasion, all six pricing games were won! I'm sure that was not fixed or arranged in any way.
For today's blog, I'm going to go in chronological order of the show - a running diary of sorts. Here's how it played out, from beginning to end:
After the first
Daniel Goddard is BACK.
James and Cheryl won the prize, at which point we found out that all couples who made it on stage win a trip to Miami. George Gray delivered the good news.
After James and Cheryl won the prize, they got up on stage to play Plinko. They did well to earn all four chips, giving them five total. While watching, I wondered to myself who would get to drop the chips. Surely, they would split it up somehow.
Nope. Cheryl dropped all five chips. James still had to hold them, of course.
I guess we know how that marriage is going to go.
It all turned out OK, as on the fifth and final chip, Cheryl landed it in the $10,000 slot, landing this couple a cool $12K.
Up next were Benjamin and Puja, who wore her veil to the proceedings. Somebody had to.
Benjamin and Puja were playing "The Bargain Game" for a bachelors' party in Atlantic City, and a bachelorettes' party in Las Vegas. After picking the trip to Atlantic City ("listed" at $4,600) as the bigger bargain, the trip to Vegas ("listed" at $5,700 was shown to be a $2,500 bargain. Based on prior playings of this game, Benjamin and Puja appeared doomed, but Atlantic City turned out to be a $3K bargain. We're 2-for-2 now.
Next up, we had Jason and Amy playing "Money Game" for a Ford Escape.
After being given the '9' in the middle, Jason/Amy got the '25' as the first two digits on the first try. Of the eight options remaining for the last two digits, four of them had a '5' and/or a '9'. Jason/Amy were apparently convinced that one of these repeating digits options would work, as they ran through all of them (95, 59, 79, 15) before the '15' finally gave them the car.
OK, back to Cheryl/James from Plinko. Perhaps it was for the best that Cheryl did all the work.
I'm sure your pets appreciate the love, buddy.
Anyhow, going to make it 4-0 were Ryan and Brianna, playing "Double Prices" for a variety of kitchen appliances.
They picked the higher option - which more often than not seems to be the safe bet here - and won.
Next up, James and Nicole (the last of the "first
...yeah, fuck you James, you don't get anything extra because you're just the groom.
We had a dubiously easy setup in today's "Pick-a-Pair."
James/Nicole first picked the silk body lotion first at $8.99, meaning they just had to find the other item up there at $8.99. Little Debbie snack cakes? No. Paper decorations? No. A pound of strawberries? No. Chocolate dip? Not unless it's laced with edible gold.
They went with the lipstick, which of course was $8.99. Easy, easy, easy.
For the last item up for bids, we had his/her white gold wedding bands. This was a very expensive item by bidders' row standards, which usually elicits horrendously low bids from the contestants. These four couples bid pretty well, though; even the $1 bid at the end wasn't a bad idea in this case.
Not that Jeffrey had any clue. Take a look at his (far left) reaction. Either he wasn't paying attention, or he can't comprehend basic math.
Allison and Jeffrey are going to play "Pocket Change" for a Honda Civic LX. And according to Price is Right Recaps, they're also playing to give us the first "Perfect Game" of The Price is Right since the Valentines Day 2010 episode (another gimmicky "feel-good" episode, which I'm sure is just a coincidence).
Allison/Jeffrey nailed down the price of the $18,654 car after four wrong guesses, meaning they needed $1.25 to buy the car from Crazy Rachel's Car Lot. They're given a quarter already, so the four cards they picked from the wall have to add up to a $1. The odds are slightly against them: unless they draw all four (out of 20) of the 25-cent cards, they'll need to get one of the 50-cent cards (there are 3 out of 20), the 75-cent card or the $2 card.
After 10-cent and 25-cent cards, Drew revealed back-to-back 50-cent cards (the odds of this happening were about 50-1) and Allison/Jeffrey got the car.
PERFECT SHOW*.
* - This is based on pricing games only, and it's a good thing, because there was some really dodgy bidding in the Showcase round.
Jason/Amy bid $23,723 on a pair of cameras, a trip to South Africa and Jeep. (With Jason saying, "I think I'm going to bid on it." That's two I's in one sentence while playing a team game with your fiancee. Nice.)
Ryan/Brianna bid $28,593 on trips to St. Lucia and Barbados, and a Chrysler Touring convertible.
And since Ryan/Brianna's bid was less horrendous than Jason's (and only Jason's, apparently)...
...they won. Terrific.
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The funny thing is, we wanted to bid in the mid $30,000 range, but were WAY to scared about going over... so fortunately our terrible bid wasn't *too* terrible. :) Thanks for your blog, enjoyed it! - Ryan
ReplyDeleteHey man, a win is a win - congratulations! I hope you and Brianna enjoy your prizes.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading,
Mark