During recent tapings, word of the new Price is Right pricing game came out, and it looks to be pretty good. All information comes from the fan site Golden Road. “Gas Money” is the name of the new game, and it’s played for up to $10,000 and a new car.
Basically, you’re shown a car and five prices; one of them is the price of the car. All you have to do is choose it. Once you do, that price is set aside for now. You then choose one of the prices you believe is incorrect. If it is indeed correct, you are given a cash value ranging from $1,000 to $4,000. You can choose to keep that money or pick another incorrect price. Every time you choose an incorrect price, your cash bank goes up. If you pick all four incorrect prices, you win the car and $10,000. However, if you pick the right price during the elimination process, you lose everything and the game ends.
If you did this game with briefcases, it would be almost like a skill/pricing knowledge replica of Deal or No Deal, wouldn’t it be? So far, this is the only drastic change that has come onto the show thus far. Odds are more stuff will change later, but for now, everything is fine. It was that initial freak out which caused worry. A good deal of that freak out has been redacted I’ve noticed, though, like the insane ranting TVGuide post.
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This game indeed is a very interesting and short Deal or No Deal. I think Deal or No Deal should take a hint from Roger’s last created game Gas Money!
From the looks of it, this game is HARD to win outright. The strategy is self evident though: After picking (hopefully) the price of the car, pick the prices that are most likely not the actual retail price of the car. I can’t suggest whether or not to try to go for all the marbles, but I can suggest that “Temptation” is a difficult game to win outright, and this game has elements of “Temptation.”
I can’t wait to see this game!
Posted on August 1st, 2008 at 11:37 am
A car and $10,000? Sweet!
Yes, this does look like a pretty good, and reasonably difficult game. Can’t wait! I wonder where this game will be staged, though?
Posted on August 1st, 2008 at 11:45 am
Reminds me of “Bargain Hunter”, except you’re playing with car prices. It’s interesting.
Posted on August 1st, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Eliminating wrong prices for a car? Sounds like this is TPiR’s rendition of “Trivia Trap” — not that I’m criticizing the pricing game.
Posted on August 1st, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Not the most original idea for a pricing game but it works. This seems like a variation of “It’s in the bag.” which is my only complaint. I’ve noticed as of late these ideas for pricing games come from other game shows where as when I was a kid all the ideas for pricing games were original ideas e.g. Plinko, punch-a-bunch, Super Ball, etc.
Posted on August 1st, 2008 at 2:38 pm
This is a first. A car and $10000? You could actually win both? amazing. This looks to be the best new pricing game since Plinko was first introduced.
Posted on August 1st, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Why you suprised. Pass the Buck you could win up to $8,000 and a car. So this isn’t out of bounds for TPiR.
Posted on August 1st, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Reminds me of Five Price Tags, only you’re trying to Avoid the car price, and get a cash bonus if you succeed. And unlike the last mentioned Pass The Buck, there’s no second chance: once you lose, that’s it…
Posted on August 1st, 2008 at 7:03 pm
I dunno about this game, I like the idea and I think we all like the idea, but I think the rules are gonna be too confusing for most people. $10K and a car is great though, TPIR for years has been criticized for giving away MUCH more in prizes than cash and causing many winners to ahve to sell their prizes jsut to pay taxes. I don’t know if $10K would totally cover the taxes, but at least it helps. and FYI, this possibly is the first new pricing game of the Drew Carey era.
lastly, why are they calling it Gas money? it just seems like a weird name to me, I had one idea but it was too similar to magic number: The contestant is told a state and has to operate a “gas pump” and pump gallons of gas, then the state price is revealed, multiplied by the number of gallons pumped and when added to the price of the car if it’s within whatever range they win the car and the free gas,
Posted on August 2nd, 2008 at 12:41 pm
How can the rules be confusing? The contestant picks a price and then tries to eliminate WRONG prices from the four that are left. It’s not rocket science.
Posted on August 2nd, 2008 at 5:51 pm
one phrase ‘you’re right that’s a wrong price” and we are talking about tpir contestants in general, the kind of people who don’t understand the logic in balance game, hit me and a host of others.
Posted on August 2nd, 2008 at 7:53 pm
I think people will get this game. It might take some time, but they’ll get it. But anyway, here’s my suggestion on this game: give the home audience a chance to win free gas by texting the show, sort of similar to the Home Phone Game (remember that one?), only the text version.
Posted on August 2nd, 2008 at 8:07 pm
So it’s basically a cross between Five Price Tags and Step Up? Interesting. And at the same time, there is quite the similarity to Pass The Buck. But hey, after 37 years, how may ways can you do “guess the price” differently?
Now, are there different money amounts assigned to each of the wrong prices, or is it simply $1K for the first, $2K for the second, etc.?
Posted on August 3rd, 2008 at 1:20 am
The way I heard it being mentioned in the live taping report, there may (I stress the word) have been a pattern where the prices that were closer to the ARP of the car were worth more money and the ones that were further away worth less, similar to the late and unlamented On the Nose. If that is indeed the case, this fact could help a player make up his/her mind as to when would be a good time to bail out.
Example: Let’s say the price chosen as correct was $22,460. Of the remaining four prices – $20,975, $19,760, $22,025, and $21,630 – the player picks $20,975, which has $4,000 behind it, meaning that was the price closest to the car’s ARP… and the previously selected $20,975 is nowhere near that. That’s a pretty loud signal for the player to hit the panic button.
Even if that’s not the case after all, I still like the sound of Gas Money. This will certainly be a far more welcome addition to the team than Joker (which this gameplay actually reminds me of in a way) could have ever hoped to be.
Posted on August 3rd, 2008 at 11:21 am
This game sounds interesting, indeed by the time the game air a tank of gas will be worth $10,000.
Posted on August 3rd, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Marc Power,
I think even the most dim-witted person can transfer from picking one “right” price to picking “wrong” prices.
I can understand why Hit Me was retired; it’s basically math. People in general in this country have an aversion to working with numbers.
Posted on August 4th, 2008 at 10:21 am
I like the concept…its not like Trivia Trap as you need to pick the right price at the beginning to get the car. It is one of the more LMAD style Pricing Games (Like Barker’s Markers) which were more popular after LMAD left that style of game (Take a lil because you’re wrong or go for alot and HOPE you’re right) a large void. If this was Bob I would say this is a home run as he was a wiz with leading the audience. Drew needs to still learn the craft in that regard, he can be a little too matter of fact (NOT a bad trait, his honesty actually is refreshing in many respects in games like Switcheroo and Any Number).
My bigger concern as this puts two absloute classics on the Endangered spieces list. Namely 5 price tags of which this is a better variant of but well, 5 price tags is a total classic. Also with the amounts of cash available it makes Temptation redundant, as they both involve having to be perfect and go for the car or take a large sum (of cash vs C+P) and get out while the getting’s good. Temptation probs can stay but 5 price tags…I dunno this may replace it…and well…that is an end of an era because that indeed was a simple classic.
Posted on August 4th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
$10,000 in cash and a car is cool. I wonder if Fremantle has thought about getting an oil company to sponsor the game and offer the cash prize in the form of, say, a Shell Gift Card so you’d literally be using the cash you win as Gas Money.
Posted on August 4th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
I know every game on Price is a version of another – but when I first heard about this pricing game I immediately thought of the first portion of the “On The Nose” game.
Either way, hope it ends up being a fun game.
Posted on August 4th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
The problem with the dollar amounts being tied to how far off the price of the car is that once you pull the 4k you pretty much KNOW you’ve either won or lost. If the other is on the board you realized you were WAY off and you get out, if you chose the price that was closest to it you KNOW you got it and the game gets anticlimatic (Unless the 4k is last amount picked which would be the idea…6k vs a possible 10k + Car.
Also any word on what KIND of cars are being offered? Is it the Mid Level car used for Lucky $even, One Away and other tougher pricing games or the smaller cars used for games like Switcheroo, Money Game, and Pass the Buck, OR is it the larger cars used for games of chance or games like Temptation and Triple Play that are VERY hard to win.
Doubt they will use Three Strikes level cars.
Posted on August 5th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Also what about during the MDSs? this game sounds too easy to make the million $ game and really making it so you have a big winner without them winning a game (ie Making the values 100K 200K 300K and 400K).
Posted on August 11th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
I don't care too much for this game, mainly because it's all but impossible to win it. I have never seen a contestant win the car. Most of the time, they hit the "pink slip" on their first money choice. It's almost but not quite as difficult as "Stack The Deck".
Someone above has compared it to Temptation. Temptation is different, inasmuch as one has the option to quit after seeing all the "gifts" (small prizes) and not even bother to try for the car. He/she is guaranteed to win the gifts in that case.
Posted on September 9th, 2009 at 1:03 am
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