Comments on: Gas Money: New “Price is Right” Pricing Game

By: Anonymous in Dallas

Anonymous in Dallas — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:03:00 +0000

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.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:56:05 +0000

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).

By: glenn

glenn — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:30:49 +0000

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.

By: DB25

DB25 — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:26:39 +0000

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.

By: myke25

myke25 — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:00:33 +0000

$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.

By: glenn

glenn — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:39:56 +0000

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.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:21:37 +0000

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.

By: David Palomares

David Palomares — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:29:11 +0000

This game sounds interesting, indeed by the time the game air a tank of gas will be worth $10,000.

By: TheKid965

TheKid965 — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:21:07 +0000

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.

By: Sodboy13

Sodboy13 — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:20:56 +0000

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.?

By: devares

devares — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:07:09 +0000

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.

By: Marc Power

Marc Power — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:53:32 +0000

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.

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:51:52 +0000

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.

By: Marc Power

Marc Power — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:41:18 +0000

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,

By: MikeSant318

MikeSant318 — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:03:12 +0000

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…