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This pricing game is played on the turntable. It was the first pricing game ever played. I've also heard it called "the piggy-bank game." Yep, this is the game with three possible prizes, and the contestant can win one of them--a new car (what the contestant wants to win), a 3-digit piece of furniture (which is usually what is won), or some money in the piggy-bank (which can range from $2.10 to a whopping $9.87). Each digit 0-9 is in one of the prices, including another of whatever the first digit in the price of the car is, which is given automatically (back in 4-digit car days, each digit was on only once--no exception). The contestant wins whichever prize s/he guessing every digit first (so s/he can only win one prize--if s/he wins the car, s/he loses the furniture and the $9.87, but who really cares?!). The losing horns are only played when the piggy-bank is won, not the furniture. |
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This game's bark is worse than its bite. The odds are against you, but there are some tips that can help you win. First, you can probably guess about how much the furniture costs--don't guess what you think the first digit is. Second, the numbers in the piggy-bank usually go in descending order (occasionally not, though), and it has never gone lower than $2.10 (the highest combination of those three digits). If the highest number in the piggy-bank is lower than 5, it means ALWAYS that there are no numbers in the piggy-bank higher than that first number. So if the first number is 2, DO NOT PICK 1 OR 0--THOSE ARE DEFINITELY THE OTHER 2 NUMBERS!!! Third, the 1 is almost always in the piggy-bank (usually the last number in the piggy-bank), so this would be a good digit to avoid anytime. 0 used to be in the piggy-bank frequently as well, but is in the car more often nowadays. (Actually until the mid-90's, 4 was also almost always in the piggy-bank, but it's in the car about a third of the time nowadays.) |
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