Barker's Marker$

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Barker's Marker$ is a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right. It is played for three prizes (usually valued between $1,000 and $3,000) and a possible $500 bonus.

Gameplay

After the three prizes are described, the contestant is given $500 and is then shown four possible prices on the gameboard. Three of the prices correspond with the prizes; the fourth is an extra price and does not match up with anything.

The contestant is asked to place markers beside the three prices he believes match up with the prizes. Two of the correct prices are then announced, leaving one prize and two possible prices.

The contestant then decides whether he believes the third marker is correctly placed and keep the $500, or give up the cash and switch the marker to the unmarked price.

A correct decision nets the player all three prizes (plus the $500 if he didn't give it up); however, everything is lost if the unmarked price was correct.

Trivia

• Barker's Marker$ was played one time on the 1994 syndicated version, under the title "Make Your Mark."

• Statistical evidence shows that assuming random selection, a contestant has a 75 percent chance of winning if he switches the mark and a 25 percent chance if he leaves it as-is. There is a 25 percent chance that the contestant has all three marks placed correctly in the first place; switching the mark puts the contestant in the 75 percent bracket. This analysis indicates that the game could be considered a variant of the Monty Hall problem.

• Barker's Marker$ is one of three pricing games bearing Barker's name, Barker's Bargain Bar and Trader Bob being the other two.

• The show only has one set of five $100 bills, which are used for perfect bids and for this game. If a contestant makes a perfect bid immediately before playing Barker's Marker$, the contestant has to hand the money back to Bob during the prize description so that it can be handed to the contestant again for the game.

See also

The Price Is Right
List of The Price Is Right pricing games

 

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