Grocery Game
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Grocery Game is a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right. It is played for a four-digit prize, usually valued between $3,000 and $10,000, and uses grocery items.
Grocery Game was one of the first five Price Is Right pricing games ever played. The others are Any Number, Bonus Game, Double Prices and the first version of Bullseye.
Gameplay
The contestant is shown five grocery items. The contestant chooses one of the items and how many of it he would like to buy.Host Bob Barker reveals the price of the product, and one of the models totals the amount for that item on a cash register. If the contestant fails to hit the winning range of $20 to $21, he can then select one of the remaining items. The total of that purchase is added to the running total.
The game continues until one of the following three outcomes is reached:
- Hitting the winning $20 to $21 range at any time, which wins the prize.
- Exceeding $21 at any time, which loses the prize.
- Exhausting all five grocery items before hitting $20, which also results in a loss.
Trivia
- Grocery Game's original winning range was $6.75 to $7. This was adjusted in the late 1980s due to inflation.
- Very early in the show's run, the contestant won a $100 consolation prize if he exhausted all five grocery items but did not exceed $7. The contestant could also quit at any time and take the $100 sure thing (of course forgetting about the prize). The bonus was dropped after less than two weeks.
- The model operating the cash register has a note card that lists the prices of each of the five items in quantities up to 20. This usually results in slight confusion if a contestant purchases 21 or more of a single item.
- Grocery Game holds the distinction of being the only pricing game that has ever been played for three rooms of furniture – a living room, dining room and a bedroom – on the Coast Guard Special in Season 30.
- It is believed that the displays on Contestant's Row are used to tell Bob how far the contestant is from $21 (a similar thing happens during Money Game).
- One playing of Grocery Game accidentally used Shell Game's title banner.
See also
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