Double Prices
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Double Prices is a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right. Debuting on the show's first episode on September 4, 1972, it is played for a four-digit prize worth more than $2,000; it has also been played for a car.
Double Prices was one of the first five Price is Right pricing games ever played. The others are Any Number, Bonus Game, Grocery Game, and the original Bullseye.
[edit] Gameplay
The contestant is shown a prize and two possible prices. Selecting the correct one wins the prize.
[edit] Trivia
- Early in the 1970s syndicated TPIR, contestants played for two prizes, one at a time, with two possible price selections for each prize. An incorrect decision on one prize did not affect whether he won (or could win) the other prize. This format is generally referred to by fans as "double Double Prices."
- According to TPIR producer Roger Dobkowitz, Double Prices has been played more often than any other pricing game (but by a slim margin). It usually makes up for time spent on games with more complicated rules.
- Although not a car game, Double Prices has been played for a car on nighttime specials, and occasionally on the daytime show.
- Double Prices has the most inconsistent staging of any pricing game. It was originally played at center stage, behind the Giant Price Tag. Starting in the late '70s, it would occasionally be played behind Door #3. Sometime during the '90s, it began to be staged almost exclusively at Door #2; this held true until May or June of 2003, when the game began to occasionally use its original staging again. On one occasion (perhaps by accident), the prize was behind one of the Big Doors, and the game podium was positioned on center stage.
- Although Double Prices is one of the show's very first games, the name of the game was not displayed on its prop until 1987.
