It's in the Bag (pricing game)
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It's in the Bag is a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right. Debuting on September 26, 1997, it is played for a cash prize of $16,000, and uses grocery items.
[edit] Gameplay
The contestant is shown six grocery items (five which were useful, and one that is simply an extra product), along with five grocery bags with prices on them. One at a time, he is told a price and asked to match it with what he thought was the correct product. Generally, the difficulty increases with each successive bag.
Once all five bags have a product on them, host Bob Barker reveals what is inside them, one by one. If the contestant had the first bag correct, he won $1,000.
After each bag is revealed, the contestant can quit or risk his/her current winnings on doubling his money for a correct answer on the next bag. The prize structure for successive correct answers is $2,000, $4,000, $8,000, and finally $16,000 (for correctly matching each product to each bag). If the contestant continues and is wrong at any point, the game is over and the contestant goes bankrupt; however, the contestant keeps his winnings if he quits, whether or not he is wrong on any as-of-yet unrevealed bags.
[edit] Trivia
- Beginning with Season 33's Million Dollar Spectaculars, It's in the Bag's top prize in primetime is $24,000. The only difference with this version of the game is that after the $8,000 bag, the next bag is worth $24,000 (triple value).
- On the February 17, 2006 show, Tyra Banks assisted another model in placing the grocery items on the counter. She also assisted with Card Game on the same episode.
- This game was lost on the first item on the first two times it was played.
