Push Over
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- This article is about a pricing game on "The Price Is Right". For other uses, see pushover.
Push Over is a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right. Debuting on March 3, 1999, it is played for a four-digit prize worth more than $3,000; a five-digit version is sometimes played when the grand prize is a car.
[edit] Gameplay
The contestant is shown a row of nine numbered blocks – e.g. "649507185." The price of the prize is hidden in the numbers. He must push the blocks into a blue window to form what he believes is the prize's four-digit price (or in the case of cars, five-digit price). Any blocks that are pushed beyond the window fall into a box, permanently out of play, and therefore cannot be recovered.
The contestant wins the prize if the correct price shows in the window.
[edit] Trivia
- During the early playings of the game, host Bob Barker joked the cubes would "go to China". He would sometimes stretch the joke as far as to say that a contestant could see people eating chow mein by looking in the box.
- While not technically a rule, it is well-established that the first price choice in Push Over is always wrong. Only one contestant has ever actually picked it.
- Coincidentally, Push Over debuted on the final episode with padding on the Turntable walls.
- On one occasion, the card that displays the actual price fell open before the game was played, thus revealing the price. Bob awarded the prize, since there was no realistic way to play the game at that point. He then pushed the blocks into place to "make the win official."
