Shopping Spree (pricing game)
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- This article is about the pricing game featured on the game show The Price is Right. For the unrelated game show that aired on The Family Channel, see Shopping Spree.
Shopping Spree is a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right. Debuting on January 17, 1996, this game is played for four prizes, each worth between $400 and $3,000.
[edit] Gameplay
The contestant is given a specified amount - usually between $3,000 and $5,000 - and shown four prizes. One at a time, the contestant selects items he thinks will help exhaust the spending account.
If the contestant exceeds the spending limit after his third choice, he wins all four prizes.
[edit] Trivia
- Shopping Spree is effectively the reverse of Credit Card. As with Credit Card, only one combination - in this case, the three most expensive prizes - wins; the fourth item will guarantee a loss and is often significantly lower in price than the other three.
- Early playings of Shopping Spree showed the amount of money the contestant needed to spend on an orange LED display instead of on a card. Also, the large green LED display kept track of how much the contestant had already spent, not how much he still needed to spend.
