Credit Card (pricing game)
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Credit Card is a pricing game on the American television game show, The Price Is Right. Debuting on December 7, 1987, it is played for five prizes, each worth between $200 and $3,000.
[edit] Gameplay
Host Bob Barker presents the contestant with a large credit card, which he inserts into an ATM, which then displays a "credit limit" (usually $1,800 to $2,500). The player is then asked to select three items -- one at a time -- whose total is under the "credit limit." Doing so wins the contestant all five prizes.
The game is set so that the contestant is required to choose the three lowest-priced prizes to win.
[edit] Trivia
- Very frequently, one or both of the prizes that should not be chosen will be placed on the top; this is more an issue of the prizes' sizes than any attempt to make the game predictable.
- The pricing game Shopping Spree is nearly the exact opposite of Credit Card.
- If Credit Card is won, the prices of the other two items are usually not revealed.
- At least one contestant has lost Credit Card on their first pick.
- The credit card the contestant inserts into the ATM, which is generally not seen up-close on the air, has dollar signs, "The Price Is Right" in the same font as the game's title, the game's title itself, and an expiration date of December, 2007 -- 20 years after the game's debut.
