Triple Play (pricing game)
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Triple Play is a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right. Debuting on the Season 29 premiere on October 2, 2000, this game is played for three cars.
[edit] Gameplay
Each car on offer is displayed behind each of the three big doors on stage, revealed one at a time as part of the game's opening fanfare.
Each of the cars is played for one at a time, starting with the lowest-priced one. For the first car, the contestant is shown two prices, neither one of which are correct. The contestant selects the price he thinks is the closest to the actual retail price without going over.
A correct decision moves the player on to the second car, where he is shown three prices; play is otherwise identical to the first car. A correct decision here allows the player to advance to the third car, where he is shown four prices and play is again identical.
If the contestant chooses correctly on the third car, he/she wins all three cars. However, Triple Play is an all-or-nothing game; he is not offered a chance to quit and keep what has been won, and an incorrect decision at any point ends the game in a loss.
[edit] Trivia
- Triple Play is the only pricing game that can end without all three prizes being described. Each individual plug is read as the contestant reaches that car.
- Triple Play is one of only two pricing games (the other being Penny Ante) that uses the words "YES" and "NO" in response to a contestant's guess.
- Over the first two years or so of its life, the placement and number of "Triple Play" signs seen behind the cars was somewhat inconsistent. Since partway through Season 30, it has become standard to have generic backdrops behind the first two cars and two "Triple Play" signs behind the third.
- Triple Play was created because Bob wanted a game that had a car behind each of the Big Doors. It was originally conceived as a game called "Slam Dunk," in which only one of the cars could be won.
- Triple Play must occasionally be replaced with another game if the show is running overbudget.
- Triple Play is the only pricing game that has never deviated from slot #1. (Golden Road was played in slot #3 on its debut only.)
- Contrary to popular belief, Bob does not enter the studio from the audience when an episode begins with Triple Play. He makes his standard entrance from Door #2, as none of the game's props block it.
- Triple Play is frequently seen on the Million Dollar Spectaculars.
- Triple Play is the only pricing game known to have been removed from an episode after it had already been played. On the October 28, 2003 show, after the game was lost at the first car, it was discovered that the wrong contestant had been declared the winner of the Item up for Bids. After much deliberation among the staff, it was decided to reshoot the entire act except for the opening, using a new Item up for Bids and playing Money Game for Triple Play's second car.
- Triple Play is one of only two pricing games in the history of the show to always offer multiple cars as prizes; the only other pricing game to hold such a distinction is the long-retired It's Optional, which offered two cars of the same make and model.
- Only one daytime contestant and one primetime contestant have won both Triple Play and the Showcase.
- Triple Play was not won during the show's 34th season.
