Talk:Flip Flop (pricing game)

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This article was nominated for deletion on 17 June 2007. The result of the discussion was keep, no consensus for merge.

[edit] The "cheating" incident

In order to keep an item from the edit summary accessible, I am noting here about the alleged cheating incident in this game. We can only speculate (but not here) what the contestant's motives were. Did he deliberately press the button to reveal the prize? And if so, who's to say that the producers don't throw the game out or declare the result a loss? Is it not possible for someone to suffer stagefright, and with all sorts of contraptions and buttons and whatnot, become confused? Please keep the text neutral; don't worry about what "many" or "most" fans think (those are weasel words). It is simply one of those four incidents that a contestant received a distinct advantage through his/her actions. If any of them were found to be "cheating," you know that the network Standards & Practices division would void the result of the game. —Twigboy 13:12, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Actaully, I don't believe any of the cheating incidents resulted in a game result being voided, even when the staff clearly also believed the contestant had cheated (after the 3 Strikes incident, they actually changed the color of the strike chips for a few months). Such a thing would have been announced at some point during the show, and no such thing ever occurred. I'm really not sure why there was never any intervention by S&P...I guess it's possible they decided that no one was unfairly disadvantaged by awarding a win, since the contestants were competing against the house. -TPIRFanSteve 14:30, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Second "cheating"(?) incident

TPIRFanSteve — As you're probably aware by now, there has been a second incident [1] regarding a contestant pressing the button on the game board (this time, after registering his guess). Even though the game ended in a loss due to his incorrect answer, is this incident notable enough to include? I'm kind of on the fence on this one; it would document a flaw in the game (easy contestant access to the button) but then again, it could invite too much trivial notes in TPiR pricing game articles. Whatayathink? [[Briguy52748 21:11, 28 November 2006 (UTC)]]

I don't think I'd call what happened this morning "cheating." He'd already moved the numbers, so that's what was counted as his answer whether he did it with malicious intent or not (and besides, he lost). It's really not even the first time it's happened -- it's the third time a contestant made his guess and then pressed the button himself, and an issue has never been made of it, so the show clearly doesn't have a problem with it as long as the game actually gets played before it happens. -TPIRFanSteve 21:59, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

I'll take that as a no. Thanks a bunch! [[Briguy52748 23:04, 28 November 2006 (UTC)]]

...and I apparently can't read today, so thank you for correctly figuring out what my answer would have been. :-) -TPIRFanSteve 02:31, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I've seen prizes less than $3,000

I think the lowest reasonable value used as a range would be $2,301. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 154.5.181.164 (talk) 01:39, August 28, 2007 (UTC)

The lowest technical range is realistically $1201. I don't know exactly what has been used to determine that for this game or that game, the prize is always between 3000-7000 or 200-500 for whatever game, other than observation... which I'm not sure counts as citation. I would argue that the wording that ought to be used for these articles is "typically worth between", unless a game's rules (such as flip flop) limit the prizes outright to 1201-9898 (could be 1001, but that would mean a flip would be 0101, which means that the combo 01/10 would logically never be used for the first digits) TheHYPO 03:02, 28 August 2007 (UTC)