Shopping Spree (pricing game)

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The Shopping Spree display in season 36.
The Shopping Spree display in season 36.
This article is about the pricing game featured on 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[1], this game is played for four prizes, each worth between $400 and $3,000.

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[edit] Gameplay

The contestant is given a specified amount - usually between $3,000 and $5,000 - and is shown four prizes. One at a time, they must select the three items whose prices will total more than the given amount to win all four prizes.

Shopping Spree is the logical antithesis of Credit Card, as the object is to spend at least the given amount. Furthermore, the specified goal is selected such that the simplified objective of the game is to choose the three most expensive items (whereas in Credit Card, the goal is to choose the cheapest items). Apart from their opposing goals and the fact that Shopping Spree uses four prizes to Credit Card's five, the games are played the same way. Shopping Spree also bears similarity to Danger Price in which one prize out of four is to be avoided—in Shoppine Spree, it's the least expensive item; in Danger Price, it's the item that matches the danger price.

[edit] History

The original Shopping Spree scoreboard from 1996 that uses the original orange vane display for the minimum price required.
The original Shopping Spree scoreboard from 1996 that uses the original orange vane display for the minimum price required.

Originally, the minimum price required to win was displayed on an orange vane display.[1] The price is currently displayed on a black-on-orange placard.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Golden-Road.net FAQ - Pricing Game Notes. Retrieved on 2007-11-27.

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