TPiRecap: 12 April 2012 (Plinko Week #4)

[TheKid965]

Here we go...

[tpirrules19]

Cover-Up: Really? $27K and then $29K? Cars don't go for this much on daytime anymore, pal, outside of stuff like 3 Strikes and Golden Road...

Danger Price: Tough loss...could have gone either way. I probably would have lost too.

Range Game: Woo, mama! Right on the edge of disaster.

1RP: Should have been won...

Plinko: Sometimes, luck is a fickle lady. Well, we go for 80 G's tomorrow.

More or Less: Car should have been won...again, we really don't see cars too much above $21K on regular daytime games.

[TheKid965]

More or Less: Car should have been won...again, we really don't see cars too much above $21K on regular daytime games.

No, but $23K is certainly not unheard of (it's safe to assume the posted price for the car will rarely be more than around a thousand bucks off the price one way or the other -- $1,500 at most), and I thought this was one of those situations. Or rather, that it could easily have been one of those situations, since Ford Fusions aren't exactly cheapies. That said, my own gut reaction was Less as well, but I can see the argument to be made the other way as well.

[sshuffield70]

Cover-Up: Really? $27K and then $29K? Cars don't go for this much on daytime anymore, pal, outside of stuff like 3 Strikes and Golden Road...

But remember that car wasn't introed as a NEEEEEWWWWW CARRRRRRR! It was a HYBRID CARRRRRRRR! And there was the problem. Who expected hybrid cars to be in the $20K range. Not I, for one.

[CarShark]

I did, seeing as how that car gets featured on the show a lot precisely because people overprice it.

*Cover Up is a complete joke, now.
*Why do contestant make Plinko's front game so much harder than it needs to be?
*I like that they at least let people get to the car in More or Less now. Too bad people usually overprice those, too.

[AlohaDave]

My high-def set has a pretty darn clear picture. I did a freeze of the close-up of the range game and it looked very obvious that the bottom of the range stopped on $10,579, not $10,578. It certainly looked to me like the contestant actually LOST by one dollar. In comparison, last week when somebody got it exactly correct at the top of the range, the freeze-frame close up on my TV did indeed indicate that the range stopped on the exact dollar amount.

[ElectricPeterTork]

My high-def set has a pretty darn clear picture. I did a freeze of the close-up of the range game and it looked very obvious that the bottom of the range stopped on $10,579, not $10,578. It certainly looked to me like the contestant actually LOST by one dollar

I didn't even need to freeze frame or zoom to see that.

But, it was very close, and they probably decided to err on the side of caution since it was so close. If nothing else, the edge of the finder may have been exactly on the price.

[TheKid965]

The easy answer to this: The Range Game scale is anything but a precision instrument, and SOP has always been to give the contestant the benefit of the doubt if there's any question. I recall at least three instances during the Barker years where this exact thing happened.

This is actually easily seen in HD. Notice, the next time the game comes up, that the Range Finder actually slants very slightly upward; the right-hand edge appears to be about $1 higher on the scale than the left-hand edge. It's very subtle, and unless you were standing next to the prop (or looking very closely on a good-quality HDTV) you probably wouldn't even see it. But it's there. This, perhaps, can account for the discrepancy.