I was thinking of certain things that, to my knowledge, have NEVER happened on TPIR, and how people would react if they did...

Range Game- The price is either at the VERY bottom (could even be one dollar above the lowest price) or at the VERY top.

That's Too Much- The very first price is the price that's too much. (I think they did have one game where the LAST price was too much)

Any Number- The first digit in the piggy bank is 0.

Big Wheel- Contestant wins showdown with the spin of one nickel. (I don't mean the one spin you get when you're the last contestant and the first two went over)
I would think this would be nearly IMPOSSIBLE unless the player(s) after you spun a nickel first, then landed on the dollar to go over. I would think that ANY player that would have the nerve to stop spinning with one nickel would put Bob and the audience in the state of total shock!

Hole in One- In an eerie reminder of that lady that didn't know how to play Superball, and caused Bob to injure his knee, there's a player that's NEVER played miniature golf, and hits the ball like he/she's on a driving range. Poor Bob would be reluctant to give him a second putt!

Pushover- No blocks to be pushed over. The first 4(or 5) digits are the price of the prize.

Actually, there's a more likely scenario. Both of the first two contestants go over, and then the third contestant lands on a nickel.

Matt is talking about a contestant voluntarily staying on five cents, not a player winning with five cents because they were only allowed one spin after the first two went over. If it was the first player, the second player would probably still spin on a number fifty or less. The third player would probably stay on even 10 cents in that case.

The Pushover scenario is probably the only one that ever occurred.

No, it never has...and amazingly, no one has ever guessed the first possible price, either.

Also, going by Zelmar's stats, the farthest up the line the first overbid has been in That's Too Much! is 9th (and even that has only happened three times).

I would think he'd be a moron who deserved to lose, but that's my opinion.

I could see a nickel floating other ways, though. Say Player One sits on a nickel. Player Two spins, and it comes up 30 cents. If I'm Player Two, with Player Three left to go, no way do I sit on 30 cents and give Player Three that easy of a walk into the Showcase. So I spin again, and there are a few more chances to go over.

Player Three, on the other hand, would in fact need to tie with a nickel, and then hit the buck on the second spin, for Player One's nickel to float all the way through.

I almost hate to bring this up, but Horan said pretty much the same thing:



Sure, it's all wordsmithing, and you bring up other pertinent points (is my nose turning brown yet? ;-) ).

Doug -- and the countdown to 1000 continues

Good for him. I provide the service for those who have Horan on ignore. (And if you don't, you should.)

I'm surprised you don't.

Heck, I'm surprised I don't. :)

Doug -- and the countdown to 1000 continues

Oh, I do. But as I've said many many times before, the ignore system here is imperfect, and sometimes I am compelled to click that View Post Even Though You Know You'll Regret it button to see what kind of minimally-relevant crap he's brought to the table this time.

This was not one of those times.

Duly noted. Some of my worst (best?) jokes have come from clicking the View Post Even Though You Know You'll Regret It button (I'd copyright that if I were you ;-) ).

Doug -- and the countdown to 1000 continues

Would it even be possible to win Range Game with the rangefinder on the very bottom? I mean, you'd practically have to keep mashing the button repeatedly in anticipation of when the rangefinder starts. And the rangefinder doesn't stop immediately, either. The price at the bottom would be a very literal forced loss.

At least if the price were at the very top, it could be won in theory, even if not necessarily in practice.

The price couldn't be at the very bottom. Keep in mind that the arrow points to the exact point on the range finder, and the arrow is in the middle of the price display. If the botton line were the price, then half of the price display would be cut off.

Who's to say that they could make a graphic at the bottom with the arrow at the very bottom of the price tag? It doesn't *have* to be smack dab in the middle.

You guys do realize that you're earnestly discussing a scenario which has about as much chance of happening as I do of bagging Alyssa Milano in the next hour*, right?

* Hey, why eliminate the possibility entirely? :)

I have a feeling you'll have to settle for Mindy Cohn, Chris.

*runs far away*

I think Charlotte Rae is more his speed! :)

I bet she's a freak.

(refrains from making a Charlotte Rae joke.)

(EDIT: Damn. He beat me to it. :))

ObGameShow: Well, no. Not really.

Charlotte Rae did do a week of both Syndie WLOD and the $otC83 Fame Game board.

Mindy Cohn did Teen week on Body Language, classic TV Weakest Link, plus a few other shows, but Lauri Hendler from Gimme a Break would be the chick to latch onto. She's only 40-ish and still as cute as then(though Mindy hasn't changed too much since FoL), or was in a pic I saw of her when she attended Nell Carter's memorial.

Thank you Zach. I feel better for knowing that.

I told y'all bout making jokes around Zach.

As far as the piggy bank scenario goes, it might've been possible for it to display $0.xx back in the early days of TPIR. Now, there seems to be an unwritten rule that piggy banks are no less than $3. The highest concievable ammount is $9.87 while the lowest is $0.12. I say $9.87 has a better chance of being displayed than $0.12 for such purposes.

Prices don't start with zero on TPIR, including the piggy bank, ever. I've seen a few players on Make Your Move try to start a price with zero, mind you. There was one recent playing of Any Number where there was one number remaining in each price for the last pick: the last number in the car price, and the first numbers in the price of the middle prize and the piggy bank. Zero was one of the numbers not yet chosen. Not picking the zero would have blown a free car for the contestant, not to mention gotten them a Misplay/Muh-Rone of the day award.

Leave it to this topic to deteriorate to Craig offering hypotheticals that he has no idea what he's talking about, and Zach offering hypotheticals that only he cares what he's talking about..

You two are meant for each other.

I assure you, the two Mah-rones in this thread are very well defined.

God help us all if they meet and multiply.

That would require a member of the opposite sex to get involved. I think we're okay.

I'm not. After picturing that, I need counseling. :)

I was watching a 1980 playing of the Range Game today on one of my tapes and the price doesn't start at the bottom of the green on the Range Game board -- so they could put the price at the very bottom without having the arrow be cut off.