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The prices on the Price Is Right have always been completely different than what you find at your local store. They pick specific odd sizes and items to make it difficult.

After they got cleaned out by a couple that figured out where the prices came from and got everything.

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I would argue that the Price Is Right is the same level of difficulty or maybe even easier now with inflation as people may finally guess prices high enough to be close.

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I haven't gone down any Price Is Right rabbit holes in my life. Not once, not ever. ;)

My logic basically boils down to with high inflation it's harder to have a sense of what the price actually is as its changes more frequently and in various amounts.

>I would argue that the Price Is Right is the same level of difficulty or maybe even easier now with inflation as people may finally guess prices high enough to be close.

Also means its easier to go over as well if your generally closing to the number.

>After they got cleaned out by a couple that figured out where the prices came from and got everything.

Always thought it was MSRP?

Meanwhile, the top prize for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire keeps going down for the same reason.

The other difficult game is: do I pay rent, drive to work, or eat this month?

I was watching the mid 80s Era on Pluto recently. They had a Trans Am as the prize car on Three Strikes so they had to bolt another digit to the game display because every other car before that was less than 10 grand

People will be hopping on game shows just to pay their monthly rent for entertainment soon.

In the left corner we have Trisha! She's a 31 year old pregnant mom who needs $887 to make ends meet this week.

In the right corner we have Todd! A 36 year old with a PHD in physics who just couldn't find his bootstraps!

Now the moment you've all been waiting for, let's watch them duke it out for the grand prize of $250, and a 2.99 gift card to Starbucks. (minus shipping and handling, plus taxes and fees which may or may not exceed the 250 mark, by watching this episode you are agreeing to have your name drawn to be the next contestant)

What's the top prize now? :0

And the answer is none! Turns out a meter maid wrote you an undeserved ticket, but the process to fight it is arduous and doesn’t follow reason, so even though you did nothing wrong you’re paying the city a bunch of money!

Same as before but a million when it started and a million now is worth different amounts.

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It’s only hard if you don’t leave the house? They use retail prices. So don’t think they use Wally World or dollar general prices! Think of Publix, Target or Harris Teeter type prices. Just like in those stores Price is Right is about the experience! Lol!

It wasn’t a couple, it was the guy sitting next to the dude’s wife.

funny enough, in vietnam, a million means nothing, so when we made our version of that show, we made the top reward 100 million VND. Though i'd love to see the day when that too isn't enough, and we just change it to who wants to be a billionaire.