Grand Game

Grand Game is a pricing game on the American television game show, "The Price Is Right". Debuting on May 16, 1980, it is played for a cash prize of $10,000, and uses grocery items.

Gameplay

The contestant begins with $1 displayed on the game board, and a "target price." The contestant is then shown six grocery items, four of which have prices that are below the target price.

The contestant selects an item they believe is less than the target price. If they are correct, their winnings are multiplied by ten to $10. This is repeated for two more items, multiplying to $100 and then $1,000. To this point, if a contestant selects an item whose price is above the target price, they leave with the amount shown on the board, including $1 for choosing incorrectly on the first pick.

After winning $1,000, the contestant may quit the game and keep the $1,000 or risk it to choose the one remaining product that is less than the target price. If the contestant fails, the game ends and they win nothing. However, if the contestant succeeds by picking the last item that is below the target price, they win the top prize of $10,000.

Starting in 2002, Grand Game's top prize for prime time specials is $20,000, with the rest of the prize ladder being $2, $20, $200, and $2,000.

History

The first win in this game was on November 10, 1980, the game's eighth playing. The winner, a Samoan named Pauline, proceeded to chase Bob Barker around the stage resulting in a classic moment seen in many clip specials.

The music sting used to introduce the game is the last few seconds of the theme to "Family Feud." The current stinger was previously used (at a shorter length) in "Trivia Trap".

On 1994's syndicated "The New Price Is Right", small prizes replaced grocery items and target prices ranged from $50 to over $100.

Foreign versions of Grand Game

While Grand Game's rules in other countries tend to be the same as the US, they may have different cash prizes, such as $2,000 on Canada's "Misez Juste", or 10,000₣ on France's "Le Juste Prix" (equalling about US$2,000 after conversion to the euro).

Germany's "Der Preis ist Heiss" was overhauled for their version, called "Vier mal die Nul" ("Four times the Zero"). To win the DM10,000 grand prize, a contestant had to pick which was the correct product to a given question (i.e., which costs more?). Like the US, they started at DM1, and they used grocery products.