Make Your Move

Make Your Move is a pricing game on the American television game show "The Price Is Right". Debuting on the Season 18 premiere on September 11, 1989, it is played for three prizes – one small prize (worth up to $99), a prize worth between $100 and $999, and a prize worth more than $2,000.

Gameplay

The contestant is shown a board containing a string of nine digits representing the prices of the three prizes placed consecutively. Below the digits are three sliding markers which represent the prizes. The red marker represents the two-digit prize, the yellow marker is the three-digit prize, and the green marker is the four-digit prize.

The contestant must slide the three markers so that each is placed below the correct price for the corresponding prize. All nine digits must be used, as the prices never overlap. If the contestant is correct, they win all three prizes; if the contestant is incorrect, they win nothing.

History

After December 13, 1989, Make Your Move was pulled from the pricing game rotation for the remainder of the 18th season for unknown reasons. When the game returned on October 12, 1990, the two-digit prize was replaced by a second three-digit prize, with one of the nine digits in the string being part of two prices. This revised format caused a great deal of confusion and was only used twice.

Make Your Move was occasionally played for cars. This practice ended after the January 5, 1996 playing; nineteen days later Freeze Frame offered its final car, as well - this was due to the show stopping a practice of giving away cars worth less than $10,000.

Make Your Move holds the distinction of being the only pricing game to be played by former host Bob Barker, after a contestant on December 17, 1998 spent over four minutes trying to figure out what she was doing while repeatedly creating overlapping prices. Despite not knowing the right answers, Bob won, after which he jokingly proclaimed that he—not the contestant—would be awarded the prizes. The contestant was actually awarded all three prizes.

Foreign versions of Make Your Move

The game is played the same way as the US, often with minor differences. In Mexico, for example, sometimes there were two three-digit prizes (however, the board had ten numbers in this case to prevent similar incidents from the US version from ever happening). In France, the top prize had five digits instead of four (because of the French franc's exchange rate at the time).

On the Turkey's "Kaç Para?" and Spain's "El Precio Justo", the studio lights are dimmed down to reveal the correct prices.

In Australia (at least during Larry Emdur's runs), the board does not light up to reveal the correct prices. Instead, three models display the prices on yellow (for two-digit), red (for three-digit), and blue (for four-digit) placards.