After greater than 17 years as host of The Worth Is Proper, Drew Carey has gotten deal with on all of the video games that the present has to supply. Whereas he stated he will get “excited” to see contestants play all the video games, he acknowledges that there are just a few robust ones on the checklist.
“There’s a pair video games the place I’m like, ‘Oh, they’re going to have a troublesome time,’” Carey instructed TV Insider. “As a result of there’s a pair video games which might be actually laborious to win. Stack the Deck is infamous amongst followers for a way laborious it’s to win. There’s one other one referred to as That’s Too A lot that has a low win fee. So after I see these, I’m like, ‘Oh man, you’re caught with a troublesome one.’”
In Stack the Deck, gamers are proven seven enjoying playing cards with 5 of the numbers making up the value of a automotive. Then, three pairs of grocery gadgets are put up on show and the contestant has to guess which merchandise in every of the pairs corresponds to a given worth. One right digit is stuffed in for the value of the automotive for each right guess of the grocery costs. As soon as guesses are made for all three pairs, the contestant can win the automotive in the event that they fill within the remaining digits accurately.
That’s Too A lot can be performed for a automotive, with contestants being proven 10 potential costs for the car in ascending order. The costs are proven separately, and if the contestant can accurately determine the primary worth proven that’s increased than the precise worth by calling out, “That’s an excessive amount of,” then they win the automotive.
One of many video games that Carey likes to see contestants play is Cliff Hangers. “Regardless that the cash on Cliff Hangers isn’t nice in comparison with the opposite pricing video games we now have – you don’t get a automotive should you’re enjoying Cliffhangers or something like that, but it surely’s completely winnable,” he says. “Like, no person ought to ever lose Cliff Hangers that watches the present. There’s a pair different video games which might be really easy, or 50/50 likelihood, or simply choose one quantity or the opposite.”
In Cliff Hangers, contestants are proven a gameboard with a mountain slope that’s divided into 25 steps. There’s a climber determine on the base and a cliff on the high of the mountain. One by one, the contestant has to guess the retail costs of three prizes. Each greenback that the contestant is off, the climber strikes one step up the 25-step slope. The right worth is revealed as soon as the climber stops or falls off the cliff, and the participant wins all three prizes and a bigger prize if the overall of their errors on all three of the guesses is not more than $25.
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– Further reporting by Amanda Bell