A The Value Is Proper winner opened up about their expertise on the sport present, secrets and techniques about their prizes, and extra in a Reddit thread. He additionally gave recommendation on how you can get picked from the viewers.
George Ego performed on the sport present on June 25, 2025, and gained a jukebox throughout the bidding spherical. Nevertheless, when he acquired to play Decide a Quantity, he misplaced out on a visit to Panama. The contestant did luck out when he spun $1.00 on the wheel, taking dwelling an additional $1,000 and advancing to the Showcase.
Ego additionally gained extra prizes throughout the Showcase. He bid $28,500 on a visit to Georgia, designer jewellery, and a 2025 Bayliner Factor M15. The precise value was $36,285, making him $7,785 beneath. As a result of his opponent, Fernando, was $17,000 beneath, Ego gained the showcase. Ego’s prizes totaled $38,334.
“I gained the Showcase Showdown on immediately’s episode (6/25). Ask me something!” he posted on Reddit.
He revealed that he filmed the episode in February after acquiring tickets via the present’s web site. Ego shared that he was sworn to secrecy till the present aired, and he needed to signal “eight various things” together with an NDA.
One fan requested him how The Value Is Proper “handles the disposition of prizes.” “I’ll discover out quickly. We shot it months in the past, however you don’t get something until the present really airs,” Ego responded.
Ego’s journey to Georgia included 4 rounds of golf, and one fan puzzled if he was going to play each spherical. “I don’t know, haha. I’ve really by no means golfed in my complete life,” he answered. One other advised Ego to see if he may commerce it in for resort credit.
Concerning the boat he gained, Ego is contemplating buying and selling it in and getting the money equal for it, however he doesn’t know the way a lot that will probably be. He believed it to be round $20,000 to $22,000 when he bid on it.
Ego additionally gave some recommendation to these hoping to make it onto the present. “Properly, clearly, having power and being quick-witted within the interview. However I additionally suppose my Hawaiian shirt helped. I get a whole lot of compliments at any time when I put on that shirt. And I’ve seen a whole lot of contestants get picked whereas sporting Hawaiian shirts (one other man in my episode had one too!),” he mentioned.
“The entire thing is a blur, haha. You’re like a deer within the headlights once you’re up there,” he ended.