‘The Price Is Right’ Celebrates 10,000 Episodes With Extra Big Wins for Contestants That Top Off at $100,000!
Reaching a landmark 10,000 episodes of “The Price Is Right” warrants a little something special for the contestants playing the games during that show, don’t you think? How about upping the top prize to be won for a single game to a whopping $100,000?
The milestone episode of the iconic CBS game show is set to air on Feb. 26 — with an encore presentation in primetime on March 4 — and in celebration, they’ve made a few one-time rules to some fan-favorite games, all with a 10,000 theme:
• Grand Game will be played for $100,000 instead of standard $10,000.
• Lucky Seven will be played as Lucky Ten with 10 $1 bills instead of the usual 7.
• Double Prices will be played as usual but include a $10,000 cash bonus.
• Any Number will have the Piggy Bank 10,000 times the normal value (i.e: $1.23 prize will be $12,300)
“The Price Is Right,” network television’s No. 1-rated Daytime series, is the longest-running game show in television history at 53 years. A few facts to go along with the history-making anniversary:
• Since 1972, “The Price Is Right” has given away over $350 million in cash and prizes — including more than 9,200 cars.
• “The Price Is Right” was originally only a half-hour long. The show didn’t expand to an hour until 1975. The Showcase Showdown (with the Big Wheel) was not a part of the show until its expansion to an hour.
• Over 75,000 contestants have been told to “Come on down!”
• On two occasions, a 99-year-old has been called to come on down — the oldest age of any contestant. In 2021, a 4-year-old became the youngest contestant ever. He and his mom won a new car playing Lucky Seven during Youth Week.
• In 2019, the biggest winner on the daytime version of “The Price Is Right” won a total of $262,743 in cash and prizes.
• In 2013, the most expensive car won on “The Price Is Right” was an Audi R8 worth $157,300.
• The first pricing game to ever be played was Any Number, launched in 1972. It offered a Chevrolet Vega worth $2,746, which became the first car ever given away on the show.
• There have been 112 pricing games played over the history of the show, and about 70% are in active rotation today.
• Host Drew Carey says that the two games he wouldn’t want to ever play if he were a contestant are That’s Too Much and Stack the Deck because they are the hardest. The easiest, he says, is Cliffhanger.
In honor of the milestone, “The Price Is Right” is donating $10,000 to NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, for all they do to educate, support and advocate to improve the lives of the millions of Americans who are affected by mental illness. Carey advocates for making mental health a priority as part of his signature sign-off at the end of each show.
The milestone episode of the iconic CBS game show is set to air on Feb. 26 — with an encore presentation in primetime on March 4 — and in celebration, they’ve made a few one-time rules to some fan-favorite games, all with a 10,000 theme:
• Grand Game will be played for $100,000 instead of standard $10,000.
• Lucky Seven will be played as Lucky Ten with 10 $1 bills instead of the usual 7.
• Double Prices will be played as usual but include a $10,000 cash bonus.
• Any Number will have the Piggy Bank 10,000 times the normal value (i.e: $1.23 prize will be $12,300)
“The Price Is Right,” network television’s No. 1-rated Daytime series, is the longest-running game show in television history at 53 years. A few facts to go along with the history-making anniversary:
• Since 1972, “The Price Is Right” has given away over $350 million in cash and prizes — including more than 9,200 cars.
• “The Price Is Right” was originally only a half-hour long. The show didn’t expand to an hour until 1975. The Showcase Showdown (with the Big Wheel) was not a part of the show until its expansion to an hour.
• Over 75,000 contestants have been told to “Come on down!”
• On two occasions, a 99-year-old has been called to come on down — the oldest age of any contestant. In 2021, a 4-year-old became the youngest contestant ever. He and his mom won a new car playing Lucky Seven during Youth Week.
• In 2019, the biggest winner on the daytime version of “The Price Is Right” won a total of $262,743 in cash and prizes.
• In 2013, the most expensive car won on “The Price Is Right” was an Audi R8 worth $157,300.
• The first pricing game to ever be played was Any Number, launched in 1972. It offered a Chevrolet Vega worth $2,746, which became the first car ever given away on the show.
• There have been 112 pricing games played over the history of the show, and about 70% are in active rotation today.
• Host Drew Carey says that the two games he wouldn’t want to ever play if he were a contestant are That’s Too Much and Stack the Deck because they are the hardest. The easiest, he says, is Cliffhanger.
In honor of the milestone, “The Price Is Right” is donating $10,000 to NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, for all they do to educate, support and advocate to improve the lives of the millions of Americans who are affected by mental illness. Carey advocates for making mental health a priority as part of his signature sign-off at the end of each show.