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Move page

I am thinking of moving the page to "Pl!nko" because that is what the sign says. Most fans refer to Plinko in this way. Wikider 21:10, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No. The sign has a lower-case "i" with the dot fallen off. It isn't an exclamation point, and I and many other fans -- in fact, I would say a large majority -- use the proper spelling of "Plinko". 71.31.67.115 01:44, 25 January 2006 (UTC) (Steve Gavazzi)[reply]

Actually, after talking to Casey Buck about this, I've got to amend that -- Plinko actually has two logos. The one on the board clearly has an "i" with the dot fallen off, but the one used everywhere else has different dimensions and is arguably written as "Pl!nko".

Still, based on the many years I've spent at alt.tv.game-shows, The Game Show Forum, The Price Is Right Update Message Board, and the Golden-Road.net forums, it's still very much true that "Plinko" is the more common spelling, and based on that and the fact that they went out of their way to make a stylized "i" on the board's logo, I still maintain that the page should remain where it is. 71.31.67.115 02:06, 25 January 2006 (UTC) (Steve Gavazzi)[reply]

Also, the "i" in Plinko, on the logos not on the board, clearly have the dot of the i off-center. That seems to suggest that, if it were meant to be an exclamation point, then the circle would be centered with the rest of the exclamation point. That it's not tells me that it's simply a letter i with the dot having fallen off to the left. 68.96.45.146 02:39, 25 January 2006 (UTC) (Frank15)[reply]

Okay, we will keep it the way it is. Steve, thanks for cleaning up the pricing game articles.

Normal Distribution

In the Odds of winning $50,000 section, it's not clear in the text exactly how these odds are derived. Could this be elaborated? Plinko should follow a Normal_distribution since the chance of hitting a peg and falling left/right should be 50%/50%. Of course, contestants are able to drop the Plinko chip from any starting point on the top. Plinko 05:43, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Move to just "Plinko"?

Honestly, this probably is what should be done, but someone will need to set it up with an admin, since Burgwerworldz did a copy/paste move to that page earlier tonight, and I don't think there's any way a standard user can fix that. -TPIRFanSteve 02:26, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Additional Trivia

The lady who had dropped all five chips yet still managed a $0 score was offered a plinko chip from Bob as a consolation prize, although for some reason declined it.Asleepunderapalmtree 14:57, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sweet, if you (or anyone else) can find a source on that, that would be interesting to include. Useight 15:35, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

100,000 FF prize in France?

France hasn't used the franc in years. Andrew Levine 18:55, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

France hasn't used The Price Is Right in many years, either. -TPIRFanSteve 00:52, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Then it should have used the past tense instead of the present. Andrew Levine 18:46, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Date this, date that, date this, date that?

Series (game or fiction alike) OFTEN air out of production order. To me the date of the episode is the date it aired... it doesn't matter what order it was produced - at least not in the context of noting when a record occured that I can almost assure that noone is going to goto the video records and look up based on the dates given in this article. The article should say "on the [date it aired] episode" or "on the episode aired [air date]. It's that simple TheHYPO 05:07, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The difference with The Price Is Right is that more than 99% of the time, the shows are supposed to air in the order of their production numbers. They supercede any out-of-order tapings or out-of-order CBS broadcasts.

I'm not saying that I expect people to care about it particularly much; I'm just saying it's right. -TPIRFanSteve 06:45, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Virtually every series is SUPPOSED to air in production order... there is rarely profit or production time to be SAVED by shooting a show out of order... but sometimes things come up and they have to air a show out of order - shows like Lost, or Star Trek, or anything... Price is Right is no different, and while you may believe it to be, there is no logical reason, now that the show did NOT air on the "supposed to" date, to mention the date it was supposed to air on... it didn't air that day, so it's a moot point. TheHYPO 09:00, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

By that logic, there's also no reason to mention when episodes of Lost were aired out of order. Try to understand the series by doing that. Again, it's not as important on Price, but it isn't any less true.

And your first statement, though not particularly relevent here, is also flawed -- shows, including Price, do sometimes tape segments of shows or entire episodes out of order for various reasons; for instance, dramas sometimes tape all of their scenes for a season with a particular actor in one go, and Price will occasionally tape a whole week out of order if they're going to have special decorations on the set during it.

Anyway, even though no one episode of Price is related to another, the show does have a proper episode order, and I see no reason to ignore that fact. -TPIRFanSteve 16:17, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

People don't mention when an episode of lost was aired out of order... in some other article. This isn't an article on the September xx, 1994 episode. This is an article on Plinko. If there was an article on a character, it wouldn't say "in episode 219 (aired out of order after episode 221), bob died"... It would just say episode 219 as aired (or more accurately for Lost, probably the episode title); Point being, only mention of re-ordering the episodes would be in the article for that episode. TheHYPO 17:57, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Trivia

I dispute the appearances outside TPIR section as trivia. It forms a basis of notability for Plinko as a pop culture icon TheHYPO 05:17, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Plinko played first

If Plinko is the first pricing game of the day, Drew will enter from the back of the audience since the setup blocks door 2. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.151.188.208 (talk) 02:18, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is that a question or a comment? Has this happened yet? TheHYPO (talk) 18:59, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

At least for the time being, audience entrances have been discontinued. Any games that would require one to be used are not being played first. -TPIRFanSteve (talk) 01:25, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bonus?

Was it made clear that the contestant winning on a golden chip would win a million dollar bonus as opposed to having their winnings raised to 1 mil? TheHYPO (talk) 02:55, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If the golden chip landed in an outlier amount, was that awarded to the contestant as well? Sottolacqua (talk) 22:34, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fancruft

I have tagged this as a "fansite" due to the inclusion of naming the music cues. No person that isn't a "lfat" (for lack of a better term) will know what these mean.

Suggest removing this, and any other notes that don't improve the article.

With all due respect, Modor, it's pretty common knowledge among the game show community that you have issues with everything. I'm removing the tag -- it's not that big of an issue. -TPIRFanSteve (talk) 21:10, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That doesn't resolve the other two issues that were in the box. I have retagged the article with the two other issues. I'll let other people weigh in on whether or not the rest is fancruft. Modor (talk) 03:20, 15 May 2008 (UTC)Modor[reply]

Article Inconsistent

The article says that the Top Prize of $25,000 has been won once; then later says the most won on the $5,000 board is $21,000. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.245.146.74 (talk) 17:15, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

several revisions in History section

I am sorry for making too many edits in the History section at the same time, but where it says I revised the 2nd sentence, I was revising the 2nd sentence in the final paragraph reguarding the "rigging" incident.--Tomballguy (talk) 23:26, 11 February 2009 (UTC)Chris[reply]

Need help adding "Recognition" section

I have attempted to add "Recognition" section which describes the familiarity of Plinko. Unfortunately, I could not do it myself, such as adding {{cite book}} and general references, and time has become consuming to make the section great with bunch of previews. Should the title be "Recognition"? I don't like the word "Reception", which means the reaction toward the game itself. --Gh87 (talk) 20:39, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]