Clearance Sale was a
pricing game on the
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The Price is Right. Debuting on the Season 27 premiere on September 22, 1998 (originally intended for September 21), it is played for three prizes usually valued between $1,000 and $4,000 each. The game was created by former producer
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The contestant is given three price tags, each with "sale" prices on them, to place on each of the prizes.
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Clearance Sale was a
pricing game on the
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
televisionTelevision is a widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images, either monochromatic or color, usually accompanied by sound. "Television" may also refer specifically to a television set, television programming or television transmission...
game showA game show is a type of television program in which members of the public or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving problems usually for money and/or prizes. On some shows contestants compete against other players or another team while...
The Price is Right. Debuting on the Season 27 premiere on September 22, 1998 (originally intended for September 21), it is played for three prizes usually valued between $1,000 and $4,000 each. The game was created by former producer
Roger DobkowitzRoger Kurt Dobkowitz is the head of his own production company in Los Angeles, California. For 24 years, he was best known as the producer for the CBS game show The Price is Right...
.
Gameplay
The contestant is given three price tags, each with "sale" prices on them, to place on each of the prizes. To win the prizes, the contestant must place each tag on a prize whose actual retail price is higher than price on the tag. The contestant wins only if all three tags are placed correctly.
The price tags are always set up so that the sale price for the most expensive prize is higher than the actual price of the second most expensive prize, whose sale price is higher than the actual price of the least expensive prize; thus, there is only one placement of price tags which will result in a win.
Since the game is essentially won by ranking the prizes in order of price, the game is often seen as a carbon copy of
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, which has the same goal; however, with Clearance Sale, the contestant is given additional information in the form of prices with which to anchor the values of the prizes.