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Fans of the Price is Right can now play IGT’s The Price is Right Plinko slots and its entertaining bonus features. The Plinko bonus is triggered with three Plinko symbols on a played payline. Plinko chips are dropped one at a time, making their way down the board before landing in a prize bin and awarding the credit amount shown.
Contents How the Game is played. The contestant is given one round flat disc, called a Plinko chip, and can earn up to four more chips using small prizes, for a total of five chips. The small prizes are presented one at a time, each bearing a two-digit price with one of the digits incorrect. The contestant must decide which digit is correct to win another Plinko chip as well as the small prize. The contestant then takes the chips they have earned up to a set of stairs to the top of the Plinko board.
The board is made up of a field of pegs, with each row offset from the previous row. At the bottom of the board are nine slots marked symmetrically with the values (from outside to the single-center slot) $100, $500, $1,000, $0, $10,000. One at a time, the contestant lays each Plinko chip flat against the top of the board and releases it. As the chip falls, it is deflected by pegs, making it virtually impossible to predict where the chips will land. In addition, the sides of the board are in a zigzag pattern which also allows the chips to ricochet back toward the center. The contestant wins whatever money corresponds with the slot the chip lands in, with a running total displayed on a scoreboard next to the Plinko board. If a chip becomes stuck on the board, it is knocked free; the drop does not count and the chip is returned to the contestant to drop again.
When a chip is stuck above arm's length, the host will usually use a long stick to dislodge the chip. Barker referred to the stick as his 'Trusty Plinko Stick,' while current host has referred to it as just the 'Plinko stick' or 'Plinko wand.' On 's version, he would whack the stick against the board in a futile effort to get the chip down instead of simply dislodging it. Contestants cannot stop and quit with any money after dropping any Plinko chips; contestants must drop each Plinko chip and the total amount accumulates after each drop as stated above.History. Plinko made its debut on January 3, 1983 (#4741D).
Host asks 'Now, What can Judy (Rainhour) win?' To which a spinning disco ball with '$25,000' labeled lowered, and announcer responds by saying 'A chance to win up to $25,000 in cash!' At the time of its debut, Plinko's $25,000 top prize was the largest ever offered on The Price Is Right at the time, as Barker noted on the game's much-promoted debut and the largest allowed under CBS regulations, as the network upped the winnings limit in $25,000 increments, first to $50,000 in 1984, then $75,000 in 1986, then $100,000 in 1990 and finally $125,000 in 1992 (before CBS permanently abolished the limit on game show winnings altogether by the mid-1990s). On January 11, 1983 (#4752D), the game's second playing, the 'Plinko' sign was introduced. The sign was originally placed in the back of the audience (a practice that would be resurrected in the short-lived 1994 syndicated version).
On January 5, 1984 (#5145D), the sign was permanently moved to the Turntable, where it remained until December 5, 2002 (#2334K), when it was replaced with a '$50,000' graphic ('$100,000' primetime) on screen; although the Plinko sign was absent from November 11, 1992 (#8573D) to June 18, 1993 (#8875D) and instead also using either a '$25,000' graphic or no graphic at all. On September 22, 2015 (#7212K), the disco ball introduction was revived. When the game debuted, the cue music they played to introduce it was the same one that is normally heard in.
From January 11, 1983 (#4752D, the game's second playing) until April 25, 1995 (#9562D), the first regular music sting combined the harps from and with a famous prize cue titled 'The Cats'; two subsequent harp stingers (introduced on May 3, 1995, #9573D, and November 26, 1997, #0543K, respectively) were also used to precede 'The Cats.' Since January 7, 2003 (#2382K), only the harps have been used to introduce the game. For Plinko's first playing only, different 'WIN!' Cards were used for its small prizes. When a digit in the price of a prize was guessed correctly, the panels on the front of its corresponding podium were flipped over twice, first to reveal the word 'WIN!' (which was written diagonally on a white card) along with a Plinko chip, and then again to reveal the actual price. Currently, the panels are flipped over only once, to reveal either a 'WIN!'
Card and the actual price with a Plinko chip for a correct guess, or the actual price on two red cards if the guess is wrong. When first introduced, the front of the Plinko board was open, meaning that the chips were occasionally able to bounce off the board and out onto the stage and had to be played again. To remedy this problem, a Plexiglass cover was placed over the board in the Fall of 1991.
That, too, became a problem when chips got stuck and had to be retrieved. One notable incident involved a stuck Plinko chip, as well as having trouble retrieving it, occurred on January 16, 1992 (#8264D) when contestant Jennifer Hardy dropped her last Plinko chip as it got stuck on the right-hand side of the board and it landed where neither nor (who tried to reach for the chip underneath the Plexiglass) could retrieve it, then Jennifer, who can't contain her excitement & enthusiasm, begins jumping up and down, rattling the Plinko board to which Bob shouts 'Jennifer, you're gonna break-Jennifer!!! Jennifer, you're gonna break my Plinko game!' Janice (after taking off her bracelet & handing it over to Bob) again tries to reach for the stuck Plinko chip and this time around she's successful (the contestant won $6,600). The board's Plexiglass cover, used since 1994, features triangular grid-shaped holes that prevent chips from flying out and still allows stuck chips to be knocked loose through the grid. The only value on the board which has changed since the game was introduced is the center slot.
It began at $5,000, with a top prize of $25,000 and remained as such until October 5, 1998 (#0841K). The slot was increased to $10,000 for the first time during the show's 25th Anniversary Special on August 23, 1996 (#0001S) and was subsequently made permanent on October 15, 1998 (#0854K). 1994's syndicated The New Price is Right did not use the board layout described above.
Most episodes featured a layout (from outside to center): $2,500, $500, $1,000, $0, $5,000. On the first episode that featured Plinko, the game had a layout of $2,500, $1,000, $0, $5,000, $0. The top prize was still $25,000, as on the daytime show. The 1994 syndicated version also used the 'higher/lower' format for the small prizes instead of the regular CBS format, since it used three-digit prizes.
On Thursday’s episode of ’s hit game show “,” contestant Ryan Belz broke Plinko records by landing his chips in the $10,000 slot three times.For those who aren’t rabid “Price” followers, Plinko involves a contestant standing at the top of a large vertical gameboard who then drops chips down into a series of channels. At the bottom of the gameboard are a series of slots, each worth a certain amount of money ranging from zero to $10,000.
The contestant is given five chips and attempts to rack up as much money as possible.Belz started off his run on top, with his first chip landing in the $10,000 slot. He immediately flipped out and began yelling and clutching his chest in shock and joy. His second scored him an additional $1,000. After his third chip once again landed in the $10,000 slot, the audience began to chant “Ryan, Ryan,” to which the bespectacled Belz happily joined in.
His fourth chip landed on $500 and, after giving it a good luck kiss, Belz managed to sink the last chip into the $10,000 slot again, for a total of $31,500.