The Price Was
Right
This past summer, a group
of 17 grad students and two faculty members took a trip to L.A. to attend
The Price Is Right
By Jennifer Palmberg
The Collegian
Nicole Duncan, a graduate student
at Fresno State, won a red Ford Focus this summer on the game show The
Price is Right.
Duncan had gone to the show with a group of 16 other grad students and
two faculty members. The group consisted of members from the National
Student Speech and Language Hearing Association. The group just graduated
and wanted to do something fun for the week they had off before their
summer clinic started.
Duncan’s friend, Natalie Richardson, organized the trip to The Price
is Right. Richardson rented a Limbosuine, a bus designed like a limousine
on the inside, and the group took off for L.A. at 4 a.m.
After interviews with the show’s executives, the group was admitted
into the studio audience.
“During the show they called my name so I went up to the contestants’
row,” Duncan said. “The first game we played, we had to have
the closest guess to the price of a six-foot, stainless steel, outdoor
heater. I guessed $750 and the actual price was $799 and I won. So then
I had to play a game called Pick the Price.”
Pick the Price is a game where the contestant is presented with a possible
gift and is given five chances to pick the correct price of the item out
of a given set of number possibilities.
In Duncan’s case, the gift was the car and she was given a five-digit
price possibility with the middle number seven already presented to her
($_ _, 7 _ _). She was also given 20 two-digit number choices to fill
the blanks on either side of the seven.
“My first guess was 17,” Duncan said . “They told me
that I had picked the correct number for the first half of the price.
The next number I picked was 27 and they told me that was the correct
number for the second half of the price. So the total price came out to
be $17,727. I had won the car in two guesses. I was so excited that I
went ballistic.”
Although Duncan already sold the car, she said she was glad to have a
chance to be on the show.
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