Danger Price
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Danger Price is a pricing game on the television game show The Price Is Right. Debuting on January 8, 1976, it is played for four prizes, each worth between $500 and $3,000.
[edit] Game Play
The contestant is shown a "danger price", which is the actual price of one of the four prizes. The contestant selects three prizes, one at a time, which they believe have prices that are not the danger price. After each selection, the price of the chosen prize is revealed. If the contestant chooses the prize with the danger price, the game ends and they win nothing. If they successfully pick the three prizes that do not have the danger price, they win all four prizes.
[edit] History
The game originally incorporated a smaller set up, with a board that showed the danger price and had a blue spot for chroma-keyed shots of the prices being revealed. The amount of the "danger price" was below a "skull and crossbones", which featured an eyepatch with a Pricedown dollar sign.
The current setup debuted in mid-1986. The danger price is displayed on a red placard at the top of the board. Like the original setup, the prices are concealed on four octagonal signs resembling stop signs, but the prices are now revealed by flipping the signs.
On both sets, safe prices are signified by a green background behind the price, while the danger price has a red background.
[edit] Nighttime Appearances
Danger Price was one of five pricing games introduced in the fifth and final nighttime season hosted by Dennis James – the other four being Cliff Hangers, Dice Game, Hurdles, and 3 Strikes.
The 1980s nighttime version hosted by Tom Kennedy used both sets of Danger Price, the change coming near the end of the run.
Danger Price was also played in Canada under the name "Risque et péril".
