Sunday, January 6, 2013

Gaming The Price Is Right - By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast

With the advice of repeat contestants and?a bunch of spreadsheets, Ben Robinson reveals some of the secrets to success on the show:

You show up early (though not as early as you had to in the Bob Barker days), you sit around, and you get interviewed in a group of about 15 or 20. That interview is the lone means producers have of selecting the nine contestants who'll be called out of the audience of 300. The goal is to toe the line between enthusiasm and transparent, annoying fakeness. Nobody knew if I should shave my beard or not.

The hot-tub showcase winner, the last one I consult, has the most compelling advice. She offers hugely valuable trip-pricing info?domestic or Caribbean trips run $6-7K, Euro ones more like $11K?and she wildly contradicts the others on the question of enthusiasm. Go completely bonkers, she tells us, and as long as we're as young and good-looking as I've claimed, one person from our group of four will get on.

Or you could take shrooms before the show, like the bearded dude seen above did. Just don't take forever to make a bid like Mary did.

Source: http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2013/01/gaming-the-price-is-right.html

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