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GAMEPLAY Telephone Game was a two-part game – one involving grocery pricing, the other having the contestant choose the price of the car. In the first part, the contestant is given a $1 credit and shown four grocery items. He/she used that credit to select two groceries. After both prices were revealed, there were two possibilities:
In part two, Barker handed the contestant a dime and took him/her over to a pay telephone, and then showed him/her a Phone Book with three large, unlabeled four-digit Telephone Extensions in it (for example, "6339," "6886" and "6605"). Each number corresponded with one of the prizes: one with the car in dollars, the other two to the two-digit prices in dollars and cents (but no decimal point showing in the phone book). The contestant selected one of the extensions and – after placing the dime in the coin slot – dialed that number on the phone. Each prize had a telephone sitting next to it, the models stationed nearby waiting to answer; whatever phone rang, that is the prize the contestant won. The most desirable outcome, of course, was winning the car. TRIVIA
RETIREMENT Telephone Game premiered in November 1978, and was quickly retired. The explanation: "It was lame," according to the producers. SEE ALSO |
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