Weekly Comments (March-April)

Comments for the Week of February 27-March 3
Biggest winner this week: Zachary Trindade ($46,091) (March 2) Losing streaks snapped: Card Game snapped a 7 game losing streak dating back to November 8, 2016. This ended the longest losing streak for this game since it was lost 11 straight times in Season 33. Master Key snapped a streak of 8 straight playings where the car was not won, dating back to February 17, 2016. That ended the longest streak for this game since an eight game losing streak in Seasons 40 and 41, but pales in comparison to the streak of 16 playings in Seasons 29 and 30 where the car was not won. Check Game snapped an 8 game losing streak dating back to April 7, 2016. This ended the longest losing streak for this game since it was lost 9 straight times in Seasons 36 and 37. After going 7-3 this week, the car games continued their hot streak and went 6-4 this week. Overall, the car games have a record of 86-137 this season (38.6%). If that holds, that would be the best winning percentage in a season since Season 36 (41.9%). (The best results during this span were Season 44 (34.5%) and Season 37 (33.0%).) So far this season, contestants bidding $1 above a previous $1 up bid wound up winning the one bid 51% of the time (19/37). That is well behind the 71% success rate in the previous four seasons (131/185). The money was placed in Box #6 in 1/2 Off for the first time since March 4, 2015. That ended the second longest drought in this game (only Box #13 has gone longer without containing the money). It also ended a streak of the game being won five straight times when the money was placed in Box #6. Take Two was played fifth for the first time since December 16, 2013. It was also the seventh straight time (and the 11th time in the past 12 playings) where the winning combination was the second cheapest and the most expensive prizes. Let 'em Roll was played for a $20,400 Chevrolet Cruze - the first time since June 13, 2014 where the game was played for a car worth more than $20,000 (a $20,645 Honda CR-Z). These are the only two times since the start of Season 42 where Let 'em Roll was played for a car worth more than $20,000. Both One Away and Card Game were won on Tuesday's episode - the sixth time in February both car games were won. (No other month since the start of Season 39 has had more than four episodes with a car game sweep.) Switch? was won for the 10th time this season. After a rough start to the season, Switch? is one win behind Do the Math (11) for the overall lead. Nevertheless, Switch? has been won at least 18 times every season since Season 36. The game still has some work to do in order to keep that streak alive. Wednesday's episode snapped a streak of nine straight episodes where a car was offered in the second Showcase. Overall, there have been 40 episodes this season where a car was offered in both Showcase. That's already tied with Season 42 for the most since at least Season Season 39. Flip Flop was played for the 18th time this season - which ties Lucky $even for the most playings. If this holds, this will be the third time Flip Flop has had the most playings (or tied for the most playings) in a season (it also led this category in Seasons 41 and 43). $4,713 is the highest number ever set in Magic #, smashing the old record of $3,564 from March 24, 2010. Jo became the 19th contestant since Season 32 to find both "Lose Everything" panels in Pass the Buck (and the first since February 20, 2016). Out of these 19 contestants, 4 went on to win the car (June 10, 2015, May 27, 2010, January 27, 2009 and February 15, 2006). By being played fifth, Most Expen$ive became the 12th Pricing Game to be played in all six slots at least once this season. Most Expen$ive has achieved this feat for the ninth straight season. Since Season 29, Bonus Game has a record of 3-7 when contestants only win one window. The wins occurred on October 6, 2004, March 11, 2016 and this week's March 1, 2017 playing. Thursday's episode featured the 20th perfect half of the season. (15 of the sweeps occurred in the second half.) Overall, we are slightly behind pace to match the 37 perfect halves that occurred in Season 44. Pick-a-Number was won for the first time this season when played for a 5-digit prize. Pick-a-Number now has a record of 1-4 when played for a 5-digit prize and 5-4 when played for a four-digit prize. The $14,418 Alaskan cruise was also the second most expensive prize ever offered in Pick-a-Number (excluding cars), behind the $16,800 African safari that was offered on the March 3, 2009 episode. Any Number became the 300th Pricing Game to be fully won this season. The win occurred on the 112th episode of this season, compared to episode 107 in Season 44. Exactly $700 in cash was won in Plinko for the first time since December 14, 2004. In addition, by being played fifth, Plinko became the 13th Pricing Game this season to be played in all six slots at least once. Plinko achieved this feat for the fifth straight season. Since Season 32, Cover Up has a record of 5-0 when the game goes to a fifth and final try. The contestant had to guess the fourth number twice (and therefore automatically won) and had to guess the fifth number three times.

Comments for the Week of February 27-March 3

Biggest winner this week: Zachary Trindade ($46,091) (March 2)
Losing streaks snapped:
- Card Game snapped a 7 game losing streak dating back to November 8, 2016. This ended the longest losing streak for this game since it was lost 11 straight times in Season 33.
- Master Key snapped a streak of 8 straight playings where the car was not won, dating back to February 17, 2016. That ended the longest streak for this game since an eight game losing streak in Seasons 40 and 41, but pales in comparison to the streak of 16 playings in Seasons 29 and 30 where the car was not won.
- Check Game snapped an 8 game losing streak dating back to April 7, 2016. This ended the longest losing streak for this game since it was lost 9 straight times in Seasons 36 and 37.
After going 7-3 this week, the car games continued their hot streak and went 6-4 this week. Overall, the car games have a record of 86-137 this season (38.6%). If that holds, that would be the best winning percentage in a season since Season 36 (41.9%). (The best results during this span were Season 44 (34.5%) and Season 37 (33.0%).)
So far this season, contestants bidding $1 above a previous $1 up bid wound up winning the one bid 51% of the time (19/37). That is well behind the 71% success rate in the previous four seasons (131/185).
The money was placed in Box #6 in 1/2 Off for the first time since March 4, 2015. That ended the second longest drought in this game (only Box #13 has gone longer without containing the money). It also ended a streak of the game being won five straight times when the money was placed in Box #6.
Take Two was played fifth for the first time since December 16, 2013. It was also the seventh straight time (and the 11th time in the past 12 playings) where the winning combination was the second cheapest and the most expensive prizes.
Let 'em Roll was played for a $20,400 Chevrolet Cruze - the first time since June 13, 2014 where the game was played for a car worth more than $20,000 (a $20,645 Honda CR-Z). These are the only two times since the start of Season 42 where Let 'em Roll was played for a car worth more than $20,000.
Both One Away and Card Game were won on Tuesday's episode - the sixth time in February both car games were won. (No other month since the start of Season 39 has had more than four episodes with a car game sweep.)
Switch? was won for the 10th time this season. After a rough start to the season, Switch? is one win behind Do the Math (11) for the overall lead. Nevertheless, Switch? has been won at least 18 times every season since Season 36. The game still has some work to do in order to keep that streak alive.
Wednesday's episode snapped a streak of nine straight episodes where a car was offered in the second Showcase. Overall, there have been 40 episodes this season where a car was offered in both Showcase. That's already tied with Season 42 for the most since at least Season Season 39.
Flip Flop was played for the 18th time this season - which ties Lucky $even for the most playings. If this holds, this will be the third time Flip Flop has had the most playings (or tied for the most playings) in a season (it also led this category in Seasons 41 and 43).
$4,713 is the highest number ever set in Magic #, smashing the old record of $3,564 from March 24, 2010.
Jo became the 19th contestant since Season 32 to find both "Lose Everything" panels in Pass the Buck (and the first since February 20, 2016). Out of these 19 contestants, 4 went on to win the car (June 10, 2015, May 27, 2010, January 27, 2009 and February 15, 2006).
By being played fifth, Most Expen$ive became the 12th Pricing Game to be played in all six slots at least once this season. Most Expen$ive has achieved this feat for the ninth straight season.
Since Season 29, Bonus Game has a record of 3-7 when contestants only win one window. The wins occurred on October 6, 2004, March 11, 2016 and this week's March 1, 2017 playing.
Thursday's episode featured the 20th perfect half of the season. (15 of the sweeps occurred in the second half.) Overall, we are slightly behind pace to match the 37 perfect halves that occurred in Season 44.
Pick-a-Number was won for the first time this season when played for a 5-digit prize. Pick-a-Number now has a record of 1-4 when played for a 5-digit prize and 5-4 when played for a four-digit prize.
The $14,418 Alaskan cruise was also the second most expensive prize ever offered in Pick-a-Number (excluding cars), behind the $16,800 African safari that was offered on the March 3, 2009 episode.
Any Number became the 300th Pricing Game to be fully won this season. The win occurred on the 112th episode of this season, compared to episode 107 in Season 44.
Exactly $700 in cash was won in Plinko for the first time since December 14, 2004.
In addition, by being played fifth, Plinko became the 13th Pricing Game this season to be played in all six slots at least once. Plinko achieved this feat for the fifth straight season.
Since Season 32, Cover Up has a record of 5-0 when the game goes to a fifth and final try. The contestant had to guess the fourth number twice (and therefore automatically won) and had to guess the fifth number three times.

Comments for the Weeks of March 6-10 & March 13
Biggest winner this week: Tesheka Waddler ($43,990) (March 9) The week of March 10-14 was the first time this season where a week featuring five new episodes did not have at least one $1.00 spinner in the Showcase Showdown. Thankfully, this one week drought ended with the $1.00 spin-off on the March 13 episode. The week of March 10-14 was also the third straight week (or fourth out of the past five weeks) where at least 15 Pricing Games were fully won. The gifts offered in Temptation have totalled between $5,818 and $5,840 in four out the five playings so far this season. Only the January 26 playing ($5,275) did not follow this pattern. With the win on March 10, Balance Game snapped a five game losing streak dating back to November 23. Since premiering in Season 34, the game's longest losing streak was 13 games in Seasons 38 and 39. Its longest winning streak was five games in Seasons 35 and 36. Also on March 10, Vincente won the Showcase round by $14,496 (Showcase differences of $1,417 and $15,913), which is the second largest margin of victory this season (behind a win by $15,261 on the November 21 episode). With the win on March 7, Money Game became the first car game to be won 10 times this season. Money Game has a great chance to be the car game won most often for the fourth time in the past five seasons. (The game it is currently locked in a battle with Dice Game (9 wins).) Since Season 29, Money Game has been won at least 10 times every year except Season 40 (7-20). The "then" products in Now....or Then (French's honey mustard and Alka-Seltzer antacid) did in fact appear on the Price is Right in May 2001. In fact, both were used in a playing of Hi Lo on the May 21, 2001 episode. The cash was placed in Box #13 in 1/2 Off for only the fourth time in the game's history. (It also occurred on December 13, 2010, November 12, 2013 and February 7, 2014.) In all four instances, the game was lost. (The contestant did not get down to two boxes in any of these four playings.) The $18,523 Toyota Yaris was the cheapest car offered in Card Game since April 27, 2015 ($18,265 Dodge Dart). The top prize was won in Grand Game for the first time since November 14, snapping a six game losing streak for this game. Another loss would have been the game's first seven game losing streak since it was lost eight straight times in Season 41. Prior to this week, the last time Grand Game was won when the target price was under $4.00 was December 19, 2013. Since then, the game had been lost seven straight times when played with such a low target price. It took seven tries to win Bonkers, which is the most tries used in a win since January 11, 2013 (also seven tries). Since Season 32, the most tries ever taken to win Bonkers is 9, which occurred on the April 22, 2009 episode. Five Pricing Games were fully won on the March 9 episode - the first 5/6 day since December 20. Overall, we are on pace to have 11 episodes with more than four Pricing Games won this season, compared to 13 last season (9 5/6 days and 4 perfect shows.) Previous time a contestant won the first prize in 10 Chances on the first try: February 3 of last season (8 playings ago). Previous time a contestant won the first two prizes in three tries: June 24, 2014 (22 playings ago). (For what it's worth, January 26, 2007 was the last time a contestant won the first two prizes in just two tries.) The $23,435 Toyota Tacoma was the most expensive car offered in Five Price Tags since December 21, 2010 (a $23,578 Dodge Nitro). Squeeze Play was won for the tenth time this season. Squeeze Play has now been won at least 10 times in 10 out of the past 11 seasons (the lone exception was Season 41, with 8 wins). The high during this span was 18 wins, achieved in both Seasons 43 and 44. March 13th's second Showcase, worth $20,263, was the cheapest Showcase offered since February 25, 2014 ($19,461) - the last a Showcase worth less than $20,000 was offered. Shell Game was won for the first time this season. That means every single Pricing Game has been won or partially won at least once this season. The last time that occurred was Season 36. Shell Game was also played perfectly (all four chips won) for the first time since June 1, 2015. The $25,328 Jeep Patriot Latitude, offered in Any Number, was the most expensive car offered in this game since June 6, 2014 ($25,784 Mazda MX-5).

Comments for the Weeks of March 6-10 & March 13

Biggest winner this week: Tesheka Waddler ($43,990) (March 9)
The week of March 10-14 was the first time this season where a week featuring five new episodes did not have at least one $1.00 spinner in the Showcase Showdown. Thankfully, this one week drought ended with the $1.00 spin-off on the March 13 episode.
The week of March 10-14 was also the third straight week (or fourth out of the past five weeks) where at least 15 Pricing Games were fully won.
The gifts offered in Temptation have totalled between $5,818 and $5,840 in four out the five playings so far this season. Only the January 26 playing ($5,275) did not follow this pattern.
With the win on March 10, Balance Game snapped a five game losing streak dating back to November 23. Since premiering in Season 34, the game's longest losing streak was 13 games in Seasons 38 and 39. Its longest winning streak was five games in Seasons 35 and 36.
Also on March 10, Vincente won the Showcase round by $14,496 (Showcase differences of $1,417 and $15,913), which is the second largest margin of victory this season (behind a win by $15,261 on the November 21 episode).
With the win on March 7, Money Game became the first car game to be won 10 times this season. Money Game has a great chance to be the car game won most often for the fourth time in the past five seasons. (The game it is currently locked in a battle with Dice Game (9 wins).)
Since Season 29, Money Game has been won at least 10 times every year except Season 40 (7-20).
The "then" products in Now....or Then (French's honey mustard and Alka-Seltzer antacid) did in fact appear on the Price is Right in May 2001. In fact, both were used in a playing of Hi Lo on the May 21, 2001 episode.
The cash was placed in Box #13 in 1/2 Off for only the fourth time in the game's history. (It also occurred on December 13, 2010, November 12, 2013 and February 7, 2014.) In all four instances, the game was lost. (The contestant did not get down to two boxes in any of these four playings.)
The $18,523 Toyota Yaris was the cheapest car offered in Card Game since April 27, 2015 ($18,265 Dodge Dart).
The top prize was won in Grand Game for the first time since November 14, snapping a six game losing streak for this game. Another loss would have been the game's first seven game losing streak since it was lost eight straight times in Season 41.
Prior to this week, the last time Grand Game was won when the target price was under $4.00 was December 19, 2013. Since then, the game had been lost seven straight times when played with such a low target price.
It took seven tries to win Bonkers, which is the most tries used in a win since January 11, 2013 (also seven tries). Since Season 32, the most tries ever taken to win Bonkers is 9, which occurred on the April 22, 2009 episode.
Five Pricing Games were fully won on the March 9 episode - the first 5/6 day since December 20. Overall, we are on pace to have 11 episodes with more than four Pricing Games won this season, compared to 13 last season (9 5/6 days and 4 perfect shows.)
Previous time a contestant won the first prize in 10 Chances on the first try: February 3 of last season (8 playings ago). Previous time a contestant won the first two prizes in three tries: June 24, 2014 (22 playings ago).
(For what it's worth, January 26, 2007 was the last time a contestant won the first two prizes in just two tries.)
The $23,435 Toyota Tacoma was the most expensive car offered in Five Price Tags since December 21, 2010 (a $23,578 Dodge Nitro).
Squeeze Play was won for the tenth time this season. Squeeze Play has now been won at least 10 times in 10 out of the past 11 seasons (the lone exception was Season 41, with 8 wins). The high during this span was 18 wins, achieved in both Seasons 43 and 44.
March 13th's second Showcase, worth $20,263, was the cheapest Showcase offered since February 25, 2014 ($19,461) - the last a Showcase worth less than $20,000 was offered.
Shell Game was won for the first time this season. That means every single Pricing Game has been won or partially won at least once this season. The last time that occurred was Season 36.
Shell Game was also played perfectly (all four chips won) for the first time since June 1, 2015.
The $25,328 Jeep Patriot Latitude, offered in Any Number, was the most expensive car offered in this game since June 6, 2014 ($25,784 Mazda MX-5).

Comments for the Week of March 20-24
Biggest winner this week: Jay Slink ($53,033) (March 23) The dollar drought continues: We have failed to have a $1,000 spinner in 10 out of the past 11 episodes. (The lone exception being the double dollar day on March 13). Overall, $4,000 has been won in Showcase Showdowns airing in March, compared to $16,000 in September, $14,000 in October, $8,000 in November, $21,000 in December, $17,000 in January and $33,000 in February. The third spinner futility continues: So far this season, contestants spinning third have won the fewest Showcase Showdowns (76, compared to 82 for the first spinner and 88 for the second spinner). Since Season 29, the third spinner has never finished a season with the fewest Big Wheel wins. In the past two seasons, the two car games that have been played most often on episodes where both car games were won are One Away (10 times) and Dice Game (7 times). However, the March 20 episode was actually the first time during this span where both car games were played and won on the same episode. Dice Game was won for the tenth time this season - only the second time since Season 37 where Dice Game reached double digit wins (it also occurred in Season 43 with a 13-6 record). Overall, Dice Game has a 71% winning percentage this season (10-4). If that holds, that would be the best overall record for this game since at least Season 29. (The current high is a 68% win rate in Season 43.) So far this season, Money Game has a record of 7-0 when the contestant got the first two numbers right on the first try and a record of 4-6 when the contestant needed more than one try. (Between Seasons 29-44, the win rate was 65% when there was a first try success and 36% otherwise.) With Flip Flop and Lucky $even missing in action this week, Bargain Game has jumped into a three-way tie for the most frequently played Pricing Game this season (19 playings). Season 16 was the last time Bargain Game was the most frequently played game in a season, although it did rank second most recently in seasons 34, 35 and 41. The winning contestant in March 23rd's second one bid underbid on the outdoor television by $2,170. That was the second biggest miss for a one bid winner this season (behind a $2,529 miss on the September 20 episode) and only the second time the miss exceeded $2,000. Since they started revealing the prices of all the grocery products in Stack the Deck (February 6, 2015), contestants have won a free pick 48% of the time when they had to pick the least expensive product (26/54) and 73% of the time when they had to pick the most expensive product (22/30). Unfortunately, as shown, contestants have had to most often pick the least expensive product in order to win the free pick. Since premiering in Season 35, Stack the Deck has never been won more than twice in a row. Unfortunately, this week's loss (after two straight wins) ensured that this streak will continue. The five cars offered in Spelling Bee this season have all been worth between $17,615 and $18,350. Very consistent! Since the value of the cards were raised to $1,000 in Spelling Bee, 8 contestants have quit with exactly $4,000. Out of these 8 contestants, three made a good decision because they did not end up spelling "CAR". Freeze Frame: Has now been lost 11 straight times. This is the longest losing streak for this game since it was lost 12 straight times in Season 39. Has a current record of 1-12. If that holds, the 7.7% win rate would be the worst record for this game since at least Season 29. (The current low is a 3-27 record and 10% win rate in Season 39.) Was lost by a mere $562 on March 24 ($5,736 guess on a $6,298 prize), which is the closest miss since June 3, 2013 ($560 miss). By being played fourth on March 23, became the 14th Pricing Game to be played in all six slots at least once this season. Freeze Frame has achieved this feat for the fifth straight season and for the eighth time in the past nine seasons.

Comments for the Week of March 20-24

Biggest winner this week: Jay Slink ($53,033) (March 23)
The dollar drought continues: We have failed to have a $1,000 spinner in 10 out of the past 11 episodes. (The lone exception being the double dollar day on March 13). Overall, $4,000 has been won in Showcase Showdowns airing in March, compared to $16,000 in September, $14,000 in October, $8,000 in November, $21,000 in December, $17,000 in January and $33,000 in February.
The third spinner futility continues: So far this season, contestants spinning third have won the fewest Showcase Showdowns (76, compared to 82 for the first spinner and 88 for the second spinner). Since Season 29, the third spinner has never finished a season with the fewest Big Wheel wins.
In the past two seasons, the two car games that have been played most often on episodes where both car games were won are One Away (10 times) and Dice Game (7 times). However, the March 20 episode was actually the first time during this span where both car games were played and won on the same episode.
Dice Game was won for the tenth time this season - only the second time since Season 37 where Dice Game reached double digit wins (it also occurred in Season 43 with a 13-6 record).
Overall, Dice Game has a 71% winning percentage this season (10-4). If that holds, that would be the best overall record for this game since at least Season 29. (The current high is a 68% win rate in Season 43.)
So far this season, Money Game has a record of 7-0 when the contestant got the first two numbers right on the first try and a record of 4-6 when the contestant needed more than one try. (Between Seasons 29-44, the win rate was 65% when there was a first try success and 36% otherwise.)
With Flip Flop and Lucky $even missing in action this week, Bargain Game has jumped into a three-way tie for the most frequently played Pricing Game this season (19 playings). Season 16 was the last time Bargain Game was the most frequently played game in a season, although it did rank second most recently in seasons 34, 35 and 41.
The winning contestant in March 23rd's second one bid underbid on the outdoor television by $2,170. That was the second biggest miss for a one bid winner this season (behind a $2,529 miss on the September 20 episode) and only the second time the miss exceeded $2,000.
Since they started revealing the prices of all the grocery products in Stack the Deck (February 6, 2015), contestants have won a free pick 48% of the time when they had to pick the least expensive product (26/54) and 73% of the time when they had to pick the most expensive product (22/30). Unfortunately, as shown, contestants have had to most often pick the least expensive product in order to win the free pick.
Since premiering in Season 35, Stack the Deck has never been won more than twice in a row. Unfortunately, this week's loss (after two straight wins) ensured that this streak will continue.
The five cars offered in Spelling Bee this season have all been worth between $17,615 and $18,350. Very consistent!
Since the value of the cards were raised to $1,000 in Spelling Bee, 8 contestants have quit with exactly $4,000. Out of these 8 contestants, three made a good decision because they did not end up spelling "CAR".
Freeze Frame:
- Has now been lost 11 straight times. This is the longest losing streak for this game since it was lost 12 straight times in Season 39.
- Has a current record of 1-12. If that holds, the 7.7% win rate would be the worst record for this game since at least Season 29. (The current low is a 3-27 record and 10% win rate in Season 39.)
- Was lost by a mere $562 on March 24 ($5,736 guess on a $6,298 prize), which is the closest miss since June 3, 2013 ($560 miss).
- By being played fourth on March 23, became the 14th Pricing Game to be played in all six slots at least once this season. Freeze Frame has achieved this feat for the fifth straight season and for the eighth time in the past nine seasons.

Comments for the Week of March 27-31
Biggest winner this week: Latonya Mathis ($54,630) (March 28), Felicia Gouveia ($52,587) (March 30) Ezekiel lost Pocket ¢hange despite accumulating $1.55 in pocket change. That last occurred on June 26, 2013. The record for the most pocket change ever accumulated in a loss is $1.60 from the May 14, 2009 episode. The $24,317 Volkswagen Passat was also the most expensive car offered in Pocket ¢hange since February 20, 2014 ($24,916 Mazda CX-5). Make Your Move was played sixth for the first time since June 24, 2015. The game was also won for the fifth straight time, which is the longest winning streak since another five game streak at the start of Season 34. On Tuesday, Nihar overbid on his Showcase by $8,940 - the second largest overbid this season. The current high is $9,119 (November 11). If that holds, it would be the first time since at least Season 29 where a season did not have at least one $10,000+ overbid. The shopping targeet in Shopping Spree was $6,000. That ended a streak of six straight playings (dating back to February 15 of last season) where a $6,500 target was used. Overall, since the start of Season 44, $6,500 has been the target in 10 out of 13 playings. "Flipping" and "Flopping" was the correct decision in Flip Flop for the first since March 2 of last season (32 playings ago). In fact, since the start of Season 40, flipping and flopping was right only 22 times in 176 playings. (Compared to 65 times in 133 playings between Seasons 34 and 39.) On Wednesday, Rachael became the 20th contestant this season to be called prior to the sixth one bid and to win their way up on stage. We are on pace to have 30 "final contestant called" winners, which would be the fewest since only 18 won their way up on stage in Season 34. Triple Play was played for the fourth time this season - the most playings since it was played four times in Season 38 and five times in Season 36. Kenneth's bid in Card Game was $140 above the actual retail price of the car - the smallest ovebrid in this game since January 21, 2015 ($85). (It's also the second lowest overbid since at least Season 30.) With the loss, Card Game has now been lost 16 straight times when contestants draw a $1,000 range card. The last win occurred on November 11, 2014 On Thursday, Felicia won her Showcase by $1 (differences of $2,597 and $2,596). That was the closest Showcase result since at least Season 29.During that span, there have been five wins by less than $10: March 31 of this season, May 4, 2009 ($5), February 22, 2001 ($9), January 13, 2003 ($9) and October 2, 2012 ($9). By being played second, Grand Game became the 15th Pricing Game this season to be played in all six slots at least once. Grand Game has now achieved this feat in 5 out of the past 6 seasons. Grand Game is the first grocery product game to achieve this feat this season. The correct solution in Take Two was picking the most expensive and the least expensive prizes. That ended a streak of seven straight playings where the winning combination was the second cheapest and the most expensive prizes. Since Season 42, the correct combination in Take Two has been second most expensive + most expensive prizes in 23 out of 33 playings. During this span, picking the two cheapest prizes or the cheapest + 3rd most expensive prizes has never been right. Bonkers was lost for the first time since November 22, which ended a five game winning streak for this game. This was the second longest winning streak in the game's history, behind a six game winning streak in Season 31. On Friday, Demontea failed to win his way up on stage despite bidding last in five out of the six one bid rounds. That's the first time this season a contestant failed to win their way up on stage despite bidding last more than four times. 1 Right Price has now been won 10 straight times when played for two trips. Furthermore, since Season 41, 1 Right Price has been played for two trips 20 times and has been lost only twice (April 26, 2013 and December 18, 2014). The $4,045 trip to Lake Tahoe was the cheapest trip offered in 1 Right Price since a $3,858 trip to Portland was offered on the January 27, 2014 episode. With this week's win, 1/2 Off now has an overall record of 4-13 when the cash is placed in Box #15. Prior to this week, the previous win occurred on September 27, 2012. With two appearances this week, the tugboat (6 times) has now appeared more often than the train (5 times) this season. Since Season 29, the tugboat has never been used more often than the train to bring out one bid prizes. Flip Flop and Lucky $even became the first two Pricing Games to be played 20 times this season. Both games have a chance of reaching 30 playings this season, which last occurred in Season 42 for both games. Deborah and Warnessa became the 20th and 21st contestants to win $500 for a perfect bid this season (and both got the last laugh after another contestant bid $1 above their perfect bid). At this rate, it looks like we will have no problem surpassing last season's total of 24, but we will have very little chance to reach Season 42 and 43's total of 47. The past 8 bonus spins have landed on 95 cents three times and 55 cents three times. Despite the recent rash of 55s and 95s, 75 cents is still the number most frequently landed on in a bonus spin this season (9 times). How often do contestants spinning a total 95 cents fail to win the Showcase Showdown? This season: The first spinner had 95 cents 30 times. Nine failed to win (2 losses in a spin-off). The second spinner had 95 cents 18 times. Three failed to win (1 loss in a spin-off). The third spinner had 95 cents 21 times. Five failed to win (2 losses in a spin-off). So far this season, 24 out of 135 contestants bidding $1 went on to win the one bid. The 17.8% success rate is below the 25.1% success rate between Seasons 29 and 44. In fact, during this span, no season has had a success rate below 20%.

Comments for the Week of March 27-31

Biggest winner this week: Latonya Mathis ($54,630) (March 28), Felicia Gouveia ($52,587) (March 30)
Ezekiel lost Pocket ¢hange despite accumulating $1.55 in pocket change. That last occurred on June 26, 2013. The record for the most pocket change ever accumulated in a loss is $1.60 from the May 14, 2009 episode.
The $24,317 Volkswagen Passat was also the most expensive car offered in Pocket ¢hange since February 20, 2014 ($24,916 Mazda CX-5).
Make Your Move was played sixth for the first time since June 24, 2015. The game was also won for the fifth straight time, which is the longest winning streak since another five game streak at the start of Season 34.
On Tuesday, Nihar overbid on his Showcase by $8,940 - the second largest overbid this season. The current high is $9,119 (November 11). If that holds, it would be the first time since at least Season 29 where a season did not have at least one $10,000+ overbid.
The shopping targeet in Shopping Spree was $6,000. That ended a streak of six straight playings (dating back to February 15 of last season) where a $6,500 target was used. Overall, since the start of Season 44, $6,500 has been the target in 10 out of 13 playings.
"Flipping" and "Flopping" was the correct decision in Flip Flop for the first since March 2 of last season (32 playings ago). In fact, since the start of Season 40, flipping and flopping was right only 22 times in 176 playings. (Compared to 65 times in 133 playings between Seasons 34 and 39.)
On Wednesday, Rachael became the 20th contestant this season to be called prior to the sixth one bid and to win their way up on stage. We are on pace to have 30 "final contestant called" winners, which would be the fewest since only 18 won their way up on stage in Season 34.
Triple Play was played for the fourth time this season - the most playings since it was played four times in Season 38 and five times in Season 36.
Kenneth's bid in Card Game was $140 above the actual retail price of the car - the smallest ovebrid in this game since January 21, 2015 ($85). (It's also the second lowest overbid since at least Season 30.)
With the loss, Card Game has now been lost 16 straight times when contestants draw a $1,000 range card. The last win occurred on November 11, 2014
On Thursday, Felicia won her Showcase by $1 (differences of $2,597 and $2,596). That was the closest Showcase result since at least Season 29.During that span, there have been five wins by less than $10: March 31 of this season, May 4, 2009 ($5), February 22, 2001 ($9), January 13, 2003 ($9) and October 2, 2012 ($9).
By being played second, Grand Game became the 15th Pricing Game this season to be played in all six slots at least once. Grand Game has now achieved this feat in 5 out of the past 6 seasons. Grand Game is the first grocery product game to achieve this feat this season.
The correct solution in Take Two was picking the most expensive and the least expensive prizes. That ended a streak of seven straight playings where the winning combination was the second cheapest and the most expensive prizes.
Since Season 42, the correct combination in Take Two has been second most expensive + most expensive prizes in 23 out of 33 playings. During this span, picking the two cheapest prizes or the cheapest + 3rd most expensive prizes has never been right.
Bonkers was lost for the first time since November 22, which ended a five game winning streak for this game. This was the second longest winning streak in the game's history, behind a six game winning streak in Season 31.
On Friday, Demontea failed to win his way up on stage despite bidding last in five out of the six one bid rounds. That's the first time this season a contestant failed to win their way up on stage despite bidding last more than four times.
1 Right Price has now been won 10 straight times when played for two trips. Furthermore, since Season 41, 1 Right Price has been played for two trips 20 times and has been lost only twice (April 26, 2013 and December 18, 2014).
The $4,045 trip to Lake Tahoe was the cheapest trip offered in 1 Right Price since a $3,858 trip to Portland was offered on the January 27, 2014 episode.
With this week's win, 1/2 Off now has an overall record of 4-13 when the cash is placed in Box #15. Prior to this week, the previous win occurred on September 27, 2012.
With two appearances this week, the tugboat (6 times) has now appeared more often than the train (5 times) this season. Since Season 29, the tugboat has never been used more often than the train to bring out one bid prizes.
Flip Flop and Lucky $even became the first two Pricing Games to be played 20 times this season. Both games have a chance of reaching 30 playings this season, which last occurred in Season 42 for both games.
Deborah and Warnessa became the 20th and 21st contestants to win $500 for a perfect bid this season (and both got the last laugh after another contestant bid $1 above their perfect bid). At this rate, it looks like we will have no problem surpassing last season's total of 24, but we will have very little chance to reach Season 42 and 43's total of 47.
The past 8 bonus spins have landed on 95 cents three times and 55 cents three times. Despite the recent rash of 55s and 95s, 75 cents is still the number most frequently landed on in a bonus spin this season (9 times).
How often do contestants spinning a total 95 cents fail to win the Showcase Showdown? This season:
- The first spinner had 95 cents 30 times. Nine failed to win (2 losses in a spin-off).
- The second spinner had 95 cents 18 times. Three failed to win (1 loss in a spin-off).
- The third spinner had 95 cents 21 times. Five failed to win (2 losses in a spin-off).
So far this season, 24 out of 135 contestants bidding $1 went on to win the one bid. The 17.8% success rate is below the 25.1% success rate between Seasons 29 and 44. In fact, during this span, no season has had a success rate below 20%.

Comments for the Week of April 3-7
Biggest winner this week: Dawn Hartman ($38,959) (April 6) There were five perfect bids in the one bid rounds this week, which is the most since at least Season 40. It's a very impressive streak, considering there were only 21 perfect bids in the other 128 episodes that aired this season. The 26 perfect bids this season already exceeds the 24 perfect bids we had in all of last season. Box #15 became the first box this season to hold the $10,000 prize in 1/2 Off three times. Season 42 was the last time a box held the cash four times (Box #14). No box has ever held the cash more than four times in the same season. This week's playing of 1/2 Off also featured the first wipeout (all three small prize pairings wrong) since May 29, 2015. Karen guessed "more" for the first three prizes in More or Less . The last time that would have been the right strategy? February 26, 2013. There has never been a playing where "more" or "less" was the correct choice for all four prizes. Does getting a number in the price of the car with your first pick in Any Number predict whether the car will be won? This season, Any Number is 4-2 when contestants pick a car number with their first pick and 2-7 if they do not. Since Season 40, the record is 27-37 when they do and 21-50 when they do not. Tuesday's second Showcase, worth $21,273, was the third cheapest Showcase won this season. As a result, Krystal's total winnings of $22,710 is the third smallest amongst all Showcase winners this season. With this week's win, Bonus Game improved its record to 6-0 this season. Bonus Game has a chance to have its third perfect season since Season 29. (It also went 5-0 in Season 30 and 6-0 in Season 37.) Bonus Game is also one win away from tying Double Prices' 7-0 start to the season. Flip Flop snapped a six game losing streak dating back to January 24. This was the longest losing streak for this game since it was lost eight straight times in Season 39. The losing streak dropped Flip Flop's record to 8-13, which would be only the second time in the past six seasons where the game had a record below .500 (it also went 15-16 in Season 42.) Conversely, Hi Lo was won for the eighth time this season. With a record of 8-2, Hi Lo is on its way to having its first winning season since Season 36 (11-7) and its first eight win season since Season 37. Do the Math was played for $9,457 in prizes, which is the smallest prize package ever offered in this game when it was played for trips. Cover Up has now been won 10 straight times when contestants get four or more tries. The last four try loss occurred on April 28, 2014. $10,800 in cash was won in Plinko. It has been at least Season 30 since that exact amount was won in this game. Card Game set three season highs: Highest value assigned to an ace ($7,000), highest bid ($23,500) and largest overbid ($2,400). With an overall record of 3-13, Card Game is coming dangerously close to matching its pitiful Season 33 record of 3-14 (the last season to use the $500-$1,000-$1,500-$2,000 range cards). With the 6 of Diamonds getting drawn in Card Game for the first time since August 25, 2014, we are now down to four cards that have not been drawn in either Season 44 or 45: King of Hearts, 2 of Diamonds, 4 of Spades and Queen of Clubs. Switch? was won for the 14th time this season, which takes over top spot as the Pricing Game won most often this season. Thanks to a nine game winning streak, Switch? has rebounded nicely from its 4-5 start to this season. Switch? is poised to lead the wins category for the second straight season. 10 Chances became the 100th car game to be won this season. The 100th win occurred on the 133rd episode of the season, compared to the 143rd episode in Season 44. Overall, we are on pace to have 142 car games won this season , which would be the most since 161 car games were won in Season 36. Only $76 separated the value of both Showcases ($27,373 and $27,297), which is the smallest difference this season and the smallest since March 14, 2016 ($56).

Comments for the Week of April 3-7

Biggest winner this week: Dawn Hartman ($38,959) (April 6)
There were five perfect bids in the one bid rounds this week, which is the most since at least Season 40. It's a very impressive streak, considering there were only 21 perfect bids in the other 128 episodes that aired this season.
The 26 perfect bids this season already exceeds the 24 perfect bids we had in all of last season.
Box #15 became the first box this season to hold the $10,000 prize in 1/2 Off three times. Season 42 was the last time a box held the cash four times (Box #14). No box has ever held the cash more than four times in the same season.
This week's playing of 1/2 Off also featured the first wipeout (all three small prize pairings wrong) since May 29, 2015.
Karen guessed "more" for the first three prizes in More or Less . The last time that would have been the right strategy? February 26, 2013. There has never been a playing where "more" or "less" was the correct choice for all four prizes.
Does getting a number in the price of the car with your first pick in Any Number predict whether the car will be won? This season, Any Number is 4-2 when contestants pick a car number with their first pick and 2-7 if they do not. Since Season 40, the record is 27-37 when they do and 21-50 when they do not.
Tuesday's second Showcase, worth $21,273, was the third cheapest Showcase won this season. As a result, Krystal's total winnings of $22,710 is the third smallest amongst all Showcase winners this season.
With this week's win, Bonus Game improved its record to 6-0 this season. Bonus Game has a chance to have its third perfect season since Season 29. (It also went 5-0 in Season 30 and 6-0 in Season 37.) Bonus Game is also one win away from tying Double Prices' 7-0 start to the season.
Flip Flop snapped a six game losing streak dating back to January 24. This was the longest losing streak for this game since it was lost eight straight times in Season 39. The losing streak dropped Flip Flop's record to 8-13, which would be only the second time in the past six seasons where the game had a record below .500 (it also went 15-16 in Season 42.)
Conversely, Hi Lo was won for the eighth time this season. With a record of 8-2, Hi Lo is on its way to having its first winning season since Season 36 (11-7) and its first eight win season since Season 37.
Do the Math was played for $9,457 in prizes, which is the smallest prize package ever offered in this game when it was played for trips.
Cover Up has now been won 10 straight times when contestants get four or more tries. The last four try loss occurred on April 28, 2014.
$10,800 in cash was won in Plinko. It has been at least Season 30 since that exact amount was won in this game.
Card Game set three season highs: Highest value assigned to an ace ($7,000), highest bid ($23,500) and largest overbid ($2,400).
With an overall record of 3-13, Card Game is coming dangerously close to matching its pitiful Season 33 record of 3-14 (the last season to use the $500-$1,000-$1,500-$2,000 range cards).
With the 6 of Diamonds getting drawn in Card Game for the first time since August 25, 2014, we are now down to four cards that have not been drawn in either Season 44 or 45: King of Hearts, 2 of Diamonds, 4 of Spades and Queen of Clubs.
Switch? was won for the 14th time this season, which takes over top spot as the Pricing Game won most often this season. Thanks to a nine game winning streak, Switch? has rebounded nicely from its 4-5 start to this season. Switch? is poised to lead the wins category for the second straight season.
10 Chances became the 100th car game to be won this season. The 100th win occurred on the 133rd episode of the season, compared to the 143rd episode in Season 44. Overall, we are on pace to have 142 car games won this season , which would be the most since 161 car games were won in Season 36.
Only $76 separated the value of both Showcases ($27,373 and $27,297), which is the smallest difference this season and the smallest since March 14, 2016 ($56).

Comments for the Week of April 10-14
Biggest winner this week: Christine Forker ($42,906) (April 12) Two 4-prize games were lost this week (Race Game and Danger Price) - the first time this season two games of this type were lost in the same week. (But, to be fair, there have only been 7 weeks where more than one four prize game was played.) Nevertheless, the four prize games have a win rate of 75% this season (24-8), which would smash the previous 15 year high of 60.3% in Season 35 (38-25). This week featured the 10th and 11th double overbids of the season. That has already matched the total number of double overbids in all of Season 43 and 44. Overall, we are on pace to have 15 double overbids this season, which would be above the previous 15-year average of 12. However, we are nowhere close of matching the 22 double overbids that occurred in Season 41. Race Game was lost for the first time since May 20 of last season, which ended a six game winning streak for this game. Since Season 30, the game's longest winning streak was 8 straight wins at the end of Season 43 and the start of Season 44. With Race Game picking up its first loss of the season, that leaves Bonus Game (6-0) and Shopping Spree (5-0) as the only undefeated games this season. Tuesday's second Showcase was worth $20,419, which is the third cheapest Showcase so far this season. It's also the third time a Showcase offered this season was worth less than all of the Showcases that were offered in Season 44. So far this season, Side By Side is 7-3 when contestants have to move the numbers to the left, but 3-6 when contestants have to move them to the right. Historically, there has not been a significant discrepancy: Between Seasons 32 and 44, the game is 72-39 (65%) when having to go left and 76-34 (69%) when having to go right. Hole #32 (Row 4, Column 2) was selected in Punch a Bunch for the first time since November 18, 2014. (It also contained a $100 slip in that playing.) That leaves only five holes that have not been selected at least once in the past two seasons: Two in the first column (Holes #11 and #31), two in the last column (Holes #20 and #30) and one on the bottom row (Hole #49). For what it's worth, since 30 none of these holes have ever been revealed to contain the top prize. Dice Game: Previous time it was lost: December 21. The loss ended a six game winning streak for this game. Since Season 30, the longest winning streak for this game was nine wins in Seasons 42 and 43, followed by three different 6 game winning streaks (including this one that just ended). Previous time it was lost despite having two perfect rolls: October 15, 2013. Since Season 32, Dice Game is 23-9 when contestants get two perfect rolls and 3-0 when they get three perfect rolls. Previous time it was lost despite rolling three perfect numbers, 1s or 6s: June 22, 2015. Since Season 32, Dice Game is 40-11 when contestants only end up having to worry about one number. On Wednesday, 75 cents was spun in a bonus spin for the tenth time this season. Since Season 39, the single season record is Season 42, where contestants landed on 60 cents in a bonus spin 11 times. Meanwhile, we are first waiting for our first 15 cent bonus spin of the season. Since Season 39, every amount has been landed on at least once in a bonus spin each season. That streak will end unless someone can land on 15 cent before the end of the season. Cacilie won Cover Up by default - she only had one number to choose from on her final turn. That's now happened nine times since the start of Season 32: 1 on the second try (only missing the first number), 4 on the third try (only missing the second number), 2 on the fourth try (only missing the third number) and 2 on the fifth try (only missing the fifth number). This week's loss in Lucky $even prevented this game from having its first 4 game winning streak since it was won 5 straight times in Season 38. Line em Up was won for the first time since December 21, which snapped a five game losing streak for this game. That is tied for the second longest losing streak for this game since Season 30, behind only a seven game losing streak at the end of Season 42 and the start of Season 43. Line em Up was also won on the first try for the third time this season - the most since there were 3 in Season 40. Season 33 was the last time there were 4 first try wins in one season. On Friday, Stephen bid $5 in a one bid round, which last occurred on April 16, 2014. In addition, thanks to his low bid, Stephen won the one bid despite being $2,234 away from the actual retail price of the prize - the second biggest winning underbid so far this season. The 4 of clubs was drawn in Card Game for the first time since February 9, 2015. That leaves only three cards that have not been drawn in either Season 44 or 45: King of Hearts (December 1, 2008), 2 of Diamonds (April 6, 2015) and Queen of Clubs (February 9, 2015). Hot Seat was played fifth for the first time in its brief history. The game has now been played in every slot except first or second. There have been 828 one bids so far this season, and exactly 211 have been won by contestants at each of the red, yellow and green podiums (the blue podium trails with 195 wins). Historically, the win rate for the podiums are more or less even. Since Season 29, the green podium has a slight advantage at 27%, while the red, blue and yellow podiums are hovering around 24%.

Comments for the Week of April 10-14

Biggest winner this week: Christine Forker ($42,906) (April 12)
Two 4-prize games were lost this week (Race Game and Danger Price) - the first time this season two games of this type were lost in the same week. (But, to be fair, there have only been 7 weeks where more than one four prize game was played.) Nevertheless, the four prize games have a win rate of 75% this season (24-8), which would smash the previous 15 year high of 60.3% in Season 35 (38-25).
This week featured the 10th and 11th double overbids of the season. That has already matched the total number of double overbids in all of Season 43 and 44. Overall, we are on pace to have 15 double overbids this season, which would be above the previous 15-year average of 12. However, we are nowhere close of matching the 22 double overbids that occurred in Season 41.
Race Game was lost for the first time since May 20 of last season, which ended a six game winning streak for this game. Since Season 30, the game's longest winning streak was 8 straight wins at the end of Season 43 and the start of Season 44.
With Race Game picking up its first loss of the season, that leaves Bonus Game (6-0) and Shopping Spree (5-0) as the only undefeated games this season.
Tuesday's second Showcase was worth $20,419, which is the third cheapest Showcase so far this season. It's also the third time a Showcase offered this season was worth less than all of the Showcases that were offered in Season 44.
So far this season, Side By Side is 7-3 when contestants have to move the numbers to the left, but 3-6 when contestants have to move them to the right. Historically, there has not been a significant discrepancy: Between Seasons 32 and 44, the game is 72-39 (65%) when having to go left and 76-34 (69%) when having to go right.
Hole #32 (Row 4, Column 2) was selected in Punch a Bunch for the first time since November 18, 2014. (It also contained a $100 slip in that playing.) That leaves only five holes that have not been selected at least once in the past two seasons: Two in the first column (Holes #11 and #31), two in the last column (Holes #20 and #30) and one on the bottom row (Hole #49). For what it's worth, since 30 none of these holes have ever been revealed to contain the top prize.
Dice Game:
- Previous time it was lost: December 21. The loss ended a six game winning streak for this game. Since Season 30, the longest winning streak for this game was nine wins in Seasons 42 and 43, followed by three different 6 game winning streaks (including this one that just ended).
- Previous time it was lost despite having two perfect rolls: October 15, 2013. Since Season 32, Dice Game is 23-9 when contestants get two perfect rolls and 3-0 when they get three perfect rolls.
- Previous time it was lost despite rolling three perfect numbers, 1s or 6s: June 22, 2015. Since Season 32, Dice Game is 40-11 when contestants only end up having to worry about one number.
On Wednesday, 75 cents was spun in a bonus spin for the tenth time this season. Since Season 39, the single season record is Season 42, where contestants landed on 60 cents in a bonus spin 11 times.
Meanwhile, we are first waiting for our first 15 cent bonus spin of the season. Since Season 39, every amount has been landed on at least once in a bonus spin each season. That streak will end unless someone can land on 15 cent before the end of the season.
Cacilie won Cover Up by default - she only had one number to choose from on her final turn. That's now happened nine times since the start of Season 32: 1 on the second try (only missing the first number), 4 on the third try (only missing the second number), 2 on the fourth try (only missing the third number) and 2 on the fifth try (only missing the fifth number).
This week's loss in Lucky $even prevented this game from having its first 4 game winning streak since it was won 5 straight times in Season 38.
Line em Up was won for the first time since December 21, which snapped a five game losing streak for this game. That is tied for the second longest losing streak for this game since Season 30, behind only a seven game losing streak at the end of Season 42 and the start of Season 43.
Line em Up was also won on the first try for the third time this season - the most since there were 3 in Season 40. Season 33 was the last time there were 4 first try wins in one season.
On Friday, Stephen bid $5 in a one bid round, which last occurred on April 16, 2014. In addition, thanks to his low bid, Stephen won the one bid despite being $2,234 away from the actual retail price of the prize - the second biggest winning underbid so far this season.
The 4 of clubs was drawn in Card Game for the first time since February 9, 2015. That leaves only three cards that have not been drawn in either Season 44 or 45: King of Hearts (December 1, 2008), 2 of Diamonds (April 6, 2015) and Queen of Clubs (February 9, 2015).
Hot Seat was played fifth for the first time in its brief history. The game has now been played in every slot except first or second.
There have been 828 one bids so far this season, and exactly 211 have been won by contestants at each of the red, yellow and green podiums (the blue podium trails with 195 wins). Historically, the win rate for the podiums are more or less even. Since Season 29, the green podium has a slight advantage at 27%, while the red, blue and yellow podiums are hovering around 24%.

Comments for the Week of April 17-21
Biggest winner this week: Anthony & Kimberly Valenti ($77,062) (April 21) - the fifth biggest winners this season. Freeze Frame was won for the first time since October 7, which snapped a 12 game losing streak for this game. That is tied for the longest losing streak for this game since Season 30. (There was also a 12 game losing streak in Season 39.) Although Freeze Frame currently has a dismal record of 2-13, the game is not poised to have its worst season ever. That honor currently belongs to Season 39 - a record of 3-27 and a 10% win rate. On Tuesday, Ty became only the second contestant this season to bid on a Showcase whose main prize was trip. This season, 2/26 (7.6%) contestants have bid on the first Showcases when it ended with a trip, compared to 44/361 (12.2%) between Seasons 38 and 44. By comparison, the bid rate between Seasons 38-45 is 59.5% (420/706) when the first Showcase ends with a car and 10.6% (31/292) when the first Showcase ends with a boat. Make Your Move was lost for the first time since October 14, which ended a five game winning streak for this game. That is tied for the longest winning streak for this game since Season 30. (There was also a 5 game winning streak in Season 34.) Make Your Move has a current record of 5-2. That 71.4% win rate would be the best result for this game since Season 29. (The current high is a 6-4 record in Season 34.) By being played first, Make Your Move became the 16th Pricing Game to be played in all six slots at least once this season. Make Your Move has only achieved this feat four other times: Season 20, Season 21, Season 28 and Season 37. Card Game was won for the first time since February 28, which snapped a five game losing streak for this game. It was the second time this season where the game was lost five straight times. Daniel became the fourth contestant this season to land on the dollar or a green section in a bonus spin. Between Seasons 29 and 44, the fewest bonus spin winners is 6 in Season 34 (4 green sections, 2 dollars). Unless we pick up the pace, we are in danger of matching or beating that record. (The average during this span is 14 bonus spin winners per season.) A car was not offered in either Showcase presented on Wednesday's episode. That last occurred on January 12 - 103 episodes ago. Overall, there have only been six episodes all season without at least one car Showcase. By comparison, there were 14 such episodes in all of Season 44. Card #18 was revealed to be a "CAR" card in Spelling Bee for only the second time since Season 32. It also happened on November 20, 2013. (Card #18 has been selected 12 times since the start of Season 32.) The $12,594 trip to the Grenadines was the most expensive prize offered in Balance Game (excluding cars) since it was played for a $15,495 sailboat on February 5, 2014. Double Cross was lost for the first time since October 26, which ended a seven game winning streak for this game. That is tied for the longest winning streak in the game's history. (After losing its inaugural playing in Season 40, the game then strung off seven straight wins.) With a current record of 9-2, it looks like Double Cross will have the best season in its brief history. The current high is a 17-6 record in Season 42. On Thursday, Gwendolyn did not win her Showcase despite being $1,262 away from the actual retail price. That is the closest bid for a non-Showcase winner this season and the closest since December 23 of last season ($955). For the first time this season, the price of the car in Pathfinder ended on the inside of the board. This has now happened ten times since Season 32, and the game was lost in all ten occurrences. Pathfinder was also played in the first half for the first time this season. That leaves Master Key and Stack the Deck as the only games that have been played exclusively in the second half this season. (Master Key was last played in the first half on June 17, 2015.) (Golden Road, Pay the Rent, Shopping Spree, Temptation and Triple Play have been played exclusively in the first half this season.) A television was not offered as a prize on Friday's episode - the first time this season that's happened. Prior to this episode, August 10, 2015 was the last time at least one television was not offered on an episode. Four cars were also won on Friday's episode. Previous occurrence: December 21 of last season (Triple Play win). 3 - 1 - 2 was the correct combination in Eazy az 1 2 3 for the first time since June 15, 2015. While it hasn't been right recently, since Season 32 it has actually been the second most frequently used combination. 2 - 1 - 3 is the combination correct most often (52 times) while 1 - 3 - 2 and 2 - 3 - 1 are the combinations correct the least often (15 times each). One Away was won for the eighth time this season. With a current record of 8-7, One Away could finish a season above .500 for the first time since it went 13-5 in Season 36 and 18-7 in Season 33. The six one bids on Friday's episode totalled $5,558 - the lowest total of the season. (By comparison, there were eight episodes last season that had a lower one bid total.) Also on Friday, Anthony & Kimberly were only $8 away from the actual retail price of their Showcase. That is tied for the third closest Showcase bid since Season 29. (The closest bid is the December 16, 2008 perfect bid and a $5 miss on the June 27, 2003 episode.) Combined, Anthony & Kimberly won two Showcases worth $76,302. That's the most expensive Showcases won in a Double Showcase win since January 6, 2012 ($51,118 and $30,939 = $82,057). Car games that have not offered a car worth more than $20,000 this season: Line em Up (Last time: October 27, 2010 - a $22,845 Hyundai Genesis) Spelling Bee (Last time: August 19, 2016 - a $20,485 Jeep Renegade) 10 Chances (Last time: January 12, 2015 - a $21,540 Dodge Journey)

Comments for the Week of April 17-21

Biggest winner this week: Anthony & Kimberly Valenti ($77,062) (April 21) - the fifth biggest winners this season.
Freeze Frame was won for the first time since October 7, which snapped a 12 game losing streak for this game. That is tied for the longest losing streak for this game since Season 30. (There was also a 12 game losing streak in Season 39.)
Although Freeze Frame currently has a dismal record of 2-13, the game is not poised to have its worst season ever. That honor currently belongs to Season 39 - a record of 3-27 and a 10% win rate.
On Tuesday, Ty became only the second contestant this season to bid on a Showcase whose main prize was trip. This season, 2/26 (7.6%) contestants have bid on the first Showcases when it ended with a trip, compared to 44/361 (12.2%) between Seasons 38 and 44.
By comparison, the bid rate between Seasons 38-45 is 59.5% (420/706) when the first Showcase ends with a car and 10.6% (31/292) when the first Showcase ends with a boat.
Make Your Move was lost for the first time since October 14, which ended a five game winning streak for this game. That is tied for the longest winning streak for this game since Season 30. (There was also a 5 game winning streak in Season 34.)
Make Your Move has a current record of 5-2. That 71.4% win rate would be the best result for this game since Season 29. (The current high is a 6-4 record in Season 34.)
By being played first, Make Your Move became the 16th Pricing Game to be played in all six slots at least once this season. Make Your Move has only achieved this feat four other times: Season 20, Season 21, Season 28 and Season 37.
Card Game was won for the first time since February 28, which snapped a five game losing streak for this game. It was the second time this season where the game was lost five straight times.
Daniel became the fourth contestant this season to land on the dollar or a green section in a bonus spin. Between Seasons 29 and 44, the fewest bonus spin winners is 6 in Season 34 (4 green sections, 2 dollars). Unless we pick up the pace, we are in danger of matching or beating that record.
(The average during this span is 14 bonus spin winners per season.)
A car was not offered in either Showcase presented on Wednesday's episode. That last occurred on January 12 - 103 episodes ago. Overall, there have only been six episodes all season without at least one car Showcase. By comparison, there were 14 such episodes in all of Season 44.
Card #18 was revealed to be a "CAR" card in Spelling Bee for only the second time since Season 32. It also happened on November 20, 2013. (Card #18 has been selected 12 times since the start of Season 32.)
The $12,594 trip to the Grenadines was the most expensive prize offered in Balance Game (excluding cars) since it was played for a $15,495 sailboat on February 5, 2014.
Double Cross was lost for the first time since October 26, which ended a seven game winning streak for this game. That is tied for the longest winning streak in the game's history. (After losing its inaugural playing in Season 40, the game then strung off seven straight wins.)
With a current record of 9-2, it looks like Double Cross will have the best season in its brief history. The current high is a 17-6 record in Season 42.
On Thursday, Gwendolyn did not win her Showcase despite being $1,262 away from the actual retail price. That is the closest bid for a non-Showcase winner this season and the closest since December 23 of last season ($955).
For the first time this season, the price of the car in Pathfinder ended on the inside of the board. This has now happened ten times since Season 32, and the game was lost in all ten occurrences.
Pathfinder was also played in the first half for the first time this season. That leaves Master Key and Stack the Deck as the only games that have been played exclusively in the second half this season.
(Master Key was last played in the first half on June 17, 2015.)
(Golden Road, Pay the Rent, Shopping Spree, Temptation and Triple Play have been played exclusively in the first half this season.)
A television was not offered as a prize on Friday's episode - the first time this season that's happened. Prior to this episode, August 10, 2015 was the last time at least one television was not offered on an episode.
Four cars were also won on Friday's episode. Previous occurrence: December 21 of last season (Triple Play win).
3 - 1 - 2 was the correct combination in Eazy az 1 2 3 for the first time since June 15, 2015. While it hasn't been right recently, since Season 32 it has actually been the second most frequently used combination. 2 - 1 - 3 is the combination correct most often (52 times) while 1 - 3 - 2 and 2 - 3 - 1 are the combinations correct the least often (15 times each).
One Away was won for the eighth time this season. With a current record of 8-7, One Away could finish a season above .500 for the first time since it went 13-5 in Season 36 and 18-7 in Season 33.
The six one bids on Friday's episode totalled $5,558 - the lowest total of the season. (By comparison, there were eight episodes last season that had a lower one bid total.)
Also on Friday, Anthony & Kimberly were only $8 away from the actual retail price of their Showcase. That is tied for the third closest Showcase bid since Season 29. (The closest bid is the December 16, 2008 perfect bid and a $5 miss on the June 27, 2003 episode.)
Combined, Anthony & Kimberly won two Showcases worth $76,302. That's the most expensive Showcases won in a Double Showcase win since January 6, 2012 ($51,118 and $30,939 = $82,057).
Car games that have not offered a car worth more than $20,000 this season:
- Line em Up (Last time: October 27, 2010 - a $22,845 Hyundai Genesis)
- Spelling Bee (Last time: August 19, 2016 - a $20,485 Jeep Renegade)
- 10 Chances (Last time: January 12, 2015 - a $21,540 Dodge Journey)

Comments for the Week of April 24-28
Biggest winner this week: Carolyn Guyse ($40,636) (April 25) The prize packages offered in Shopping Spree have been very consistent this season: $7,145, $7,546, $7,664, $7,306, $7,088 and $7,789. In addition, with the win, Shopping Spree has improved its record to 6-0 and is one win away from tying Double Prices' impressive 7-0 start to the season. By being played fifth, Any Number became the 17th Pricing Game to be played in all six slots at least once this season. Any Number has achieved this feat for the second straight season and for the fourth time in the past five years. By picking hole #21, Amanada became the first contestant this season to punch one of the holes in the first column in Punch a Bunch. Although usually popular, a corner has been selected in Punch a Bunch only once so far this season: The top right corner was punched out on September 30, and it contained a $5,000 slip. Tuesday's episode featured the 80th bonus spin of the season. We are currently on pace for 107 bonus spins this season, which would be the most since there were 107 in Season 39 and 110 in Season 36. 75 cents was spun in a bonus spin for the 11th time this season. Since Season 39, that is tied for the most in one year (with 60 cents being landed on 11 times in Season 42). Bullseye was lost for the third time this season - only the second time since Season 40 the game has been lost more than twice. (Records in the past six seasons: 7-1, 6-3, 8-2, 12-0, 7-2, 5-3). A fourth loss would be the most since Season 38 (6-4). A fifth loss would be the most since at least Season 29. Pick-a-Pair was played first for the first time since March 2, 2015. It was only the fourth time since Season 16 where this game has led off a show. (Once to offer 52 handbags, once to offer wedding attire, once to offer accessories and trip to Milan and this week's offering of designer clothing.) So far this season, Money Game has never included a playing with "el cheapo" (a number below 11) and has never been set up where the "front and back" trick was right (the front and back halves of the car were placed side by side). Since Season 32, both occurrences have happened at least once. ("El cheapo" has also been right at least once every season except Season 33.) With the $5,000 win, Hot Seat has now given away $100,000 in cash this season. In terms of cash games, that puts Hot Seat ahead of Grand Game ($60,213), Pay the Rent ($46,000), It's in the Bag ($33,000), Punch a Bunch ($29,000) and Time i$ Money ($24,072), but behind Plinko ($176,700) and 1/2 Off ($165,000). Of course, the overall leader is technically Cliff Hangers thanks to the $210,000 cash win during Big Money Week. Push Over became the 400th Pricing Game to be fully won this season. The 400th win occurred on the 146th episode this season compared to the 144th episode last season. The Pricing Game winning percentage has increased every year since Season 39. It will be incredibly tight whether we will end up continuing that trend this season. One Away was won on the first try for the first time this season. Since Season 29, there has been at least one first try win in 11/17 seasons (and 28 total), with the most being 6 in Season 32. So far this season, Range Game is 11-1 when the price is placed $266-$334 from the bottom of the range and 0-4 otherwise. The lone loss in that range is the $318 placement from the February 22 episode. Switcheroo was played fourth for the first time since February 5, 2015 and December 19, 2013 - the only three times since Season 16 this game has been played fourth. (All three playings were lost.) For the first in its history, there were exactly five solutions in Pay the Rent. It was also only the 10th time in its history where a correct solution involved placing the cheapest grocery product in the mailbox. Patrick was a mere $355 away from the price of the car in Card Game. That is the most impressive result of the season and the best since the $25 difference from last season's April 29 episode. So far this season, 43 out of the 52 cards have been drawn at least once in Card Game. The frequencies for the suits are: ♥ 18 ♦ 25 ♠ 20 ♣ 20. Switch? was lost for the first time since January 10, which ended a 10 game winning streak for this game. Switch? has now been won 10 straight times in each of the past four seasons. In all four instances, the game was lost on the 11th playing. The game's longest recent winning streak is 12 straight wins in Season 36-37. Key #4 opened the car lock in Master Key for the first time since June 12, 2014. Since then, the key had been picked 5 times and turned out to be the blank or the key that opened one of the first two locks. All five keys have now turned out to be a winning key at least once in the past two seasons.

Comments for the Week of April 24-28

Biggest winner this week: Carolyn Guyse ($40,636) (April 25)
The prize packages offered in Shopping Spree have been very consistent this season: $7,145, $7,546, $7,664, $7,306, $7,088 and $7,789.
In addition, with the win, Shopping Spree has improved its record to 6-0 and is one win away from tying Double Prices' impressive 7-0 start to the season.
By being played fifth, Any Number became the 17th Pricing Game to be played in all six slots at least once this season. Any Number has achieved this feat for the second straight season and for the fourth time in the past five years.
By picking hole #21, Amanada became the first contestant this season to punch one of the holes in the first column in Punch a Bunch.
Although usually popular, a corner has been selected in Punch a Bunch only once so far this season: The top right corner was punched out on September 30, and it contained a $5,000 slip.
Tuesday's episode featured the 80th bonus spin of the season. We are currently on pace for 107 bonus spins this season, which would be the most since there were 107 in Season 39 and 110 in Season 36.
75 cents was spun in a bonus spin for the 11th time this season. Since Season 39, that is tied for the most in one year (with 60 cents being landed on 11 times in Season 42).
Bullseye was lost for the third time this season - only the second time since Season 40 the game has been lost more than twice. (Records in the past six seasons: 7-1, 6-3, 8-2, 12-0, 7-2, 5-3). A fourth loss would be the most since Season 38 (6-4). A fifth loss would be the most since at least Season 29.
Pick-a-Pair was played first for the first time since March 2, 2015. It was only the fourth time since Season 16 where this game has led off a show. (Once to offer 52 handbags, once to offer wedding attire, once to offer accessories and trip to Milan and this week's offering of designer clothing.)
So far this season, Money Game has never included a playing with "el cheapo" (a number below 11) and has never been set up where the "front and back" trick was right (the front and back halves of the car were placed side by side). Since Season 32, both occurrences have happened at least once. ("El cheapo" has also been right at least once every season except Season 33.)
With the $5,000 win, Hot Seat has now given away $100,000 in cash this season. In terms of cash games, that puts Hot Seat ahead of Grand Game ($60,213), Pay the Rent ($46,000), It's in the Bag ($33,000), Punch a Bunch ($29,000) and Time i$ Money ($24,072), but behind Plinko ($176,700) and 1/2 Off ($165,000). Of course, the overall leader is technically Cliff Hangers thanks to the $210,000 cash win during Big Money Week.
Push Over became the 400th Pricing Game to be fully won this season. The 400th win occurred on the 146th episode this season compared to the 144th episode last season. The Pricing Game winning percentage has increased every year since Season 39. It will be incredibly tight whether we will end up continuing that trend this season.
One Away was won on the first try for the first time this season. Since Season 29, there has been at least one first try win in 11/17 seasons (and 28 total), with the most being 6 in Season 32.
So far this season, Range Game is 11-1 when the price is placed $266-$334 from the bottom of the range and 0-4 otherwise. The lone loss in that range is the $318 placement from the February 22 episode.
Switcheroo was played fourth for the first time since February 5, 2015 and December 19, 2013 - the only three times since Season 16 this game has been played fourth. (All three playings were lost.)
For the first in its history, there were exactly five solutions in Pay the Rent. It was also only the 10th time in its history where a correct solution involved placing the cheapest grocery product in the mailbox.
Patrick was a mere $355 away from the price of the car in Card Game. That is the most impressive result of the season and the best since the $25 difference from last season's April 29 episode.
So far this season, 43 out of the 52 cards have been drawn at least once in Card Game. The frequencies for the suits are: ♥ 18 ♦ 25 ♠ 20 ♣ 20.
Switch? was lost for the first time since January 10, which ended a 10 game winning streak for this game. Switch? has now been won 10 straight times in each of the past four seasons. In all four instances, the game was lost on the 11th playing. The game's longest recent winning streak is 12 straight wins in Season 36-37.
Key #4 opened the car lock in Master Key for the first time since June 12, 2014. Since then, the key had been picked 5 times and turned out to be the blank or the key that opened one of the first two locks. All five keys have now turned out to be a winning key at least once in the past two seasons.

September-October Comments

November-December Comments

January-February Comments

May-June Comments