This price is the right competitor made an error of $ 7,000 – and each spectator thought he was coming

You could see it coming from a distance mile – and it was always hurt to look. On a recent The price is correct episode, a competitor made such a painful errorViewers everywhere grimaced in unison. Tension was a classic Gold game: a moment when the price was at hand, the rules were clear and the bad decision came anyway. It was the kind of blunder that does not only cost money – he haunts reruns.

Sometimes you just have to trust yourself on “the price is good”

After having managed to obtain his diploma in the row of the competitor with an offer of $ 400 on four pairs of sunglasses by Brook Designer, worth $ 660, Lucy made her way on stage To reach the host Drew Carey And playing time is money. The game, one of the most recent in Cavalcade of Games on the show (initially created in 2003 in the Bob Barker era, with a revised edition launched in 2014 with Carey), gives the player a chance of $ 20,000. To play, five grocery articles are displayed and the competitor has 10 seconds to place the five items on one of the three platforms according to their prices: $ 0 $ 2.99, $ 3.00 to $ 5.99 and more than $ 6.00. When time is exhausted, Carey asks if they are right. If they are, they earn $ 20,000. If this is not the case, they have 40 seconds to try again, with this $ 20,000 increase by increments of $ 500 per second. If they manage to get the prices just before the chronometer touches zero, they earn everything that remains, but if they don’t? Bum-Bum-Ba-Dum-Whaaaa.

So, time is literally money in time, it is money, so every second must count. Lucy admitted that “speed is not my thing”, so Carey helped her with a strategy, telling her to decide where the articles should go as a announcer George Gray describes the articles. Lucy did her first pass in the 10 seconds, but she was incorrect, so it was on the second step for a shot to recover money for her troubles. The 40 -second timer started, and that’s where Lucy made her mistake. Instead of thinking about where the items should go, she turned to the public to ask her where they thought that the articles should go, which encourages Carey to notice: “You lost $ 5,000 looking at the audience.” She sounded again, and again, she was still wrong, with Carey being decidedly useless in adding that she had now lost almost $ 10,000 by looking to the public to get help.

Lucy could have managed much worse on “the price is right”

Fortunately for Lucy, the third time was charm, and she brought back $ 7,172, which Carey added was “not bad at all”. It is certainly not so bad for less than a minute of work, but she could have done much better if she had not turned to the audience to obtain help. How are you supposed to treat a dozen contradictory cries under pressure? Do you scan the crowd for a face that seems worthy of distance? Even if you manage to choose consensus, you always count on an audience that is probably a little bitter, it is not those who are not on stage. Are they really rooted for you – or just wanting to see a crash? “Of course, this juicy fruit eraser costs more than $ 6.00, trust me.” Of course. At best, it gives you someone else to blame when things go aside. Viewers at home? They have already decided that you had blown it up.

Lucy is not the first competitor on The price is correct To make the mistake of turning to the public to get help. Ina episode of March 2025Yanira, a competitor from Hawaii, played Switcheroo when she started guessing her choices. Rather than getting involved with them, or counting on it to make changes, it – yes, you guessed it – turned to the public to get help. Only her actions ended with a disaster, Yanira breaking one of the digital blocks when she turned to move it. She won two things that day: “Diddly” and “Squat”. Only, she did not blame the public for her misfortune. No, Yanira pinned the blame on the host Drew Carey. That, friends are like watching a full train nuclear explosion.

The price is correct is broadcast on CBS. Consult your local lists for time.