The Price Is Right’s biggest mistakes and wildest moments over the years

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The price is correct has been a staple of morning TV for decades — and the iconic game show has had its fair share of hijinks (and scandals) over the years.

Former longtime host Bob Barker made a rookie mistake during a Episode from 1984 accidentally telling a contestant named Albert the correct answer before the game had even ended. While playing Pick-A-Pair, Albert had to figure out which products cost the same price as a can of chili, which cost $1.59 at the time. On his first attempt, he guessed wrong.

“Do you know which one of them costs $1.59?” The raisins,” said Barker — who began hosting the game show in 1972 — without realizing his blunder. “The raisins are $1.59. You know how I know they cost $1.59?

After realizing his mistake, Barker stopped himself and laughed, noting that Albert should now have a “pretty good chance of winning”, which caused the audience to chuckle.

“Don’t stand there and laugh at me,” he joked. ‘I’m kidding myself, Albert. I’ve been here all these years playing this game. You know well enough, you knew I was crazy.

After Barker retired in 2007, Drew Carey was named his game show successor. In its second season of hosting, the first Whose line is it anyway? host faced a near-scandal that never aired.

In the game of Plinko, contestants try to drop chips onto a maze-like board, hoping to land them in the coveted $10,000 slot. While appearing on SiriusXMs Jeff and Larry’s Comedy Roundup show in February 2021, the Drew Carey Show alum recalled an instance where a participant got a little too lucky.

“There’s a college girl who got to play Plinko, and she dropped her first three chips in the $10,000 spot,” he said, noting that she had broken an earlier record. “People got up, jumped up and down and cheered. I mean, the audience went wild. She dropped the fourth chip, the floor director comes up to me, puts the chip in, leans into me and says, ‘The game is solved.’”

While Carey worried that the potential scandal would cost him his job, he discovered that the snafu was a genuine mistake. Before the season had started filming, the game board was used to film a commercial for an upcoming Price is right-themed video game. The machine was rigged with fishing line so that the chips would land on the $10,000 spot every time.

Carey went on to explain that the contestant had been given $30,000 behind the scenes that did not count towards her grand prize total, and gave her a new set of Plinko chips to try again.

Keep scrolling to see some of the other biggest mistakes on the Price is correct over the years: