If you’re familiar with game shows at all, you’ll know that asking the audience for help on The Price Is Right is akin to opting to “pass” instead of “play” on Family Feud, or selecting “Z” in the bonus round of Wheel of Fortune. But for contestant David Sanchez, asking for feedback from the audience was a strategy that paid off big when playing Double Cross on a recent The Price Is Right episode.
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The sixth item up for bid on the June 13 episode was a silent disco package including five pairs of headphones, a transmitter, a keypad, and a cable, with the bidding going through three rounds. On the first bid, all the contestants were over on price, as they were again for the second round. In the third round, Sanchez bid $575, the closest to the actual price of $597. Imagine how much higher it would have been if disco wasn’t dead.
Sanchez made his way to the stage where host Drew Carey revealed that he would be playing Double Cross. The game takes place on a big X, with two prizes at either corner and numbers in the middle. It’s up to the contestant to correctly guess the price for each prize where they intersect. Only on this day, the contestant, Sanchez, didn’t correctly guess the price at all, but turned to the audience for their help instead.
Placing Faith in the Audience Paid Off on ‘The Price Is Right’ — Finally
As far as strategies go, asking the audience is one that can go horribly wrong, as it did for a contestant on an earlier episode. Thus, it was reasonable to assume that Sanchez had blown his chance for a 75-inch 4K QLED smart TV, with a BluRay player and seven BluRay films, and a washer and dryer set with two laundry bag hampers. In fact, you might say that he… hampered… his chances at winning (the jokes are free, you lucky Collider readers).
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“Oh my goodness, what is happening?”
But he did it anyway, turning to the audience and holding up two fingers. “TV is 2,000?” he asked his friends in the audience. They nodded, and he moved the lines accordingly, making the TV $2,516 and the washer/dryer set $3,196, intersecting at the number 6. Sanchez didn’t lock it in right away, though, looking out to the audience one last time and asking their opinion with a quizzical, “Yeah?” They roared back their approval, Sanchez locked it in, and cue the loser horn…
Except when Carey asked if he was right, the board lit up, revealing that Sanchez the audience was indeed correct. Sanchez threw his fist into the air, yelling a hearty “Whoo!!” That win pushed Sanchez’s total to $6,309 in prizes. Unfortunately, he spun a 120 on the Showcase Showdown wheel, ending his time on the show at that point. Nevertheless, kudos came in from viewers at home, with one commenting, “Bravo! You did an amazing job on this!” Another viewer added, “Congrats David, you won two prizes!” And others shared party and champagne-popping emojis.
Sorry, silly unknown fan, but no. The audience did an amazing job. In fact, maybe Sanchez should have asked the audience to spin the big wheel too. Ah, what could have been.
The Price Is Right returns for a new season this fall. Previous episodes can be viewed on CBS.