If someone bids $900, and the person beside them bids $901, it pretty much guarantees the person who bid $900 isn't gonna be picked.
I think they should make people bid at least $50 more, that way it's more fair.
I've seen people consistantly bid one dollar over the person before them every time. It makes me want to shake them and ask, "Can't you come up with an original bid?" It's even worse when they're not even the last person to bid. The only way to prevent bids like that would be to have the contestants write down their bids on a screen like they do on Jeopardy. If two or more people write down the same bid, the person who writes down the bid first would have the option of changing his bid or keeping it the same. This would be done in a way so none of the other players know whether the first player changed his bid or not. The other player(s) who would have to change their bids. By not knowing whether the first player changed his bid or not it discourages people from bidding one dollar over.
Example:
First bidder writes down $700.
Second bidder writes down $850.
Third bidder writes down $850.
Fourth bidder writes down $1,000.
Bidder #2 has the option of keeping or changing his bid. Bidder #3 must change his bid, Bidder #2 changes his bid to $853. Without knowing what bidder #2 wrote down, it would be stupid for bidder #3 to go one dollar over the last bid and write down $851.
That's actually a really good idea. They should have done that early on (though the geezer in me remembers this didn't happen as much in the 70s?).
But yeah it's the reason I have trouble watching the show. These idiots are usually the ones who end up getting picked and I end up rooting against them. The most annoying are the ones who not only go a dollar over, but have to ask the host what the highest or last bid was. GRRRRRRRRRrrrrr
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Keep in mind I have nothing against people making stupid bids (I'd never go on the show cause I'd probably get nervous and do something really dumb). I just can't stand it when people play dirty with the 1 dollar over thing (at least give people a 10 or 15 dollar window)and I always figured when they'd ask about the highest bid they were being lazy in addition. Thanks for clarifying the mic volume issue. BTW did your wife end up winning anything?
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loL nice!! Congrats. That must have been awesome. Did they ship the car to you or did you? Is it the exact car that's on stage? I was offered tickets to the show once when I was attending an ELO concert in the same building. I declined because I'd be afraid of actually being called onto the stage. My pants would probably fall down or I'd get sucked under the wheel or something else terrible...
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Wrong. Bidding one dollar over is just fine. Never change that.
Well, I could argue that the previous player should have bid $901, and then
the next player could bid $902 and possibly go over.
You posters going against it are foolish/stupid.
It's part of good strategy!
I couldn't agree with you more! To me it's like cheating!
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Been watching this game for decades and i've always hated that rule. I agree with the 50 dollar buffer. That's what I always thought should be as well.
I also hate the game "Card Game" where you waste all this time picking cards and then just get to invent your total with the Ace. What a lot of nonsense that is.
"I said no camels, that's five camels, can't you count?"
NO WAY should they change that rule! The point of the game is to bid as close as possible without going over, but a lot of people lowball their bid because they want to play it safe. Besides, once you start screwing around with the rules, it becomes a slippery slope. For example, I hate it when people bid $1 after everyone else has bid, because we know the prize would never just be $1. But do I expect the show to change that rule? No, of course not.
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I couldn't agree more! Whenever my hubby and I are home/on vacation, we watch this show religiously, but I've started to despise it for the mere fact that there's just too much "cheating" going on. I have two problems with the $1 over bid:
1. The person doing this obviously is too lazy/dumb to think for themselves.
2. It automatically bans the original bidder from winning, unless they were right on the money (hardly EVER anyway).
In this way, IMO, it very much is cheating. Thank God for karma though: I've noticed the cheater hardly ever wins their prize/goes on to the showcase, at least when I watch. Coincidence?? I think not!
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I hate this strategy too and always makes me think about this - https://youtu.be/mdQTtdcOFP4
Sadly this rule has been around so long, probably won't change now.
Those $1 higher players always became the bad guys of the show too. I think that is maybe why they let this go on. It creates underdogs and villains. You hope those players face off in the final round and the ruthless player loses.
shareAnd that's been going for how long, 40 years? Thanks for letting us know now.
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