Freeze Frame

Freeze Frame
Premiere Date (Barker Era)	February 22, 1995 (#9473D)
Premiere Date (Carey Era)	December 24, 2007 (#4171K)
Pricing Game Location	Center Stage
Previous Premiered Pricing Game	Make Your Mark/Barker's Markers
Next Premiered Pricing Game	Split Decision
Finale Date (Barker Era)	June 13, 2007 (#4033K)

Freeze Frame is a game played for a prize that's less than $10,000. The game board features a ring of eight tiles, each with a two-digit number. There is a frame encloses two of the tiles at the top of the ring, which form a four-digit price.

Gameplay

• For the game, the ring incrementally rotates one tile clockwise, each time stopping so that a different price appears in the frame. In keeping with the title of the game, this is usually accompanied by a "camera click" sound effect. To win the prize, the contestant must pull a lever to stop the ring from moving while the correct price of the prize is shown in the frame. Naturally, the first tile in the frame represents the first two numbers in one price, while another click would make it the second tile and thus, the last two numbers in another price.
• There are 8 possible price combinations in the game, but as with many other pricing games, usually only 2 or 3 of them are a realistic price for the prize being offered, which narrows the selection down.

Trivia

• While the reveal is by magic, the reveal has malfunctioned three times on April 6, 1995 (#9534D), April 11, 1995 (#9542D), and November 25, 1997 (#0542K), former producer Roger Dobkowitz came by on those instances to fix the problem, and the reveal was handled manually. The one from April 11, 1995 (#9542D) was won.
• Freeze Frame is the last pricing game to offer a 4-digit car. A Ford Aspire worth $9,630 was offered on January 24, 1996 (#9823D), but was lost.
• On January 24, 2001 (#1673K), a red and yellow split screen graphic similar to Range Game was introduced. It changed to a filmstrip graphic on January 19, 2010 (#5002K).
• A red edge was added to the ring on November 4, 2022 (#9965K).
• Freeze Frame has never offered a 5-digit car because it would require a change to the rules. Either the first number should be given for free on a separate display, or every other tile should have three numbers.
• The most number of times this game was played in any season was 33 (season 24), while the least number of times this game was played in any season was 13 (season 36).
• On March 25, 2016 (#7465K), the first College Rivals episode, a $6,284 Sea-Doo was offered, and it was won by Peter Freyer (Texas), while Kesley Hightower (Oklahoma) was denied.
• Usually the game was concealed by the Giant Price Tag, but there were occasions where it was not in the Barker era, even a few occasions where the game was revealed before the prize. On February 21, 2018 (#8223K, aired out of order on February 19), the prize for the game was revealed behind Door #2 while Drew and contestant Sirmark Gentry were standing in front of Contestant's Row, and the camera pulled away from Door #2 to reveal the game at around the place where it would be played if behind the Giant Price Tag.
• This was also the name of the classic rock song by The J. Geils Band from 1981.
• This was also the name of an unsold game show pilot hosted by Jack Clark in 1981.

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YouTube Video

Freeze Frame for 2 Yamaha Raptor 125 Offroad Vehicles (April 24, 2013, #6323K aired out-of-order on April 25, 2013)