One Right Price

One Right Price is a game played with two prizes.

Gameplay[]

Two prizes are displayed, and then the "One Right Price" is revealed. The contestant must decide which prize, the left or the right, has that price. If the contestant chooses correctly, they win both prizes.

History[]

The game entered the rotation permanently on November 6, 1975 (#1664D).
Traditionally, Holly Hallstrom and Dian Parkinson would model the two prizes, and Janice Pennington would always walk out with the One Right Price, standing in between both prizes. These days, with only two models per episode, both models will stand in the center holding one end of the One Right Price. The game's classic setup was used on June 19, 2023 (#0291L, aired out of order on June 26).
Occasionally, One Right Price can be played for 2 cars, but most of the time it's played for 2 prizes that were less than $10,000. Sometimes the game can offer 2 trips. On at least one playing, on March 18, 1992 (#8353D), the two trips were revealed each behind two doors.
The game changed 3 times. The dates were on May 17, 1977 (#2382D), March 25, 1983 (#4855D), and April 18, 1988 (#6851D), the date of the current setup's debut. Before the last change, it used the same podiums that Double Prices did until it took on its own distinctive design in 1987.
On November 13, 1992 (#8575D), the foghorn sounded for a loss instead of the normal buzzer.
In the Dennis James nighttime shows, there was a "prototype" of the game. It was played with three furs, and if the contestant won, they would only win the fur that matched the price. Dennis himself held the one right price and the hidden prices were face down on stands. It was only played twice during the nighttime run, and was always played for fur coats.
2 cars were played on primetime specials.
On October 19, 2009 (#4871K), a screen with the game's title (based on the current look) was added; on October 17, 2016 (#7651K), the logo on the props and the screen was made to straighten the words rather than slightly slanting them.
On May 20, 2015 (#7143K, aired out of order on May 6, originally rescheduled to air on May 5), Danielle Perez, a contestant in a wheelchair that also had no feet, wound up winning a treadmill while playing this game.
On the Summer Beach Party specials aired August 11, 2015 (#7202K, aired out of order on August 10) and June 21, 2019 (#8805K), One Right Price was renamed "One Righteous Price" and was won on the former episode and lost on the latter episode.
On March 23, 2017 (#7865K, aired out of order on March 31), the College Rivals episode, Warnessa Hightower (Texas) won trips to Lake Tahoe and New Orleans, while David Webb (Oklahoma) was denied.
On February 17, 2020 (#9031K), during Dream Car Week, One Right Price was played for a $16,275 Caribbean blue metallic Chevy Spark LS and a $17,315 Kia Rio S. Unfortunately, it was lost.

Trivia[]

The most number of times this game was played in any season was 55 (seasons 5 and 7), while the least amount of times this game was played in any season was 14 (season 26).
One Right Price was one of seven pricing games seen on the fifth taping session of Season 36, which was seen on October 19, 2007 (#4045K, aired out of order on November 20), October 26, 2007 (#4055K, aired out of order on October 18), October 31, 2007 (#4063K), November 5, 2007 (#4071K, aired out of order on November 28), November 12, 2007 (#4081K, aired out of order on November 14), and November 20, 2007 (#4092K, aired out of order on October 25).
This game is relatively easy to win, having a 50% success rate if a prize is chosen randomly.
This game is a harder version of Switch?. On Switch?, the prices of both items are shown, but here, only one is.
This game remains the only one to still use the show's original price tags. They were previously also used on Double Prices until August 21, 2017 (#8001K, aired out-of-order on September 8), Most Expensive until January 25, 2010 (#5011K), and Check Game until June 11, 2004 (#2955K, aired out-of-order on June 18).
This game is basically the inverse of Double Prices - instead of associating one of two prices to one prize, the object here is to associate one of two prizes to one price.

Gallery[]

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Video Clips[]

The Original Format of One Right Price (September 16, 1972, #002N)
Contestant in a Wheelchair Wins a Treadmill (May 6, 2015, #7123K, aired out of order on May 5)

1970s Pricing Games

Active Pricing Games