Talk:Penny Ante

Removal from the Rotation
Blaming Penny Ante's removal from the rotation on Season 30 has no merit. The game had been malfunctioning on and off for years; the problems did indeed get worse during Season 30, but the final straw came when it couldn't be made to work for Season 31's October 9, 2002 episode. Pick-a-Number was eventually subbed into the show that day, and that is when Penny Ante disappeared. -TPIRFanSteve 17:49, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Penny problem?
They were given three pennies....

One mistake... 1 penny gone Two mistakes... 2 pennies gone Three mistakes... 3 pennies gone Four mistakes... game over

Did I miss something? "If, however, the contestant made four mistakes between the two items and ran out of pennies, the game ended."

Where's the problem? TheHYPO 18:58, 6 July 2007 (UTC)


 * The problem is that Penny Ante ended after three mistakes. If you ran out of money, the game was over immediately. -TPIRFanSteve 21:35, 6 July 2007 (UTC)


 * OK... so I still proceed to ask... since it's obviously misinterpretable... would it not make more sense to change the four to three, instead of eliminating the explaination altogether? The goal is to make it clearer... TheHYPO 08:05, 7 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Okay...the way it's phrased now is good, in my opinion. -TPIRFanSteve 20:09, 7 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Sounds pretty clear to me too.-71.63.42.172 (talk) 22:37, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Last Game Retired
"Penny Ante was the last game to be officially retired during Bob Barker's tenure as host; however, Hit Me, which was retired several months earlier, was played a number of times in the four and a half years between Penny Ante's final playing and ultimate retirement." This appears on the Hit Me page as well. Which is it?


 * Which is what? If you mean that they both claim to be the "last game retired", you are missing some of the wording:


 * "Penny Ante was the last game to be officially retired..."
 * "Hit Me was the last pricing game played to be retired..."


 * Note the word "played". The course of events are such:
 * Last game of Penny Ante played
 * Several other games both played and then retired
 * Last game of Hit Me played
 * Hit Me officially retired
 * Penny Ante officially retired (4 and a half years after it was last played).


 * For the 4 and a half years, it was just on hiatus, though it was "retired" for a week shortly after its last playing, and then the decision was reversed. (only to be re-retired 4 and a half years later). Several other games were retired after Penny Ante's last playing, but before it was officially retired. So you can see, Penny Ante was the last game to be "declared retired", but Hit Me was the last game played to be retired (IE: the most recently played game that is now retired). In addition, Time Is Money is currently on hiatus (since 2004), but hasn't been retired (if it DID get retired before the next season starts, it would take the "last retired" game during Barker's tenure title from Penny Ante, but Hit Me would still have been played more recently... Of course this depends on whether you consider the post-season to be retirement under Bob Barker, or Post-Barker. Either way, it doesn't matter unless it happens, which is probably unlikely. TheHYPO 09:09, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Problem with the prop
How did the game malfunction for years and get worse during Season 30. In other words, what were the problems?-71.63.42.172 18:58, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Year the color scheme changed
In the past, you may have seen the caption below the picture on the prop state that it was used from 1984-2002. It could have been that way, but the exact year for the set change is not known. Users have no idea which scheme was used for most of the early 80s (the first one or the final one).-(71.63.42.172 (talk) 23:53, 14 February 2008 (UTC))

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BetacommandBot (talk) 14:08, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Sound Effect
Since it's described in the article what the effect was "similar to", I should mention that I believe the effect is the same effect used in Trivia Trap when revealing the four screens of answers. TheHYPO (talk) 07:14, 4 April 2008 (UTC)