Sue Reed wrote:
They are not sourced and there are a bunch of statements like "The reason often given for its retirement ..."
There are three external links at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Price_Is_Right_pricing_games that have detailed descriptions of the various specific games:
*[http://www.cbs.com/daytime/price/games/plinko.shtml Official CBS website, games archive] *[http://www.golden-road.net/modules/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=pricing_game_notes Pricing Game Timeline and Notes] from Golden-Road.net (I had to repair this one, the link 404ed previously) *[http://gscentral.net/pricing1.htm The TPIR Pricing Game Directory] Features extensive descriptions and screengrabs of all current and past pricing games.
I haven't done anything like an extensive comparison (I glanced at ten or so of the articles picked at random) but from the amount of information I've seen for each game they could well be the source for much if not all of the content of these articles. Might do well for a start to paste this external links section into all of the individual game articles.
The current arrangement looks like a reasonable way of organizing this information to me, merging them all into one big article on pricing games would result in a monsterously huge article. The description from the initial posting on this thread,
And what do we have to say about them? Analyses, statistics, etc? Nah, just when it showed up, and when it went.
_greatly_ misrepresents what I'm seeing here, most of these articles have a detailed description of how it works and a substantial "trivia" section with a list of other facts about it.
This is actually quite fascinating, I had no idea there were fans of the Price is Right who'd keep track of all this sort of stuff. :)