Not really crazy. Terry got the exact bid with help from Ted Slauson who is a math genius and who attended the show over 30 times I believe.. He made spreadsheets to memorize the price of prizes and the show up until that point recycled prizes so with his vast memory was able to memorize almost any prize that could show up. Terry, the winner was staring at Ted in the audience and Ted was sitting next to Linda who was Terry's wife. She relayed the final bid after Ted suggested it but then ended up saying maybe he should bid 500 and have a nice round number at the end to avoid any weirdness. Linda didn't listen or was already in the middle of relaying 743 to Terry so that is why his final bid ended in those numbers. The black woman also won a car earlier in the show thanks to Ted as well, because she listened to him as well. The show stopped the taping for about 15 minutes after a female producer knew Terry had given the exact bid, because they suspected cheating. It wasn't cheating as audience members are allowed to help, the whole show is built up on that. So they went back to taping and awarded the guy his prizes. Drew was very subdued because he thought this could be the end of the price is right with some kind of scandal. This of course never happened. Watch the documentary The man who knew too much on KZfaq.

@@1986beasty I thought he used 743 because it was their anniversary or pin number or something.

@@1986beasty, Thank you for all the information.

@@1986beasty Yes the white man was able to get the exact number. I saw the documentary too and was impressed b the white guy named Terry's system. Sharon was able to win a car earlier in the show! Bravo to math!!

Sucks to be the bitch that lost.

Apparently you have no sense of time. I'd get that checked.

I get it. Bob Barker always had that snowy white hair, even when I was a kid in the 90s. I can't recall a time in my lifetime (34 years old) that he had normal color hair. So, for me, it too does feel like he retired recently.

Bob Barker tinted his hair for many years. As I remember, he stopped in 1981. When he stepped onstage with white hair, the audience went NUTS.

@FayeKramer-rl9xz I believe he had the Abe Lincoln treatment. I think some fan told Barker he looks the best with white hair so kept it, like how that one little girl wrote to Lincoln that he should grow a beard....so he did lol

@@shadic6892 He stopped coloring his hair in 1987.

Lol!😂😂😂

@@minnettewalker2623 No LOL here, they probably did have an internal meeting afterwards to discuss the possibility of an internal cheating scam.

You don't know how deep some of these people go with TPiR. Spreadsheets, research. Which prizes have which options. Tons of memorization. Some are contestants multiple times. It's crazy.

Debbie Drew Downer 😄

Mimi was in the audience holding up a sign that said "Y O U S U C K, CAREY !!!" 😄🤣😝🤪

I agree if I was a guy who won I would want to do something for the lady just because she handled it so well I don’t know what maybe give her $1000 maybe give her one of the prizes I don’t know but I would wanna do something for her

​@@joeglennaz❤

Mrs. Phyllis Stephens Well, _Phyllis,_ I didn't know you were backstage at this particular time witnessing the events as they unfolded. Perhaps you can take that tone of yours and shove it up your Sunday dress...?

+Mrs. Phyllis Stephens savage haha

I got, "You're going to be investigated soon, Buddy."

Drew was shocked, anyone can see that, it was the fact Terry got it right , down to the 43 dollars, not even a round number. That was what was strange about it.

@@maxcohen13 Hey buttplug, there was a show about these guys that studied the Price is Right. Back stage and all.

lmao

Apparently she won a car ...the guy did a interview n said so

Take her along? Naaaaaaa, I would give her cab fare to the airport for her to go back home. No participation trophies offered.

bagelboi66 of course she thought she won, you would've thought so as well and me too for that matter. Well some win and some don't.....😋😋😋

Why feel sorry for her? I mean, you can choose to feel however you want, but it appeared someone she knew in the audience gave her the idea to bid the amount she did and she almost changed it by ten grand. She was clueless while the other guy had spent months trying to break the pricing code and he did it. The other lady still walked away with what she had already won but the focus should be on the guy, not her, imo.

And here they've been paying their models the big $$$$ all these years!

When that man was on the table I lost my shit 😂😂😂

The guy showing the pool table was scratching the hell out of the felt with the stick 😂

@@owdeezstrauz I doubt it matters, it's probably just a show piece and the winner of the prize would get a new one sent from the manufacturer if they didn't take cash value. I can't imagine that they'd wanna try to repack that one and spend a load of time on it when the company is already prepared to send stuff to customers. Hell, it might even have just been a prop that was built on set and it's not even real. I dunno. Then again, I could be completely wrong about all of it. 😜 And to be clear on one thing, the idea that they wouldn't repack a table to send to the winner because it would be expensive won't work. If you dumpster dive a big company like guitar center, you'll find MOUNTAINS of unopened gear that's cheaper and easier to throw away than to send back to the manufacturers. And price is right has a way bigger budget than a guitar store lol

So they cheated..

@@cooltop1061 it's like card counting. Not exactly cheating.

@@cooltop1061 I mean, if someone researches a ton of trivia before going on Jeopardy is that cheating? Theodore did mass amounts of research, and he helped someone else with it which is allowed on this game.

@@cooltop1061 That's not cheating. Price is Right should have used new products and prizes. Oh, the name of the show is "Price is Right", so you're cheating if you research prices before coming onto the show --- NOT.

@@cooltop1061 Have you ever seen Price is Right? Everyone cheats, they look right at the crowd when they're trying to guess with people screaming prices, the only thing this time is that someone actually knew the prices.

No, tomeka just thought she had it in the bag

@@jonburrows2684 tomeka?? lol

If you guess the first bidding war right you get $100. Spin the wheel and land on the $1 marker you get $1000 with a bonus spin to win some more. But $1M for guessing the final one right? That’s well above scale.

I think there is a game where you have to guess a price of an item and the host lets you know if the price is higher or lower and you keep guessing until you get it right. But if you guess the price of two items in under 10 secs you get 1million dollars.

I have a question. What happens if both contestants, for example, are exactly $94 away from the price of their showcase? Do they both win everything in both showcases? Because it would seem really unfair to me to have a playoff or tiebreaker, and have one of them go from winning everything in both showcases to getting the consolation prize of a year's supply of ricearoni instead,just because they lost a damn tiebreaker. However, since you have to get within $100 of the price to win both, which happens rarely, there should be a bonus, like hitting the $0.05, $0.15, or $1.00 on the showcase showdown, if you nail it exactly. Drew said it happened once in 1973, which was back when Bob was doing the show. I don't know about $1,000,000, but since you get $1,000 if you get $1.00 on 1 or 2 spins, and a chance at more, like $10,000 for the two smaller ones next to a dollar and $25,000 for hitting the dollar a second consecutive time, maybe a quarter million dollars would be sufficient?

There’s actually a scandal that someone in the audience always shouted the right answer so they would’ve lost so much money

The highest price for the entire show is no more than 100k. You go on and try to host a show thats worth couple million first

He said he thought it was a scam in an interview you are right.

He cheated

@@CSJiGSaW08 wasn't really cheating, he knew the exact price because the items the show used were the same from other times and the guy knew their prices and had seen them from watching the show, so it was really just knowledge of the items value, even if the knowledge came from the show

Why would he use such an exact number. Make it 23700 or even 23740 could maybe be believable.

@@danelysabreu1451 it wasn't him who knew the price. Watch the documentary "The Perfect Bid." This guy Terry, got his so-called "knowledge" of the prizes from man named Theodore Slousin who had been a super fan since the early 70's. This idiot then took all the credit that he's some kind of genius when he only got the exact total of the showcase from Theodore who told him and his wife what it was.

Drew is great.

Drew is great, but he is right to think something wasn't making sense though.

What taxes?

Hi

@@dantunno9264 sometimes it’s hard to actually keep some prizes if you can’t afford the insurance on the cars, and the government takes tax on all cash prizes, not sure if they mean tax, fees, or insurance, but basically your prizes aren’t free.

​@@zoomdoof6107 a guy in the audience gave him the right numbers watch "Perfect Bid: The contestant who knew to much" on Netflix

@@roldiny he is called Theodore

@@fomone2018 The black broad was "trying" to bet 31,545 which would have went over but accepted the bid... its why she wasnt super mad!

I watch this show whenever I have dinner at my parents’ house (they record and watch during dinner), and there are some items that I can routinely get within a couple hundred bucks. Like the small Mitsubishi hatchback. $17,295 was my guess and the price was $17,400. Cars can vary based on the different packages and accessories.. but literally the only reason I have any idea what boats cost is due to the showcase showdown. It’s really not hard with repetitive viewing to mentally tally what repeat items cost.

There is a documentary where he listened to a guy that sat next to his wife, and that guy had compiled the data on all the prizes, so he knew what each prize cost. They took like 30 minutes trying to figure out what to do between announcing the winner. However, it was not considered cheating keeping track of the price of repeat prizes. So they started changing the prices on every repeat prize so this doesn’t happen again.

Lol Yea, the story of Ted was aired today on the Japanese Television tonight. I just love this dude

Then they taxed the hell out of the items that don't even work, and the guy lost everything.

@@rpsyco What?? He didn't get anything??

His bid contained numbers special to him- anniversary year and wife’s birth month. No research- just very very lucky

He took the bid from an audience member, see the documentary "Perfect Bid". Someone else did the work, he took the credit and the prizes.

You are confused. Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much is about Ted Slauson. The guy in this video clip is Terry Kniess.

@@johnnyvt9 the guy who won the showcase showdown befriended Ted Slauson in line before the show. It’s actually coved in “Perfect Bid.”

I bet you don't see this in the youtube comments much. G, you are right and I was wrong. I stand corrected. lol

@@johnnyvt9 lol, it’s all good buddy…

Even the girl who was playing looked to specific people in the audience to get her number

I read where him and his wife watched the show for over a year or so and kept track of what everything cost. Than when it was time to bid she signaled what to bid, I don’t see how they can call that cheating because everyone yells out prices. I heard the PIR started changing how often they show certain prizes.

After this, Ted Slauson was banned from "The Price Is Right" for life.

@@King-ze2kt They were both getting their answers from Ted lol.

Yeah Ted actually tried to change the number because he didn't want to make it look too obvious. But since he already told Terry's wife what his original bid was. As soon as her husband looked at her she gave him the price and he won it.

Jason Cataldi if you thought they were cheating as well would you show alot of emotion?

I would be overly sarcastic with excitement but I guess that’s just me

Even if I thought he was cheating I would have treated him like royalty and let the producers sort it all out after taping ended. Kid of like Bob Barker said he would handled it.

😂😂😂

ROTFLMBOCSLAPMPGFA 😂

@Captain : thanks for the post. I was wondering why he seemed so uninterested.

Captain Cartman Yea but if it was Bob Barker Bob would still act excited and then worry about it after the show was over. Drew needs to learn this. One of the reasons why I stopped watching the show was that Drew was just going through the steps with no emotion.

Captain Cartman From what I understand, the men have been watching for a very long time and pay attention to the price of things in the prizes. But after this even though he legally did not cheat, they start changing things up more to make this all but impossible to happen again.

If anyone was cheating is was the black lady. If you're gonna cheat you don't guess the perfect answer, you bet a little but off but make sure your still win, just like she did. Guessing perfectly arouses too much suspicion.

Don Swartwood only people from PA are crooked!!!

He knew the prices all right...!

Aw, I hope you're wrong :/

You just believe anything you want to as long as it’s in A documentary, correct¿

You're absolutely wrong. Guy's name is Terry Kniess. He and his wife watched every show - realized the show used the same prizes over and over. So they took notes and memorized prices. They figured out that the packages were generally worth around $24,000, and he wanted to make sure he didn’t go over, so he started with $23,000. The $743 came from a combination of his wedding anniversary (7th of April) and his wife’s birth month of March (3). Because of this, prices are much more random now, and the prizes are also more upscale and less familiar to the ma-and-pa core of the show’s audience.

Exactly this! Just saw a mythbusters type video explaining this and other game show cheats. Like a guy who remembered the algorithm for Press Your Luck

Michael Williams it happened in 1974, l watched the show regularly with my mom, who loved Bob Barker, the show even came to Louisville, we went, but didn't win anything.

same here

Really? Then quit typing stuff and just scroll up!

It is also so risky to aim for a perfect bid. Just one dollar more and he would have lost it all.

@@danielsmith6628 okay then that's news to me about that fact because I thought that it happened post Bob barker era but now I know differently, thanks for the update.

or didn't believe it was legit

Drew Didn't Think This Would Not Air At All

He thought the guy cheated, so he figured the episode would be pulled from air, so he wasn’t as enthusiastic.

He already knew the price

Drew knew he cheated

I just watched it with my gf, it was really good and informative. I hate how this guy continues to take credit and say it was him who was smart enough to guess it right.

yup Theodore was amazing . they didn't show it on this clip but he was seated right next to the guys wife and had told her the price to bid and at 2:03 when the guy looks at the audience his wife flashed him the amount to bet, The woman was actually looking to him for the price but with trips hit was hit or miss and he still missed it by less than 500 bucks.

Christoph Ross What is a gf?

Girl friend = gf

Vulture Vic Oh, thank you.

the guy explains how he was able to get most of the numbers correct but the last 2 digits are apparently his pin number on his debit cards or something. But yeah he did his homework

Go watch the Perfect Bid documentary. It will explain it all. It wasn't Terry that was the genius. It was actually a guy named Theodore. I'll let you watch the documentary and not ruin anymore but Terry knew nothing and is a douchebag for trying to take credit for it.

I find that hard to believe that the guy could put all that data together in a few minutes and then add up everything correctly.

As people have mentioned earlier but I think worth mentioning again what that guy did memorizing prices is like counting cards in Las Vegas. It is having an extremely unfair advantage over the other players; competitors. Just my take, I feel that is wrong.

​@@nmsoccer222Totally agree... He is quoted as saying "There's such a thing as being TOO perfect"... Imagine trying to take credit for another man's work and then believing you're a genius afterwards! Fucking ridiculous! 🤣🤣🤣

He Said Just In Case It Air And/Or For The Live Audience

Happened in 1974

Did Drew just snort a Xanax or something?? What a dead fish... Dude guesses the prize on the dot and Drew is lazily fumbling thru his molasses "get your pet spayed or neutered" spiel. Jesus Drew... What a dud...

He knew he was cheating

Connor Parsons Fk you!!! He THOUGHT he was cheating!

Yeah drew sucks. Bob owned this show.

@@connorparsons7515 he did cheat !!

Venom101002 the dude had studied for years and beat the pants off of them. Drew wasnt happy

John Canry he didnt cheat

The producers were indicating the guy cheated simply because they couldn't believe it. Drew was told when he was handed the card, and assumed that the episode would never air as a result. In the end, it turned out the guy didn't cheat, but they weren't going to go back and reshoot the ending.

Venom101002 the producers talked to him beforehand and said he was probably cheating, so drew thought it wouldn’t be aired on TV.

watch Netflix Perfect bid and you'll learn the reason why

7 years later and no one has answered your question. It has never happened before, and the odds of it happening are astronomical. If it does happen though, both contestants will win both showcases

@@MrKG204 or perhaps a re-bid

For a second I thought the video title was referencing this situation

@@MrKG204 Jim is dead. He died never knowing the answer to his question.

@@WR-kk4gz rebid on what?

I thought the same thing.

re: "guessed it on point" = heyyyyy ... thou must be attorneys !!

birdy1numnum She was great 😊😀! She’s a way better sport than Terry, who took all the credit away from Ted Slauson after Terry “won” his showcase and her showcase.

Exactly. Terry is a POS for taking all the credit on that TMZ interview

I would have loved to be a fly on the wall in the Press Your Luck "war room" when Michael Larson basically said "fuck your game" and cleaned them out LOL

Exactly right 🤣🤣🤣

There was no cheating here. Contestants are allowed to get help from the audience (people are always yelling out suggestions). More recent than Michael Larson (he also didn't cheat), there was Charles Ingram on the UK version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. In that instance, he didn't get the £1 million he won on the show. Too much coughing from the audience from people who were helping him.

Funny thing is I remember being a little kid watching press your luck and seeing that the board clearly was not random. Press your luck was only a matter of time until someone memorized the patterns.

It's not cheating, in either case, it's called doing your homework.

For real? How was he

Great guy funny as heck

@@adambradshaw4510 Terry is an absolute scumbag took credit when it wasn't his number. I know the guy who actually got the number right and gave it to Terry he was my middle school math teacher.

crazy clemsonfan no man he is a good guy, down to earth kinda guy. Do you know him?

@@TheMW2informer No but I know the guy who gave him the number. He was a great down to earth guy. And I know Terry stupidly guessed the exact price, won the car(nothing against him but wouldn't have done it on his own), and took credit for it when he got it from someone in the crowd.

Me too

Yeah, but he was old. Let the guy retire.

The models don’t miss it one bit.

There's only one host for this show... Bob Barker; just like there's only one host for Jeopardy; Alex Trebek. R.I.P.📿❇️📿

@@shellygeesey9812 yes

Drew was the Eeyore of The Price Is Right that day LOL!!! 😄🤣😄🤣

Drew already spoiled that he had it exactly right so Sharon couldn’t win

No. No he didn’t

Ted Slauson did, not him or his wife

It's because he knew the bid was perfect and the public and show producers would immediately expect cheating. He explained it on the Netflix documentary 'Perfect Bid'. He thought that someone had infiltrated the show, knew prices and there would be fallout that would cause him to lose his job as host. The producers of the show knew instantly that the bid was exact and stopped the entire show for 10 minutes while they verified Terry didn't cheat here. Drew still thought there would be repercussions because he was about to announce Terry won over $50K in prizes.

Disbelief->excitement

Definitely.

Not true. Drew had no idea until the producer came up to him during the break and said he got the exact bid. Drew thought the show would never air so he wasn't so thrilled. Watch the documentary called "The Perfect Bid."

Hey @mattydaley3042 - Drew does not know showcase answers ahead of time! Do you make up "exaggerated" stories much in daily life, too??

I remember the fool players who are screaming, "No Whammies! No WHAMMIEEEEEES!!!"

Darrin Baker he was told by the producers that there could be cheating involved prior, thats why he didnt go ballistic

thegun88888 bs

+riddleman65 I'm saying there's no cheating.

+Darrin Baker did you not hear Drew say, "This hasn't happened since 1972..."? Or are you just deaf?

+riddleman65 the producers didn't stop Drew, or tell him "there might be cheating". And honestly, you and those like you, are fucking idiots.

Algorithms go you here instead of current issues they are hiding.

+Marteze Gilmore Yes it seems that way. You can tell by his voice as he announces the first players bid and says a difference 494 dollars. Drew definitely knew the winner had it on the nose. And it appears that the gut got the bid from someone in the audience.

I wouldn't say it's flawed just because of this fact. Anyways, you're definitely right - the helper here even said he realized he should have said 23500 right afterwards.

***** The guy in the audience was such a dedicated fan, he made flash cards of prizes and knew everything to the exact number. Saying 23500 results in the same winnings (243 diff, still a DSW), barring the other person getting closer, which is almost impossible, and would have raised no suspicions.

***** If you're that good, there's nothing wrong with the technique. But clearly the show thought it looked bad, and has taken extra steps to make exacta'ing in the SCs much harder.

+WayoshiM Actually if you are exactly on the nose you get both showcases.

+katymvt If your bid is under by $100, you win both. That has happened before. This is a first where it's exactly right in a showcase. Lucky guy. I hope he enjoyed those trips. ^_^

Before the reveal, he was told backstage that the guy nailed it. Everyone suspected cheating, so he thought the show would never get aired.

What are you talking about? The audience and Peter Tomarken was flipping out on that episode. The stupid woman to Michael's left was pissy about it, but everyone else was very excited.

cincycap Was it? I haven't seen that episode in so long, so forgive me for misremembering it. The thing that stands out in my mind is the way he'd get excited and celebrate before he hit the plunger.

Yeah, the CBS executives were pissed and tried every possible way to deny him the money....and they didn't let him return for another show like every other winner...but they did pay him the $110k. Funny thing (and sad) is that a couple years later there was a radio contest offering $30,000 if someone could find a specific serial number on a dollar bill. He took out $50,000 of his Press Your Luck money from the bank, all in $1 bills, and someone broke into his house and stole it while he was at a family Christmas gathering. I just watched a documentary about it earlier tonight....he was a really interesting guy.

Michael Larson observed that the board was not random. He didn't manipulate the software or receive information from an insider working for the show. It was CBS's fault for being so careless. As for TPIR exact bid, Bob Barker would given a much more reasonable reaction instead of jumping to conclusions.

MONOPOLY35 Bob has said he would have drummed up excitement for it and praised Terry Kniess for getting it exactly right.

he's not excited because he thought he cheated. At least that's what he said on a interview.

Facts

***** Which killed the show.

From Google --- if there was a tie within the double showcase-winning range, both contestants would win both showcases.

missy snow Ted told his wife who was sitting next to him in the audience. But everyone always yells out the prices anyways so no he didn’t cheat but he also didn’t do it himself really. The only good thing this guy did was get called up to play lol There’s a documentary on Netflix called the Perfect Bid or something like that. You should watch it, it’ll explain everything.

Amen!

+Paul LaRue thanks Paul

Yes. Starts with a "Z" and ends with an "O".

Guessing a buck is a valid strategy if you think your opponent bid over.

Yeah but to even get right the 43 dollars that is a one in a million guess

@@nickperez7553 to get the 43 right is 1/100 odds actually since there is only 100 options from 00 to 99

Even Bob asked a contestant one time in contestants row "How did you come up with that bid?" He said, "I saw that on your show last week and it was the exact price."

@@jh.4770 BS

Plus imagine everyday a contestant win the showcase by getting it one the nose I think the show would have problems/canceled.

He probably would have said You get it exactly right! You win both showcases!

He would say it is a historic moment on TPIR.

@@erikbunty2016 I forgot about that!

@Mark-yy2py - how do you think? Bob Barker would have reacted in the usual professional, supportive manner as usual ... without any judgmental "cheating" ideas that Drew may have had !!

I remember him. Bad haircut, porn star mustache, and bulging eyes 😂

They made a movie about the guy. Perfect Bid: The contestant who knew too much. He was on the show the day this guy got the showcase bid and is the reason the guy got it. I highly recommend the documentary.

I get the pun because of press your luck lol

Montgomery Mall Just like with Michael Larson, he found a way to beat the system by outsmarting them.

No Hugo, the husband and wife explained to the media exactly how they did it after the show aired. It was covered in a July 11, 2010 article in Esquire magazine. Google "Terry Kneiss Esquire Price is Right" to read it.

The full story is that he knew it was 27 thousand something, and just threw out the 743 as a lucky guess

Xavier Quincy Zayden -- Before Michael Larson EVER went on the show Press Your Luck he watched the show THEN Recorded some of the following shows and studied the board pattern then figured out which squares the Whammy Would NOT appear in then got on press your luck and the rest is what We All know !! , This is what I've heard/seen on the internet about Michael Larson .

Tbh inside jobs don't surprise me at all. We'll never know I guess.

He was shocked. It hadn't happened for over 30 yrs.

he cheated...

EliteGeeks O but he didn't.

Anthony Demauleon ok

Anthony Demauleon how do you know Drew got the trailer?

Anthony Demauleon What a bunch of bull you are spewing. The guy spent 10 years studying the prices of items sold on TPIR. He even did an interview after, saying "10 years of studying prices, that i am guaranteed to be off by a dollar or two at most". And as for Drew and the trailer, did you know that the producers promised drew one if a contestant were to get his/her showcase on the nose??? The guy kept all his prizes, and used the trailer to go on Vacation with his wife!