Joker (pricing game)
Joker is a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right. Debuting on February 14, 1994, it is played for a four-digit prize (worth between $3,000 and $10,000), and uses small prizes.
Gameplay
The Contestant is shown five face-down playing cards, one of which is a Joker. To win the large prize, the contestant must discard the Joker.
Four two-digit prizes are shown, one at a time, with the two digits in the prices shown. The contestant must determine which order the digits in the price belong in (for example, $24 or $42). For each correct guess, the contestant wins the small prize and earns an opportunity to discard a card. After all the prizes have been played, the discarded cards are revealed to see if the Joker has been discarded.
The basic gameplay of Joker essentially the same as that of Shell Game, in which the contestant also prices small prizes for chances to mark shells in search of one concealing a ball. It is also very similar to Bonus Game, except that the window marked in Bonus Game is determined by which prize a contestant prices correctly, and not by the contestant's choice. The main difference, however, between Joker and the aforementioned games is that there are five card options instead of the four options found in Shell Game and Bonus Game. This means that a contestant in Joker can price all four small prizes correctly and still lose the game, unlike in those games.
Foreign versions
On the 2006 British version of The Price Is Right, Joker was called Joe-Ker -- a reference to the host, Joe Pasquale.
The Title of the French-Canadian Misez Juste's version of Joker was actually translated to "Four Aces" (Le Quatre As) instead of calling it "Joker" like most versions (even those not in English) tend to.
Vietnam's version of Joker is called "Chú Teu". The game's board is a replica of the one used in the UK for Bruce's Price Is Right -- an oddity, as most of the Vietnamese version's props closely resemble their US counterparts.
On Holland's Cash en Carlo, the contestant was given a free discard at the start of the game. As a result, however, the contestant could only price three items.