‘The Price Is Right’ Celebrates 10,000 Episodes With Extra Big Wins for Contestants That Top Off at $100,000!

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Rosemary Rossi Reaching a landmark 10,000 episodes of “The Price Is Right” warrants a little something special for the contestants playing the games during that show, don’t you think?

How about upping the top prize to be won for a single game to a whopping $100,000? The milestone episode of the iconic CBS game show is set to air on Feb.

26 — with an encore presentation in primetime on March 4 — and in celebration, they’ve made a few one-time rules to some fan-favorite games, all with a 10,000 theme: • Grand Game will be played for $100,000 instead of standard $10,000. • Lucky Seven will be played as Lucky Ten with 10 $1 bills instead of the usual 7. • Double Prices will be played as usual but include a $10,000 cash bonus. • Any Number will have the Piggy Bank 10,000 times the normal value (i.e: $1.23 prize will be $12,300) “The Price Is Right,” network television’s No.

1-rated Daytime series, is the longest-running game show in television history at 53 years. A few facts to go along with the history-making anniversary: • Since 1972, “The Price Is Right” has given away over $350 million in cash and prizes — including more than 9,200 cars. • “The Price Is Right” was originally only a half-hour long.