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Lucky $even is a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right
. It is played for a car.

Gameplay

The contestant is given seven $1 bills to start the game, and is shown the first digit in the car's price. It was up to him to figure out the other four digits.

For each digit that the contestant is off, he must pay host Bob Barker $1 (e.g., if the contestant's guess is "5" and the correct digit is "7," he loses $2).

If the contestant has at least $1 remaining after the last digit is revealed, he wins the car; he also receives any leftover money after the $1 surcharge. However, the game immediately ends if the contestant goes bankrupt at any point.

Trivia

Originally, cars played for in this game had just four digits, and no free digits were given.

On Lucky Seven's original board, the game's name was spelled with an "S". The spelling changed when the current board debuted on the primetime specials in the summer of 1986.

Lucky $even is one of the few pricing games where the car's actual retail price is not revealed if the contestant loses before play reaches the final digit.

During the 1986 primetime specials, the contestant was given the last digit, and then had to guess the first four. When the five-digit format was introduced to the daytime show shortly thereafter, the rule was changed to give the first digit.

The first time Lucky $even was played for a 5-digit car, when the contestant made his guess for the third number, the stagehands accidentally revealed the fourth number instead. This led to a fairly easy win.

On the show's 6,000th episode, a woman named Amy Rempel won a Ford Thunderbird (worth $42,764) in Lucky $even and went on to win the Showcase, thereby breaking the daytime show's winnings record with $97,130.

The car is not actually driven out on stage -- it is put in neutral and pushed out by stagehands.

Since sometime in the early '80s, there has been an unspoken rule that zeros are not used in Lucky $even.

The most expensive car ever given away in Lucky $even was a Cadillac XLR, worth $77,566, on the April 9, 2005 Million Dollar Spectacular (aired out of order on April 16, 2005). The contestant, Sheena Lindholm, went on to win her showcase (featuring a motorhome) and set a new primetime winnings record of $183,688.

Lucky Seven was supposedly played for two cars a single time in the early 1970s, with the price the contestant had to guess being the total value of the two cars.

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