Hi Lo
Hi Lo is a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right. Debuting on April 9, 1973, it is played for a prize worth between $2,500 and $10,000, and uses grocery items.
Game play
The contestant is shown six grocery items, and is asked to select what they think are the three highest-priced items, and their prices are revealed. If all three remaining items are priced lower than the least expensive of the selected items, the contestant wins.
History
The first and possibly second playings of Hi Lo had different rules. The contestant selected an item, its price was revealed, and they then guessed whether it was one of the three more expensive items or one of the three less expensive items; this continued until either all six items were correctly placed or a mistake was discovered.
There have been three Hi Lo sets. The first one was orange colored and lasted five years. The second one was white and clear and was introduced in 1978. The third set, introduced on October 26, 1990, is blue colored and is still in use.
Until May 15, 2008, the game would be wheeled out on stage by two Barker's Beauties in front of Contestants' Row and the main prize was only shown after the items and the game play were described. Since then, the game has been moved behind the Giant Price Tag and revealed after the main prize has been described like any other pricing game.
Trivia
This is the first pricing game to display its name on the game's prop.
Hi-Lo was also played in Canada under the name "La bonne affaire".
Appearances outside of The Price Is Right
A MadTV parody of The Price Is Right featured a contestant playing a very abbreviated version of Hi Lo with four products. The set used was reminiscent of the latest version of the game.