Make Your Move

Make Your Move
Premiere Date (Barker Era)	September 11, 1989 (#7331D)
Premiere Date (Carey Era)	November 27, 2007 (#4102K, aired out of order on November 5, 2007)
Pricing Game Location	Turntable
Previous Premiered Pricing Game	$uper $aver
Next Premiered Pricing Game	2 for the Price of 1
Finale Date (Barker Era)	June 7, 2007 (#4024K)

Make Your Move is a game played for three prizes--one small prize worth up to $99, one prize worth up to $999 and another prize worth up to $9,999.

Gameplay

• The contestant is shown a board containing a string of nine digits representing the prices of three prizes placed consecutively. Below the digits are three sliding color-coded markers (red, yellow, and green) which represent the prizes. The red marker represents the two-digit prize, the yellow marker is the three-digit prize and the green marker is the four-digit prize.
• The contestant must slide the three markers so that each is placed below the correct price for the corresponding prize. All nine digits must be used and each digit may be used only once, as the prices never overlap. If the contestant is correct, they win all three prizes. It's possible to be right about only one of the prizes, but in this situation, the contestant does not win the one prize they were correct about.

History

• Make Your Move premiered on September 11, 1989 (#7331D). After December 13, 1989 (#7463D), Make Your Move was pulled from the pricing game rotation for the remainder of the 18th season for unknown reasons. When the game returned on October 12, 1990 (#7745D), the two-digit prize was replaced by a second three-digit prize, with one of the nine digits in the string being part of two prices. This revised format caused a great deal of confusion and was only used twice before returning to the original rules on October 29, 1990 (#7771D).
• Make Your Move was occasionally played for 4-digit cars. The last ever car ever offered in this game was on January 5, 1996 (#9795D), which was also the second-to-last game to offer a 4-digit car on the show (the last ever time was on Freeze Frame, which was on January 24, 1996, #9823D).
• Originally, for each guess of the prize, the colors would light up, and if the game is lost, the lights would turn off before showing the actual prices. This practice was stopped on April 22, 1994 (#9175D) because the audience often misinterpreted this as the reveal of the correct prices, rather than what the contestant had guessed.
• This game borrowed the current think music from Check Game, before also using it for Cover Up. On occasion, it also used Line 'Em Up's music cue (which is shared with Push Over).

Trivia

• The most number of times this game was played in any season was 33 (season 20), while the least number of times this game was played in any season was 7 (season 48).
• There are 6 possible combinations for the red, yellow, and green markers to be put, so the odds of winning the game are 1/6.
• There cannot be a 0 in the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th positions.

Foreign versions of Make Your Move

• The game is played the same way as the U.S., often with minor differences. In Mexico, for example, sometimes there were two three-digit prizes (however, the board had ten numbers, in this case, to prevent similar incidents from the US version from ever happening). In France, the top prize had five digits instead of four (because of the French franc's exchange rate at the time).
• On the Netherlands' Cash en Carlo and Spain's El Precio Justo, the studio lights are dimmed down to reveal the correct prices.
• In Australia, (at least during Larry Emdur's runs), the board does not light up to reveal the correct prices. Instead, three models display the prices on yellow (for two-digit), red (for three-digit) and blue (for four-digit) placards. The only way to win nothing in the Australian version was to get no correct prices for all three prizes.
• In Vienam, the game was titled "Đổi Chỗ" (Move). However, unlike the one used in the U.S. version, instead of showing the correct prize by color, the contestant was asked his prize of a product is correct (during Lưu Minh Vũ's runs), or the host asked what is the actual retail price of a product (during Lại Văn Sâm and Trần Ngọc's runs). If the correct sound effect was heard, sometimes the light revealed the correct prize, his guess is correct. However, unlike any versions, contestants have two chances to win the prizes, and similar to the Australian version, the only way to win nothing was to get no correct prices for all three prizes.

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YouTube Video

Bob himself plays Make Your Move when it becomes apparent the contestant will never understand it (December 17, 1998, #0944K)