The Price is Right Game

I work at a Senior Center in the U.S. I play this every few months with my clients and choose a decade from which to research prices. I use groceries, to clothing, to furniture. Each client has a sheet of paper and as I say the item, they write down a price they think it would have been. At the end of my list, I go back through and say what each item actually cost. I give a free meal ticket to the person with the most answers correct (or closest to the actual price). It has been a fun and entertaining way to spend an afternoon. I might try some of the variations listed above to switch things up the next time. Thank you!

I presented a PRICE IS RIGHT afternoon a few weeks ago and have another planned soon.....

I had 3 different groups of 6 items -
1. grocery group - actual items
2. Miscellaneous group - empty box of a kettle, signed football, AFL team scarf etc
3. Large laminated photos of cars, boats and houses

....... I had my residents in 3 groups and then gave each group one of the "Price is Right" groups to discuss and place in order on a prepared answer sheet.......after about 20 minutes of discussion each group got a different cluster of items to place in price order. (each group had either a volunteer or staff to facilitate discussion)

After each group had listed their items for each PRICE IS RIGHT Group we discussed answers, reminisced and laughed.

During the afternoon I also had a few spot games:-
1. all residents randomly took a colour coded ticket with a price on it......with the correct price winning the item (items where small items like chocolates, biscuits and small ornament)
2. A live PRICE IS RIGHT where all residents yelled out a price for a lovely bunch of yellow roses......residents kept guessing until the actual price was called out - with the person getting the correct price taking the roses for their room.

It was a great afternoon and enjoyed by all.

I played this game with my residents and I also researched the prices of the grocery items in the 1940's. We had a lot of fun guessing the cost of each item now and how much they thought it would cost in the 1940's. We spoke about food rationing and reminisced about food during the war. We had a really good morning.

Thank you for sharing this game. We played a variation last week, I made 6 cards showing food, car, football ticket, sewing machine, at today's prices and 6 of the same items at 1947 prices ( the year I was born)! We played the music found on utube and introduced the beautiful helpers with cheers, then guessed the prices giving 2 options. Everyone enjoyed it

Love reading all the various ways you can tweet this game.

I have played this game on a number of occasions its sparks lots of conversation between residents for shopping to todays prices., its interesting when they compare prices they used to pay. I work mainly with dementia patients this game is great. Another activity I do is fruity Friday I take fruit in from around the world and let residents try unusal fruits this sparks lots of conversation and it is interesting for them to try fruit they have never seen before.
Tracy

After the prices have been guessed, cover the items and ask them to list as many as they can remember.

I shall try this Activity. Sounds fun:)

I used this idea today and was estatic to see my residents enjoy the game so much. I made a large sign that stood on table with price is right written in red, placed a red tablecloth on table then placed grocery items on table with a card in front of each item with a description written on front of card and price on inside. I then had three rows of chairs in front of table for residents. The person that guessed the correct price won a little prize. It is something that I haven't done before so the residents were very interested in what was going on. Thanks for such a great idea

I AM GOING TO TRY THIS TOMORROW. I HAVE MADE A LARGE SIGN TO PUT IN MIDDLE OF TABLE AND HAVE ALSO MADE CARDS THAT FOLD IN HALF. ON THE FRONT OF THE CARDS I HAVE PUT THE NAME OF THE ITEM ETC. THEN INSIDE THE CARD I HAVE PUT THE PRICE. I WILL PUT CHAIRS IN A CIRCLE AROUND THE TABLE AND LET RESIDENTS TRY ONE AT A TIME TO GUESS THE RIGHT PRICE. THEN OF COURSE THEY WILL BE REWARDED WITH A SMALL PRIZE.

I played this with my residents today, it was quite an eye opener for them and myself, some of them went Some of them even managed to convert into pounds and pence. They really enjoyed it.

This sounds like a great idea. I will definately try this one.

This was well received by our residents. They all enjoyed looking through and reminiscing about the supermarket, price changes and food items . The especially enjoyed thinking about what they could cook with the items from the pantry. They have requested to have this again on a regular basis. Great Idea!

I have been trying this activities but from another angle. I set up Park & Save Supermarket and residents was given some amount of money (Fake) like $30.00 0r $20.00 to go shopping, the challenge is you will spend not more than what you have. It was a lot of laugh as residents made their way to the cash register to pay for their shopping and find out that they went over or stayed below. whoever managed it shopping money well will received a price. there was a lot of discussions as well. when I ask residents the names of the supermarkets on their days Three Guys was mentioned, Four square, some mentioned Woolworht and Foodtown. as their local supermarket. I will do it again cos it was successful and enjoyable and fun too. Thank you for your help GC

I've been playing The Price is Right at our facility for a couple of years. I grab boxes and cans from my kitchen. I make signs with three prices and the residents guess the correct one. I also place incorrect prices in front of similarly priced items and the residents have to place them correctly. To qualify for larger prizes, the "guest" toss balled up T-shirts into a plastic tub. Whoever gets the most gets to swap their smaller prize for a larger one. Our facility has a pre-school attached and I borrowed their Plinko game, which the residents loved!
The "guests" get to choose a prize from the small box, the basket or the large box. I have residents of varying cognitive levels and they all enjoy the game! Prizes range from $1 store to higher value donated items.

Planning on playing The Price is Right next Month with my Residents! I cant wait (excited) I also plan to give my residents that guess the correct price the price! Thats a Great Idea!

Some great ideas will try some out with service users

Had a great day at work so much fun, we played Who Am I residents ,staff, family members played in as well, all in stitches of laughter.

I also would like more information. Julianne

Wow this sounds amazing I wish I could do this with my residents. I only have four alltogether and only one that could participate. I will keep it in mind for the future. Cant wait to play

I have played this in the past. My Dementia residents were quite into wanting to fill their shopping bags and they walked around with their groceries that they had just bought from the shop.

I have for my Low Care residents a game on DVD.
Who wants to be a Millionaire. Yes the game on TV.

I have done this game, but I buy items such as shampoos and toothpastes, and some food items. But whoever guesses the closest wins the item I bought!

can u please let me know about the game board

i managed to get a hold of the price is right board game. Im planning on doing prices from the 50's and now. Any tips?

Hi Karen, I am glad it worked for you. I am also very successful with this game; the residents are often amazed at how dear groceries have become.

What a great game. I am currently studying Lifestyle and Health and used this activity as my presentation to the class. My daughter and I had fun creating the signs and props and it was really well received by the class and teachers. To make it a little more fun, I downloaded the start of one of the episodes and played it to start things off. I will definitely recommend to my work place as i think the residents would have fun with this! Thank-you for your great ideas! Karen

When we played this game at our facility we added a twist. I collected eg 6 empty food packets that required cooking, pizza, pasta, frozen salmon, soup beans, porridge and frozen vegetables. Residents had to put them in order of shorts to longest cooking time. Another game we played was with empty bottles of things you might drink, coke,milk,juice,cordial and soft drink. We played by saying you only had $2 so what could you buy from the supermarket if you were thirsty. We also played pick the odd item out, eg soap, toothpaste, shampoo, toothpicks ,deodorant, shower gel. Another version was a selection of foods for a particular meal and residents had to decide which meal eg of an easy one, carton eggs, bread, cereal, juice, bacon and jam ie Breakfast. The price is right was lots of fun and those were also the comments from residents.

Yes Barbara, that game has always been extremely successful for me too. You may vary it sometimes by presenting items that had popular commercials such as coke "the real thing", airplane jelly, beer "I feel like a Tooheys",etc. Just ask participants if they remember the commercials,it is a good memory game.

I played this game today. Chose grocery items from my pantry. Which gave the resident's, an insight on my life style, this activity went for 90 MINS. Not only staff participated also family members, lots of laughs. Finished with how would you use this article, explaining how I use the article. Went overtime 30 mins. GREAT activity thank you all Barb

This game turned out interesting for our facility, we have three units high care dementia, low care dementia and hostel and all residents loved the price is right game. lots of discussion about products,packaging and price developed. The interesting things was that they competed against each other (there choice) and high care won, followed by low care dementia and then hostel... resident may have dementia but games like this prove they still have it.. (old saying use it or lose certainly proves true for my residents

Prizes are a great idea ,love the large cheque ,car prize & trip for one,terrific i will be using this thanks. In our facility our residents are not allowed to use talcum powder as it is deemed unsafe.Just thought i would pass that on.

I played this game with my residents and they absolutely loved it! They all wanted to play again.I made a huge oversized cheque as the first prize had a small toy car as the second prize and third prize was a 'Trip for one to Hawaii"!

I love Price is right! Another fun game that came from it, purely by accident one day we had played the game and a gentleman in our dementia unit picked up the duct tape off of the table and said asked what it was, I started to explain to him in my theatrical way, what it was and what amazing things you can do with it, another resident who rarely spoke, picked up a can of Coffee and began to do the same with it. We were all laughing and taking turns, doing comercials for the items on the table. Then the next week we played " You Can Sell Anything!" i like to find odd objects and bring them in. I keep my eyes open all of the time around the community. I even had nurses and maintenance men bring me things and everyone stops in while we play our game.

This is a great idea! I love activities that encourage thinking in a group and in a fun way as they are non-threatening to participants Great.

This is a good way to reminisce, making a game and so encouraging people to remember. Great.