The Price is Right

Last friday BYU had a Senior Celebration for all the graduating seniors. (which is me!) Certain schools within BYU set up booths with fun games, food, prizes, and even caricatures. The accounting group BAP decided to have a booth for the School of Accountancy. Ja and his friends got together and decided to do a "Price is Right" booth. Ja went and bought the materials to make the booths for the beginning of the show. They looked great. Shea did a good job too cutting out the letters.



Bob Barker was nice enough to come out of retirement for a night and host the game show for BAP. He would ask them money or accounting related questions (the person who one usually did so by chance) and the person to guess the closest without going over went on to the next game.




If the contestant had taken any accounting classes before then they played an accounting game. They had to tell what is a debit and what is a credit, or make a correct accounting equation with flash cards. I have taken an accounting class but failed miserably at the account equation game, Ja had to help me.

If the contestant hadn't taken accounting then they moved on to the table of Ja and James. James's game was guessing the price of grocery store items. If you got within $1 of the total you won. Most people were a few dollars off. I was the first winner, getting within 80 cents. One girl got within 7 cents, she was the closest of the night. (Except for Amy who helped James buy the items.) They had things like dish soap, soda, spaghetti o's, sharpie marker, and little debbie chocolate rolls. People liked that game.

Ja's game was also a lot of fun. He did the game "lower or higher" where people have to guess if the price of the item is lower or higher than the price listed. He started out switching 6 different items out, but some were too easy. He stuck with Rainbow sandals, the perfect push-up, and a financial calculator. Those were the three most common missed items. People were always surprised by how cheap the perfect push is (Ja had it at $30 but they are only $20 at Wal-mart), and by how expensive Rainbow sandals are. Ja had those marked at $29.95 and people always said, "Oh, they have to be lower. That is too expensive for sandals." But if any of you have every purchased those sandals you know that's not the case. So, if the contestant got 2 of the 3 right then they got 2 chances to find the taffy under one of 5 cups. Then if they got the taffy they got the real prize of a candy bar. But don't worry, the school of accountancy never leaves you empty handed, if they didn't get the taffy they got either a notepad, pen, or taffy. People really enjoyed this game and loved Ja putting on a show.



Overall the night was a big success. There was always a constant stream of people wanting to play the price is right. All the people who helped with it kept talking about how much fun they had. They even won a huge check!