The Ultimate Price is Right Strategy Guide: Gridlock!

Gridlock!

Rules

A car is shown as is the first digit of the car's price. The contestant is given three choices for the next two digits of the car's price, and three different choices for the last two digits of the car's price. The contestant must guess both correct pairs of digits without making more than one total mistake to win the car.

Random fact

This is the newest game in the pricing game rotation, having debuted in season 46. Thus, I'll be including season 47 statistics in this guide to have some more data to work with.

Win-loss record

• Actual (seasons 46-47): 14-15 (48.28%)
• What it would be by random chance: 1/3 (33.33%)

For the second and third digits, the correct choice was...

• The cheapest pair of digits: 15 playings (51.72%)
• The middle pair of digits: 9 playings (31.03%)
• The most expensive pair of digits: 5 playings (17.24%)

For the fourth and fifth digits, the correct choice was...

• The cheapest pair of digits: 10 playings (34.48%)
• The middle pair of digits: 6 playings (20.69%)
• The most expensive pair of digits: 13 playings (44.83%)

Strategy

Don't forget the usual car pricing rules: other than the first two digits, consecutive digits won't be the same (edit: as Kev347 pointed out at golden-road.net, car digits have repeated in this game), and if paint and fabric protection is offered, the price won't end in 5 or 0. Otherwise, know the price, as 29 playings isn't a large enough sample size to make any definitive strategical statements. If you really want to go with the stats, pick the cheapest pair for the first choice and the most expensive pair for the second choice, but the fact that those have been correct the most often is just as likely to be a pattern resulting from a small sample size of a random process instead of being a setup favored by the producers.