The Ultimate Price is Right Strategy Guide: Swap Meet

Swap Meet

Rules

A prize is shown on-stage and three more are shown behind a curtain. If the contestant can choose which of the prizes behind the curtain has the same price as the prize on-stage, they win all four prizes.

Random fact

Swap Meet debuted on the first episode of the 20th season of the show. You can see it here:

Win-loss record

• Actual (seasons 29-47): 80-88 (47.62%)
• What it would be by random chance: 1/3 (33.33%)

The correct prize to choose was...(seasons 40-47)

• The left-most prize: 22 playings (29.73%)
• The middle prize: 29 playings (39.19%)
• The right-most prize: 23 playings (31.08%)
• The most expensive prize: 7 playings (9.46%)
• The middle-priced prize: 20 playings (27.03%)
• The cheapest prize: 47 playings (63.51%)

Strategy

If you know the prices, that's the best strategy here. But there's a very strong trend for the cheapest prize to be the correct one, so if you're not completely certain, pick the prize you think is the cheapest.