Any Number

1972 - Present

The first pricing game EVER played, Any Number remains one of the most common pricing games in the TPiR repertoire. The game is simple: a player is shown a prize with three digits in the price, followed by a car with four (later five) digits in the price. In addition, the contestant could have the misfortune of winning the Piggy Bank, which has three digits as well, but in dollars and cents. The numbers 0 through 9 are found in the prices of the prizes, but only once. The contestant selects digits until s/he has filled out the price of one of the prizes, hopefully the car. When five-digit cars became the norm, the contestant was given the first digit of the car for free, and the game continued normally.

Set changes: The endearing yellow board continued from 1972 until the nighttime specials in 1986. The name of the game was added around 1974 or 1975. The current version of the game is a sleek, gold-colored board with LED displays for the numbers. This board could be used for both four- and five-digit cars easily (see below).

There she is...the classic Any Number board.	This contestant finds Anitra's piggy bank cute, but she won't be smiling if she wins that!

It's coming down to the wire here...let's hope she doesn't win that piggy bank!	Here's the Any Number board with name circa 1976.

Note that the word "Piggy Bank" has been replaced by a picture.	This is the Any Number board right after it changed on the Nighttime Specials in 1986.

Note that this board didn't have dividers for each of the digits originally. Also note that this contestant won a measley $4.30.	This board could be use for both four- and five-digit cars...they just moved the word "truck" over to cover the unneeded digit!