1998 - Present
Shudder. Clearance Sale is a game played for three prizes. Three "sale" price tags for the prizes are shown. The contestant must put a price tag on each prize that is lower than the prize's ARP. If the contestant does this correctly, s/he wins all three prizes. It turns out that each tag corresponds to only one prize.
In theory, this game is creative. That is, unless you remember that Easy as 1-2-3, which premiered just two years before this did, is the EXACT SAME GAME! Since there is only one combination of sale price tags that works, the price tags might as well say "1" "2" and "3" on them. All the contestant is really doing is ordering the prizes from least to most expensive, which is the same thing contestants must do in Easy as 1-2-3.
Clearance Sale premiered on the 27th Season Premiere, which was delayed one day due to the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal. The game, to its credit, looks better than Easy as 1-2-3, with balloons and an otherwise spiffy setup. However, the game is played for the same kind of cheap prizes like in Easy as 1-2-3, so the name "Clearance Sale" isn't too far from the mark.
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| It's Clearance Sale, the only game to regularly use baloons. Today we're playing for a day bed, a tennis machine, and a huge, huge clock. | Here are the "sale prices"--might as well be the blocks from Easy as 1-2-3. |
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| She was a bit indecisive about this one, but she finally put the middle sale price on that oversized clock. | Let's see how she did. She's in good shape with the tennis machine... |
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| This looks good as well... | ...and she's a winner! Although I don't know how much she needs these prizes... |