Cover Up

1993 (?) - Present

Cover Up is an enjoyable game played for a car. The contestant is shown a completely bogus price for the car--each digit is wrong and the contestant must therefore "cover up" each digit with the correct one. For the first digit in the car, there are two digit choices, for the second digit there are three choices, up to six choices for the fifth and final digit. The contestant makes a first attempt to cover the digits with the correct ones. If s/he is right (a rarity on the first try), s/he wins the car. If not, but if s/he has at least one digit covered correctly, s/he is shown which digit(s) s/he has right and then attempts to cover up the remaining incorrect ones. The game continues until the contestant eventually "uncovers" the right price (and wins) or gains no new correct digits on an attempt (and loses).

Cover Up is not necessarily the easiest car game to play, but it can be made MUCH easier by employing the patented "Cover Up Strategy." The best bet is to make an intentional mistake on either the first or second digit (which are easily guessed) on your first attempt instead of trying to win the game outright on the first try. The odds against winning on the first try are huge. However, if you make at least one correct move (maybe the second digit) and then intentionally blow the first digit (which you then correct on the next turn) you gain at least a third attempt. If you're especially risky, you can blow the first two digits and attempt to gain one of the last three. In that case you would guarantee a fourth attempt, but you don't want to risk it so much that you don't get ANY digits correctly on the first try!

Here's Cover Up, the car game with the super cool strategic moves. That price of $21,457 is completely bogus.	Here our contestant makes her first attempt at covering up those false digits.

Her new price of $12,525 has three out of five digits right. Getting that last one right the first time around is a definite plus.	Cover Up, take two (wow, that could get confusing).

Well, now she has the fourth digit right. It's a 50-50 shot for that third digit.	Yeah, that zero looks out of place in the middle. Don't you think the "7" is a good choice?

It sure is! She wins the car!	The reveal confirms that she has won that car!