Temptation

1974 - Present

Temptation is the phoenix that arose from the ashes of the disasterous Double Digits game. A contestant is shown a prize and the value of that prize. One of the digits in that prize corresponds to a digit in the price of a car. After four prizes have been shown, the contestant has filled up the price of the car. The temptation then enters--the contestant can elect to forget about the car and take the prizes, or risk the prizes and go for the car. If the contestant has guessed all four digits of the car correctly, they win the car and the prizes. However, if even one digit is wrong, the car and the prizes are lost. With the advent of five-digit cars, the first digit of the car was given free.

Since finding prizes that correspond to the digits of a car is not always easy, one of the prizes in Temptation is often a fishbowl full of cash with a value that conveniently lends itself to one of the digits in the car. The decision to risk the prizes or not is often an excruciating one. The producers choose prizes that are quite enticing and often total $3000+ on their own. Since the odds against winning the car are pretty high, many contestants go for the sure thing.

Set Changes: Along with the addition of a fifth digit for more expensive cars, the board went from green to a less tolerable pink in the late '80s.

Here's Temptation!	Is the 3 or the 9 the first digit in the price of the car? That's beautiful Sarah Coventry fake jewels she could be risking.

$3201?? I don't like the looks of that one bit...you might want to take the prizes and run.	Bob has presented you with over $1,000 in merchandise. Do you really want to risk it?

Good news folks...she took the prizes, and rightfully so...she wasn't even close to the actual price of the car.	It's the new Temptation board, in ugly pink.

Cost of the sofa: $600. Value of a Kathleen massage: Priceless.	Here's the famous fishbowl of cash!

What an awesome shot! If you look closely at the board, you see that he has a "1" as the last digit in the car. Bad news. He needs to keep the prizes!	Don't worry folks, he did. Bob made a point to show that last number first, because it was so obviously wrong.