'I honestly think a lot of it has to do with anticipation - just the amount of time it takes the chip to get down to a prize, and how it bounces around… and the randomness of it.' 'It's one of my favorites,' host Drew Carey told BuzzFeed on set of the all-Plinko episode. It is also by far the most popular game that has ever been featured on The Price is Right. It is a pretty simple game: Contestants must correctly guess a series of prizes valued under $100 to win Plinko chips that they then drop down a giant slanted peg board into a series of cash-value slots at the bottom, usually valued between $0 and $10,000.
If you know The Price is Right - and how could you not, are you an alien or something? - you know Plinko. For the first time ever in The Price is Right's 42 year history, the daytime game show was dominated by a single game: Plinko. LOS ANGELES - Friday, we witnessed television history.