Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Winning Game Show Contestants Share What That's Like


Every time someone wins a trip or a new car on a gameshow, someone in the room is bound to say "yeah, but the taxes on that thing." Granted, it's better to have a bunch of money even if it's less than the amount of money Pat Sajak told you it would be. Game shows are a weird cultural thing, but luckily there are tons of people who know what reality and game show tapings are like.

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Text - c3h8pro 1.6k points · 13 hours ago · edited 2 hours ago My brother was on pyramid in 77 or 78, he got a lifetime of rice a roni. It was a case of like 48 boxes every year for like 3 years. We got a letter that the show was going off air and out of the rice a roni business. Cut us right off. P.S. my wife said it was a show called $25000 dollar pyramid.

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Text - lavenderincense 31.7k points · 14 hours ago E 2 & 21 More I won $125,000 on Who Wants to Be A Millionaire about 20 years ago. After taxes, I still had about $80,000. I paid my car off, got a computer, was able to quit a full-time job I hated and take a more enjoyable part-time job, and went to college. Now I work at a job I love that I wouldn't have if I never got a college education. RIP Regis.

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Text - Fluxmuster 26.6k points · 15 hours ago I won the showcase on the price is right. It was the a 2 3 3 spring break episode so it was only college students. It was my senior year of college. Winning a new car and a bunch of other stuff made the last semester of college awesome. It's s been 9.5 years and I still drive the car. So I guess it's changed my life in that I've never had car payments.

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Text - froglover215 18.0k points · 16 hours ago I won the top prize ($500) on a quiz show called Inquizition. This was around 1999. The check arrived right before my car registration was due, which was helpful because I had just lost my job.

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Text - EmpireofAzad 16.6k points · 16 hours ago 3 & 20 More When I was 10 I correctly guessed the weight of a pumpkin and won a packet of giant cabbage seeds. I never got round to planting them. Life has been downhill ever since that peak.

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Text - whiskeyalfredo 16.1k points · 15 hours ago I won a few thousand on Jeopardy a few years ago. It allowed my wife and I to finally go on a honeymoon two years after getting married. Maybe not life-changing on a grand scale, but definitely made our lives a bit better.

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Text - tbone56er 14.0k points · 14 hours ago I was on a kids game show in the late 80s with my brother. We won, but lost the grand prize (trip to Disneyland) in the bonus round, and were given a $500 gift certificate to a toy store instead. $250 each for a toy store was absolutely incredible for a couple of kids, especially in the 80s. I still remember that shopping trip.

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Text - GreenLigh 11.6k points · 14 hours ago 3 2 24 3 My high school drama and speech teacher was the "friend" someone called for a "phone a friend" option on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? back when Regis was still the host. The guy who called him shared a portion of the money with my teacher, like 20-30k and and my teacher used the money to adopt a baby

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Text - springflingqueen 9.6k points · 16 hours ago · edited 15 hours ago My mom and I went to The Price is Right and my mom got called down, got onstage, and won her game. She did not win her wheel spin unfortunately. But she won $10,000 cash from her game so that was pretty good. Can't complain about winning a bunch of cash. I think about 30- 40% went to taxes.

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Text - Fresh_Silver99 6.9k points · 14 hours ago Fun fact: you get $300 if you get called down to contests row on the price is right and don't make it to the stage

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Text - itsjustmoran 6.8k points · 14 hours ago 3 I was on "Let's Make a Deal" in 2016 and I won a new car. It was actually perfect timing because my old car was on its last legs and I had started saving for a new one, then I won a new one and the money I had saved paid the fees and stuff. I won the car in August but didn't actually get it until November when the episode aired, but they drove it to my apartment and had me sign the deed and it was all pretty painless. I had heard rumors throughout

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Text - irememberthepotatoho 6.3k points · 14 hours ago · edited 14 hours ago My Mom won a trip to Vegas by calling in about her worst day ever on a radio show. They were giving away a weekend for 2 in Vegas to someone that had a really bad day. My Moms day started off with my Dad getting into a car accident totaling the van, our only vehicle at the time. Then when she got the rental car she did some grocery shopping and accidently locked the keys in the trunk after she loaded the groceries in. S

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Text - championofadventure 5.3k points · 14 hours ago 23 3 2 92 Not a game show. I rang the bell on the sledgehammer game at a country fair. The girl I was on a date with was impressed. Still married after 35 plus years.

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Text - RandomlyPMsCutePics 4.9k points · 15 hours ago · edited 8 hours ago So there's a travelling version of The Price Is Right called "The Price Is Right Live" that travels around Canada and the USA doing shows that aren't nearly as awesome as the ones on TV, but still pretty good. They came to my hometown and I was given a ticket to it on my 23rd birthday. 1000+ people in the audience, and I get called down. I bid on this sick slot machine worth $375 to get on stage, then I went on stage and

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Text - FAHQRudy 4.2k points · 13 hours ago · edited 13 hours ago My girlfriend and I were on Shop Til You Drop and won big. I still use the dishes every day. The trip (trips? It was a long time ago) I won was decent. I paid the taxes on my winnings with a check before leaving the lot. It took months and months for all the deliveries to come in, which was weird. I sold off some of it, used a lot of it, and can't find the episode anywhere. How did it help my life? The producer became a friend of o

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Text - NoReallyItsJeff 3.9k points · 14 hours ago I won $15,000 on Millionaire (with Meredith, not Regis). I kept $11,200. I had to wait 4 months for the episode to air and another month after that to get paid. Went to England and did a few smaller travel things with it, and then used it to rack up as little debt as possible in Grad School.

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Text - WafflesAreEpic 3.8k points · 15 hours ago 3 Won $700 getting a question right on a radio call in show, my parents gave me $100 of it and kept the rest. At the time I was annoyed, as an adult looking back it was because we were flat broke, $100 was an insane amount of money to a 12 year old in the 90's, and the rest went to crazy things like "us being able to eat". So overall not too bad. Oh and when I was 20 I got to stand in a glass tube as a bunch of store vouchers for my local mall zoo

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Text - nawkles 2.3k points · 15 hours ago S Years ago called into a radio show and won two tickets to a cruise through the Bahamas. Only seconds later to be told it was strictly for couples 25 and up. Was extremely disappointed (was like 19 or something) and never understood why

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