Any Number

Any Number is a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right. It is played with three prizes: a car, a three-digit prize, and the money in a piggy bank (in dollars and cents from $1.02 to $9.87). While the rules do allow the piggy bank to be worth as little as $0.12, producer Roger Dobkowitz has stated that he would never actually use an amount lower than $1.02.
Any Number was the first pricing game ever played on The Price Is Right, debuting on its premiere broadcast on September 4, 1972; the contestant was also the first car winner, winning a Chevrolet Vega valued at $2,746. It was also the final pricing game of Bob Barker's final episode on June 15, 2007.
Any Number is one of only two pricing games in which is it not possible to win all of the announced prizes (not including small prizes or cash consolation prizes); the other is the now-retired Telephone Game. It is also one of only three active games (along with Money Game and Let 'em Roll) in which the contestant will win something regardless of the game's outcome, notwithstanding the low value in the piggy bank.
Gameplay
The contestant is shown a game board which lists the three prizes: a vehicle, a prize with three digits in its price, and the "piggy bank" (a small amount of money formed by the remaining numbers not used in the prices of the first two prizes), along with spaces for the digits in their prices. The first digit in the price of the car is revealed at the start. Each digit between 0 and 9, including another of the first digit in the car's price, is on the board.
The contestant is then asked to call out digits, one at a time, and their positions on the board are revealed. The contestant wins only the first prize whose price they complete.
History
Originally, cars in Any Number had just four digits in their prices with no free digit given. Debuting in the summer 1986 primetime specials (when four-digit cars were still common), the current version of the board has a sliding top label that can cover the first space of the top row, which allowed the game to be played alternately for vehicles with four or five digits in the price.
Since tapings for the 1986-1987 season began prior to taping the primetime specials, the original board was still used for its first four playings of Season 15.
On the game's first few playings, Anitra Ford would show the contestant an actual piggy bank before the contestant picked numbers. The words "PIGGY BANK" were used instead of the now-familiar image of a piggy bank to label the row of digits representing the amount "in" the piggy bank.
Any Number is the only game to be played more than 100 times in a single season. This occurred during Season 1, when it was played 116 times. Like most games during this period in the show's history, it was often played multiple times a week.
The original Any Number board was not destroyed when it was replaced. It currently resides in the garage of former Game Show Network vice-president Bob Boden.
Versions outside the U.S.
Any Number has been used on many other versions of The Price Is Right outside of the US, usually with the same basic rules. In several countries, the game is played only sometimes for a car, while others do not play the game for cars at all.
* The with Leslie CrowtherThe top prize had three digits, the middle prize had two digits, and the piggy bank had only one digit. More recent UK editions used the same format as in the US show.
* France's Le Juste PrixThe game began by revealing the last digit in the big prize's 5-digit price (which was almost always a 0).
* Mexico's Atínale al PrecioThe decimal point in the piggy bank's price was placed between the second and third digits, allowing for a less-negligible amount of money.
* Italy's OK, il Prezzo è Giusto!Only nine digits were missing: The first four of the largest prize, the first three of the smaller prize, and the first two of the piggy bank. Zeroes were used, but only to fill in the end of each price.

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