Check-Out

Check-Out is a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right. Debuting on January 28, 1982, it is usually played for a prize worth at least $3,000 and uses grocery items. Check-Out was created by Kathy Greco and Barbara Hunter, both production assistants at the time.
Gameplay
The contestant is asked to give individual prices for five grocery items. After all five prices are guessed, the contestant's guesses are totaled. The actual prices for the five grocery items are then announced, one at a time. If the contestant's total is within $2 above or $2 below the actual total, the contestant wins the prize.
History
The original winning range was 50 cents. This changed to $1 on April 3, 1996 before being raised to its current spread on October 13, 2003.
For many years, the game's set included an over-sized calculator that models used to enter the contestant's guesses. The calculator was removed after February 13, 2001, largely because the buttons no longer actually had a functional purpose, a fact which had inadvertently been made obvious on-the-air during one of its last appearances.
The game's two displays (one for the contestant's guesses and total and one for the actual total) were originally both vane displays, as was the calculator display before it was removed. A malfunction in the actual-total display caused the game to be removed from rotation from September 29, 1995 through April 3, 1996 for repairs. At that time, the display was changed over to an eggcrate display.

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