Telephone Game

Telephone Game was a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right. Played from November 1 to 29, 1978, it offered three prizes, only one of which could be won: a car or one of two small prizes (usually worth between $40 and $70). The game used grocery items.
Telephone Game was one of only two pricing games in which winning all of the announced prizes was not possible (not including small prizes or cash consolation prizes); the other is Any Number.
Gameplay
The game was played in two parts. In part one, the contestant was given $1 credit and was shown four grocery items. They used the credit to select two of the items, and their prices were deducted from the dollar. The contestant had to retain a dime to use the game's pay telephone. If they spent more than 90¢, the game ended, and the contestant won nothing.
However, if the contestant spent 90¢ or less, they could advance to the second half. Here, they were given a dime and taken to the telephone. They were also shown a phone book showing three large, unlabeled four-digit phone numbers. Each number corresponded with one of the prizes: one was the price of the car in dollars, and the other two numbers represented the prices of the two small prizes in dollars and cents (if a decimal were placed in the middle of the four digits).
The contestant selected one of the numbers and used the dime to call the number. Each prize had a telephone sitting next to it. The phone next to the prize whose price was dialed rang and was answered by a model, and the contestant won that prize.
Retirement
Telephone Game was retired after only three playings, making it the second-shortest-lived pricing game (the shortest-lived one was Professor Price).

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