![]() The game got its first official win on Novem(#5305K, aired out of order on October 15), where all three prizes were won.Rat Race was the second pricing game to premiere under Drew's tenure as host (the first was Gas Money in Season 37), and the last pricing game to premiere before Rich Fields' firing.This is evident as the rats never appear in the same order from left to right in each episode. The rats are picked at random and placed onto the track. ![]() There are actually at least a couple hundred mechanical rats in storage backstage, with each rat running the race at a different speed.There have even been times where a rat doesn't start at all. While the track is designed to be the same length for all five rats, not all of the rats are guaranteed to finish indeed, occasionally one of the rats gets stuck on the track, and the race continues to play out, just as competitors occasionally do not finish in various races in real life.Contestants can win more than one prize depending upon how the chosen rats finish the race a contestant can win all three prizes by earning three rats and having each of them come in either first, second, or third place. If one of the selected rats finishes in third place, the contestant wins an additional small prize in second, a medium-sized prize and if a selected rat wins the race, the contestant wins a car. The rats are then set in motion on the track by pulling a handle.If the contestant does not win any of the rats, the game ends immediately, with no rat race (the first time this has happened was on December 23, 2010, #5364K). For each bid given within the correct range, the contestant chooses one of five colored mechanical rats ( yellow, green, pink, orange and blue), which are positioned on a large dollar sign-shaped race track. The contestant must price three items within specified ranges: a grocery item priced under $10 within $1, a small prize priced under $100 within $10 (same as Spelling Bee), and a medium prize priced under $500 within $100.
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