PSCrusader Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 (edited) Plinko is possibly the biggest luck based game in Price is Right history; in real life and the game. The mission is to drop Plinko chips down a maze-like board and hope that it lands dead center in the $5,000 (1983 version) or $10,000 slot (1998 version). It's fairly easy to get at least one chip in the middle slot, but near impossible to do it 3 times and get the trophy. Don't even think that you can get the full $50,000 (not even anyone on the show has done it). I want to know if there is a strategy to get the trophy in this game because the closest that I've gotten to it was with 2 chips in the center and that's it. Please tell me: Can Plinko be beaten? Edited June 23, 2012 by PSCrusader Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMinderbinder Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 Like anything probability-based, it follows the Law of Large Numbers. Clearly, at least a few people here have completed, and there is presumedly no way to cheat. Probability can give you estimates of the expected number of plays until it happens, but unforunately the fact that the programming code for the game is unknown here, even these estimates are uncertain. In the real life show, if you examined all Plinko players who earned all five chips, theoretically they should win the full amount approximately one time in four-hundred (assuming they drop them all right in the middle). Since less than four-hundred have ever attained all five chips in Plinko, it really isn't surprising that nobody has ever won the full shebang. The problem in the PS3 game sn't that the event is rare (winning 3 of 5 would theoretically happen one time in seventy-five), but rather the wait time between attempts. One only gets a shot at Plinko approximately every 15-20 minutes (assumng they know how to target Plinko efficiently). Good luck to you, but know that many, many people have given up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stanster Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 Plinko is possibly the biggest luck based game in Price is Right history; in real life and the game. The mission is to drop Plinko chips down a maze-like board and hope that it lands dead center in the $5,000 (1983 version) or $10,000 slot (1998 version). It's fairly easy to get at least one chip in the middle slot, but near impossible to do it 3 times and get the trophy. Don't even think that you can get the full $50,000 (not even anyone on the show has done it). I want to know if there is a strategy to get the trophy in this game because the closest that I've gotten to it was with 2 chips in the center and that's it. Please tell me: Can Plinko be beaten? Certainly not meant to be offensive, but your trophy list suggest perserverance isnt your best quality Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceyice Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 It can be beaten. I got the 'Lucky Chips' one using two controllers..........problem was, controller 2 got it! I couldn't believe it. No trophy, since it's not the host controller. For controller 2, i placed the chips right in the middle. For the 'host' controller, i had dropped them to the left of the middle of the Plinko board. Once again, i can't believe that happened! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceyice Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 I was trying for 'Lucky Chips' again recently. It was nice to see in the trophy guide that there is really no strategy to dropping the chips. I got 2 out of 5. I did kind of a 'follow through' as I entered the chips, & used body language, sort of. So I'm coming closer, here in 2014. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceyice Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 This past week, in May '14, I got Lucky Chips again with controller 2!!! This is maddening. I tried a strategy that I prayed would work, but no dice. I saw that controller 2 had 2 with 2 chips to go. I tried switching controller numbers(2 to 1, 1 to 2). Chip 3 lands in the 5,000 spot, but the trick didn't work. Dammit. BTW, I let the A.I. drop all chips, to test another theory, since one of my PSN friends got both Plinkos that way. I even tried while the real show was on! Shee-it. Pull out all tactics, this is a motherfucker! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceyice Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Just got it, 9/3/2014!!!!!!!! I am shocked, crying a little (grown man, I'll admit it) feeling grateful and relieved. I want to first thank @Olaf 764 and another person that joined our room. I didn't know I'd get this, so I didn't get their name. I really didn't want to play, but Olaf asked me, so when I got home from work we tried. I thought a 3rd player would hurt our chances, but it may have HELPED, so player, if you see this, thank you for helping. This may be my greatest trophy ever. Ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceyice Posted May 22, 2016 Share Posted May 22, 2016 Cut to May, 2016. Just got Lucky Chips and the Platinum. It can be beaten, but not mastered. It will beat your ass to the ground and not even blink-o. The story for me is I was devastated and heartbroken over the fact that a girl I loved deeply from Pakistan became a girl I wasn't going to get. I was so destroyed that I tried to get three TOUGH trophies from MLB 10, 16, and the last I needed to Plat this I looked at getting at least 1 for consolation. Well, I got one to Plat this. Let me tell you. It helps. It helps to handle disappointment in a strange way. Yeah, only a game. Only a trophy that for those who don't understand would call you a fool. But they don't understand and can never. Ok. I got too deep, but as a person who grew up watching this in the Bob Barker days, wow. Maybe not my greatest Plat ever, but is up there. It relieved a lot of real world pain. So, in the end the ones who came up with these trophies didn't know the frustration they caused, but to 'conquer' 1 or 2 of them when they were needed the most....thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMinderbinder Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Ok. I got too deep, but as a person who grew up watching this in the Bob Barker days, wow. Maybe not my greatest Plat ever, but is up there. It relieved a lot of real world pain. Hey, this game may not be physically difficult, but it certainly is a rare and emotionally taxing one. Let's put it this way - only three people have achieved platinum in the last year, and you're one of them. Only 40 people have ever achieved platinum, and you're one of them. Be proud of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slamma Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Wow 4 years later... congratulations Ice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Grats on the beating Plinko and getting your Platinum! That trophy reallllllllly tests your patience. But you are awarded with a super shiny, ultra-rare platinum so it all works out in the end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceyice Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 (edited) Hey, this game may not be physically difficult, but it certainly is a rare and emotionally taxing one. Let's put it this way - only three people have achieved platinum in the last year, and you're one of them. Only 40 people have ever achieved platinum, and you're one of them. Be proud of it. Thanks, binder. I clearly remember you being one of the first! Thanks to Slamma and Velvet, since i don't know how to multi-quote yet! Edited May 31, 2016 by Iceyice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceyice Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 2 more people have conquered this Plinko thing, bringing the total Platters to 4 in 2016. There were 4 in 2015 as well..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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