‘The Price Is Right’ host Drew Carey reveals what makes him ‘want to scream’ at contestants

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Drew Carey is coming clean about what makes him “want to scream” at contestants on the veteran CBS game show.In an in-depth interview on the Max series “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” Carey, 65, told Wallace that he doesn’t understand the appeal of Plinko, the fan-favorite game — and that it drives him crazy at the methods contestants use to try to win money on the challenge.

When playing Plinko, a contestant takes chips, which they’ve won previously, to the top of a game board and releases them, one at a time, into slots at the bottom of the board containing money amounts.Each chip is worth up to $10,000.“I don’t get it, honestly,” Carey said. “People usually don’t win that much money on Plinko.

They’ll win like $1,500, a grand, something like that.”Carey then explained to Wallace how contestants can have a better shot of winning $10,000 when playing Plinko.“Hardly anybody gets a 10,000, because they drop it like it, so you have to drop it like right under the ‘N,'” he said. “If you’re ever on ‘The Price Is Right,’ drop it right under the ‘N,’ not too high, just like right above the slot and just let it go.”“Don’t throw it, don’t spin it.

Just drop it and that’ll give you the best odds of hitting the $10,000 spot.”“You won’t hit it all the time,” he went on. “And I’m not allowed to say anything but in my head I want to scream ‘just drop it by the N!’ but I can’t do that.”Wallace also asked Carey about the most common mistake contestants make when guessing the prices of merchandise featured on the show.“So here’s a common thing,” Carey said. “So a lot of it’s just strategy like that we have a game called ’10 Chances’ where the first prize has two number on it.