“The Price Is Right” Contestant Loses Nearly $16,000 After Ignoring Friends' Advice
“The Price Is Right” Contestant Loses Nearly $16,000 After Ignoring Friends' Advice
Liza EsquibiasFri, February 6, 2026 at 9:59 PM UTC
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'The Price Is Right' contestant with Drew Carey
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A contestant on the Feb. 5 episode of The Price Is Right lost out on a big sum of money after making the mistake of not listening to her friends
Kayla was up to win a new kitchen if she beat the show's "Grocery Game," where she had to pick items that totaled between $20 and $22 without knowing their prices
The Price Is Right airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET on CBS
True friends will always tell you what you need to hear — and it’s important to listen to them.
On the Feb. 5 episode of The Price Is Right, contestant Kayla was up for the chance to win a brand-new kitchen worth nearly $16,000. All she needed to do was beat the “Grocery Game,” where she had to choose any number of items out of five options without knowing the price, with the goal of the total landing between $20 and $22.
“You can do that with just one item, or you can go step by step, feel it out a little bit,” host Drew Carey explained. “But if you use all the items, and you don't quite get to $20, you lose. If on the way, you go over $22, you lose.”
Kayla, who had a large group of friends shouting advice from the audience, was given the choices of 7 ounces of Spanish-style yellow rice, 5.3 ounces of cottage cheese, 6.9 ounces of cookies, 1 ounce of ranch seasoning mix and 6.8 ounces of vegetable chips.
“Let me start with the rice,” she declared. “One box of rice.”
When model James O’Halloran, who was manning the register, rang it up, the price came out to $2.99. With a minimum of $17.01 and a maximum of $19.01 left to spend, Kayla decided to get two packs of cookies next.
“Each pack, $5.79,” Carey revealed. “$14.57. Oh, you're getting really close. Now you’ve got to go between $5.43 and $7.43.”
'The Price Is Right' contestant
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While her friends shouted for her pick the chips, Kayla went with one pack of ranch seasoning, which was just $1.99.
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“You're getting there,” Carey noted. “You have two more items left.”
With a small bracket of $3.44 to $5.55 between Kayla and her new kitchen, which included a collection of high-end stainless steel appliances, she finally bet on the bag of chips. When the price popped up as $5.99 — just $0.55 over the limit — Carey exclaimed: “Oh no!”
“We did good,” Kayla said, staying positive, knowing she still had the opportunity to spin the wheel later and take home a win.
“Your friends were all yelling out the chips first before the seasoning,” Carey told her, to which she nodded and replied, “I should’ve went with the chips.”
“Yeah, they were right about the chips,” he continued. “That would have got you there.”
Drew Carey on 'The Price is Right'
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In the end, Kayla spun a .70 on the wheel and won a curved velvet sectional, five pairs of speakers, a DJ controller panel, a smart lamp and a house bundle in the Showcase.
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The Price is Right airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET on CBS and is available to stream the next day on Paramount+.
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