I was in charge of planning another team-building activity at work today. So thanks to the inspiration of Slum Dave, I created a Price Is Right game where teams had to guess the combined cost of 5 different holiday items.

There were 2 rounds, and these were the 5 holiday items in each round:

Betty Crocker Mashed Potato Mix
Campbell's Beef Gravy
Keebler Graham Cracker Pie Crust
Package of Ghiradelli Chocolate Squares
Set of 100 Miniature Christmas Lights

Milka Austrian Chocolate Bar
Good Cook Turkey Baster
Pepperidge Farm Herb Stuffing
Pine Fragranced Candle
Ferrero Rocher Prestige Bell Chocolates

There were 8 teams, and even though I told the teams that they could not go over and win, 7 of the teams went over the actual price of $9.58 for the first 5 items.

Of course, that threw everyone off, and all 8 teams went significantly under the price of $17.25 in round 2. (Only 2 teams made guesses of over $10.)

Amazingly, my plan of screwing with my co-workers' psychology actually worked. (Thanks to Allen and Basile, who helped me determine which items seemed more expensive than they really were, and vice versa.)

The winning teams in each round won the items that they correctly guessed... I'm not sure gravy or a turkey baster is a prize that anyone's dying to get, but I was on a pretty tight budget...