Saugerties woman wins car, $10K

Alexa Perry won a Chevy Trax crossover and $10,000 in cash playing “Gas Money,” one of the show’s popular games.

SAUGERTIES, N.Y. » When Alexa Perry decided to apply online for a chance to be on her favorite game show, she never imagined she would actually get to hear “The Price Is Right” announcer George Gray call for her to “come on down,” let alone join host Drew Carey onstage to play one of the show’s iconic games.

But that and so much more happened for Perry, who appeared as a contestant on the game show in an episode that aired Tuesday.

Perry, who works in partnership sales and divides her time between Saugerties and Los Angeles, won a Chevy Trax crossover and $10,000 in cash playing “Gas Money,” one of the show’s popular games.

Perry, 27, was the eighth contestant to be called into the contestant’s row. After failing to come close enough to the price of a six-piece set of cookware to make it out of contestant’s row, Perry won the next bidding round, when she came closer than the other four contestants in guessing the price of an Acer laptop computer and solar charging laptop bag.

Joining Carey onstage, Perry played for the chance to win up to $10,000 and a new car in a pricing game called “Gas Buddy.” In that game, contestants are presented with five prices, four of which have dollar amounts ranging from $1,000 to $4,000 and a fifth which is the price of the car.

The object is to pick all four wrong prices first. At any time throughout the game, the contestant can stop and take home the money they’ve accumulated to that point. If the contestant picks the price of the car before all the other cards have been turned, everything won to that point is lost and the game ends.

In her first pick, Perry

won $3,000. Behind her second pick was $4,000, bringing her winnings to $7,000. Still, she pressed on.

Her third pick revealed $2,000 and brought her winnings to $9,000.

Even though she had a 5050 chance of losing all she had won, Perry wasn’t stopping.

“I’m a gambling lady,” she told Carey. “Let’s do it.”

Behind her last pick of $23,649 was $1,000.

Perry had beat the odds. She wasn’t as lucky when it came to spinning the big wheel for a chance to play in the game’s Showcase Showdown, but all-in-all, the $22,890 crossover and $10,000 in cash wasn’t a bad haul for a half-hour’s work.