I can't begin to understand why so many people think this is a case of "cheating." The woman, from the look on her face upon his reaction, clearly didn't understand what she was supposed to do with the chip.

She even offered to place the chip in front of the shell she looked under.

Barker was a master of dealing with crazy situations like this, so he played it up and made one of the funniest moments in his 35 years on the show.

She may not have gotten how the game worked, but this WASN'T a case of cheating.

it looked like she thought she was suppose to put the chip under the shell LOL she is Southern after all LOL but BOB should have told her to turn around and he should have re-mixed the shells around for sure

I won't say I cheated on TPIR, but the guys behind us in line went every day for decades and would whisper us the exact price of every single prize. When I got called up, I could see the order of the games on a board and I waited until a car game (Pass The Buck) and listened to my friend. Didn't help too much in the game, it was hard to hear them, but I got $5,000 and didn't have to play Take Two (ugh). It's not cheating if you know the prices, maybe with the Internet they need to use different items with more varied prices.

Okay, out of ALL the pricing games one can cheat on, someone cheated on SHELL GAME, of all the possible games?!

That's... just plain wrong.

BJ