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This salmon-shorted hero won $31,500 and set a new Plinko record on ‘The Price is Right’

James Dator
James Dator has been covering a wide range of sports for SB Nation for over a decade, with a special focus on the NFL.

Every record falls at some time, and “Ryan” brought his salmon shorts to The Price is Right and obliterated the Plinko world record like it was nothing.

Ryan ignored every Plinko theory out there by playing his chips mostly to the right side of the board, with his $10,000 chips all being played near the “N.”

What makes this so interesting is that host Drew Carey believes the key is to drop the chip from the middle, while analysis from The Late Show tried to prove that dropping chips from the right-hand side of the dot on the “L” was the key. Ryan smashed that thinking by winning $31,500 on his five chip drops.

The crowd was chanting his name throughout, and even a failed attempt to start a “NUMBER FIVE!” chant on the final chip couldn’t keep Ryan down. He kissed it for good luck and came up big again.

To the king go the spoils.

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