When you're playing a guessing game, hearing "you're just a little bit off," is usually a good feeling. Now imagine you're on a televised game show and that little bit puts you in the show's history books. That's what happened to Patrice Masse on The Price Is Right , a long-running American game show.

The point of the show is to guess the price of retail items. Sometimes it's ordinary household cleaners, sometimes it's boats. The information you need to know, sent directly to you: Download the CTV News App You don't want to guess over the price, or overbid, you want to guess the closest to the cost, or the exact cost.

The finale of the game is the Showcase, where contestants guess the combined value of items in one of two showcases. "I just blurted it out, I tried to estimate the cost," Masse said. "There was a 20 minute delay before they actually carried on with the show and at that time I already thought that I blew it.

" Masse guessed the showcase price at $39,500. The actual price was $39,501. He was off by $1.

Patrice Masse on The Price Is Right. (CBC) The audience can be seen going wild, Masse himself has a look of shock as he and his wife celebrate. "That was the best showcase bid in the history of the show," host Drew Carey said on the episode.

"With absolutely no help from anybody in the audience, by the way." Since Masse's guess was within $250 of the actual amount of the showcase he was guessing for, he actually won the contents of both showcases. Some of his prizes.