Vanesa McCaskell, a retired Army veteran from Virginia, had been keeping an extraordinary secret since December. When her episode of The Price Is Right finally aired on Mother’s Day weekend, everyone else found out what she’d known for five months: she had won the largest single pricing-game prize in the show’s 54-year history.

McCaskell took home $240,150 in cash and prizes, breaking a record that had stood since 2016, when contestant Christen Freeman won $210,000 playing “Cliff Hangers,” as Fox News reported. The bulk of McCaskell’s haul was $227,500 in cash, plus a mother-daughter trip to Morocco valued at $12,650.

She won it playing “The Lion’s Share,” a high-stakes game introduced in the show’s 54th season. Contestants guess grocery prices to earn up to five balls, then drop them into a wind-tunnel chamber where each ball reveals a hidden........

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