Reply to: Deal or no Deal

[norrahe]

Would we have to guess which thread the intereting post is in?

i guess atw would have to be the banker, who gets to be Noel Edmunds??
Any takers?

[Bagpuss]

Would we have to guess which thread the intereting post is in?

[norrahe]

bench or no bench would make better daytime tv viewing

[Bagpuss]

My favourite was some bint doing it via Cosmic Ordering, IIRC she won 50p, a round or so earlier she was offered 20k

[NickFitz]

It's excruciating to watch because of the voodoo strategies people use to pick the boxes.

The other year one bloke adopted the strategy of simply working his way through the boxes from left to right. Noel Edmonds spent the show characterising this as much riskier than, say, choosing boxes in a sequence based on the birth dates of pets

[NickFitz]

I've never seen it - is it a quiz show or something?

A game show, not a quiz. Rather less intelligence required than The Price is Right.

[Bagpuss]

Agreed, I've yet to see someone calculate the odds of winning greater than the offer.

[TimberWolf]

I've just been for a 10k run, I like to catch Deal or no Deal to laugh at the stupid people who think they can control chance with superstition.

I wouldn't be surprised if they vet contestants to make sure they are dumb and entertaining. It's excruciating to watch because of the voodoo strategies people use to pick the boxes. The only strategy worth knowing is when to take the bankers offer. For sure, this is not likely to be at the start of the game because those offers are way less than one could expect to win on average (all the amounts added up divided by the number of boxes).

[Pogle]

I've just been for a 10k run, I like to catch Deal or no Deal to laugh at the stupid people who think they can control chance with superstition.

I've never seen it - is it a quiz show or something?

[Bagpuss]

You two need to get out more.

I've just been for a 10k run, I like to catch Deal or no Deal to laugh at the stupid people who think they can control chance with superstition.

[DimPrawn]

I am just home from work. Has to switch on the tv to see what baggy was on about.

unemployed

[BrilloPad]

You two need to get out more.

I am just home from work. Has to switch on the tv to see what baggy was on about.

[Moscow Mule]

You two need to get out more.

[Bagpuss]

I'd imagine Sally has bigger bingo wings

[BrilloPad]

Is that Sally Anne?

If it is I hope she gets the £100k. If she just gets the £5 she will be very upset.