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FalmerforAll!**
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Re: Re: deal or no deal
£25,000
Al Bion said:
£25,000
Incredigull
In Cervesio Felicitas
empire said:
Hope they were'nt his favourites
Woodchip
It's all about the bikes
What was in his box? :safeway2:
dougdeep
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But it's just a load of boxes.
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Someone picks boxes in whatever order they feel like, then gets offered the chance to settle for less than the average amount in the remaining boxes, which anyone with any common sense says no to.
The smallest amount of intelligence can see how the offer is worked out, and that in terms of probability, you're better off keeping going.
Formulaic - painfully so. Really, what is compelling about it?
Basil Fawlty
Don't Mention The War
Deal or No Deal is brillant, I wish some people had the bottle to go all the way through, instead of dealing one deal to early.
seagulls4eva
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DTES said:
The offer is usually less than the mean, but more than the median. The average is brought up massively by the disproportionally high, high numbers.
seagulls4eva said:
Yes, exactly. Simply work out the mean, and then round down to the next round number, either in terms of hundreds or thousands depending exactly how big that mean is.
This then leaves, for a simple example, a 1/3 chance of getting 4x your money. Anyone should take this - it's the same principle as, say, being offered 1000/1 on West Ham winning the FA Cup this season. They're far from favourites with Chelsea and Liverpool left in, but you couldn't turn down odds like that. It's not such a dramatically large skewing I realise, but it is the same principle.
Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
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It's bollogs, as Douglas Deep says it's a load of boxes. You could condense that show into 15 minutes, or save your sanity by just watching the last 10 minutes. All that holding hands crap between the contestants etc. - this is the UK not the frickin US of A! Like the other contestants really give a shit about whether the person in the middle wins or not! I think it hit an all time low this week when Noel Edmonds said "I was talking to the dealer this morning and he said he thought you'd be the one playing today..." What?!
Not that I watch it you understand
Not that I watch it you understand
Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
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Oh and the £250k will never be won because who in their right mind when offered £85k by the banker with two boxes left (one of which is the £250k) is going to gamble that £85k on a 50/50 chance? Even if the last two boxes were the two highest scoring boxes out there you're still going to take the banker's offer.
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n1 gull
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Cheeky Monkey said:
I agree, so I think the banker should offer something like £20k not £85k, then see the contestant sweat.
Cheeky Monkey
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n1 gull said:
The thing is though C4 don't want to risk that player going no deal and having the £250k box though, which is why a 'damage limitation' offer has to be relatively attractive (not that £20k isn't mind)