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Originally Posted by D
I've never really understood the fascination with the whole "Deal or no Deal" thing.
All they're doing is picking cases.
There's no need for knowledge, skill, or intellect... it's just dumb luck.
The only skill is in the host's delivery, and the guy who composed the algorithm that tells them how much to offer the contestant.
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The fascination of people being greedy and getting owned. For example I saw one show last week where the chick had 3 cases hers and 2 others $10,000, $200K and $750K offer was $198K. Now to me $198K is the same as $200K so there is only a 1/3 chance she's going to do better. If she picks the $200K case or the $750K case that offer is going to drop. Math tells you only 1/3 chance of the offer going up. So take the deal. Nope she gets greedy and then picks the $750K case. Offer drops to $60K which she takes. She ended up having $10,000 in her case.
Now the funny thing is when there were 4 cases left the offer was $128K, her friend says "You didn't come here for $128K". When the offer drops to $60K her friend says "$60K is a lot of money, take the deal". WTF? Ok $128K and $198K weren't enough, now $60K is?