mrchamp (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} mrchamp) wrote,@ 2006-10-26 04:47:00 |
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Is Kirk psychic?
I can't believe I forgot to post this. On Monday, at Kevin's, we were watching a game show called "Deal or no deal," which I had never seen before. Much like "Who wants to be a Millionaire," you have a player that's chosen for the current round, although there is no hot seat or Regis Philbin. They have 26 different box looking things with assorted amounts of money in them, ranging from I think 5 cents to $1,000,000. All 26 values are the same each game, but which box holds which amount is random.
Well, at the start of the game I was trying to guess which box might have the $1,000,000 in it. Keep in mind there are 26 of them. The contestant actually starts the game with one of them in front of him or her, and as the game progresses, he or she tries to deduce what might be in the box in front of him/her. The contestant tells the host which boxes to open, and after a set amount are opened, a banker of sorts does some number crunching and offers the contestant an amount of money to try and "buy them off." The contestant then has to decide if it's a "deal, or no deal." If it's a deal, the contestant leaves with the money amount offered. If not, the game continues. If the amounts revealed are generally low, the money offered by the banker will increase; if the amounts revealed are generally high, the money offered by the banker will generally decrease. Blah blah blah, you get the idea.
So as I was trying to figure out what box the million is in, I told Kevin about what I was thinking about. He said it must be the one with all the pickles in it. I said, well, if it's the one with all the pickles in it, then it must be number 26 since that's the highest number box, which has to have the most pickles in it of all the boxes, at 26 pickles. This of course has no relevance to the game whatsoever, but nevertheless, it's my guess.
The woman went through a lot of the boxes before calling it quits and leaving with $180,000. She went through about 20 of them I'd say. I kept telling her to stay away from 26, because it's got the one million dollars in it, and she should save it for the end, when she gets to choose whether or not to swap her box with the one remaining box. She did not listen. When she picked 26, and they opened it, what did it contain? The one million dollars. Unbelievable? Ask Kevin.
I called it at the START of the game, before it even started. I could be rich right now. But I am not.
I can't believe I forgot to post this. On Monday, at Kevin's, we were watching a game show called "Deal or no deal," which I had never seen before. Much like "Who wants to be a Millionaire," you have a player that's chosen for the current round, although there is no hot seat or Regis Philbin. They have 26 different box looking things with assorted amounts of money in them, ranging from I think 5 cents to $1,000,000. All 26 values are the same each game, but which box holds which amount is random.
Well, at the start of the game I was trying to guess which box might have the $1,000,000 in it. Keep in mind there are 26 of them. The contestant actually starts the game with one of them in front of him or her, and as the game progresses, he or she tries to deduce what might be in the box in front of him/her. The contestant tells the host which boxes to open, and after a set amount are opened, a banker of sorts does some number crunching and offers the contestant an amount of money to try and "buy them off." The contestant then has to decide if it's a "deal, or no deal." If it's a deal, the contestant leaves with the money amount offered. If not, the game continues. If the amounts revealed are generally low, the money offered by the banker will increase; if the amounts revealed are generally high, the money offered by the banker will generally decrease. Blah blah blah, you get the idea.
So as I was trying to figure out what box the million is in, I told Kevin about what I was thinking about. He said it must be the one with all the pickles in it. I said, well, if it's the one with all the pickles in it, then it must be number 26 since that's the highest number box, which has to have the most pickles in it of all the boxes, at 26 pickles. This of course has no relevance to the game whatsoever, but nevertheless, it's my guess.
The woman went through a lot of the boxes before calling it quits and leaving with $180,000. She went through about 20 of them I'd say. I kept telling her to stay away from 26, because it's got the one million dollars in it, and she should save it for the end, when she gets to choose whether or not to swap her box with the one remaining box. She did not listen. When she picked 26, and they opened it, what did it contain? The one million dollars. Unbelievable? Ask Kevin.
I called it at the START of the game, before it even started. I could be rich right now. But I am not.
