calling all reality tv fans: i need help!
Ok, so I know there are a couple readers of this blog who are big reality tv fans. If that's you, please help me out! Apparently my parents have purchased the Deal or No Deal board game, and our whole family is going to have a tournament or something out at their house in California over Christmas. The awesome part is that on the last day we will be playing with real money -- mom and pops haven't decided on a final amount yet, but said probably around $250-300.The problem is that my parents and my sister and brother-in-law are all fans of the show. I, however, have literally never even seen one second of it on tv. I have no idea how to play. Is it trivia based, do you have to win challenges? What is the strategy involved? I have no clue. This is way too big of a pot for me not to study up and master the strategy of the game before arriving out there next Sunday. If you are a fan of the show or know how it works, please please please help out and clue me in to the best tactics!
posted by becka @ 11:36 PM
2 Comments:
Dear Fosties-
You should totally win this family challenge and if you don't, I'm not sure if I'll be able to call you fosties any more! Deal or No Deal is only based on statistics. There are I think 30 cases with dollar amounts in them from 1 penny to 1 million dollars ($.01, $1,$5,$10,$100,$250,$500,$1000, etc...all the way up to $1,000,000). At the beginning of a game, you pick one case to be your case, but you don't get to open it. From that point on, you open other cases. The first time, you open six cases. The object, obviously, is for the case you picked at the beginning to have the mil. So, you'll start opening the cases praying that you open small amounts. After you have opened 6,(on the show), you get a call from "the banker". Based on what you have opened, he offers you an amount of money to "sell your case" to him. The way he comes up with this offer is purely statistical. If you open all large numbers, the offer is going to be really small. If you open all small numbers, the offer is going to be decent. He tries to get you to leave with as little as possible. So, if he says the offer is $10,000 and you still have 1 mil, $750K,$500K, $250K, AND $100K still "on the board" (left in cases), obviously, that would be a bad deal so you would shout at the top of your lungs "NO DEAL!", but if you've opened the big cases already, you want to weigh your options! The longer the games go on, the less cases you open at a time! Make sense? Everyone that goes on that show ends up being so dumb and greedy and they play for too long because they think they're gonna be the one to beat the odds. So, DON'T GET GREEDY! Use your foster smarts and figure out what the statistics are for the 1 mil to be in your case! Hope this novel of a post helps! Miss you like crazy! Only 15 more days until our boys tear it up in the Rose Bowl!
Nice recap Linds. My two cents would be far less helpful having watched only bits of two episodes. I would, however, like to defend an enjoyable TV genre by stating that this is simply a game show not an unscripted drama, or reality TV as you call it! :)
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