DoND Ideal board?

[jalman]

I also have the notion that it isn't so much the board, but the how mean the banker gets.  Since watching the UK version for a few weeks I'm impressed at his scaring contestants into a deal by lowballing offers.

Now, Brig or someone from the UK please explain to me what is up with those little tattoos(?) on Noel's right hand every day.

[Brig Bother]

[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'122015\' date=\'Jun 21 2006, 08:31 PM\']
How many shows do they usually tape in a day?  Is it the usual for the U.S. five-a-day (or six-a-day, if that's how many days a week they're on) or is it less than that?
[/quote]

Three a day, five days a week, two weeks on one week off. In theory, you're there for a fortnight's worth of filming, but some contestants are lucky and producers pick them to play early (the players for the week are chosen in advance on the Monday morning), other contestants are left for a while. You're asked to get two-three weeks off work for it minimum. One contestant was made to wait 50 shows. You're encouraged to bring a friend to share the hotel room with you, and they try to swing it so you get your go whilst your friend is avaliable and sitting in the audience (one section of the audience is specially for friends and family of people on on the benches, and two recording day's worth of future contestants awaiting to join the game) although there are no guarantees. Players don't know they're playing until their name flashes up on the big screen at the top of the show. A show takes about 90-120 minutes to tape, edited down to 45 for telly.

Regarding Noel's hand drawings, try typing in "Noel Edmonds Cosmic Ordering" into Google and see if you find the results illuminating.

[jalman]

[quote name=\'Brig Bother\' post=\'122036\' date=\'Jun 21 2006, 06:30 PM\']
Regarding Noel's hand drawings, try typing in "Noel Edmonds Cosmic Ordering" into Google and see if you find the results illuminating.
[/quote]
Typing hurts my fingers something fierce.  I do what the kids do nowadays: highlight and right-click for Google, and the results are interesting.  Maybe Edmonds should swap notes with Jim Perry.

/or maybe not
//and sometime tell Edmonds the 70s ended some time ago ;-)

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'jalman\' post=\'122039\' date=\'Jun 21 2006, 03:52 PM\']
I do what the kids do nowadays: highlight and right-click for Google, and the results are interesting.
[/quote]
Okay. I had no idea that you could highlight-right-click like that. I don't know WHY I didn't know that, but I didn't. That's damned slick.

(What I REALLY want is a highlight-right-click-go-to-this-URL function, for those times when you come across one that for whatever reason isn't hyperlinked directly.)

[Speedy G]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'122049\' date=\'Jun 21 2006, 07:46 PM\']
(What I REALLY want is a highlight-right-click-go-to-this-URL function, for those times when you come across one that for whatever reason isn't hyperlinked directly.)
[/quote]
In Firefox, the Linkification extension is your friend.  Takes those plain-text URLs and makes a nice link out of them.

ObDoND: The best right hand side I can come up with is this:

 $1,000
 $5,000
 $10,000
 $15,000
 $20,000
 $25,000
 $50,000
 $75,000
 $100,000
 $200,000
 $300,000
 $600,000
 $1,000,000

1) 600K divided by six...  Can't get six fig offers earlier than one-case-at-a-time without the million or serious backup.
2) 300K divided by three...  Can't get six fig offers late without one of the big three or serious backup.
3) about 40% of the board is the TDV (like UK and AUS); instead of currently somewhere around 30%.
4) Still enough decent money on the board so every other show doesn't feel like a total train wreck.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Speedy G\' post=\'122053\' date=\'Jun 21 2006, 05:33 PM\']
In Firefox, the Linkification extension is your friend.  Takes those plain-text URLs and makes a nice link out of them.
[/quote]
You, sir, are teh winnar. I knew something existed and just couldn't find it. Thanks!

[TonicBH]

Mine's probably gonna be derailed for being a little too topheavy, but here goes:

Left half: penny, nickel, quarter, half-dollar, $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $250, $500
Right half: $1,000, $2,000, $3,000, $4,000, $5,000, $10,000, $25,000, $50,000, $75,000, $100,000, $250,000, $500,000, $1,000,000

I was thinking the right half should at least have values that would be somewhat favorable. I mean, you wouldn't want $5, but you wouldn't mind having at least $1,000, wouldn't you?

[TLEberle]

[quote name=\'TonicBH\' post=\'122056\' date=\'Jun 21 2006, 06:15 PM\']I was thinking the right half should at least have values that would be somewhat favorable. I mean, you wouldn't want $5, but you wouldn't mind having at least $1,000, wouldn't you?[/quote]"Somewhat favorable"? What does that mean? The point I made not a dozen posts before was that the game is uninteresting if everyone carts away a bundle o' cash. A game must have winners and losers to be compelling. The game as it stands can only have $5 winners if they do something really really silly. Though yours is a mild improvement over what we have now.

[Gus]

I once tried to make a board that was as even as possible; that is, a purely a logarithmic board where each value is multiplied by the one before it by as close to the same number as possible, or, alternately described, that when each value is plotted on a logarithmic scale, the curve is as close to a straight line as possible. My intent was to have a super-hyper-mega-ultra, never gonnna be done, way too many cases to be considered fathomable board going from $1 to $10,000,000. I came up with a short, neat pattern that iterated perfectly to give exactly fifty amounts:

1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50 3.50 5.00 7.50
10   15   20   25   35   50   75
100  150  200  250  350  500  750
1k   1½k  2k   2½k  3½k  5k   7½k
10k  15k  20k  25k  35k  50k  75k
100k 150k 200k 250k 350k 500k 750k
1m   1½m  2m   2½m  3½m  5m   7½m
10m

Reading this thread, I had been thinking that any logarithmic board such as this with no sudden jumps anywhere would be considered top-heavy relative to its top value, regardless of whether it's 26, 50, 10, or 1000 cases. Would my assumption be right?

(For the record, on a purely logarithmic board, the factor that each value is increased from the one before it would be the ((number of cases)-1)th root of (highest prize)/(lowest prize).)

[Steve McClellan]

[quote name=\'Gus\' date=\'Jun 21 2006, 09:33 PM\'](For the record, on a purely logarithmic board, the factor that each value is increased from the one before it would be the ((number of cases)-1)th root of (highest prize)/(lowest prize).)[/quote]
Interesting. That would put the DoND board somewhere around:

.01
.02
.05
.10
.25
.50
1
2
5
10
20
40
75
---
150
300
600
1,250
3,000
6,000
12,500
25,000
50,000
100,000
250,000
500,000
1,000,000

So what do the critics think of this one?

[J.R.]

Very clever board. Just one minor nitpick. If someone were to get unlucky greedy and end up with a $0.01 or $0.02 final: What would the bank offer be? :-)

-Joe R.

[Steve McClellan]

[quote name=\'JRaygor\' date=\'Jun 22 2006, 01:36 AM\']If someone were to get unlucky greedy and end up with a $0.01 or $0.02 final: What would the bank offer be? :-)[/quote]
A one-way ticket to Bakersfield.

[uncamark]

[quote name=\'Steve McClellan\' post=\'122096\' date=\'Jun 22 2006, 03:56 AM\']
[quote name=\'JRaygor\' date=\'Jun 22 2006, 01:36 AM\']If someone were to get unlucky greedy and end up with a $0.01 or $0.02 final: What would the bank offer be? :-)[/quote]
A one-way ticket to Bakersfield.
[/quote]

A date with Kathy Griffin.  

[aaron sica]

[quote name=\'JRaygor\' post=\'122095\' date=\'Jun 22 2006, 04:36 AM\']
Very clever board. Just one minor nitpick. If someone were to get unlucky greedy and end up with a $0.01 or $0.02 final: What would the bank offer be? :-)

-Joe R.
[/quote]

A genuine Mexican peso.

[trainman]

[quote name=\'JRaygor\' post=\'122095\' date=\'Jun 22 2006, 01:36 AM\']If someone were to get unlucky greedy and end up with a $0.01 or $0.02 final: What would the bank offer be? :-)
[/quote]

One cent plus 10 coupons for Tostitos (cash value 1/20th of a cent each).