Author Topic: DoND return plans... (Read 4708 times)

Gus · « **Reply #15 on:** August 17, 2007, 01:19:09 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'160890\' date=\'Aug 16 2007, 06:25 PM\']
/he picked Google.
//my DOG could have picked Google.
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So he shouldn't have picked Google?

TravisP · « **Reply #16 on:** August 17, 2007, 01:57:25 PM »

[quote name=\'Craig Karlberg\' post=\'160951\' date=\'Aug 17 2007, 02:28 AM\']
If nothing but $1M cases are left, does the offer come out to what the average is as some sort of percentage? I think that's how it might play out. That's where it gets very anti-climatic at that point because surely the player holding his/her case would go all the way.
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Knowing NBC, if the remaining cases are all $1 Million, then they'll probably offer $1 Million + 2 Hummers. Thank goodness Channel 4 & Endemol are more sensible with the game board here.

tpirfan28 · « **Reply #17 on:** August 17, 2007, 02:21:26 PM »

[quote name=\'TravisP\' post=\'160995\' date=\'Aug 17 2007, 01:57 PM\']
[quote name=\'Craig Karlberg\' post=\'160951\' date=\'Aug 17 2007, 02:28 AM\']
If nothing but $1M cases are left, does the offer come out to what the average is as some sort of percentage? I think that's how it might play out. That's where it gets very anti-climatic at that point because surely the player holding his/her case would go all the way.
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Knowing NBC, if the remaining cases are all $1 Million, then they'll probably offer $1 Million + 2 Hummers. Thank goodness Channel 4 & Endemol here are more sensible with the game board here.
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But what's nice about that is NBC will have already spoiled us, and *I* won't have to turn in.

clemon79 · « **Reply #18 on:** August 17, 2007, 02:51:38 PM »

[quote name=\'Gus\' post=\'160988\' date=\'Aug 17 2007, 10:19 AM\']
So he shouldn't have picked Google?
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No, that line refers to an article the San Francisco Chronicle (I think) did about Cramer when that crapfest on MSNBC was starting to get popular and people were marveling at what a great prognosticator he was, that tracked a bunch of his recent picks at the time and discovered that he was batting right around .500. In other words, he's no more of a financial genius than a coin toss is. He's just good at being loud and idiotic about it, and good at appealing to the braindead twentysomething audience that eats up garbage like that.

/he picked Dick's Sporting Goods
//it promptly lost 25% of its value within two months
///moooooooo
////or maybe I should impersonate his fans: baaaaaaaaaaaa

Robert Hutchinson · « **Reply #19 on:** August 18, 2007, 07:42:02 PM »

[quote name=\'TravisP\' post=\'160995\' date=\'Aug 17 2007, 01:57 PM\']Knowing NBC, if the remaining cases are all $1 Million, then they'll probably offer $1 Million + 2 Hummers.[/quote]
"Due to a capitalization error, Deal or No Deal broke all previous ratings records last night . . ."

clemon79 · « **Reply #20 on:** August 18, 2007, 07:59:19 PM »

[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' post=\'161174\' date=\'Aug 18 2007, 04:42 PM\']
[quote name=\'TravisP\' post=\'160995\' date=\'Aug 17 2007, 01:57 PM\']Knowing NBC, if the remaining cases are all $1 Million, then they'll probably offer $1 Million + 2 Hummers.[/quote]
"Due to a capitalization error, Deal or No Deal broke all previous ratings records last night . . ."
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Well played, sir.

Steve Gavazzi · « **Reply #21 on:** August 18, 2007, 11:48:07 PM »

[quote name=\'Craig Karlberg\' post=\'160951\' date=\'Aug 17 2007, 03:28 AM\']
If nothing but $1M cases are left, does the offer come out to what the average is as some sort of percentage? I think that's how it might play out.[/quote]
Sir, I assure you, you do not think.

catnap1972 · « **Reply #22 on:** August 19, 2007, 11:51:52 AM »

[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'161203\' date=\'Aug 18 2007, 11:48 PM\']
[quote name=\'Craig Karlberg\' post=\'160951\' date=\'Aug 17 2007, 03:28 AM\']
If nothing but $1M cases are left, does the offer come out to what the average is as some sort of percentage? I think that's how it might play out.[/quote]
Sir, I assure you, you do not think.
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Still, one would assume (yeah, not safe to assume) that NBC/End-Em-All has some kind of plan if that happens. Maybe whip out the big cases for the "double or nothing" deal?

clemon79 · « **Reply #23 on:** August 19, 2007, 01:36:22 PM »

[quote name=\'catnap1972\' post=\'161234\' date=\'Aug 19 2007, 08:51 AM\']
Still, one would assume (yeah, not safe to assume) that NBC/End-Em-All has some kind of plan if that happens.
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I would not make that assumption at all. AT ALL. It's clear they don't think these promotions through in the first place, why would you assume they're taking precautions for small-probability events like that?

Robert Hutchinson · « **Reply #24 on:** August 20, 2007, 02:01:23 AM »

Based on recent reports about the current crop of games, the most likely scenario is that they stop tape for four hours, finally deciding to just start the game over entirely.

TLEberle · « **Reply #25 on:** August 20, 2007, 12:09:49 PM »

[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' post=\'161337\' date=\'Aug 19 2007, 11:01 PM\']Based on recent reports about the current crop of games, the most likely scenario is that they stop tape for four hours, finally deciding to just start the game over entirely.[/quote]"Ladies and gentlemen, your winner, with a Krypton factor of 60, Robert Hutchinson."

MSTieScott · « **Reply #26 on:** August 20, 2007, 02:24:49 PM »

It doesn't seem to be that hard to figure out how to play the situation.

"There are three $1,000,000 cases left, and one $750 case. You chose case number 1. If Claudia opens that case and we see $750, then we know that you will be our first million-dollar winner. If one of the million dollars is in the case, then the next bank offer will go down."

And so on for two minutes until they actually get around to opening the case. Just stop playing the game once there are nothing but $1,000,000 cases left on the board.

--
Scott Robinson