Power of 10

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'164671\' date=\'Sep 24 2007, 12:06 PM\']
I can see the first question being all or nothing--they have nothing to risk yet--but it seems inconsistent not to play the $10,000 question like the other ones. If you win, you add a zero; if you lose, you subtract a zero. $100. It seems cheaper not to give it out.
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Which is exactly the loophole I'm fixing with my proposal.

(And if anything is cheap about PoX, it's advertising a $10,000,000 grand prize that is never ever EVER going to be attempted. Unless they let Dan Avila play.)

[Neumms]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'164676\' date=\'Sep 24 2007, 02:25 PM\']
(And if anything is cheap about PoX, it's advertising a $10,000,000 grand prize that is never ever EVER going to be attempted. Unless they let Dan Avila play.)
[/quote]

He's probably available!

[tvmitch]

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'164668\' date=\'Sep 24 2007, 02:06 PM\']
I still say contestants should get something for guessing on the nose in the qualifying round. One contestant even did it twice.
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This I do agree with - the bonus should be $1K, or even $10K, for getting the guess right on the nose. Or it means that you get a 2% buffer zone, if needed on a question in the main game.

What I mean is this...you hit it on the nose, you get the 2% bonus. If, on the first question, you have a range of 5% to 45% and the poll is 3%, then you get credit. You don't get to use the bonus again, and it doesn't count for the last question, of course.

EDIT: Or, Drew gives you the choice of either the buffer or $10K sure cash. Or a pony.

[JayDLewis]

I've always thought that if you get any of the H2H questions exactly right, you get an additional guess at the $10M question.

So, suppose the range is 17% to 27%. If you go for it and got 1 exactly right in the H2H you can cover 2 numbers.

It happens so infrequently that it would become a non-issue (both getting it exactly right and someone making it to the Big One). Plus, Drew can goad someone into going for the $1M by dangling that carrot (2 in 11, 3 in 11,  4 in 11 shot) for "an unprecedented" $10M)

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'JayDLewis\' post=\'164695\' date=\'Sep 24 2007, 06:07 PM\']
I've always thought that if you get any of the H2H questions exactly right, you get an additional guess at the $10M question.

So, suppose the range is 17% to 27%. If you go for it and got 1 exactly right in the H2H you can cover 2 numbers.

It happens so infrequently that it would become a non-issue (both getting it exactly right and someone making it to the Big One). Plus, Drew can goad someone into going for the $1M by dangling that carrot (2 in 11, 3 in 11,  4 in 11 shot) for "an unprecedented" $10M)
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Now there's an idea. If you don't offer an additional cash incentive, how about, say, a second chance guess on your level, or something along those lines? Say, up to an additional five or ten percent buffer for an exact qualifier guess.

If you don't make it to the main game, then you get, I dunno, $100 for each exact guess. No more than $200 given out there, even though there's a chance you could win more than the actual contestant playing the main game.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'JayDLewis\' post=\'164695\' date=\'Sep 24 2007, 03:07 PM\']
It happens so infrequently that it would become a non-issue (both getting it exactly right and someone making it to the Big One). Plus, Drew can goad someone into going for the $1M by dangling that carrot (2 in 11, 3 in 11,  4 in 11 shot) for "an unprecedented" $10M)
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As much as I like the idea, I'm guessing it never happen, because I have to think whoever is underwriting the insurance policy against paying out the $10,000,000 is likely requiring set odds on the event happening.

[GameShowFan]

As much as I like the idea, I'm guessing it never happen, because I have to think whoever is underwriting the insurance policy against paying out the $10,000,000 is likely requiring set odds on the event happening.

What's really sick is that with an event probability as this, the policy insuring it could be dirt cheap -- $1,000 and the insurance company makes a profit. ($240 for an equal-to-expectation chance.)

Of course, someone hits the $10M, and several Lloyd's underwriters go homeless.

'Brian

[GS Warehouse]

[quote name=\'mitchgroff\' post=\'164689\' date=\'Sep 24 2007, 04:58 PM\']EDIT: Or, Drew gives you the choice of either the buffer or $10K sure cash. Or a pony.[/quote]
Is it an ice cream pony?