classic concentration bonus round question

[SRIV94]

On the other hand, if they were loaded by a human, did they randomly place a different "orphan" on the board each time?  In theory, if you had 8 cars, and you wanted to save on the budget, if done by humans, they could more often than not set it up so the most expensive car did not match on the board.

Methinks Standards & Practices would have something to say about that.

[JasonA1]

There's nothing inherently unfair about choosing to make the most expensive car the "dud." The contestant is not disadvantaged in playing the game they're trying to win. That says nothing about if it was done this way or not, but something to think about before playing the S&P card. In fact, if it were setup by human hands, you could play with the contestants' normal tendency in playing the game. Ergo, you could put expensive cars in the early group of numbers, so they were less likely to be the contestant's final match. That's like putting the big slips in Punch a Bunch in "weird" spots.

-Jason

[SRIV94]

OK, maybe S&P wouldn't have something to say about that.  Although, to me gerrymandering is gerrymandering.  But that's why I'm not in the game show business.

[clemon79]

OK, maybe S&P wouldn't have something to say about that.  Although, to me gerrymandering is gerrymandering.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Gene Wood, at the top of the show, says "You could win one of these eight fabulous cars." And indeed, you can win one of them. Nobody tells you which one. (And in fact, by the rules of the game, it is true 100% of the time that you *can't* win one of them. They just don't talk about that.)

Now, is it disingenuous to make the eighth car a Ferrari Testarossa and then never make it a possible match? Probably. Does it make Gene or Alex's statements false, ever? In no way.

[Jeremy Nelson]

I doubt they were handpicked. Kinda like the Super Mario Bros. 3 memory bonus game--if you know where two of them are, you could know where they all are and pretty easily take NBC for a car. I doubt they would have made their bonus that beatable, especially post-Larsen.

As to the point about Toad's Matching Game, doesn't it take up a bunch less memory on the cart if you program just enough boards to keep things interesting, as opposed to having to seed the eighteen panels beforehand?

Yeah, especially for a minigame that shows up randomly on the board only about 5 times during the course of the game. And that's when you don't use the warp whistles and play most of the available stages. Might as well program six set boards, rather than program the system to randomly place the objects.

[SRIV94]

Fair enough.  I withdraw the statement.

/Even though my foolishness will be on display for perpetuity.