deal no deal 11/16

[newsposter]

I still have SP for this but just thumb thru it to see if someone ever wins the million. Well last night at least they had something different. 3 sets of 2 people had 200 cases to choose from and if you chose both halves of a hersheys kiss you win 100,000,000. No one won of course but they each got 100K at least

I cant imagine this prize could ever be won.

[mcb08]

I still have SP for this but just thumb thru it to see if someone ever wins the million. Well last night at least they had something different. 3 sets of 2 people had 200 cases to choose from and if you chose both halves of a hersheys kiss you win 100,000,000. No one won of course but they each got 100K at least

I cant imagine this prize could ever be won.
Probability calculations aren't my strong suit, but I think that the odds of someone winning were about 1 in 40,000? Pretty good odds for a shot at $100 mil!

[MasterOfPuppets]

Were there 200 models?
Cuz...that'd probably be sensory overload.

[That Don Guy]

Probability calculations aren't my strong suit, but I think that the odds of someone winning were about 1 in 40,000? Pretty good odds for a shot at $100 mil!
There were only 150 "cases" in the 100,000,000 game; the actual chance of a particular couple winning was one in 11,175. (Even Pepsi's "Play for a Billion" sweepstakes had "only" a 1 in 1000 chance of having a winner.)

I'm not even sure any of the six numbers picked would have found any of the six winning pieces in the three sets of cases put together - but then again, that's expected to happen more than 75% of the time.

-- Don

[toddvj]

There were only 150 "cases" in the 100,000,000 game; the actual chance of a particular couple winning was one in 11,175. (Even Pepsi's "Play for a Billion" sweepstakes had "only" a 1 in 1000 chance of having a winner.)

I'm not even sure any of the six numbers picked would have found any of the six winning pieces in the three sets of cases put together - but then again, that's expected to happen more than 75% of the time.

-- Don

Hmm. I don't know about that One in 11,175 odds. They had to pick not one, but two winning pieces. I would think the odds of that would be astronomical. I'm not any kind of mathmetician though.

On another note, did it seem like the winning couples weren't all that happy when it was announced that they would each get $100,000? Maybe they already knew that going in?

[That Don Guy]

Hmm. I don't know about that One in 11,175 odds. They had to pick not one, but two winning pieces. I would think the odds of that would be astronomical. I'm not any kind of mathmetician though.
There are 149 pairs where the lower number is 1 (1,2; 1,3; 1,4;...; 1,150)
There are 148 pairs where the lower number is 2 (2,3; 2,4; 2,5;...; 2,150)
There are 147 pairs where the lower number is 3 (3,4; 3,5; 3,6;...; 3,150)
And so on, until you get to:
There are 2 pairs where the lower number is 148 (148, 149; 148,150)
There is 1 pair where the lower number is 149 (149, 150)
The total number of pairs is 149 + 148 + 147 + ... + 2 + 1 = 11,175
One pair wins the $100 million

-- Don

[alansh]

Yes, the $100K prize was in the rules. The prize (like Pepsi's Win a Billion) was an annuity that was heavily loaded in the last year. It would have paid $375K a year for 40 years and $35M in year 41 to each person in the winning team ($50M each). Or they could take $12M cash each.