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12-18-2005, 10:05 PM
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Deal or No Deal
Anyone know if is going to be presented in HD or not. Trying to decide which box to record it on.
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12-18-2005, 10:28 PM
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According to NBC's web site schedule, there's no HDTV indicator, so I'm guessing it's not.
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12-19-2005, 01:00 AM
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I'm going to laugh if the opening episode gets topped by the 7th Heaven rerun.
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12-19-2005, 09:13 AM
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What is this show about? I went to the site and it's some briefcase exchange game. But they have 50 models for some reason. Why all the hot babes?
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12-19-2005, 02:25 PM
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What is this show about? I went to the site and it's some briefcase exchange game. But they have 50 models for some reason. Why all the hot babes?
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In the versions of the game around the world, there's an elimination game using the entire studio audience to whittle the crowd down to the one player to play the main game, and the other 25 cases are held by the members of the audience. Those other 25 people can win extra cash if they can successfully predict what dollar amount is in their case.
The NBC version doesn't have the audience elimination game, hence the models to bring out the cases and reveal what's inside.
Here's the Wiki that better explains the international versions of DoND.
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12-19-2005, 02:52 PM
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It sounds like a game of pure chance. In other words, since no one knows what is in the cases, you are just hoping that you bet the right way.
It sounds boring. I will either watch some old shows I have on my Tivo or do something even weirder, read.
I like trivia games.
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12-19-2005, 02:57 PM
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So this is pretty much "Lets Make a Deal" only you can't win a donkey?
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12-19-2005, 03:26 PM
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So this is pretty much "Lets Make a Deal" only you can't win a donkey?
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I never knew, but if someone "won" something like a donkey, they didn't get to keep it did they?
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12-19-2005, 05:32 PM
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How'd I get this old
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I never knew, but if someone "won" something like a donkey, they didn't get to keep it did they?
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Actually, they never received the gag prizes ("zonks") until one contestant demanded to keep the elephant. This cost the producers a fortune, so from there on it was written into the contestant agreements that a "zonk" winner would get another small prize as a substitute.
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12-19-2005, 07:19 PM
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ok I just started watching this. When did Howie go bald?
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12-19-2005, 07:24 PM
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This is bad. I give it a week.
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12-19-2005, 07:30 PM
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I don't think it is intended to go much longer then that.
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12-19-2005, 07:31 PM
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I'm amused... not like there's anything else on. I'll keep watching.
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12-19-2005, 08:09 PM
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Wasting time here
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my GOD do I HATE stupid people!
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12-19-2005, 08:10 PM
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my GOD do I HATE stupid people!
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Ok, that's nice. And that has what to do with this show or this thread?
Anyway. This is kind of an interesting show - it's pure chance and "game theory" as the Wiki article puts it... at what point will the risk be too much for the contestant to continue? Will the contestant base their decision to continue on what the banker's offer is, or whether the chance of having a good case selected?
I do think based on the description on Wiki that they made a good decision to simplify the show for the US audience, esp. given a limited run. This gets the same general point across without the weird random elements added in of guesses/superguesses and other audience members participating and stuff, and gets more contestants involved and playing the game.
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12-19-2005, 08:18 PM
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Ok, that's nice. And that has what to do with this show or this thread?
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OK.....let me add my second part to that:
....who can't understand simple odds and probability.
Better?
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12-19-2005, 08:48 PM
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corollary:
My GOD, do the producers LOVE stupid people. 
I enjoyed the show tonight. I think I'll be sick of it by Friday, though.
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12-19-2005, 08:56 PM
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I kind of enjoyed it. I thought it was going to be boring but my wife and I were getting into it at the end. We figured out that the "Banker" was simply the average of the cases left somewhere in the first game. It's interesting to think about when it's best to take the deal or to continue. Kind of like the stock market, you don't know until the end when your highest offer is going to be made.
We'll keep watching.
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12-19-2005, 08:57 PM
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I'm sick of it after the first contestant. No deal.
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12-19-2005, 09:05 PM
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This is bad. I give it a week.
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This was, perhaps, the funniest thing I have heard today. Kudos to you, cherry ghost. Kudos to you.
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12-19-2005, 09:23 PM
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It's okay. The main problem I see is that once the big numbers are knocked out it's rather anticlimactic.
I tried playing the online version. I managed to pick both the 1˘ and $1 cases. 
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12-19-2005, 09:29 PM
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OMG this was bad.
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12-19-2005, 09:50 PM
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This was really bad. The (original) Dutch version is so much better.
Producers definitely love over the top people. I'm not sure who was worse, the husband or the wife playing the game.
I'm glad it's only a week long event. It wouldn't last longer than that.
Howie sucks as a presenter.
My $.02.
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12-19-2005, 10:58 PM
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I enjoyed it. The game has just enough suspense and if you get some good characters as contestants it could be decent lightweight entertainment. Since there is nothing going on this week, I will probably look at it until I get sick of it, but it will go the way of Millionaire and Weakest Link in a hurry if NBC decides to make a full-time go of it.
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12-19-2005, 11:54 PM
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I like it but I wouldnt watch it regularly. I could see it on the Gameshow Network.
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12-20-2005, 02:57 AM
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Yes, as a one-time or once a year event, it is pretty good entertainment, at least for me. I find it pretty exciting, but I agree it would get old fast, if they kept it on more than this week.
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12-20-2005, 07:33 AM
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The show is like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, in that they are perfect shows for TIVOing. You can watch the whole 1-hour show in about 20 minutes. Hell, you probably can even watch it with 3x Fast Forward (faster for commercials, of course).
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12-20-2005, 07:56 AM
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I liked it. But as I see from some of the comments above YMMV.
So does the "Banker" have software running that generates the "deal" amount? It would seem to be relatively easy to program that.
Since the thread title doesn't have a date listed for the episode:
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12-20-2005, 08:03 AM
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I liked it...it was something different, which is quite rare these days...
I wouldn't want to watch every single night for an extended period of time, but it will keep my interest for a week...
I don't think the first lady was necessarily stupid...speaking of simple odds, chances were that she would still pick a briefcase with a smaller amount at the end, and "The Banker's" offer would go up more...
Taking chances, baby...that's why you go on a game show...can't be a wuss all the time, and when else are these opportunities gonna come along??? Any idiot can say afterwards "Well golly gee, I guess since it turned out that she didn't have the $500,000 briefcase, she should have taken the offer", then what happens if she had the $500,000 briefcase???
I wanna see someone eliminate the top 6 prizes with their first 6 elimination picks...just because that'd be something that I'd do...
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12-20-2005, 08:49 AM
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Any idiot can say afterwards "Well golly gee, I guess since it turned out that she didn't have the $500,000 briefcase, she should have taken the offer", then what happens if she had the $500,000 briefcase???
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No, she should have continued to say "no deal" until she was down to 5 cases. At that point, the expected value of her case was $110K, but the banker offered her $163K or something. That was the first time that she was offered more than the expected value and she should have jumped on it...
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