Game show Golden Balls
April 29th, 2012 at 2:27:28 PM
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Saw this link on BJ21 This show is a variation of the Prisoners dilemma
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/04/amazing_round_o.html#comments
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/04/amazing_round_o.html#comments
The mountain is tall but grass grows on top of the mountain.
April 29th, 2012 at 2:32:43 PM
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Sorry link is to a blog that talks about the show.
The mountain is tall but grass grows on top of the mountain.
April 29th, 2012 at 3:28:25 PM
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This is the UK version of Friend or Foe, which was discussed extensively here a while back. However, that link led me to an ending I've never seen in the US version. Here it is. I've always wondered why nobody tried this strategy on Friend or Foe, so am happy to see someone else thought of it. Yet, I must admit the actual choice of the guy in the brown shirt caught me by surprise. If you're a fan of either the US or UK version of "prisoner's dilemma" you should watch this one.
What would you have done if you were the guy in the blue shirt?
What would you have done if you were the guy in the blue shirt?
"For with much wisdom comes much sorrow." -- Ecclesiastes 1:18 (NIV)
April 29th, 2012 at 3:40:01 PM
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My question is, why does the host look like
Uncle Fenster from the Addams Family?
Uncle Fenster from the Addams Family?
"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
April 29th, 2012 at 4:11:15 PM
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If i was the guy in blue I would have said steal,as I really believed the other guy was going to pick steal,and I didn`t trust him to split the money after the show.
As it turned out I would have won it all LOL.
Thanks for the link Wiz
As it turned out I would have won it all LOL.
Thanks for the link Wiz
The mountain is tall but grass grows on top of the mountain.
April 30th, 2012 at 7:18:32 PM
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You're welcome. I wonder if the reason we've never seen this strategy on Friend or Foe, that I'm aware of, is that the show specifically forbids side deals. As I recall, Bob Dancer said they frowned upon it on Jeopardy. They are very serious about not doing so on Survivor.
"For with much wisdom comes much sorrow." -- Ecclesiastes 1:18 (NIV)
April 30th, 2012 at 8:08:24 PM
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Quote: EvenBobMy question is, why does the host look like
Uncle Fenster from the Addams Family?
That's Jasper Carrot, long time British Stand Up Comedian, and quite a stand up guy as well.
As for why he looks like Uncle Fenster, I can't answer. Probably born that way. It happens to a lot of people. Being born.
"Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept, thought nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829
April 30th, 2012 at 9:01:21 PM
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Quote: thecesspitThat's Jasper Carrot.
Carrot Tops dad?
"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
April 30th, 2012 at 9:44:38 PM
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He had a minor hit with "Funky Moped", a comedy song, in the UK.
Funky Moped on the Top of the Pops
Warning. It's not very good or funny.
Hmm, actually, that's something he has in common with Carrot Top... less 'roids.
Funky Moped on the Top of the Pops
Warning. It's not very good or funny.
Hmm, actually, that's something he has in common with Carrot Top... less 'roids.
"Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept, thought nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829
