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There is a ton of editing, and yes, if you're circling the drain, they let you keep circling, but if you're not progressing toward the correct answer, they can and will stop you.kerryoakie wrote: ↑Fri May 11, 2018 1:27 pmAs long as you're making "forward progress," you're allowed to think as long as necessary. If they see you fumbling around just trying to buy time, they can force you to walk away. This is why they encourage you to say absolutely everything out loud and not think in your head; they can't tell if you're making progress or spacing out otherwise.
So very forgettable. And props to the writers on that one; delicious negbait.
Wow.MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Fri May 11, 2018 3:42 pm The quesions that matter on the 5/11 episode:Spoiler
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Dan Dollbaum going for $5,000
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Dan went to the audience and they gave him:
59% for George Lucas
22% for Steven Spielberg
10% for James Cameron
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Dan used the 50:50 and it left Cameron & Burton for a reaction from the host & audience.Next:Spoiler
Dan called up his nephew and he offered little help. Dan worked it out on his own that Cameron directed both Avatar and Titanic.Next:Spoiler
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Dan eliminated Haiti and Dominican Republic to create his own 50:50. It did not help as he went Bahamas final answer when the correct place was Barbados.Next:Spoiler
Megan Iurilli going for $7,000 with all lifelines available.
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Yup, you could see it coming a mile away for A: final answer thinking Clinton and Gore. Nope it's D as both Clinton & Kerry were Secretary of State.Next:Spoiler
Bailey Vogt going for $3,000 and all lifelines available.
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Zuri Brooks was called down from the audience and she was ready to answer without choices.
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Zuri won $1,000 for knowing Roulette to at least make the show end on a high note for the weekend.
IronNeck wrote: ↑Fri May 11, 2018 5:38 pmWow.MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Fri May 11, 2018 3:42 pm The quesions that matter on the 5/11 episode:Spoiler
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Dan Dollbaum going for $5,000
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Next:Next:Spoiler
Dan went to the audience and they gave him:
59% for George Lucas
22% for Steven Spielberg
10% for James Cameron
9% for Tim BurtonNext:Spoiler
Dan used the 50:50 and it left Cameron & Burton for a reaction from the host & audience.Next:Spoiler
Dan called up his nephew and he offered little help. Dan worked it out on his own that Cameron directed both Avatar and Titanic.Next:Spoiler
$7,000
Next:Spoiler
Dan eliminated Haiti and Dominican Republic to create his own 50:50. It did not help as he went Bahamas final answer when the correct place was Barbados.Next:Spoiler
Megan Iurilli going for $7,000 with all lifelines available.
Next:Spoiler
Yup, you could see it coming a mile away for A: final answer thinking Clinton and Gore. Nope it's D as both Clinton & Kerry were Secretary of State.Next:Spoiler
Bailey Vogt going for $3,000 and all lifelines available.
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And finally:Next:Spoiler
Zuri Brooks was called down from the audience and she was ready to answer without choices.
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Zuri won $1,000 for knowing Roulette to at least make the show end on a high note for the weekend.
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I thought the $5k question for Dan was amazingly easy, and am surprised so few of the audience members got it correct. Are they generally this poor at questions that require a little bit of thinking?
But whereas I can understand someone who is not into movies struggling with that one, Dan has no one to blame but himself for missing the $7k question. Even if he is bad pop culture (although I'm shaky on it and knew Rihanna was from Barbados), it is either foolhardy or lazy not to look up all the word capitals if you're going on a game show.
I'm surprised at the $7k miss by Megan and others who mentioned falling for it. This should be automatic with all the time in the world to think, no?
Bailey's miss at $3k is understandable, though. I don't know the quote off the top of my head, and it's clearly either taxes or credit.
Nice job by Zuri; I didn't know that one off the top of my head like she did. I had to reason out that it would be roulette.
What's interesting to me is, if my facts are straight, this is a sweeps period. J! is in the middle of a tournament, Wheel went on location last week, yet Millionaire puts out a few very..... cringe worthy episodes the last two weeks. You would think that if there are any really good contestants, Millionaire would do whatever they can to show them now, no? Maybe I'm just speaking too soon and there's something big coming up soon, but I digress....
kerryoakie wrote: ↑Fri May 11, 2018 1:27 pm As long as you're making "forward progress," you're allowed to think as long as necessary. If they see you fumbling around just trying to buy time, they can force you to walk away. This is why they encourage you to say absolutely everything out loud and not think in your head; they can't tell if you're making progress or spacing out otherwise.
Is that what they tell contestants these days? Does anybody have a concrete example of a contestant being forced to walk away?triviawayne wrote: ↑Fri May 11, 2018 4:05 pm There is a ton of editing, and yes, if you're circling the drain, they let you keep circling, but if you're not progressing toward the correct answer, they can and will stop you.
Yes. And have been since 1999. You hadn't noticed?IronNeck wrote:I thought the $5k question for Dan was amazingly easy, and am surprised so few of the audience members got it correct. Are they generally this poor at questions that require a little bit of thinking?
Understood. It has gone way downhill since the prime time days. But that shouldn't stop good trivia players from taking advantage of free money given the opportunity.
I guess we spoiler everything here:
He was working on perpetual motion. That's the only one that makes the slightest bit of sense in that regard.twelvefootboy wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 12:21 amI guess we spoiler everything here:Spoiler
Why would it be roulette? It involves children's level math by comparison to Keno with all the combinations to work out for x number of guesses correct out of y number of total guesses. You just need to divide by 36 at the roulette table and avoid the only stupid bet (the 5-way). All other bets are equally stupid!
econgator noted it, but the roulette table is the only one of the options that moves for an extended period of time with relatively little application of force. Ergo, it would feasibly be involved in trying to find a perpetual motion machine.twelvefootboy wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 12:21 amI guess we spoiler everything here:Spoiler
Why would it be roulette? It involves children's level math by comparison to Keno with all the combinations to work out for x number of guesses correct out of y number of total guesses. You just need to divide by 36 at the roulette table and avoid the only stupid bet (the 5-way). All other bets are equally stupid!
I tuned out or zoned out on the actual content of the question and homed in on "mathematician" and trying to remember Pascal's contributions. Of course the Keno math is also elementary by comparison. I also focused on which games were ancient, and which might be new constructions contemporary to Pascal. In context of the perpetual motion machine, then it is a WECIB. Thanks for the insight into the benefits of RTFQ!IronNeck wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 1:11 amtwelvefootboy wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 12:21 amI guess we spoiler everything here:Spoiler
Why would it be roulette? It involves children's level math by comparison to Keno with all the combinations to work out for x number of guesses correct out of y number of total guesses. You just need to divide by 36 at the roulette table and avoid the only stupid bet (the 5-way). All other bets are equally stupid!
econgator noted it, but the roulette table is the only one of the options that moves for an extended period of time with relatively little application of force. Ergo, it would feasibly be involved in trying to find a perpetual motion machine.
IronNeck wrote: ↑Fri May 11, 2018 5:38 pmSpoiler
But whereas I can understand someone who is not into movies struggling with that one, Dan has no one to blame but himself for missing the $7k question. Even if he is bad pop culture (although I'm shaky on it and knew Rihanna was from Barbados), it is either foolhardy or lazy not to look up all the word capitals if you're going on a game show.
kprather895 wrote: ↑Sun May 13, 2018 1:38 amIronNeck wrote: ↑Fri May 11, 2018 5:38 pmSpoiler
But whereas I can understand someone who is not into movies struggling with that one, Dan has no one to blame but himself for missing the $7k question. Even if he is bad pop culture (although I'm shaky on it and knew Rihanna was from Barbados), it is either foolhardy or lazy not to look up all the word capitals if you're going on a game show.Spoiler
All 193 of them? Can you name them all without googling?