MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Thu Apr 26, 2018 11:50 am
There are a number of posts about this clue. I cannot buy that the judges did not catch it, overlooked it and certainly will not believe a reversal happened and did not air.
Why wouldn't the latter scenario be plausible? With no more DDs at that point, the only point remaining at which a reversal would have been announced would have been prior to FJ, at which point it would have been moot with Krishna a non-participant.
You do make a fairly compelling case for the answer simply being wrong, though. I had thought it simply meant "dealer". My main recollection of the word was from a spelling bee in my childhood, and I think the provided definition was just something like "a dealer in a casino".
Johnblue wrote: ↑Thu Apr 26, 2018 1:36 pm
On another board, one childish/childless poster scolded Jen’s parents for not taking her out of the restaurant 30-something years ago. Can’t make this stuff up. I’m a big RS fan (I’m going to 4 shows on their upcoming European tour!) and I LOVED Jen’s story! It was hard to watch the one guy flail at the end but I’m happy Jen won!
I'm fairly confident the Stones have caused more people to leave restaurants and/or bars than Jen has.
I posted her video on a RS page on FB & people mostly laughed. Usually they go after hours when eating out now.
MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Thu Apr 26, 2018 11:50 am
There are a number of posts about this clue. I cannot buy that the judges did not catch it, overlooked it and certainly will not believe a reversal happened and did not air.
Why wouldn't the latter scenario be plausible? With no more DDs at that point, the only point remaining at which a reversal would have been announced would have been prior to FJ, at which point it would have been moot with Krishna a non-participant.
You do make a fairly compelling case for the answer simply being wrong, though. I had thought it simply meant "dealer". My main recollection of the word was from a spelling bee in my childhood, and I think the provided definition was just something like "a dealer in a casino".
I have worked as a dealer in a Washington state cardroom for almost ten years. As far as I'm concerned, a croupier is anyone who is in charge of maintaining a gaming table, be it cards, roulette, or dice. I myself have only ever dealt cards.
kprather895 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 27, 2018 6:28 am
I have worked as a dealer in a Washington state cardroom for almost ten years. As far as I'm concerned, a croupier is anyone who is in charge of maintaining a gaming table, be it cards, roulette, or dice. I myself have only ever dealt cards.
That doesn't match my own experiences. In poker and blackjack games, the person is referred to as a dealer IME, whereas a croupier is someone who runs a roulette game. I have no idea what the terminology is for the person who runs a craps game.
kprather895 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 27, 2018 6:28 am
I have worked as a dealer in a Washington state cardroom for almost ten years. As far as I'm concerned, a croupier is anyone who is in charge of maintaining a gaming table, be it cards, roulette, or dice. I myself have only ever dealt cards.
That doesn't match my own experiences. In poker and blackjack games, the person is referred to as a dealer IME, whereas a croupier is someone who runs a roulette game. I have no idea what the terminology is for the person who runs a craps game.
A crapper?
"Jeopardy! is two parts luck and one part luck" - Me
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kprather895 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 27, 2018 6:28 am
I have worked as a dealer in a Washington state cardroom for almost ten years. As far as I'm concerned, a croupier is anyone who is in charge of maintaining a gaming table, be it cards, roulette, or dice. I myself have only ever dealt cards.
That doesn't match my own experiences. In poker and blackjack games, the person is referred to as a dealer IME, whereas a croupier is someone who runs a roulette game. I have no idea what the terminology is for the person who runs a craps game.
A crapper?
Informally, a full sized craps game usually has 4 casino employees running it. A box man handling the casino's bank, a stick man handling the dice, and two base dealers settling the action after a roll. Collectively "the crew", individually, they usually have name tags.
twelvefootboy wrote: ↑Thu Apr 26, 2018 11:47 pm
Welcome, Krishna! We enjoyed your nonchalance (in a good way) and poise. Too bad it was a rough set of boards, that seems to be the mojo this week.
I'm no casino rat, but I would conjecture that nobody has ever referred to a poker or blackjack dealer as a croupier. But very few would use it for the stickman or roulette flinger either. To me it's just a 50 cent word from an Ian Fleming novel.
Got War and Peace * and Age of Innocence, missed Pride and Prejudice - and I haven't read any of 'em
I negged with Peru / Bolivia, but had Chile / Argentina first
Blanked on greyhound. I can only assume 'bloody bull' would've been accepted. NHO bull shot. The bloody caesar is another variation, substituting clamato juice for tomato (you say tomato, I say clamato)
Haterade? NHO it
FJ = easy peasy
*helps that I saw Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Wed Apr 25, 2018 2:38 pm
This happened to me playing the J!6 clues: Spoiler
My bad or the writer’s bad?
Sorry, but $100,000 is correct. It's hard to imagine anyone using currency of that size, but it did happen. For many years now all denominations larger than $100 have been relegated to the mothballs, so we forget this. I don't know where I learned, long ago, about the defunct bills.
Well, -we- never used anything higher than the $10,000. The $100,000 was Federal Reserve Bank use only.
Also. size is relative, though it does give me the ability to say I once spent $3,000 (Taiwanese) on a bottle of whiskey. (It does not at all come close to make up for the trip that gave me the opportunity...)