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Victory on “The Price Is Right” Made Them Change Their System

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Re: Victory on “The Price Is Right” Made Them Change Their System

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Post by jacquesm »

colmvp wrote: post #5
scrubby wrote: post #4

It might be different now, but I'm pretty sure back in the Bob Barker era contestant selection wasn't random. The entire audience had to introduce themselves to the producer one by one and answer his questions about where they were from, what they did, and if they were there with anyone. The people selected were fairly attractive and charismatic. The selection also leaned toward people who came with larger groups. I…

Given your comment, I wonder if there's an interesting list of people who have been on the Price is Right. For example, one person I can think of is Aaron Paul (Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad) who said: "It looks like I'm on some serious crack. I downed about six cans of red bull because I knew they wanted people with energy. It worked, but I could not sit still. It was not healthy."

That much caffeine is a serious health risk.

Re: Victory on “The Price Is Right” Made Them Change Their System

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Post by sdrothrock »

busterarm wrote: post #38
macintux wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm reminded of the first season of Survivor. I didn't watch, but followed along on (IIRC) a Diplomacy discussion forum of all places; it seemed clear that Richard was playing an extremely strategic game, even deliberately sandbagging an endurance contest when it was down to 3 players, knowing that the woman who won it would have to eliminate the other, much more popular male contestant to have a chance to win the vo…

I believe it. Playing Diplomacy, especially for years on Dipbounced, taught me more about strategy and game theory than any other resource. The community of players are all deep thinkers and incredibly ruthless. We used to have 2-3 day Diplomacy sessions back in college where we'd just do game after game and I miss it sorely. If you were to ask me to pick the most pure strategy games, Diplomacy would be #1 and maybe…

I've always wished there were a big online community that could consistently keep Diplomacy games going smoothly...

Re: Victory on “The Price Is Right” Made Them Change Their System

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Post by acjohnson55 »

scrubby wrote: post #4

It might be different now, but I'm pretty sure back in the Bob Barker era contestant selection wasn't random. The entire audience had to introduce themselves to the producer one by one and answer his questions about where they were from, what they did, and if they were there with anyone. The people selected were fairly attractive and charismatic. The selection also leaned toward people who came with larger groups. I…

Agreed! My step-uncle, an actor and extremely outgoing guy, managed to impress the producer enough to get into the small selection pool of contestants and get on the snow. He won a bunch of stuff, but had to turn it down because he had no space for a bunch of random merch and didn't want to pay taxes on it. It can actually be a big burden on these shows that don't do cash prizes.

Re: Victory on “The Price Is Right” Made Them Change Their System

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Post by whoopdedo »

eridius wrote: post #49
emmelaich wrote: post #31

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I think it does. He chose daily-doubles when I didn't know the answer and bet low. It denies the others the D-D and means he didn't lose much. This is explained in detail later on. It's not the most felicitous of phrasing but it makes sense to me.

Are the Daily Doubles not randomly-placed? How do you "hunt" them?

They're actually not distributed evenly, so it is possible to hunt and find them with a reasonably high probability of success. This has probably been discovered multiple times by people independently, but was most widely publicized by Flowing Data two years ago. I don't know if the producers ever explained why Daily Doubles are more likely to appear in certain places. Perhaps they intend for observant contestants to be able to guess at their locations.

http://flowingdata.com/2015/03/03/where-to-find-jeopardy-dai...

Re: Victory on “The Price Is Right” Made Them Change Their System

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

emodendroket wrote: post #28
hxta98596 wrote: post #26

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That link is not to the Price is Right TV show. The "Price is Right" brand has a traveling live theater production as well called Price is Right Live. Tickets to that cost money. Tickets for the real TV show in Los Angeles are free. Thanks for playing.

This seems like an excessive level of condescension for a lack of familiarity with the Price is Right expanded universe.

You "corrected" someone out of ignorance who knew your correction was wrong. I think you need to swallow your pride rather than complain about their being condescending; feeling humiliated is your brains way of learning to be more careful in the future.

I expect I made a mistake here too, that would be normal in this sort of conversation.

Re: Victory on “The Price Is Right” Made Them Change Their System

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

davb wrote: post #16

I've no idea what's going on on this page, but my iPhone got really hot and Firefox (on my desktop) warned me that the page was running slow. The profiler on Chrome hung when trying to profile the page and I had to kill the tab in task manager.

Coin mining?

Re: Victory on “The Price Is Right” Made Them Change Their System

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Post by [deleted] »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #55
emodendroket wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This seems like an excessive level of condescension for a lack of familiarity with the Price is Right expanded universe.

You "corrected" someone out of ignorance who knew your correction was wrong. I think you need to swallow your pride rather than complain about their being condescending; feeling humiliated is your brains way of learning to be more careful in the future. I expect I made a mistake here too, that would be normal in this sort of conversation.

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Re: Victory on “The Price Is Right” Made Them Change Their System

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Post by chris_wot »

emodendroket wrote: post #28
hxta98596 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That link is not to the Price is Right TV show. The "Price is Right" brand has a traveling live theater production as well called Price is Right Live. Tickets to that cost money. Tickets for the real TV show in Los Angeles are free. Thanks for playing.

This seems like an excessive level of condescension for a lack of familiarity with the Price is Right expanded universe.

Never thought I’d read the words “Price is Right” and “expanded universe” in the one sentence on HN...

Re: Victory on “The Price Is Right” Made Them Change Their System

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Post by [deleted] »

emodendroket wrote: post #28
hxta98596 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That link is not to the Price is Right TV show. The "Price is Right" brand has a traveling live theater production as well called Price is Right Live. Tickets to that cost money. Tickets for the real TV show in Los Angeles are free. Thanks for playing.

This seems like an excessive level of condescension for a lack of familiarity with the Price is Right expanded universe.

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Re: Victory on “The Price Is Right” Made Them Change Their System

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Post by emodendroket »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #55
emodendroket wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This seems like an excessive level of condescension for a lack of familiarity with the Price is Right expanded universe.

You "corrected" someone out of ignorance who knew your correction was wrong. I think you need to swallow your pride rather than complain about their being condescending; feeling humiliated is your brains way of learning to be more careful in the future. I expect I made a mistake here too, that would be normal in this sort of conversation.

> feeling humiliated is your brains way of learning to be more careful in the future.

Yeah, I'm really humiliated here. How could I possibly confuse The Price is Right and The Price is Right Live? Gonna be tough to live that one down.

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