Is the game show "Deal or No Deal" rigged?
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Stuck getting an oil change and DoND is on the TV. Watching it play out, I can't help but think that it's rigged. They're telling a story and feeding on the audience, with the player always winning despite the mathematical odds. It looks so fake. Has anyone ever looked into it?
At it's core, it's probably not fake, but for entertainment purposes, they are definitely going to milk any good back stories and get the audience pumped up.
The whole game is a long drawn out version of the Monty Hall problem.
Pick a box and either take a chance that you picked a high value box, or accept the known offer, which is the average of all unopened box values.
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Stuck getting an oil change and DoND is on the TV. Watching it play out, I can't help but think that it's rigged. They're telling a story and feeding on the audience, with the player always winning despite the mathematical odds. It looks so fake. Has anyone ever looked into it?
wrote last edited by [email protected]How could someone rig this game? The value is in the cases and the contestant is picking which to open. Perhaps I don't understand what you mean by rigged?
I've watched a lot of DOND, and I think I've seen one person walk away with the million case, maybe 15 years ago. Maybe it was a replay or a highlights episode you saw? Most players just keep it safe and walk away with something before they have real money on the line.
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Stuck getting an oil change and DoND is on the TV. Watching it play out, I can't help but think that it's rigged. They're telling a story and feeding on the audience, with the player always winning despite the mathematical odds. It looks so fake. Has anyone ever looked into it?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Run the math again. This game should be called "Discounted Actuarial Tables: The Game Show." At any given point, average the remaining amounts on the board, reduce it by ten to twenty percent, and you'll have the "banker's" offer. Like, if the player is down to $200k, $1, and $1000, the offer will probably be something around $55k to $60k.
Over the long term, they get cost certainty and with some insurance they can run it like a casino and budget accordingly. It doesn't have to be rigged, and as someone else has said, American TV game shows are generally considered to be above-board in a "yes/no" sense due to the Quiz Show scandal of the late 1950s. However, this makes the game play for something like Deal or No Deal very, very boring, so they spice it up with fake drama and human interest.
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Stuck getting an oil change and DoND is on the TV. Watching it play out, I can't help but think that it's rigged. They're telling a story and feeding on the audience, with the player always winning despite the mathematical odds. It looks so fake. Has anyone ever looked into it?
Not to be a downer, but I assume most things on TV like that are rigged.
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Stuck getting an oil change and DoND is on the TV. Watching it play out, I can't help but think that it's rigged. They're telling a story and feeding on the audience, with the player always winning despite the mathematical odds. It looks so fake. Has anyone ever looked into it?
Think of everything that goes into producing a show like that. Between set design/construction, cast/behind the scenes crew, and studio and equipment usage, the cost of the prize itself (especially what an average contestant actually makes) wouldn't exactly overshadow the whole budget. For bigger prizes, prize insurance is a thing. And yes, there are laws about this too.
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Run the math again. This game should be called "Discounted Actuarial Tables: The Game Show." At any given point, average the remaining amounts on the board, reduce it by ten to twenty percent, and you'll have the "banker's" offer. Like, if the player is down to $200k, $1, and $1000, the offer will probably be something around $55k to $60k.
Over the long term, they get cost certainty and with some insurance they can run it like a casino and budget accordingly. It doesn't have to be rigged, and as someone else has said, American TV game shows are generally considered to be above-board in a "yes/no" sense due to the Quiz Show scandal of the late 1950s. However, this makes the game play for something like Deal or No Deal very, very boring, so they spice it up with fake drama and human interest.
And even then, the show is still incredibly boring.
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Stuck getting an oil change and DoND is on the TV. Watching it play out, I can't help but think that it's rigged. They're telling a story and feeding on the audience, with the player always winning despite the mathematical odds. It looks so fake. Has anyone ever looked into it?
No idea about the honesty of the show, I just remember my mum being a big fan of it and always really wanting to see someone just go through the boxes in order of 1 to 22
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And even then, the show is still incredibly boring.
Hence why it is on tv
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Stuck getting an oil change and DoND is on the TV. Watching it play out, I can't help but think that it's rigged. They're telling a story and feeding on the audience, with the player always winning despite the mathematical odds. It looks so fake. Has anyone ever looked into it?
I imagine they dont air every episode they shoot either. They could easily shoot way more than they need and milk the hell out of the good stories/good games
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Stuck getting an oil change and DoND is on the TV. Watching it play out, I can't help but think that it's rigged. They're telling a story and feeding on the audience, with the player always winning despite the mathematical odds. It looks so fake. Has anyone ever looked into it?
Pretty sure if it wasn't for service lobbies and break rooms, very very few people would actually know wtf Deal Or No Deal even is.
As to whether or not the game itself is rigged, I'd gue-- FUCK MY LUNCH BREAK IS OVER, GTG!!
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Run the math again. This game should be called "Discounted Actuarial Tables: The Game Show." At any given point, average the remaining amounts on the board, reduce it by ten to twenty percent, and you'll have the "banker's" offer. Like, if the player is down to $200k, $1, and $1000, the offer will probably be something around $55k to $60k.
Over the long term, they get cost certainty and with some insurance they can run it like a casino and budget accordingly. It doesn't have to be rigged, and as someone else has said, American TV game shows are generally considered to be above-board in a "yes/no" sense due to the Quiz Show scandal of the late 1950s. However, this makes the game play for something like Deal or No Deal very, very boring, so they spice it up with fake drama and human interest.
This game should be called "Discounted Actuarial Tables: The Game Show."
You should DEFINITELY work in marketing
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Run the math again. This game should be called "Discounted Actuarial Tables: The Game Show." At any given point, average the remaining amounts on the board, reduce it by ten to twenty percent, and you'll have the "banker's" offer. Like, if the player is down to $200k, $1, and $1000, the offer will probably be something around $55k to $60k.
Over the long term, they get cost certainty and with some insurance they can run it like a casino and budget accordingly. It doesn't have to be rigged, and as someone else has said, American TV game shows are generally considered to be above-board in a "yes/no" sense due to the Quiz Show scandal of the late 1950s. However, this makes the game play for something like Deal or No Deal very, very boring, so they spice it up with fake drama and human interest.
It's been well over a decade since I've seen the show, but I remember the banker would sometimes throw in exceptionally high/ low offers to add to the "drama". Like they'd offer $2 after the contestant knocks out the million dollar case.
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It's been well over a decade since I've seen the show, but I remember the banker would sometimes throw in exceptionally high/ low offers to add to the "drama". Like they'd offer $2 after the contestant knocks out the million dollar case.
Yeah, I suppose the real answer is "what will make good TV without blowing the budget," but I would just about bet the trendline for actual offers would be skimming a little bit below expected value.
