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Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Deal or no deal

Me, law and adrian were the only people having dinner at home today.. the rest were out. Great time for me to cook spicy food! muahahaha.. yum yum~ ^_^

during dinner, we were watching the game show, DEAL OR NO DEAL on NBC. this game is about 26 boxes, each with an amount ranging from $0.01 to $1,000,000. at the beginning of the game, you'll choose 1 box to keep. this is the box which you think most likely has $1,000,000, but you do not open it so you don't know the value. then throughout the rest of the game, you just have to keep opening up the rest of the boxes and eliminating the values. and while you try to eliminate the boxes, there will be a banker who will calculate the chances of the box that you have contains $1,000,000, or any high value if $1M has already been eliminated. so whenever you eliminate a box with a big value, such as $500,000, then the banker's offer for the box you chose goes down, since the probability of your box containing a high value is lowered.

there was this girl who was crazy.. she played till there were only 3 boxes left and the values were $10, $750,000 and $1,000,000, 2 boxes to eliminate and 1 box that she was holding. the bank offered her $502,000 to buy her box and she actually had NO DEAL! there was so much to lose.. if she eliminates a box containing 1 of the big values, the offer from the bank will drop drastically.. and there was also a 1/3 chance that her own box contained only $10! but she was super super lucky.. the next box she chose to eliminate was $10!!!!!! this was a history record in the show as this was the first time that a player can go home with NO LESS than $750k!! only 1 box left to eliminate and her own box that she was holding, the banker offered her $880,000 to buy her box. but i guess she had nothing to lose.. even if the box she was holding was $750k and she eliminates the last box which was $1M, she could still keep that box with $750k. in the end, she did not take the deal of $880k from the banker. she went all out for the $1M. unfortunately, the last box that she eliminated was $1M, so her box was $750k. she was still very happy with that amount. ^_^

trying our luck, we tried playing the game online. you can play it here. i started playing the game first. i chose box number 21 and started eliminating the rest of the boxes. i had some big values left, including $1M, and a few small values. the bank offered me $300k or something, so i took the deal, not wanting to risk having the bank offering a lower price if i eliminate big value boxes or that the box i was holding was one of the small values which i hadn't eliminated.. in the end, it turned out that the box that i was holding did contain $1,000,000!!! the highest amount in the game!! muahahahaha.. i'm such a pro.. too bad lol..

anyway, lawrence played next.. boring.. he took the banker's deal and sold his box at $400k, and his box turned out to be some small value, so good deal lar. XD

then came adrian.. which is the only interesting part of this post actually hehe..
i've never seen someone with such bad luck as him.. even players in the real game show had never displayed such uber luck lol.. he chose a box and during elimination, all he did was eliminate the biggest valued boxes, so the offer that the bank gave him just kept decreasing wahaha... until the last 2 boxes.. 1 to eliminate and 1 he kept.. the 2 values left unopened were....

$1 and $50!!!

ahahahahahahahaha ROFL!!!!! and the banker offered him $28 to buy his box lol.. in the end, his box was $50 XD

he was upset, so he tried to play the game again! this time was slightly better.. after he eliminated all the high valued boxes (yes!! again!!! :p), he was left with..

$50 and $100..


ROLL ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING UNTIL BACKSIDE PAIN.. HAHA..

and it turns out that his box was $50 again XD

adrian.. just resign to fate lar.. hehe :p

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