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Jeez, when was the last time somebody got a second chance slip in Punch-a-Bunch? It seems like forever!
Not to mention we know that 9 will be the last number in Lucky $even every time. The price in general was very evil although going high for the 3rd number was a bad idea. It would have been better to play this first and Punch a Bunch second also.What about all the times the last number will be 1?
I dunno, is there a way, regarding That's Too Much, that — short of a bright or intuitive contestant figuring out the current TTM strategy and stopping on the second price to win, or a lawsuit from a contestant who believes the current trend to be unfair — the producers can stop with the "evil" TTM setups?
It does not appear that the people who set up the game are listening to us, the masses. It is obvious that TTM is being used strictly to advertise cars (and even the plugs are abysmal, although this isn't the fault of Drew or Rich), with an intentional plan to not allow the car to be given away.
I’m going to go against everything I believe in when I say this: Somebody else better start setting up That’s too Much!, or just don’t play the game all together. I've had it with that game!FINGERS: THAT'S NOT TOO MUCH!!!
I keep saying, as soon as people figure out this so-called "strategy" Fingers is going to do an about-face on us and the right price will be somewhere near the middle like it used to be. And really, there would be no grounds for setting up a lawsuit about this. We've had that discussion before, when the Range Game thread happened. ....
The only grounds for a lawsuit would be if the show was deliberately being deceptive--that is, knowingly presenting the contestant with a series of prices that are all under the ARP of the car, or else changing price tag the model is holding so that, no matter what price the contestant stopped on, the game could be a loss. ...
There's a reason the prize copy is being written the way it is but it's got nothing to do with making the prizes easier or tougher to win, I can assure you of that, even if it is just an unpleasant side effect.
Knowing the current practice, that might just well happen! :-x Seriously, I do think someone at Studio 33 owes us an explanation...But sadly, I doubt that will ever happen as long as the "I don't have to tell you anything" attitude prevails.
True, but one of these times, they are going to plunk the TTM price on the very first one ... or maybe it could be the very last one. The point is, they don't want the car won, plain and simple.
Knowing the current practice, that might just well happen! :-x Seriously, I do think someone at Studio 33 owes us an explanation — is it a matter of saving the budget, making the game more "challenging," what is it? Yes, hide the price behind the second or ninth ones once in awhile, but the current pattern deserves an explanation. But sadly, I doubt that will ever happen as long as the "I don't have to tell you anything" attitude prevails.
You may have to remind us why the copy is written as such. And nowhere did I say the plug had anything to do with making the game "easier" or "harder" to win — it is merely a courtesy. You're showing the car on the air, and people might want to know a little more about the car than just what optionals it has on it. Tell me it's the car "that drives like silk and is easy on the gas" (OK, I just made that plug up), that I can "see the USA in this Chevrolet," or something like that.
Making the game more "challenging" is a direct conduit to saving money, as it lessens the odds the game will be won. (And Fingers has proven to us lately that she's frighteningly good at forcing losses when she wants to)
So a 1 out of 10 chance of winning is just too much?
I keep saying, as soon as people figure out this so-called "strategy" Fingers is going to do an about-face on us and the right price will be somewhere near the middle like it used to be.And yet, the car has regularly been behind either 1 or 6 in Pass the Buck for how many years, and no one's picked up on it yet?
Short of that, it's no different than having a price like $19,191 in Lucky $even or $22,253 in Dice Game. As long as the price is appropriate for the rules of the game, then it doesn't matter how evil the digits actually are.Except $22,253 would actually be on the friendly side of average for a Dice Game setup. $21,621 is closer to what you're looking for.
And yet, the car has regularly been behind either 1 or 6 in Pass the Buck for how many years, and no one's picked up on it yet?
Except $22,253 would actually be on the friendly side of average for a Dice Game setup. $21,621 is closer to what you're looking for.
I’m going to go against everything I believe in when I say this: Somebody else better start setting up That’s too Much!, or just don’t play the game all together. I've had it with that game!I totally agree. It's absolutely ridiculous & asinine how they've been putting the right price at the 2nd or the 9th position every time.
Playing devil's advocate for a moment... Doesn't placing the correct price in the 2nd or 9th slot on TTM consistently actually reward loyal viewers ?
One of us regulars playing the game would have a really good shot at winning, wouldn't we?
Playing devil's advocate for a moment... Doesn't placing the correct price in the 2nd or 9th slot on TTM consistently actually reward loyal viewers ? We all know it'll be either in 2 or 9 almost all of the time. One of us regulars playing the game would have a really good shot at winning, wouldn't we?