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Is Who Wants to be a Millionaire just a game of luck?
I mean, there's 33.34% chance of being right unless the person happen to know the answer, and lifelines can only get you so far into the game.
Let's say there are 15 questions with 4 choices each. Let's also say there are 3 lifelines: call-a-friend, 50-50, and ask-the-audience.
For each of the 15 questions, there is only 1 correct answer, and 3 incorrect answers, so immediately your chances are 1/3 = 33.34%. You can use each lifeline once. Using phone-a-friend, let's say gives you a 95% chance the person you call is correct. So 1 question is 95%. Similarly, we can say ask-the-audience gives you a 95% chance. Finally, 50-50 will remove 2 wrong answers, so you have 1 right answer and 1 wrong answer, so you basically know the answer. To recap:
Question 1: 33.34%
Question 2: 33.34%
Question 3: 33.34%
Question 4: 95% <--- ask-the-audience
Question 5: 33.34%
Question 6: 33.34%
Question 7: 33.34%
Question 8: 33.34%
Question 9: 95% <--- phone-a-friend
Question 10: 33.34%
Question 11: 33.34%
Question 12: 33.34%
Question 13: 33.34%
Question 14: 33.34%
Question 15: 100% <--- 50-50
Total: 690.08%
Divided by 15 questions = 46.00%
So basically, it's more a less a game of chance, but more than half the people on the show will lose, so it's not very fair. That show is making tons of money off of people.
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richard nixon
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GUYS, DON'T FUCKING DATE
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I see where you're going with this but I'm not falling for it.
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XD so fanny
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>>81095506
How old is this pasta? I haven't seen it in ages
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>>81095506
If you know the answer to a question, you have a 100% chance of getting the question right.
More valuable data would be how many Americans know the answer to the kinds of questions they ask on the show.
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but you don't lose any money if you don't win the game nigger
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>>81095556
I already don't
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>>81095700
God dammit, I noticed the typo. Jesus, now that I read this, I feel a little dead inside.
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this show was pure kino when I was younger
I remember when someone would go out on the first question I would go to school the next day and me and my mates would talk and laugh about how much of an idiot that person was all day
good times
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>>81095506
>Go on YouTube to look for John Carpenter (the director) stuff
>Find this asshole all the time
Who the fuck is this schmuck? Some guy who was good at Jeopardy or what
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>>81095626
I remember it from around 2012
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>95%
I know this OP is bait bought at a discount, but are your pals on the phone that reliable? Are there any rules about looking up the answer on your smartphone?
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>>81095811
Dude who won and was so smug that he used a lifeline on his last question to call his dad to tell him that he's going to win.
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>>81095996
Oh, okay. Then that makes a bit more sense.
Good on him, I would've done the same.
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>>81095996
based
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To win the game entirely by guessing it would be a one in 4^15 chance of succeeding
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>>81095996
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrUSjFAlNjk
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>>81096271
From The Thing to Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
How the mighty have fallen.
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British Millionaire > American Millionaire
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>>81096271
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>>81096271
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDvNoLboqQM
Watching the whole thing feels like he got so many softball questions. But then again I suppose this was the 90s before widespread internet
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