Apparently there's this new game show on the air. It's really interesting, too. They bring out something like 26 suitcases with money amounts in them, and nobody knows what the amounts are. The amounts range from $.01 to $1,000,000. There's no stunts (like Fear Factor, which this game's title seems to resemble), no quiz questions. It's gambling, with no risk of losing money.
A contestant comes up and chooses a suitcase. Then, they start choosing otehr suitcases, revealing their amounts and illiminating those amounts from the board (if they choose one that has the $1,000,000, they sure as heck aren't going to win that much). The first time they choose I think it was 5 cases, then 4, and so forth until they reach 1 and repeat opening 1 each round. In between each round, a "banker" from a dark room above the stage calls and offers to buy the player's suitcase based on what amounts are known to be left. If a lot of high amounts are chosen, then the offer is lower; if the low amounts are revieled, the offer is higher. The player then either agrees or disagrees to the offer. If they agree, they win the money offered, and it's revealed how much was in the suitcase they chose for themselves (so far nobody's chosen a case with a high amount of cash). Otherwise, they eliminate more amounts.
What's interesting about this show is how stupid the contestants seem to be. On the first show, all but the last 5 minutes were taken up by this one contestant who was trying to go for $500,000 (due to the higher amounts having been illiminated relatively early on). At one point, I think the offer for her case was $130,000. She regrettingly listened to her family and kept declining those offers. Eventually, that $500k was illiminated, and suddenly she was left with $500 versus $50,000. The offer was dropped from $130k to just $25k, and she took it. It turns out, her case was the $500.
The entire time we watched the show, we kept shouting to them to take the deal. I think the highest won so far was an offer of $99,000 with the last two suitcases being $50 vs $200,000. The guy took the offer, and his case was the $50. Oh yes, and he lasted that long, despite saying at the beginning that he had no job. He lucked out big time.
I like the show, but I don't see it lasting too long, since there doesn't seem to be much to it. Eventually the excitement's gonna wear out.
A contestant comes up and chooses a suitcase. Then, they start choosing otehr suitcases, revealing their amounts and illiminating those amounts from the board (if they choose one that has the $1,000,000, they sure as heck aren't going to win that much). The first time they choose I think it was 5 cases, then 4, and so forth until they reach 1 and repeat opening 1 each round. In between each round, a "banker" from a dark room above the stage calls and offers to buy the player's suitcase based on what amounts are known to be left. If a lot of high amounts are chosen, then the offer is lower; if the low amounts are revieled, the offer is higher. The player then either agrees or disagrees to the offer. If they agree, they win the money offered, and it's revealed how much was in the suitcase they chose for themselves (so far nobody's chosen a case with a high amount of cash). Otherwise, they eliminate more amounts.
What's interesting about this show is how stupid the contestants seem to be. On the first show, all but the last 5 minutes were taken up by this one contestant who was trying to go for $500,000 (due to the higher amounts having been illiminated relatively early on). At one point, I think the offer for her case was $130,000. She regrettingly listened to her family and kept declining those offers. Eventually, that $500k was illiminated, and suddenly she was left with $500 versus $50,000. The offer was dropped from $130k to just $25k, and she took it. It turns out, her case was the $500.
The entire time we watched the show, we kept shouting to them to take the deal. I think the highest won so far was an offer of $99,000 with the last two suitcases being $50 vs $200,000. The guy took the offer, and his case was the $50. Oh yes, and he lasted that long, despite saying at the beginning that he had no job. He lucked out big time.
I like the show, but I don't see it lasting too long, since there doesn't seem to be much to it. Eventually the excitement's gonna wear out.
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