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:
>I mean, there's 33.34% chance of being right there are 4 answers
Jaxon Bennett
>obligatory video of some fag cheating
Xavier Young
Is this an old pasta?
Isaac Kelly
>... 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. Well, what the fuck did you expect?
Dylan Nelson
You laid the bait a little thick, but here's a bump. Best of luck catching more (You)s.
Asher Watson
How is it luck? You can take the money you have if you don't know the answer. And it's a game show about general knowledge. Having a large general knowledge is nothing to do with luck. There are professional quizzers in the world who make big money winning general knowledge competitions
Luis Ward
>unless the person happen to know the answer Knowing the answers is kind of the whole point of the game,.
>Why yes, I must reply to this post to poke holes in this mans logic and prove myself superior. It is impossible for me to get baited into providing a response.
Liam Hernandez
>4 options >33.34%
Ignoring that you still rounded it wrong.
Joshua Wood
...
Hunter Lewis
>Total: 690.08% >Divided by 15 questions = 46.00%
Joshua Garcia
from 25?
Michael Bennett
I got a laugh out of that one too, obvious pasta but still pretty funny. The 33.33% part got me good too.
Benjamin Ward
Reminder that Jeopardy is entirely based on luck because there's a 10^-45% chance that the contestant chooses an object, place, person, or date that happens to be the right answer.
William Edwards
Even ignoring the bullshit math, questions 1 through 5 were warm up questions that anybody over the age of 5 can get without a problem. It took a real fucking retard to miss any of those, the game is basically handing you $1,000 just for getting into the chair.
You normally didn't start getting your curveballs until question 7 or 8. Even then, most of the questions in that middle tier are pretty manageable trivia fodder, it just depends on if the category plays to your strength or not.
Shit doesn't start to fly off the rails until question 10 or 11. If you go in preparing to use your lifelines as soon as you have a doubt instead of trying to conserve them for later, there's no reason why you shouldn't be walking out after the guaranteed $32,000 threshold. Not bad at all.
Isaiah Butler
Idiot here..wouldn't plausibility be (if u didn't know any answers and didn't use 50:50) be:
>0.25 x 0.25 x 0.25 x 0.25.. All the way up to 15 iterations?
Justin Phillips
That gave me cognitive dissonance for a moment. I could not grasp how stupid you could be. luckily I remembered that this is bait because noone can be so fucking retarded
Carson Johnson
absolutely love this pasta
Easton Reed
post the video pls
Jackson Scott
Fucking hell I haven't read this one in years, why am I getting nostalgia over pasta
Easton Lewis
>Question 1: 33.34% >Question 2: 33.34% >Question 3: 33.34% If you don't know the answers to the first three questions, you're legitimately retarded.
Ryder Myers
>people not knowing this pasta and taking the bait
Hello, reddit
James Rogers
>People dont recognise ancient pasta
Noah Thompson
Did they up questions difficulty since first millionaire? Most answers I did not know were related to US and US culture - and some of supposedly hard questions were ridiculously easy, like a monotheism one - the fuck was that?
Benjamin Peterson
I've seen some pretty bullshit questions already on #1
Luke Adams
In all seriouness the probability is 1/4*15=1/100=0.01% It's not that low I'm surprised so few peoples won
Ian Wright
Using the real numbers with your 95% lifeline estimation rate (lol) the real chance of winning without actually knowing a single answer is 0.00001%
40 minutes in, the cheater is one disgusting fuck. Glad the team kept rolling and they're suing their asses.
Austin Gonzalez
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Hudson Gutierrez
I have only one question Did Scott win Sacrifice?
Levi Bell
>In all seriouness the probability is 1/4*15=1/100=0.01%
hol up hol up hol up choosing the right answer out of 4 questions is not 1/3
Ayden Fisher
IT'S ALL SCRIPTED YOU RETARDS
Parker Gray
It's not retard.
Dylan Thomas
morrissey is shit
Joseph Price
The more you ignore him, the closer he gets. You're wasting your time.
Ian Powell
This thread is amazing
Nathaniel Nguyen
Shows like this are so boring because half of the show is spent delaying and trying to build hype and anticipation to hear the answer. They don't cut to the fucking chase like a god tier show like Jeopardy does.
Sebastian Stewart
congrats, you've proven you are le oldfag. We all love and respect you for recognizing the OP. Have a great day fucking retard. Keep your mouth shut.
