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[Nil Satis]

Playing WWTBAM the other day, I came to a question where I thought it was B or C. Took 50-50 and, lo and behold, it left B and C!

Then did PAF, they thought B and were 40% sure???

Being logical, I took this to mean they were therefore 60% sure about C and plumped for C. Game Over

Can only assume that the 40% was based on all 4 original answers???

I've basically given up on the new Millionaire - there are much better and more lucrative things to play when I do get the chance, especially now that it's £1 a go and actually winning depends on the extra picture round. However I would say that the tip with Millionaire 2006 was that only 70% or above confidence guaranteed you were being given the right answer by the Phone a Friend. I have seen it give a misleading answer when the Friend was 65% confident!

[roberto la vigna]

Additionally I think that taking the ATA can mean being able to exploit the so-called "wisdom of crowds" phenomenon whereby a crowd of people are able to give a correct answer to a hard question that not many of them might know individually by some kind of mysterious osmotic process.

Not that mysterious - if no-one knows the answer, then one would expect 25% of the audience to go for each option. Any movement towards the right answer thenceforth also takes votes away from incorrect answers.

People who refuse to go with the audience (esp when there is one answer >15% ahead of the others) are fools.

[grecian]

Additionally I think that taking the ATA can mean being able to exploit the so-called "wisdom of crowds" phenomenon whereby a crowd of people are able to give a correct answer to a hard question that not many of them might know individually by some kind of mysterious osmotic process.

Not that mysterious - if no-one knows the answer, then one would expect 25% of the audience to go for each option. Any movement towards the right answer thenceforth also takes votes away from incorrect answers.

People who refuse to go with the audience (esp when there is one answer >15% ahead of the others) are fools.

I do agree but sometimes the audience go overwhelmingly for one option on a question that really looks objectively pretty difficult, and I do find that process a bit mysterious.

I agree one should generally go with the audience but sometimes they do get it badly wrong: see http://www.iqagb.co.uk/trivia/viewtopic.php?p=86280 for a salutary tale involving one of Britain's strongest quizzers (and a pretty serious SWP player in the days of yore, so I've been told).

[roberto la vigna]

heh

[cool]

paddy spooner at last exposed himself on the irish wwtbam last may.
australian wwtbam 250,000 dollars , GB 250,000 pounds, IRL 900 euros!
didnt know brosnans youngest sons name was paris neither did I. felt a bit sorry for mr montague, what he did on 15-1 deserved praise- i thought the programme was shit anyway worse than the weakest link.

[Nixxy]

[quote="grecian"]I think ATA probably has its use]

I've often wondered why contestants on the TV show don't instruct the audience to vote for a particular answer that they can immediately rule out; ie. they know for a fact that the answer isn't option D, so they tell the audience to 'spend' their vote on that option if they'd be genuinely guessing at the answer. That would leave the remaining people who really do think they know the correct answer and a much more accurate representation of votes for the correct answer.

But maybe there's a rule forbidding that logical approach.

[grecian]

A good idea Nixxy. It hadn't occurred to me, and maybe it simply doesn't occur to most / any WWTBAM contestants?

[Nixxy]

A good idea Nixxy. It hadn't occurred to me, and maybe it simply doesn't occur to most / any WWTBAM contestants?

In fairness, your heart would probably be racing too fast to think to do that in any event.

[cp999]

Additionally I agree one should generally go with the audience but sometimes they do get it badly wrong: see http://www.iqagb.co.uk/trivia/viewtopic.php?p=86280 for a salutary tale involving one of Britain's strongest quizzers (and a pretty serious SWP player in the days of yore, so I've been told).

Obviously he was confused many years back by Skillcash/Time Machine asking the first King of the House of Lancaster and offering Henry V, Henry VI and Henry VI (sic) as the options

[grecian]

I'm probably several weeks behind the real boys, but has anyone managed to JP the new WWTBAM (i.e. the one on ItBox 55)? I managed to without much of a struggle this lunchtime. In fact it was the second JP I'd been offered in three games (I bu**ered up the photos on the first), so when it wants to pay it clearly wants to pay. Was I just lucky or is this a nice little earner for some?

[QuizMaster]

Questions are definitely easier to get through on this one with far fewer spoilers. Think the photos are a touch of pot luck though. You either get a set you can do or not.

Still, a jackpot is a jackpot.

[donttellhimpike]

Hmmmmm....................I've spotted it. Have you????????

I take it everyone will have noticed the updates to the 55. So lets all get out there and toss the monkey instead!!

Pike

Don't Panic!!!!!

[Istenem]

whistle while you work...

hitler is a twerp...

but yes. from a layman's p.o.v. it has become more obvious. i am only 3rd division at quizzing but it shows. all of a sudden i'm getting Qs like HOW TALL IS GWYNETH PALTROW : on the third round of a simpleton's game like japseye.

(5' 7" aparently)

i'm not clever enough to know this.

[grecian]

Hmmmmm....................I've spotted it. Have you????????

I take it everyone will have noticed the updates to the 55. So lets all get out there and toss the monkey instead!!

Pike

Don't Panic!!!!!

Don't panic - I'm trying not to! Very disappointing updates from my perspective.

[nw6]

Hex replaced TV Times which is no bad thing. Couldn't work out what else had gone which probably means not much for me to worry about