'Deal or No Deal' might be gambling? UK might be idiocracy?
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I can't think of any pure luck US game shows off the top of my head. Well, maybe that one where they wear the silly costumes.
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I do believe their odds of winning are 100% it's just how much they win that would vary.Coito ergo sum wrote:Since the money is both in each box and not in each box at the same time, can it be quantum-argued that no matter what their odds of winning is always 50%?
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That theory is belied by the shows "Everybody Loves Raymond" and "The New Adventures of Old Christine."Thinking Aloud wrote:I presume so, or they wouldn't show it.Svartalf wrote:It's entertaining?
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Audley Strange wrote:Edmonds has still to turn up at The Hague for the crime against humanity that was Mr Blobby.
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Here's the legislation.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/200 ... 019_en.pdf
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/200 ... 019_en.pdf
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Well, there is "Deal or No Deal"Tyrannical wrote:I can't think of any pure luck US game shows off the top of my head. Well, maybe that one where they wear the silly costumes.

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