Deal or No Deal

[bajae]

I was curious about this so I watched a video on YouTube where someone explained how the game worked. Every card has a unique number on it and they know which passenger has which card. A player is randomly selected to play on stage by the computer. There are twenty cases with unique values between $.01 to $1000. The player picks one case that they think (hope) has the $1000 in it. This case is then “locked”. The player then picks 5 other cases and their values are shown. The player wants these cases to have low values in them.
 

After the five cases are picked and their values are display, the “banker” computes a dollar amount. The player can then choose to take that money offer or keep playing. The gamble is deciding if the amount offered by the banker is greater than the value in the locked case or not. The amount offered by the banker is determined by the values already revealed, since those cannot be in the locked case. So if $1000 has been revealed, the banker knows the $1000 is not in the locked case and the offer will be on the lower end. Therefore the more low amounts that have been revealed the higher the offer is from the banker, since it is more likely a high value is in the locked case. 
 

If the player decides to keep playing, they open another batch of cases, I think four this time, the banker computes a new offer, and so on until there is just two cases left. The locked one and one other. 
 

The cards the audience are playing with have 20 cases but the values are only the 10 lowest values that appear two times each. If the player picks case #4 and the value in case #4 is $1 and you have $1 in your #4 case you have a match. With each value appearing twice on the card, you actually have better odds of making a match (still not great) but with two of your cases having the value of $1, the odds of match with the game case is double than if only one of your cases had the $1 value. The audience is playing to get as many matches as possible, the dollar amount of those matches makes no difference. Prizes are based on the number of matches.

 

Since the computer knows who has which card and what values are under those cases, they are able to keep track of the number of matches for those playing in the audience. 
 

The video didn’t exactly share what happens when the player takes the banker’s offer and quits playing but I think they continue revealing all the cases and the audience can see if they have matches or not. 
 

I might play the game once if I had nothing else to do but I wouldn’t expect to win anything. Thus, if I felt just the entertainment value of the game wasn’t worth the cost. I won’t play it. I can sit in the audience and watch without playing. 

 

 

[HermmyGranger]

On 3/6/2023 at 11:33 AM, Destiny0315 said:

Just be happy the casinos close during the middle of the night on ships or you might be like Albert Brooks finding out his wife Julie Hagerty has blown their 'Nest Egg' on the number 22: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZumS81KSw8

You're not even allowed to say "Nest Egg" anymore.