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[clemon79]

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...pretty much by definition, that might have been the least effective playing of Stack Teh Deck EVAR.

[TLEberle]

clemon79, on 19 June 2012 - 12:42 PM, said:

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...pretty much by definition, that might have been the least effective playing of Stack Teh Deck EVAR.

Which is interesting, because last week the contestant won two of the play-ins, picked the third and fourth numbers, set his car price and

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lost by two damn dollars.

It is getting really hard to defend this game when you have zero margin for error on all fronts.

[clemon79]

TLEberle, on 19 June 2012 - 12:49 PM, said:

It is getting really hard to defend this game when you have zero margin for error on all fronts.

Who defends it? I think it's perfectly awful for exactly that reason.

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Maybe it wasn't by definition, then. I thought they spotted you a number out of the gate before the play-ins. If they don't, then she at least got a play-in right, even if she utterly wasted it. I wasn't paying attention, noted she had one number spotted, she wasted it on the first number, and then proceeded to get every other number wrong.

[TLEberle]

clemon79, on 19 June 2012 - 01:01 PM, said:

Who defends it?

I useta did. If someone picks the three right groceries, the whole exercise can reduce to "how many thousand dollars is that car?" which is a damn sight better than "you know the car is $17,800, now does it end in -26, -27 or -76, or -62, or -67, or -72?" On the other hand, a contestant who gets none right and has only an idea of how many ten-thousands the car costs will be bucking a 360:1 shot to win that novelty license plate.

[Kevin Prather]

So I haven't really watched TPiR in a while, so I'm not too familiar with how Stack the Deck works. The way you guys describe it, it takes nothing short of perfect play to even have a reasonable shot at winning the car, and even then it could be tricky.

EDIT: Ok, I looked up the rules of the game. If you played it perfectly, you have to pick the first two numbers of the car out of four possible. I figure the first should be a gimme unless you have a 1-2-9-0 combination or something similar. Then it's 1/3 for the car. If you blow one, you have to figure the hundreds digit out, which is probably blindly guessing. So I think I'm right that just about perfect play is needed in this game.

[TLEberle]

Kevin Prather, on 19 June 2012 - 03:23 PM, said:

So I haven't really watched TPiR in a while, so I'm not too familiar with how Stack the Deck works. The way you guys describe it, it takes nothing short of perfect play to even have a reasonable shot at winning the car, and even then it could be tricky.

And that perfect play entails choosing which grocery product from the pair matches the listed price. So you have to do that three times. I suppose you could miss one of those, and if you take the 100s and 10s digit, maybe you're not completely borked, but anything less than two right and it becomes pick-and-pray. This does not become a problem unless your production team decides that it gives them a raging thrill up their leg when people miss those 50:50 propositions, which is how you get people having two Plinko chips to drop and the like.

[Kevin Prather]

TLEberle, on 19 June 2012 - 03:37 PM, said:

I suppose you could miss one of those, and if you take the 100s and 10s digit, maybe you're not completely borked,

I don't understand. You'd rather have the 100s and 10s than the 10s and 1s? Why's that?