Well, I played a couple o' rounds of DOnD at NBC.com just now, and the outcome of the last game was devastating! The board was down to two amounts: the MILLION and ONE BUCK. Having never quite reached this plateau before and feeling a bit positive about the odds, I turned down the bank's last offer of over 300K, opened the case I picked at the outset and found I had, of course...$1!!! AAAAARRRRRGH!!!!!

The million was in the one unopened case, natch. Don't think I'll be filling out the entry form to be on the show anytime soon....

Um. I can ALMOST see it from the standpoint of being mildly interested in seeing if anything interesting happens on your screen if you should "win" the million. Otherwise....wow.

Did you have reason to belive your odds were better than 50/50?

Seriously...how is reporting these gameplay results even mildly interesting? Oh my gosh, an electronic graphic says you're a loser.

The glass was half-full, dammit! Don't deny the man his optimism. ;)

Did you at least ask for a pony? You gotta ask for a pony!

One dollar is not a worst case scenario. One penny, now that would be the worst case scenario.

Oh good lord.

I thought you were an atheist.

I KNOW you're a....oh, never mind.

Wow. Just wow.

Big "Whoosh" to you, Chris. Jimmy's been making deadpan observations like that for, well, just about as long as we've been here. Not everybody overdoes the emoticons.

Oh, is that what those are? You wouldn't know it.

See, "worst case" referred to the one case with the penny. The other cases had more money. So the penny would be the "worst case," not the dollar, that would be the "second worst case." That's why choosing the penny vs. the million would be the "worst case scenario."

If the show required people to pick boxes, there would be no joke, but since they pick cases, there is. Is there an emoticon for total seriousness? :|

No, you obviously didn't know it. Jimmy made a funny and you treated him like he was a clueless idiot. Ergo the "whoosh".

Now is the time for a deep breath.

Joke or not, the fact that you would make a distinction between the worst and second worst case in a game FOR NO MONEY is utterly silly.

Well, yeah, that's why it's a "joke". Jokes are usually silly. Humor by exaggeration and all that.

It was clear to me that Jimmy was making fun of the "painfully" serious original post. Apparently, it would have been more helpful if he had said, "BAD JOKE TIME: One penny, now THAT would be the worst case scenario!!!!!!!! <wink, wink> ROTFL!!! LOL!!! :) :) :) **throws rotten eggs at self** [Just Kidding, Please Don't Flame Me]"

So, Jim, now you know.

And knowing is half the cliche.

But seriously, folks.

No, wait. Screw seriosity.

Everything is okay. It's reassuring that the internet will never replace human interaction, with the ability to be subtle, vocal inflection, quizzical looks, etc. You can't be subtle when you have to telegraph a joke with emoticons. I'd rather that some people don't get the joke, makes it all the more satisfying for those who do.

Answer to Jimmy's signature: catapult.
And just to be safe... :-)....it's a JOKE....

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Getting back on-topic, I actually did have the $1M case at one point in Ryan Morris's DoND game and spurned all bank offers. And all it did was it said in regular-sized text that "You won $1,000,000." No farefare, no WAVs of people celebrating...not even a exclamation point. (The fact that we have yet to see what a $1M win looks like is beside the point.)

Obvious fact of the day...playing this game on your computer and playing it on TV are like comparing an apple to an orange. If anyone really thinks you'd use the same gameplay strategy in both environments, then you are lying to me, and yourself, and your nose is about to poke someone's eye out.

And to quote Drawn Together, "Uh, DUHHH!!!" (donkey sound/horse teeth) :-P

Sing out, Brother! For as interesting the show is as a "what would YOU do?" exercise, it completely falls flat in any medium other than a TV game show. The same goes for "Millionaire."