If the official Twitter is happy enough to advertise it, I don’t see any harm in linking to it myself – episode two of Million Dollar Mind Game, the US take on the famous Russian What? Where? When? format with amateur American football player Vernon Kay.
http://youtu.be/4kEho1YIqUY
Chris M Dickson of the parish pretty much sums up what I think of it right here. It’s a pity ABC didn’t have the confidence in it, but I’m pleased it is actually seeing the light of day. Although having seen the end of episode one, they could do with drawing out the voting a bit less when they take the money.
Quite a good show, this. ABC should have aired it in primetime.
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Its worth pointing out Joe that only new shows qualify for the hall of fame – MPD can only win the Golden Five
Hands before brain once again… 🙄 😉
Fun fact of the day: last year, OC got 138% more votes than MPD.
Frankly, I’d welcome the competition.
138%, huh?
What have you got to say about that, eh, Joe? 😉
Wow, someone’s actually playing High Stakes really well. I just thought everyone would use their clues, get to £25k and leave. This guy has taken risks all the way through so far, and it’s paying off.
And he’s just lost. He stepped on 88 and it was trapped.
It’s perfectly legitimate to play for £25k, certainly enough to say that going out all guns blazing shouldn’t necessarily be inferred as “playing really well” while the £25k approach isn’t – but it certainly made a change to see that strategy come out. It’s EV+ even if it’s negative-utility for many (most?) people.
And the end of the show tonight was both bizarre on one level and a great justification for straddling games on the other. When I saw the clock and state of play at the final adbreak I was very confused for a bit…
I never said it wasn’t legitimate to play for 25k, I just thought it’s what most if not all the players would do which would make the show boring. To see someone taking risks early on to get the lower levels out of the way to make the higher money more viable was what surprised me. By my saying ‘playing really well’, I was merely saying he had taken 4 risks in a row and they all paid off.
Chalk my words up to ‘hands before brain’ too 😀
Haha, nice self-depreciating reply at the end there. 🙂
But yes, he was on a roll (albeit through sheer luck so hard to say it was great gameplay :D), and for a while it looked like we were going to be in for a big-money finish.
Second contestant probably planned one way of playing the game and then got into a rhythm of using clues – as I’ve said before, ten clues to £25k is the path of least resistance, and a lot of people will follow such a path under the studio lights whether it’s cautious (like this) or risky (“going all the way” on DoND). Credit the other player for at least taking a different tack, and I’d have liked to have seen how his clues would have been used later on.
And now 71 Degrees North has a fantastic catchphrase of “Jackson! Show us yer klaxon!”
Amazing.
Who won this series of 71 Degrees North? Haven’t had time to see the last few episodes but I hope it was Amy.
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Rav. Amy came third after being eliminated in the underwater ice-swim.
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Thanks. Second time in a row a [spoiler!!!]male[/spoiler!!!!] has won.
This series of 71DN hasn’t excited many, though… except perhaps for those males who like Charlotte… 😉
“Vote for Million Pound Drop: Golden Five Winner!”
Well, at least two of my votes will be going on a show that has starters and bonuses… 😉 😉
It might not be getting all three, though – we’re already halfway through the current series in terms of matches, and just two of the 18 have been really good. 😕
And last Monday’s match between Birmingham and Newcastle was a bloody disappointment… 😡 🙁
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The BJ begins in January.
Brig Bother please tweet this. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to work on an up and coming, high quality, exciting gameshow for a major broadcaster. I’m sure some of your followers would be interested in applying to this potential Hall of Fame 2012 Winner. Cheers.
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Don’t forget to Vote for Million Pound Drop in Golden 5 for 2011.
Right, that is going to get tiresome very quickly.
You’re right. I’m already bored of Joe effectivly canvasing for an Endemol show to win the best game show for 2011. It could be a very long Novemeber and December around here.
And whilst we are on the subject – Joe, why are you posting job adverts for your former employer on here?
1) You’ve admitted last month, that Endemol had to let you go recently, so if my employers did that across me – I wouldn’t be too accomdating in helping them out filling vacant posts within the company on a gameshow fourm..
and
2) I take it you’ve already applied for one of the two vacant positions?
Okay, sorry I won’t post the subliminal Vote For messages anymore.
If you would like a tweet, just send it to me and I will retweet it.
If I had Twitter I’d send it to you. I don’t have Twitter because I don’t want to pay for the sign up fee.
Since when did Twitter charge people?
I think you’re lying very hard.
Okay, I will sign up to Twitter in the next few days and send you a link. Twitter is a great place for communicating with people according to the hype but I’m not convinced. I’ll give it a go though.
Whatever.
Dare I say this – but I’m not a Twitter person myself… 😳 😕 😳 😕
You don’t have to be. But I have very good reasons to believe Joe already is in some form and I don’t approve of being lied to.
I know the odds are something like 1 in 424242424242.96, is there any way to hear the music used in the WWTBAM pilot?
There were snatches of it to be heard in the documentary they did on the making of WWTBAM.
Paul Ross merchandise update! For those of you who have already splashed out £2500 on this:
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…don’t fear! This is now available:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jigsaw-Puzzles-PAUL-Mirror-Photos/dp/B001TNC1SG
YES, THAT IS A COMPETITION PRIZE.