That was pretty much my strategy: double the second-place player’s total, then bet enough that, even had I been wrong, I still would have won. Had I known that both the other players would get FJ wrong, I would have bet more.
On my second game, since I was in third place going into Final, so my only hope was to bet it all and hope the others got the answer wrong and bet enough to lose. Both of them bet enough that it would have worked, but the leader got it wrong (finishing third) and the woman in second-place got it right and ended up winning. —Dave Sikula Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 31, 2021, at 11:10 AM, Brad Beam <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Tom Wolper > > >If the producers assume collusion is happening, without a real accusation > >including evidence against real contestants, then the solution is to keep > >contestants apart, not change the rules of the game. I think the tiebreaker > >is a deterrent to making wagers in Final Jeopardy that result in a tie. > >Going into FJ where the game is competitive first place bets double second > >place's amount plus one dollar. But (without a tiebreaker) there's no > >incentive to add that extra dollar. First place banks winnings and comes > >back. The tiebreaker keeps this from happening. > > IIRC the story of the one non-zero three-way tie in history, the person in > the lead expected his tied opponents to wager everything, so he took it upon > himself to wager enough to match… if everybody answered correctly. > > _ _ > |_>|_> Brad Beam- Belle WV > |_>|_> http://www.facebook.com/74bmw > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tvornottv/NlskNrx584Q/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/006701d6f804%24b2dc7bc0%2418957340%24%40suddenlink.net. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/78342E71-7898-4982-9A33-6A1B695A2C34%40gmail.com.
