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Old 15-08-2016, 15:59
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They did it again!!!

The answer was Foreman.... yet they accepted Chairman or Chairperson I have never heard the spokeperson for a jury called chairperson.
Me neither. Always Foreman.
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Old 17-08-2016, 16:57
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What a stupid women in today's final. She threw away £3,800 on taking the trade when there was no counters on the top shelf in a good position to get the jackpot counter over. I can only assume she wasn't short of money.

I think Ben was surprised she took the trade too.
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Old 19-08-2016, 16:10
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Chris and Kim are so annoying
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Old 19-08-2016, 16:37
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Chris and Kim are so annoying
All of the contestants on today's show are annoying, none of them seem to know anything about anything at all.

Why come on a TV quiz show when you are as thick as porcine excrement?
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Old 19-08-2016, 16:55
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What a great result for student, Jennie. She traded £2050 and won the Jackpot. Well done Jennie.
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Old 19-08-2016, 16:56
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All of the contestants on today's show are annoying, none of them seem to know anything about anything at all.

Why come on a TV quiz show when you are as thick as porcine excrement?
......because, even so, you can still win £10,000, as demonstrated today.
Ben was in his element!
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Old 19-08-2016, 21:31
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All of the contestants on today's show are annoying, none of them seem to know anything about anything at all.
That could be the programme summary for Tipping Point in any TV magazine or guide...
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Old 20-08-2016, 14:55
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That could be the programme summary for Tipping Point in any TV magazine or guide...


I am watching the chase. The annoying woman is giving long winded answers (because she knows she is right!) And then gets it wrong
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Old 23-08-2016, 16:46
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One of the questions on Tipping Point today was about the unit kilohertz, asking how many cycles per second a kilohertz is. The person who got the question passed, and the dozy person who answered said it was 3 cycles per second!

I say, have you never heard of any metric units? They all work the same way....
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Old 24-08-2016, 16:40
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The two women in today's head to head were completely devoid of general knowledge. I think almost every question was passed to the other and more often than not answered wrong.

The finalist is there purely due to a 9 counter double counter drop in the second round. I'm looking forward to seeing how she copes in the final round when she can't pass the question to anyone else.
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Old 24-08-2016, 16:44
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The two women in today's head to head were completely devoid of general knowledge. I think almost every question was passed to the other and more often than not answered wrong.

The finalist is there purely due to a 9 counter double counter drop in the second round. I'm looking forward to seeing how she copes in the final round when she can't pass the question to anyone else.
They need to get rid of that.

How easy was that 1st question even tho she said she would guess what it was
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Old 24-08-2016, 16:53
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Are they still on repeats?
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Old 24-08-2016, 17:08
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Are they still on repeats?
They certainly are, still today's repeat gives us the chance to see the stupidest two women ever to "grace" the show.
"Britannia is the female personification of which group of islands?" Errr......errrr.....?????

Oh, I could go on.......
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Old 26-08-2016, 16:57
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They certainly are, still today's repeat gives us the chance to see the stupidest two women ever to "grace" the show.
"Britannia is the female personification of which group of islands?" Errr......errrr.....?????

Oh, I could go on.......

Ohhhh go on. Get it off your chest. It'll do you good.
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Old 29-08-2016, 17:01
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Bloke in the final round today, first three questions, he goes for a two pointer, then another two pointer, then a one pointer.

If you go for two pointers, or even worse, one pointers, you've got next to no chance of getting it out.

He changed to three pointers later on but by then it was too late.

If you know next to nothing about a subject you might as well go for three. You've got a 1 in 3 chance of getting it just by guessing. Even if there's only a ten percent chance you know the answer, and you guess the rest of the time, you will get it right forty percent of the time. Forty percent of three is 1.2, so your expectation is still higher than the one pointer, even if you know the one pointer every time.

But it seems there's people that just can't grasp this.
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Old 29-08-2016, 17:29
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Bloke in the final round today, first three questions, he goes for a two pointer, then another two pointer, then a one pointer.

If you go for two pointers, or even worse, one pointers, you've got next to no chance of getting it out.

He changed to three pointers later on but by then it was too late.

If you know next to nothing about a subject you might as well go for three. You've got a 1 in 3 chance of getting it just by guessing. Even if there's only a ten percent chance you know the answer, and you guess the rest of the time, you will get it right forty percent of the time. Forty percent of three is 1.2, so your expectation is still higher than the one pointer, even if you know the one pointer every time.

But it seems there's people that just can't grasp this.
He was wetter than an otter's pocket....
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Old 29-08-2016, 18:05
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He was lucky with his game plan to go home with £3600!! Good to see a new series back
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Old 30-08-2016, 17:19
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The girl that went out in the first round today gave herself very little chance.

It seems clear to me that in the first round, you should never voluntarily be the first player to put a counter into a drop zone, because it usually pays hardly anything, or nothing at all on the first counter in. In other words, if you get a question right, and the drop zones that have been used don't look favourable, you should pass it over. You should only be using a drop zone for the first time if the question's been passed to you and you have no choice.

Yet twice she got a question right and both times she picked a drop zone that hadn't been used before. She got none on one of her drops and only one counter on the other.

it wasn't a surprise that she went out first.
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Old 30-08-2016, 17:30
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The chap in the final was unlucky, as his drop timing was spot on. The counters just refused to go behind the jackpot one.
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Old 31-08-2016, 08:29
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Logically there's no point in going for anything other than "3 counter" questions in the final. The questions are generally so easy, and structured in such a way, that you can usually discount one of the three multiple choice options, leaving a flip of a coin if you really haven't got a scooby. You'd be very lucky to win the £10K by going for easier questions as well.

Also, to maximise your win, surely, if the jackpot counter is still on the top shelf with one category to go, you ignore it for the last "3 counter" question, and chase the cash in the best drop zone.

Why do competitors not see this? Are they told they have to go after the jackpot at all costs?
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Old 31-08-2016, 08:40
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Also, to maximise your win, surely, if the jackpot counter is still on the top shelf with one category to go, you ignore it for the last "3 counter" question, and chase the cash in the best drop zone.

Why do competitors not see this? Are they told they have to go after the jackpot at all costs?
I have occasionally seen this happen, a player will go for one of the other drop zones at the end when it is clear that the jackpot counter isn't going to drop. Ben usually says something along the lines of "Giving up on the jackpot counter". So there is certainly nothing to stop them doing it if they want.

You have to be very sure that you have no chance with the jackpot counter to make this the right thing to do, though. I would suggest only with your last and second last counter. Even if it was still on the top shelf, it is probably still just about possible you could get it out with three that landed exactly in the right place. Also, even if you don't get it out with your last three, you might get it near enough that you can consider taking the trade.
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Old 01-09-2016, 16:14
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"From which city does a Londoner come?"
Some of these questions are cringeingly embarrassing.
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Old 01-09-2016, 16:33
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They just asked for the first digit of Pi.

I just... can't!
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Old 01-09-2016, 17:35
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They just asked for the first digit of Pi.

I just... can't!
I'm quite sure there's plenty people wouldn't know that. I know it, and I know you'd know it. For anyone who knows anything about mathematics it's dead easy.

But a lot of people don't know anything about mathematics. What they learnt at school they will have largely forgotten. Or completely forgotten.

I notice you often pick up on these sort of maths questions on quiz shows, and question why they have such dead easy questions. But as I say a lot of people struggle with that sort of thing. I think you rather over estimate mathematical knowledge in the general public.

Actually they should have asked for the sixth digit. That would have been a bit harder. How does that thing go? "How I need a drink, alcoholic of course..."

The world record for reciting the digits of pi from memory (they do not have a repeating cycle, they just go on randomly for ever) currently stands at seventy thousand.
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Old 01-09-2016, 19:46
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Palo Alto is a city in which American state?

Mexico

I didn't know the answer (California) but I would've at least guessed somewhere in America!
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