Comments on: No Whammies http://www.yuppiepunk.org/2006/01/no-whammies.html Adventures in middlebrow. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:57:05 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Mannythedog http://www.yuppiepunk.org/2006/01/no-whammies.html/comment-page-1#comment-213 Mannythedog Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:03:48 +0000 http://www.yuppiepunk.org/development/2006/01/no-whammies.html#comment-213 I didn’t know anything about this guy until I read this post. And for the life of me I don't know why the network had been so insistent on burying this clip. It is incredible. I know he won by memorizing the board - and even still it is still a compilation of some of the most exciting game show moments I've ever seen. Surely the point of any game show is to grab ratings - and there is nothing that gains ratings better than excitement. And if you listen to the crowd they are sure excited. On another note - I really don't think that memorizing the board is cheating. It is essentially card-counting and I don't think that is cheating either. Essentially, for whatever reason, he played better than anyone else in the history of the show and good for him. Card counting and memorizing the board (and memorizing the levels in Ms. Pac Man) still takes skill and luck. I didn’t know anything about this guy until I read this post. And for the life of me I don’t know why the network had been so insistent on burying this clip. It is incredible. I know he won by memorizing the board – and even still it is still a compilation of some of the most exciting game show moments I’ve ever seen. Surely the point of any game show is to grab ratings – and there is nothing that gains ratings better than excitement. And if you listen to the crowd they are sure excited.

On another note – I really don’t think that memorizing the board is cheating. It is essentially card-counting and I don’t think that is cheating either. Essentially, for whatever reason, he played better than anyone else in the history of the show and good for him. Card counting and memorizing the board (and memorizing the levels in Ms. Pac Man) still takes skill and luck.

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