Only a complete idiot could win a million dollars on Minute to Win It.

Just imagine this scenario:

You've been working a full time job for years and have saved up a nice six figure sum in your bank account. Someone makes you an offer. You can put up $450,000 of your own money on a bet. If you win, you stand to gain an additional $500,000. The bet is that you can complete some game in under a minute. You know what the possible games are, but you don't know what particular game you'll have to play, and some of them are damn hard. You may have even practiced some of them, but you are far from being able to ace all of them every time. Some of them are so ludicrously tough that it's hard to imagine anyone could ever win them every time. We'll assume the best case scenario and that you will have three chances.

You could win $500,000. If you lose though, *poof* there goes your $450,000. Is anybody actually going to take this offer? Why is it any different if it is money that you just recently won? If anyone ever makes it to a million dollars on this show with its current rules, that person is out of their mind. They might be really good at the games, but they are still nuts. Honestly, I think someone would probably have to be kind of nuts to even get the level BEFORE the million. People struggle on some of the lower level games, but if someone gets up to $500,000 they are supposed to actually consider risking 90% of it on a longshot HARD game to try to double up? Really?

This stuff all started with Who Wants to be a Millionare? I don't know what the deal is with these game shows where you have to risk most of your winnings to keep playing. I don't think it really makes the games any more interesting at all. To top if off they do this even more silly thing at the bottom levels where the amount of money is so small that you'd have to be a lunatic to quit. If anyone ever quit at the $1,000 level that would be just about the most hilarious thing ever. What is the point of those small levels of money? They are essentially meaningless since nobody is going to quit there and if people lose that early they get nothing. Do they think that every show with a million dollar top prize needs to use this format? It's so stupid.

That is wrong, in a Minute to Win It after a certain point you keep a certain amount of money. I.E: $100,000 you keep, 400,000 you keep, etc.

TehSupaBeatz

Sorry this has nothing to do with anything, but you need the Timberwolves on your sig. :)

I've watched this show just a bit and it's official. We as a people are getting dumber and accepting worse for ourselves. I know it's just a game and for fun, and it has its entertaining moments, but watching someone bounce balls onto thimbles or stack cups for money, like it's somehow a good use of anyone's brain power... no. Not good.

That is wrong, in a Minute to Win It after a certain point you keep a certain amount of money. I.E: $100,000 you keep, 400,000 you keep, etc.

TehSupaBeatz

[spoiler] *I said $550,000 before I edited it. It's actually $500,000. [/spoiler]

I've watched this show just a bit and it's official. We as a people are getting dumber and accepting worse for ourselves. I know it's just a game and for fun, and it has its entertaining moments, but watching someone bounce balls onto thimbles or stack cups for money, like it's somehow a good use of anyone's brain power... no. Not good.

binpink

Anyway, I don't know that asking people random questions about relatively unimportant things is any better or worse. I just think that the risk on the high levels is too ridiculous. At least on Millionaire you can see the question and if you don't know the answer then you can just walk away with what you already won. There's no such equivalent option on this new show.

edit: I'm not sure you read the whole post. The reason I said only an idiot could win is not the games themselves, but rather the decision to even continue playing at that point.

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I've watched this show just a bit and it's official. We as a people are getting dumber and accepting worse for ourselves. I know it's just a game and for fun, and it has its entertaining moments, but watching someone bounce balls onto thimbles or stack cups for money, like it's somehow a good use of anyone's brain power... no. Not good.

StopThePresses

Anyway, I don't know that asking people random questions about relatively unimportant things is any better or worse. I just think that the risk on the high levels is too ridiculous. At least on Millionaire you can see the question and if you don't know the answer then you can just walk away with what you already won. There's no such equivalent option on this new show.

edit: I'm not sure you read the whole post. The reason I said only an idiot could win is not the games themselves, but rather the decision to even continue playing at that point.

I did indeed read the whole post, I just chose to tanget about the show generally. I agree that the odds are bad and it's incredibly foolish to take that kind of risk. If you're desperate I guess 50k is better than nothing when you walk away. And Millionaire's only saving grace is that you may actually learn something.