Monday, September 21, 2015
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Note to future players: please don’t make me think hard on a Monday.
Another night, another late Daily Double opportunity for our champ, Natalie Lips. (Hey, if Alex insists on saying her last name, I do, too!)
| LATE DAILY DOUBLE WHAT A CLICHÉ! for $1600 |
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Natalie Lips |
Sue Corbett |
Gordon Reid |
| 20,000 | 3,200 | 10,600 |
| TWO CLUES REMAIN: $800, $1200 | ||
We had long ago heard the “less-than-a-minute” warning, so there is at most one clue left in the round. How can Natalie maximize her chances of winning?
Two ways. The first: study Alex Jacob.
We did see one more clue, and Gordon nabbed it to break the lock. Still a simple analysis.
What actually happened
| Natalie | Sue | Gordon | |||
| 20,000 | 3,200 | 10,600 | |||
| 1,201 | 1,200 | 10,548 | |||
| 21,201 | 2,000 | 21,148 | |||
| min | max | ||||
| 1,201 | 9,399 | 10,600 | |||
| 13,599 | |||||
Natalie has now won 3 games and $57,601. Will she get on the TOC leaderboard?
The Final Jeopardy! clue
| THE WORLD OF BOOKS |
| MUSSOLINI CONSIDERED THIS BOOK WRITTEN DURING THE RENAISSANCE “THE STATESMAN’S SUPREME GUIDE” |
[spoiler]What is The Prince?[/spoiler]
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With two recent games where there was an “antepenultimate” wager where the leader had a crush at the time of the wager, I’ve discovered a quick way to save time and tell which of the two factors to consider is greater (so you need to calculate only one) in cases of a true (no clues likely to be played afterwards) penultimate wager:
If third has less than half of second then the “1.5 times 2nd” factor (preserving a crush) is greater.
If third has more than half of second then a double-up from 3rd (preserving the lock against that player) is greater.
If exactly half then the factors are the same.