“Deal or No Deal” Adds Double or Nothing
On Sunday, January 7th at 7PM ET, “Deal or No Deal” will add a new wrinkle to the game: Double or Nothing. Nothing is really known about how the US will handle it, but the Australian version of the show had it for a bit. In it, they could bet however much money they choose to from the amount they won and then pick a case. If they pick DOUBLE, they double the amount of the bet. If they pick NOTHING, they lose the amount they bet. So, hypothetically, if a person gambles $100,000 from the $250,000 they won: picking DOUBLE adds $200,000 to the player’s total giving them $350,000. Picking NOTHING takes the $100,000 away leaving them with $150,000. Watch as Kathy Beck plays for $2,000,000 in a special “Grease” edition of “Deal or No Deal”. Our version is getting really good, especially when we add game enhancing features like this. A picture of the cases is seen on the left (It’s large so you can expand it and get a better look).
Yes! This is awesome. I hope NBC decides to keep this feature for the show in further episodes.
Great trick for NBC to advertise a top prize of more than a million while keeping their expected expenditure the same. This could be interesting.
A little correction on the Aussie DorN rule….They didn’t have to bet all of their money if they wanted to play DorN. They can bet any or all of it (So if a player won $110K, they could bet $10K and keep the $100K, or anything else they wanted to do). They can even decline to play.
Well, it looks like they’re taking a proper cue from the Australian version…
… when they first ran Double or Nothing there, there was one case which either had DOUBLE or NOTHING written in it. Before long, it was changed to having two cases, one with DOUBLE, one with NOTHING (which seems to be the method they have here).
The latter seems preferable and less exploitative towards the contestants in general.
I’m definitely with you on that Jordan. If I was playing under the single-case rule I would unquestionably refuse to play; with the two-case rule, I would at least wager something.
Excellent!
I also hope we see this on future episodes. There are a couple more Sunday episodes later this month. Hmmmmmmm….good chance to use them there as well, we’ll see.
I dunno, to me it doesn’t add much since I can see someone risking all that much money, the one playing I saw of double or nothing on the aussie version she won $57K and risked $7K. an extra $7K doesn’t bring that much excitement IMO. but if someone has the guts to risk like $100K it’ll be great.
I wonder if
A)Obsucere amounts will be allowed. (e.g. $217,634.82)
B)If any contestant will have the guts to go all in
C)If I’m an idiot
How about all of the above trent? LOL, jk ;)
I do think some obscure amounts will end up occurring, and there will be some gutsy contestants who will wanna go all in (especially if they initially win big).
I never saw this coming, and I’m rather excited by it. By doing this, it helps take away some of the monotony DoND may be experiencing right now, and, as somebody else said, allow NBC to advertise a larger top prize. It does also add a tiny bit of skill to the game’s workings, instead of it all being luck of the draw.
Props to NBC for doing this. Now, to see if I’m an idiot, would anyone else think this might be a good idea for 1v100? Have a person risk however much they want at the game’s end, ask one more question, and if they get it right, add how much they wagered onto their bank.
Or, to be a little more mathematical about it, take the amount of money the person’s won, divide by the number of remaining mob members to get a figure. The player can wager up to this figure to risk on the question. If the 1 gets the question right, multiply the figure times the incorrect mob members, and add the product to their total. If the 1 gets it wrong, multiply the figure times the incorrect mob members, and subtract the product from their total.
So then, am I the idiot now? :D
Ummm…what? Are they actually serious? Would they be stupid enough to add this to the show? I have seen many other shows do this, and add final bonus rounds where you can go double or nothing and risk what you want. It sounds like something a show does when it’s desperate, and if I’m correct, DoND is not in a desperate situation.
Why not add something good from another version? Maybe add a question qualifying round to make the show…oh…I don’t know…tougher? To make the show something more than a simple game of chance. I seem to like the versions of the show where they don’t just go, “Here’s a contestant! Open boxes!” I like the versions I’ve seen where you have a big grtoup of people who answer questions and have to actually qualify to play the game. Unlike the US version where you have to either scream real loud, make Howie’s OCD flare, be a fire fighter or policeman, or be just overly obnoxious, some of the versions like the Aussie version, which is reportedly changing it’s format to more closely mirror the US version (grr!!!!), actually pick people by answering questions and such. Even Vas o No Vas does this. Why does NBC think that we only like to see someone win money, instead of prove his/her smarts against other contestants? It baffles me.
This new double or nothing sounds really stupid, and actually makes the show seem stupider to me.
could this double or nothing bit make the U.S. Version of DOND jump the shark. I think if something is doing good leave it as is until you see that people are getting tired of it then maybe try something else. if DOND goes on Sundays for a while then it will be on Sundays, Mondays and Wednesdays it could prevent burnout hopefully this is for only one week. If DOND were to go three a week again I think the mon, wed and fri is the best. speaking of DOND i now see the plug in game at walmart
I must admit, I prefer the versions with a trivia qualifier, but you do end up getting a relative lack of contestant variety. I’ve even noticed it in the Dutch show, and the Dutch have a highly diverse population (and the contestants in the studio are connected only by all participating in the Postcodelotterij).