More FAQ Answers About “1 VS 100″

17 Feb

Posted by Alex Davis as 1 vs. 100, NBC

We received a few more questions in the previous comment box, so let’s get some answers.

*If everyone gets a question wrong, no one wins any money. No prize money given away that game and all new people brought in.

*The mob has 15 seconds to answer the question.

*If someone doesn’t press a button, unless it’s a technical error, it’s counted as a wrong answer.

*On Ask the Mob, if all mob members answer correctly, the player isn’t told that and the player is given the option to lock that in or not. In reality, if a player reads the rules which doesn’t take that long, it’s easily determined that if the entire mob says the right answer and the player uses Ask the Mob to which no wrong answer is eliminated, that answer is correct.

*After the $10,000 question, each following question is worth $10,000.

If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask and we can try to answer. We may try to do one of these for other game shows if we get the official rule sheet at some time.

9 Responses

Josh
1
February 17th, 2007 at 8:40 pm

The mob has 10 seconds to answer each question; at least I did when I taped a game in December (aired Jan 5 & 12).
Alex Davis
2
February 17th, 2007 at 8:46 pm

I’m just going by the rules that I received. They say the time can be changed at the producer’s liking, so they probably changed it and didn’t update the page.
Donald
3
February 17th, 2007 at 10:54 pm

Speaking of the Mob’s time limit… can they change thir answer as often as the can within the 15 seconds or once they pick and answer, it is locked in?
Jordan Hass
4
February 18th, 2007 at 2:37 am

-What happens with the helps if there is a 1 vs 1?

-What happens if the score is $50,000 divided among 3 mob people?

-Whatever Happened to the “Suitcase” of $1,000,000 featured in the first 5 episodes of 1 vs 100?

-Whats the diffrence between “Trust The Mob” and “Poll the Mob”? if they both normally reveal the majority of the answers?

-Does The Mob get anything if the contestant gets the first question wrong, yet everyone in the mob got it right?

-Whats the point of bluffing on “Ask The Mob” if you know you will be wrong and get $0?
Dart
5
February 18th, 2007 at 3:36 am

I can answer a couple of Jordan’s questions, just based on the on-air rules.

The difference between “Trust the Mob” and “Poll the Mob”: Trust the Mob takes control out of your hands and forces you to the correct answer, which can be useful early on, but less useful on later questions. Poll the Mob only shows you the majority answer if you decide to ask about that answer. We just see the majority answer come up so often because this help gets used to verify the One’s instincts. Which are generally right. After you use PtM, you don’t have to select the answer you asked about.

The point of bluffing on “Ask the Mob”: As a Mob member, you don’t know whether you’re right or wrong until the One, the audience and everyone else gets told the answer. So if you’re picked, either you or the other selected Mob member is out, but you don’t know which one. The perfect bluff, then, is to try to convince the One that you’re not sure about your answer, and hope that you’re right and you lead the One astray.
Jordan Hass
6
February 18th, 2007 at 3:27 pm

Thanks Dart.
Mark
7
February 19th, 2007 at 1:05 pm

I have a couple questions:

- I think this is what Jordan was getting at, but what if the mob winnings are not divisible by the number of winners? (e.g. someone or some people would have to get a penny more/less)

- Is there a limit of money that an individual mob member is allowed to win? Do the rules say anything about them ever being forced to retire?

- Do the mob members get any confirmation of the answer they choose?
Mark
8
February 19th, 2007 at 10:51 pm

One other thing I’ve wondered before:

What would happen if the player uses “ask the mob”, and it eliminates answer A, for example, and then the player decides to trust the mob, but the most popular answer is A?
Andrew
9
May 13th, 2007 at 9:13 am

I would think that the next most popular answer would be chosen.