Idiotic Jeopardy wagers (no spoilers before 6 EST) - Page 29

Dumb bitch tonight has $3600 in Double Jeopardy, clear 3rd place while the other two have ~$10k. She only wagers $2500 for some reason, eventually pulls close to the other two but is out of the lead by $1k. They all nail Final Jeopardy and she loses when she would've would won had she just wagered all $3600.

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01-07-2011 , 03:27 AM

#702

sylar

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sick bump. this thread is awesome.

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01-07-2011 , 04:19 PM

#703

neuroman

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Originally Posted by DemonDeac

Christ, tonight's was the easiest final jeopardy question EVER!! wtf do you think the answer was. 15th amendment. first black guy.

piece of cake.

/rant

Answer: The Day after the 15th Amendment took effect, Thomas Peterson became the 1st African American to do this under its provisions

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Really was thinking "what is do the funky chicken dance?"

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01-11-2011 , 06:42 PM

#704

captZEEbo

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Anyone else get turned on by the world's largest seed?

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01-11-2011 , 07:02 PM

#705

cubicZ

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that seed was no slouch

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01-11-2011 , 08:05 PM

#706

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Originally Posted by Murphinator

lol

i love it when people are so risk averse that it leads to them making a much riskier play than the obvious one

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01-11-2011 , 10:11 PM

#707

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Hell, the guy tonight was down 3,200 with 1 2,000 question left. He bet 3,000.

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01-12-2011 , 12:04 AM

#708

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Originally Posted by cookieb

Hell, the guy tonight was down 3,200 with 1 2,000 question left. He bet 3,000.

omfg that was awful. I almost threw up.

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01-12-2011 , 01:15 AM

#709

Murphinator

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Saw tonight's too lol, so incredibly bad.

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01-12-2011 , 07:00 PM

#710

riverdance

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interesting fj wagers today.

player a had 20000, wagered 13600
player b had 19600 wagered 7400
player c had 11800, wagered 0

all missed. player b wins

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01-12-2011 , 07:04 PM

#711

sylar

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player b has serious metagame

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01-12-2011 , 07:06 PM

#712

g-bebe

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lol, wat @ a's wager

also damn that must have been an easy game. collective score before FJ of over 50k is big.

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01-12-2011 , 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by g-bebe

also damn that must have been an easy game. collective score before FJ of over 50k is big.

a lot of that depends on how aggressively (ie. how correctly) they play the daily doubles

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01-12-2011 , 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by riverdance

interesting fj wagers today.

player a had 20000, wagered 13600
player b had 19600 wagered 7400
player c had 11800, wagered 0

all missed. player b wins

What the hell was player c doing, way to be drawing dead.

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01-12-2011 , 07:39 PM

#715

amplify

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man that seed was huge

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01-13-2011 , 01:11 AM

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Cody Ross

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Originally Posted by Dudd

What the hell was player c doing, way to be drawing dead.

while we're being results oriented, this was a genius bid since player c got it wrong.

I feel like b's best wager is 4k (to cover c in case he doubled up). c's bet is tough to assess, I'd go with 3800 though, to tie b in case b bets 4k and misses (obviously a would have to miss too no matter what c bids)

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01-14-2011 , 07:50 AM

#717

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3On3Td9x8g

test run of ibm watson!

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01-14-2011 , 12:04 PM

#718

Yeti

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crazy

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01-14-2011 , 12:56 PM

#719

KneeCo

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that's awesome, I hope they show its possible answers + percentages on the show.

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01-14-2011 , 01:19 PM

#720

pwnsall

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I feel like watson's biggest advantage is being awesome at ringing in

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01-14-2011 , 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by pwnsall

I feel like watson's biggest advantage is being awesome at ringing in

Seems like it. It also seemed like it knew everything, and was just insufficiently confident on a lot of them to ring in. I tend to think if they loosened up a bit it would probably crush.

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01-14-2011 , 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by gumpzilla

Seems like it. It also seemed like it knew everything, and was just insufficiently confident on a lot of them to ring in. I tend to think if they loosened up a bit it would probably crush.

i only watched the first few seconds, but this is kinda how i figured it would go. which is fine, the technology is supposed to have uses for medicine, etc., where i would hope it has to be 100% confident. they didn't build a bot that could win them free tabs at the local trivia night.

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01-14-2011 , 02:30 PM

#723

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i love watson and hope they program some corny jokes into him. also give him a lame robot story to tell in the break. are there plans to air some real jeopardy shows with him vs ken and brad?

also, pictures of seed?!