Is Who wants to be a millionaire just a game of luck?
I mean, there's 33.34% chance of being right unless the person happens to know the right answer, and lifelines can only get you so far into the game.
Let's say there are 15 questions with 4 choices each. Let's also say there are 3 lifelines: call-a-friend, 50-50, and ask-the-audience.
For each of the 15 questions, there is only 1 correct answer, and 3 incorrect answers, so immediately your chances are 1/3 = 33.34%. You can use each lifeline once. Using phone-a-friend, let's say gives you a 95% chance the person you call is correct. So 1 question is 95%. Similarly, we can say ask-the-audience gives you a 95% chance. Finally, 50-50 will remove 2 wrong answers, so you have 1 right answer and 1 wrong answer, so you basically know the answer. To recap:
The last part is always made out of questions where only experts in different fields of study. It is like asking piano virtuoso questions about nuances of brain surgery, so yes, it is a game of luck. You can pretty much see as much from the number of victors in the history of the show. You can also bet your ass that the TV station DON'T have that kind of money just laying around.
Aiden Jenkins
>Thinking that's a lot In the UK, our last question is worth £1,000,000 which is $1,304,765. Also, the winnings aren't taxed in the UK but I think they are in the US.
oh, it's 100k instead of a million? kek, what's the name of the show then?
Isaiah Sullivan
>Also here it's called "Get Rich", >what's the name of the show An american intellectual hard at work, I see.
Christian Turner
blow it out your ass
Isaiah Lee
What do you mean? Lets say you wanna buy the newest iPhone in Bulgaria - it costs 2,500 Leva. So you got to answer 10 questions and they got pretty tricky/hard after the 5th one. In USA you buy answer 2 questions for literal retards and you get your 1,000 dollars for the latest iPhone. Idk test their general culture and MAYBE get some money out of it. 1,000~ Leva is like the average salary a month here Thought it translaters 'Get Rich' but it's actually 'Become Rich'. Whatever
BUT I’VE NEVER BEEN TO IKEA REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Nicholas Hughes
When I like 6 or 7 years old, the last question was "how many miles away from the earth is the sun", which I knew because I was big into space and geography and stuff as a kid. The guy got it wrong though.
Still, I think it's a fairly basic question, for a trivia show regardless though. Of course I am biased towards a question like that though...
Camden Williams
Wait can someone explain why 1 correct option in 4 possible choices is 1/3=33.34 for each question
