Today's TPIR Update
Today's TPIR Update
Plinko never sat well with me. It's an enjoyable enough game to watch, but I think if I were ever on the stage at the Price, I'd be a little disappointed if I got Plinko. What with my Charlie Brown karma, and all.
See, to me, part of the attraction of The Price is that it rewards merit. If you're an educated shopper, or just good at reasoning things out, you'll come out better in the end. I mean, if you've wandered around K-Mart enough, you know that a salad shooter is right in the 35-40 dollar price range.
No, it's not education in the traditional sense. And really, would you brag all that much about your shopper's knowledge to your friends? Without them being bored, and without them ending the friendship?
But it is knowledge.
Or, at least, the games on The Price take advantage of your deductive reasoning skills. If the answer cannot be 2, then the answer must be 8. And so forth.
And if your knowledge, education and reasoning are, in combination, strong enough the Price tends to reward you. You'll get something out of the deal, at least in that particular pricing game.
But Plinko's different. Plinko's all chance. And for some reason that bugs me.
You might say it's incongruous of me to say so, since I love the Big Wheel. But that's not all chance. The numbers don't change position on the big wheel. There's some foreknowledge of the Big Wheel going in, and where it lands is dependant largely on your skill. I'm not saying it's all skill, since most folks have never spun the Big Wheel more than once in their life...your best bet is to let the gods figure it out. But you could make the argument that the Big Wheel is a skill competition, and not entirely a random event.
But Plinko, that's entirely random. In Plinko, in case you don't know, you earn plastic tiles to drop down a peg board. At the bottom of the peg board are dollar amounts. After your round tile bounces and careens down the pegboard, it will land in one of these dollar amounts. $10,000 is the biggest dollar amount. You can earn up to five tokens (you get one free), and if the Lord (whom I suspect is probably Morgan Freeman) smiles, you could win $50,000.
But it's all random (or the whim of Morgan Freeman). And I can't reconcile that the way I can the Big Wheel. Maybe part of it is that the Big Wheel is cake. You've already won, now you get the chance to win more. But Plinko, that's the main course. And whether or not you eat filet mignon, or a sackful of nothin'...you don't have control over it. See, with your tiles, you could conceivably land in the two holes with $0 marked on them. And you walk away with nothing to show for it. And to me, that goes against the grain of Price.
See, I don't trust my luck with games of chance. That's why I wouldn't want to play Plinko.
Something that popped into my head: You do have a chance to win more with Plinko than with any other game. And you have more of a chance to win something with Plinko than you do any other game. If you stick to the edges, you'll get lower money amounts, but you'll more than likely miss the 0 amount.
Boy. I'm spending entirely too much time with this.
It's time for bed, anyway.
And know you know, the rest of the story.
(long pause)
Good day.
Plinko never sat well with me. It's an enjoyable enough game to watch, but I think if I were ever on the stage at the Price, I'd be a little disappointed if I got Plinko. What with my Charlie Brown karma, and all.
See, to me, part of the attraction of The Price is that it rewards merit. If you're an educated shopper, or just good at reasoning things out, you'll come out better in the end. I mean, if you've wandered around K-Mart enough, you know that a salad shooter is right in the 35-40 dollar price range.
No, it's not education in the traditional sense. And really, would you brag all that much about your shopper's knowledge to your friends? Without them being bored, and without them ending the friendship?
But it is knowledge.
Or, at least, the games on The Price take advantage of your deductive reasoning skills. If the answer cannot be 2, then the answer must be 8. And so forth.
And if your knowledge, education and reasoning are, in combination, strong enough the Price tends to reward you. You'll get something out of the deal, at least in that particular pricing game.
But Plinko's different. Plinko's all chance. And for some reason that bugs me.
You might say it's incongruous of me to say so, since I love the Big Wheel. But that's not all chance. The numbers don't change position on the big wheel. There's some foreknowledge of the Big Wheel going in, and where it lands is dependant largely on your skill. I'm not saying it's all skill, since most folks have never spun the Big Wheel more than once in their life...your best bet is to let the gods figure it out. But you could make the argument that the Big Wheel is a skill competition, and not entirely a random event.
But Plinko, that's entirely random. In Plinko, in case you don't know, you earn plastic tiles to drop down a peg board. At the bottom of the peg board are dollar amounts. After your round tile bounces and careens down the pegboard, it will land in one of these dollar amounts. $10,000 is the biggest dollar amount. You can earn up to five tokens (you get one free), and if the Lord (whom I suspect is probably Morgan Freeman) smiles, you could win $50,000.
But it's all random (or the whim of Morgan Freeman). And I can't reconcile that the way I can the Big Wheel. Maybe part of it is that the Big Wheel is cake. You've already won, now you get the chance to win more. But Plinko, that's the main course. And whether or not you eat filet mignon, or a sackful of nothin'...you don't have control over it. See, with your tiles, you could conceivably land in the two holes with $0 marked on them. And you walk away with nothing to show for it. And to me, that goes against the grain of Price.
See, I don't trust my luck with games of chance. That's why I wouldn't want to play Plinko.
Something that popped into my head: You do have a chance to win more with Plinko than with any other game. And you have more of a chance to win something with Plinko than you do any other game. If you stick to the edges, you'll get lower money amounts, but you'll more than likely miss the 0 amount.
Boy. I'm spending entirely too much time with this.
It's time for bed, anyway.
And know you know, the rest of the story.
(long pause)
Good day.
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11:29
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