DanJudge wrote:
I find it quite interesting about how much emphasis people put on certain blue amounts over the others. This doesn't give anything away, but everytime I read the board, I count all the blues as £1. It seems crazy to me that an extra £450 is all it takes to gamble £8800. Just my opinion and it seems I may be in the minority.
also, the 1p seemed to have some some mystic value that somehow makes it much worse than say £1 or even the 10p. The banker always uses the fact that the penny is in play as some sort of scare tactic, whereas surely any blue below £250 is (almost) just as unwanted when dealing with figures in their thousands. People often accept the fact an offer is off by a thousand or so just because the penny is in play, but if the 10p is there, it is not nearly as bad.
I'd be interested to know what other people think of the penny and if it would affect their decisions more than if it were replaced with £5.
Personally, I have always thought that anything below £250 would not be cashed and it would be a cheque in a frame and if I am to win blue money, I want it to be 1p. After all, if I'm going to crash and burn, I may aswell get myself into an exclusive club of 1p winners.
What do you guys think??
This is probably a good topic for the 'General DOND Discussion' forum, actually.
If I dropped a penny down the side of the sofa, I probably wouldn't be too bothered about fishing it out. If it were a pound I still might not be that worried. But if I knew there were £500 lurking between the cushions, you can bet I'd be going in after it!
When I'm mentally calculating the mean of the amounts left on the board, I do tend to ignore the blue values. But I'd still much rather have a high blue consolation prize after a bad game than a low blue. I've seen games with a final five similar to, say, £10k/£750/£1/50p/10p, when the £750 has been revealed and the audience has whooped and cheered like crazy purely because they've seen the colour blue. But on that board, if I'm taking a punt at the £10k, I sure as anything wouldn't want to see that £750 back-up go!
And I'm not sure that people do necessarily 'accept' the fact that having the 1p still in play will disproportionately reduce the offers. It's just that that's what the Banker does, and there's not too much that the player can really do about it...