can someone explain this to me?

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if the player has chosen their box they have infront of them, and the person chosen to play a game is random, how has everyone chosen the box that they want? or do some people get priority pickings over others? or have i just misunderstood something?

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At the beginning of each game, every player picks a ball out of a bag with a number 1-22 on it. They are given the box corressponding to their number. So everybody has chosen a box, not just the playing contestant.

-Source: Michaela

**Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:06 pm **Author:** cocky bill **Post subject:**

At the begining of each game,before the audience is allowed in, a crew member comes round with a bag of numbered ping pong ballsl from 1-22.Whatever number ball you pick out corresponds to the box you end up with in front of you.The selection of contestants is supposed to be random but i wouldn't swear to it.Hope that helps.

That is interesting that they use a machine to decide where the amounts go - but they rely on pingpong balls on which amount you are opening up.... :shock:

Something smells fishy

**Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:37 pm **Author:** jmas07 **Post subject:**

They used to use Excel, but it wasn't random.

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cookie_monster wrote:

That is interesting that they use a machine to decide where the amounts go - but they rely on pingpong balls on which amount you are opening up.... :shock:

Something smells fishy

Do they?

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never_wrong wrote:

cookie_monster wrote:

That is interesting that they use a machine to decide where the amounts go - but they rely on pingpong balls on which amount you are opening up.... :shock:

Something smells fishy

Do they?

I thought they used ping pong balls to decide where the amounts go as well

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TOM22 wrote:

never_wrong wrote:

cookie_monster wrote:

That is interesting that they use a machine to decide where the amounts go - but they rely on pingpong balls on which amount you are opening up.... :shock:

Something smells fishy

Do they?

I thought they used ping pong balls to decide where the amounts go as well

That's what I thought. Excel used to be used until "Sequencegate" so it's now the ultra-sophisticated balls in bag method. Basic but reliable!

I thought it said on Wiki that the machine faulted in some games?

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cookie_monster wrote:

I thought it said on Wiki that the machine faulted in some games?

Is Wikipedia always reliable, though?

(DOND is not from Barnsley, Wiki :evil:

)

TOM22 wrote:

cookie_monster wrote:

I thought it said on Wiki that the machine faulted in some games?

Is Wikipedia always reliable, though?

(DOND is not from Barnsley, Wiki :evil:

)

my theory has crumbled.

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oh right, i thought they chose the number.
in the studio, are the box numbers in order?

**Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:04 pm **Author:** basicasic **Post subject:**

little_monster wrote:

So everybody has chosen a box, not just the playing contestant.

-Source: Michaela

(playing devils advocate hehe.)

............ except the last player to pick. He/she has *no* choice but to pick whatever's left.

So if that player is chosen to play that day they have in fact 'not chosen a box at random' but had no choice but to accept the number that was left.

Therefore they should answer 'no' to Noels housekeeping question.

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Do they go from the west wing to the east wing or vice versa?

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