Monday, June 10, 2024

Mon
-- 12:15a  Bed
--   7:55a  Up
--   9:15a  Leaving to bike, then get breakfast @McD : 2 sausage/egg burritos.
-- 11:31a  Inside after biking 3+5;  "The View"
-- 12:18p  Skim Ch2 news
-- 12:56p  +"Lazarus Project, The"
--   1:24p  Actually started watching after reading recap of previous ep which I barely remember.
--   3:03p  "Inside Edition"
--   3:35p  Leaving to bike, then pickup dinner @Bibibop
--   5:02p  Inside after biking 4+3;  Dinner @home: Noodle cup with leftover chinese chicken;
--   6:01p  Inside after biking 3 mi (Total 18 mi today);  Skim Ch7 news
--   8:18p  "ET"
 
--   8:29p  "1% Club, The"
This is the 2nd ep.  I haven't tried to watch last week's premiere.
They started with 100 contestants.  It seems that they are starting with 100 new ones.
Everyone is given 30 secs to answer a multiple-choice question on a tablet.
If you get it wrong, you're out.  On the 1st question, the host interviews a random
contestant who got it right.  4 people got it wrong so $4K goes into the pot.
The questions aren't necessarily based on knowledge per se.  This is not an
actual example but they could ask how many letters are in the word "APPLE" if you
don't count repeats.  So, it's a puzzle or riddle rather than a question about knowledge.
If someone is interviews, we learn there name, but, otherwise, they just have numbers,
so we may never know the names of the losers.
~~  It seems you could just ignore the contestants entirely and just play the game
yourself -- without having to leave if you get one wrong.
~~  "eleven plus two" and "twelve plus one" both equal 13 AND they same letters are used,
unlike "ten plus three".
~~  At a certain point, if they've made it that far, they can choose to leave with $1K.
On this episode, 2 took it.
~~  6 people made it to the final question.
Each could leave with 1/n of $10K, where n=6 (the number of people left), so $1666.
If they continue and get it right, they'd split the pot of $96K.
All 6 chose to continue.
Last question was: Longest word possible with "IENCDOV" when allowed to use a letter
as many times as you want.  Most had fairly short words, but 2 came up with
"Inconvenienced" and that's correct.
~~  One of them was NOT Jen, but was Jeanette.  (I don't know if there was a Jen.)
~~  I don't expect to keep watching this show but might take a look at the final question.

--   9:41p  ... "Reginald the Vampire"
-- 10:33p  Skim Ch5 news
-- 10:43p  "Stephen Colbert"
-- 11:40p  "Seth Meyers"
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