If I Were To Play Deal or No Deal

The times they are a-changin’.

This post seems to be older than 12 years—a long time on the internet. It might be outdated.

…I would pick case #26. And then start eliminating the cases sequentially, starting with case #1.

Why? The money is distributed randomly to the cases. So pseudorandomly picking from a random set still provides a random set (right?).

[tags]Deal or No Deal, game theory[/tags]

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  1. quinn

    Well as long as you’re right about the money being distributed randomly to the cases, then your strategy has the same expected value as any other.

    I would guess that it’s not totally random, i.e., they have a computer-generated configuration but if they pick a configuration they don’t like, they’ll throw it out and get a new one. They probably wouldn’t like having the same number get the $2 million on too many episodes, because it will make people think it’s rigged or whatever.

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