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I've never seen the show; I'm curious, did he always open one of the doors?

• saalweachter 3y ago
  I mean, the original run ended and the first revival also went bankrupt before I was born, but my understanding of the show is that the host always presented the three doors [at the end, to the show's winner, similar to the prize puzzle at the end of Wheel of Fortune] and always eliminated one of the losers. Fun Facts which I think I'm remembering correctly: it wasn't always a goat, they would have other random animals behind the doors as well and because of the laws regulating game shows, the goats were actually a prize, for which you would receive "the cash equivalent" of the goat, if you picked that door. But because the goat was the prize, they couldn't force you to take the cash-equivalent of the goat, if you really wanted to keep the goat. Which was a big headache the handful of times it happened, because the goats were a rental.
  • btilly 3y ago
    So you made an assertion about what happened 100% of the time on the show, when you don't even remember it??? I went and re-read the interview with him that I'd read decades ago. It turns out that we're both wrong. The game was more complicated. He not only knew where the prize was, he was offering people money about whether or not to switch. He knew the answer, and was trying to manipulate the psychology of the person in front of him for the sake of entertainment. Whether he was on the side of the contestant depended on his mood. His quote about the actual game was: *My only advice is, if you can get me to offer you $5,000 not to open the door, take the money and go home."
• mcv 3y ago
  And if there's actual show where this experiment was done dozens of times, surely there's tons of data to confirm the correct approach here. Did anyone ever document all of that?