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Okay. So for anyone who doesn't know, Cash Cab is a game show set inside a moving taxi cab.
The driver is the game show host. How he avoids fender benders whilst asking his passengers, "This next question is worth $25. What do they call the stuff that males ejaculate up?" I will never know.
"Unsuspecting" passengers hail and get into the cab. Once strapped in, the interior ceiling of the cab is set off like a tacky disco floor.
They can play the game till they get to their destination (in Manhattan and on average 25 blocks away).
If they get THREE wrong answers, they cab pulls over to the curb and you're booted out.
No matter the weather or how much of a slum one might find oneself in.
Contestants are given two lifeslines. One is a mobile shout out in which they can call someone.
The other is a street shout out where the cab pulls over and one can ask some nice hustler standing on the street corner the question.
The increments of cash earnings per question are ever increasing as the ride goes on. They start at $25 and then move to $50 and then $100 questions.
If you don't get three strikes before you reach your destination, you win. But before you exit the cab, you're offered a video bonus. Its a double or nothing proposition in which the contest can either take his/her winnings or go for one question with an accompanying video. If they get it right, they double their winnings. Get it wrong and they exit with zip.
But now for my question about the show.
Whether one or seven passengers enter the cab, the game works exactly the same. The dollar amounts are the same. Nothing is altered whether its one or seven people playing. Yes, when seven people might crowd into the cab, they can all contribute their suggested answers. Only one is designated to give the last official answer. But he/she has had six other people's input.
So when its one person in the cab, he or she plays the entire on their own. They answer the questions on their own.
While one can argue that the single passenger gets to KEEP all of his or her potential winnings while another passengerload of contestants has to split their earnings, there is the fact that the latter has a lot more potential brain power at work to win.
While the single passenger relies only upon what he or she might know.
Is that FAIR?
And while the rules of a game show are heavily policed, it seems that the odds aren't always really equal when comparing one to seven brains playing.
That isn't to say that many times the cab isn't packed with seven idiots. You haven't smuggly chuckled until you've seen five people left clueless as to how many feet are in a yard.
Or a lot of times some nimrod girlfriend just sits there knowing and answering nothing...but then she's often the quickest to grab the winnings and jump out of the cab at the end.
And conversely, many times, a singular player is dang smart and wins fairly easily.
But where else or what other game show grants the same payola whether one or seven people are playing?
And it isn't like a slot machine at a casino or a lotto ticket which doesn't care whether one or seven people are playing.
This game is contingent on the brain power of those who enter the cab.
The driver is the game show host. How he avoids fender benders whilst asking his passengers, "This next question is worth $25. What do they call the stuff that males ejaculate up?" I will never know.
"Unsuspecting" passengers hail and get into the cab. Once strapped in, the interior ceiling of the cab is set off like a tacky disco floor.
They can play the game till they get to their destination (in Manhattan and on average 25 blocks away).
If they get THREE wrong answers, they cab pulls over to the curb and you're booted out.
No matter the weather or how much of a slum one might find oneself in.
Contestants are given two lifeslines. One is a mobile shout out in which they can call someone.
The other is a street shout out where the cab pulls over and one can ask some nice hustler standing on the street corner the question.
The increments of cash earnings per question are ever increasing as the ride goes on. They start at $25 and then move to $50 and then $100 questions.
If you don't get three strikes before you reach your destination, you win. But before you exit the cab, you're offered a video bonus. Its a double or nothing proposition in which the contest can either take his/her winnings or go for one question with an accompanying video. If they get it right, they double their winnings. Get it wrong and they exit with zip.
But now for my question about the show.
Whether one or seven passengers enter the cab, the game works exactly the same. The dollar amounts are the same. Nothing is altered whether its one or seven people playing. Yes, when seven people might crowd into the cab, they can all contribute their suggested answers. Only one is designated to give the last official answer. But he/she has had six other people's input.
So when its one person in the cab, he or she plays the entire on their own. They answer the questions on their own.
While one can argue that the single passenger gets to KEEP all of his or her potential winnings while another passengerload of contestants has to split their earnings, there is the fact that the latter has a lot more potential brain power at work to win.
While the single passenger relies only upon what he or she might know.
Is that FAIR?
And while the rules of a game show are heavily policed, it seems that the odds aren't always really equal when comparing one to seven brains playing.
That isn't to say that many times the cab isn't packed with seven idiots. You haven't smuggly chuckled until you've seen five people left clueless as to how many feet are in a yard.
Or a lot of times some nimrod girlfriend just sits there knowing and answering nothing...but then she's often the quickest to grab the winnings and jump out of the cab at the end.
And conversely, many times, a singular player is dang smart and wins fairly easily.
But where else or what other game show grants the same payola whether one or seven people are playing?
And it isn't like a slot machine at a casino or a lotto ticket which doesn't care whether one or seven people are playing.
This game is contingent on the brain power of those who enter the cab.
