Greg,
  You seem to have mastered the art of devious generosity (at least in this
case!) Good plan!

RAT

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-----Original Message-----
From: Stigers, Greg [And] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 10:54 AM
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Subject: OT: Math for Jeopardy! Players


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Realizing with some fear and trepidation that math and game shows ranks up
there with the right to bear arms and tier pricing, I thought this was
interesting.

http://slate.msn.com/Features/jeopardy/jeopardy.asp

The one thing I strongly disagree with is that the lead player should bet
"enough to give him twice (the second player's) current score, plus $1"
during final Jeopardy. If I'm on Jeopardy in the lead and you've come in
second, I don't want to beat you; I want to tie with you. If I answered more
questions than you did today, I want you back tomorrow, so I can beat you
again. The luck of the draw may produce someone who knows more trivia than I
do. Not to mention that this way, the other guy wins that money, too.

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com