How to Win the Coins In the Pots?
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Mark13 | Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 12:38 am   Did team Momily and team Guido know that there were 108 pots before they started? They both seemed to make a big deal out of counting the pots and I couldn't figure out why. I mean, if they didn't know there were 108 pots before they started then surely after the first time they counted they would know. Yet they continued to take the extra time to count the pots every time! And once they knew there were 108 pots then why didn't they just stand at the table, take the bowl of coins and count them quickly to see if their were 108 coins in the bowl before starting to put them in the pots? (My wife's idea.) Would have saved a lot of time. Were there more rules to this challenge than we heard? The whole thing with the pot counting was kind of wierd. |
Car54 | Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 02:29 am   Thats what I was screaming at the TV- JUST COUNT THE COINS!!!!!! They went back and started over and over... I don't know if there was a rule against it, but it seemed dumb to me! |
Fruitbat | Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 04:24 am   There had to have been a rule about that, because watching them repeat each exercize made better TV. |
Realtvfan | Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 08:11 am   Two choices that Guido's and Momily "appeared" to skip were: a) Lookup under the cups to see which one was marked. The "coins" were so small that the production crew had to anticipate that there might be 2 extra "coins" in a bowl and the dropping of coins might have one of the team sense that they had 10 coins left and 8 bowls. Then the team might try to slip extra coins into two bowls to make it appear as if they had the correct bowl with the exact number of "coins". The production crew would have to mark one of the bowls on the bottom to prevent the Guidos or Momily from trying that stunt. On the other hand, There was a woman standing next to the bowls. It might have been her job to signal the crew (because she would know which bowl was the one), rather than risking having a mark on the bottom of the bowl. b) once the teams found out that the number of coins in the bowl was either 2 too high or 2 too low, the team could start picking up bowls while standing at the table and weigh the bowls freehand to determine that one individual bowl is lighter/heavier than all the others. A series of free hand weighing would eliminate most of the bowls as not the correct bowl very quickly without spending valuable time putting the coins in the bowls. Unfortunately the coins were so small, it may been very difficult to determine the free hand weight difference by a count a just 2 coins out of 108. |
Spear | Monday, November 19, 2001 - 12:51 am   Check again -- the Guidos were shown looking under at least one bowl. |
Car54 | Monday, November 19, 2001 - 07:27 am   I saw that too Spear! I was so excited and yelling I didn't realize what they were doing. How Guido of them! |
Crazydog | Monday, November 19, 2001 - 07:48 am   I am fairly sure they were told there were 108 pots. I am also sure they could not sit there and count... it would have made for boring TV and seems too easy. As far as marking the bowls, I bet there was only a few bowls (maybe even only one) that had the right number of coins and that girl that was standing there determined if they took the correct bowl. Maybe there were marks on the bottom, but I am sure it was not as clear as "winner", perhaps all the bowls were numbered and the winner bowl was "17" or something. However, I am also curious as to why Nancy and Emily took such a long time counting - if they knew it had to be exact they should have gone faster. I am now thinking that the Fast Forwards are preplanned to be tweaked if more than one team goes for it. (It's irrelevant now that all the teams have used theirs, but for the sake of discussion....) Maybe if only one of the teams had gone for it, there would only have been one bowl of coins... would have been really stupid to see one team keep doing it...at most would only take a few more minutes. When did Nancy and Emily become team "Momily"??? |
Spear | Monday, November 19, 2001 - 10:45 pm   Another thing I didn't quite understand is why they were doing only one bowl at a time. It would have been faster if each team member took one bowl each. I thought I heard Nancy say that it worked better if one person counted while the other dropped coins but that didn't make much sense. |
Smileeys | Monday, November 19, 2001 - 11:51 pm   Just my two cents I think some of the shortcuts ya'll are suggesting such as counting the pennies beforehand and taking more than one bowl were most likely against the rules. What I can't figure out, which has also been stated, though, is why the hell they kept counting as they dropped them. That didn't make any sense. Anybody? |
Realfan | Tuesday, November 20, 2001 - 03:12 pm   <<What I can't figure out, which has also been stated, though, is why the hell they kept counting as they dropped them. That didn't make any sense. Anybody?>> Maybe because while they couldn't count them out of the bowl, they were trying to count them in the bowl, to see how many they had left and determine before reaching the end whether it was the right bowl? Or were they forced to use up all the coins before going back for another bowl? |
Cinder | Tuesday, November 20, 2001 - 06:50 pm   No they weren't forced to use all of the coins becuase I think I remember seeing them stop once they realized it was not the right amount. I wonder if two could have done it at once. Probably not. |
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