Talk:Golden Balls

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[[has anyone notice that there are no pictures atall of any of the balls anywhere

I'm capturing todays show direct from a DTT stick so will be able to extract good quality pictures of some of the balls if required. --PrinceGaz 16:31, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Table of values

Now that I've checked it, I've noticed that the table of ball values has numerous errors (values missing which have been seen, and incorrect duplicates / missing duplicates). I've decided to trash it as fixing all the errors would take ages, and it is a pain to update correctly each day. At the end of the series, it can be brought back (hopefully correctly this time) using the final list of values. PrinceGaz 16:30, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Now that the first series is over, maybe someone should think about recreating the table of values with the ones that we know of? Given there are just 5 balls that haven't been seen, by the look of it, they could be guessed reasonably accurately, with a note saying as much? Bungle44 20:06, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Split/Steal vs Prisoner's Dilemma

Feel free to undo my edit, but I'm going to point out the critical difference with the prisoners dilemma. The reason that the prisoner's dilemma has nash equilibrium at both parties defecting is that regardless of what the other party chooses to do, you are always better off by defecting. In this game, you only do better by stealing if the other person chooses to split, otherwise you should be indifferent between split or steal. In practice of course, people are not rational and would rather see their opponent get nothing than 'win', despite the fact that it makes no difference to them financially.

OlekG 17:04, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Nevertheless, it struck me during my holiday (before dinner we watched Golden Balls between baths) that there is no reason to pick Split. If you think your opponent is going to pick Steal, there's no reason to pick either ball. If you think your opponent is going to pick Split, pick Steal. Then I got home and find that this was the basis of a complex gaming theory...

There would be a reason to pick steal if you though your opponent was going to steal - it stops them from getting the money. 86.146.73.174 (talk) 17:33, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Competitions and football

I've added details about the viewer competition and the scheduling removals which the football has caused. Digifiend (talk) 14:08, 11 June 2008 (UTC)