Race to a Billion

[bufar]

Number 1.

[999_Springs]

If I ever live to host another round again I'm going to fill the entire board with completely pointless non-orientation-preserving squares just to get my revenge back on this. Take my word for it. It will DEFINITELY happen. BE WARNED.

[bhz]

Reserve 4.

[bufar]

Reserve 10, if both of us survive.
See 999_Springs's post below.

[bhz]

Ignore post.

[999_Springs]

I think there was a rule that said you can't reserve more than one square at a time. If I remember correctly Pikman invented it when UnknownKirbyMan got threshold situation on the blammo and reserved the entire board.

[Pikman]

Self-bomb, which means your AVx is now back to 1! But you still lose £30,000.

So...





bhz wins Round 19!!!
He gets a win bonus of £90,000 which is doubled to £180,000 for his valiant efforts in...well...surviving. :/

LET'S SEE THE FINAL BOARD, SHALL WE?

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<    Player     > <      Money      > <AVx> <  This Round   > <   Rank   >
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<bufar          > <£  6,305,643.8098> <  1> <£    -30,000.00> <       1st> BLAMMOED
<999_Springs    > <£  1,932,891.39  > <  1> <£    -90,000.00> <  1st->5th> BOMBED
<bhz            > <£    520,028.00  > <  2> <£    280,028.00> <       8th> POWER OF 10, DEAL OR NO DEAL
<fawk           > <£   -130,596.40  > <  1> <£    -50,000.00> <10th->14th> BOMBED

Power of 10 will start tomorrow for bhz. Then DonD once that is done.

[Pikman]

bhz plays Power of 10.





Right now you have £1. If you would like to play for £10, select a square form the board above. Hit a 10! and you win the round. Hit a bomb in any round and you keep the money you earned. There are up to eight rounds with a 1 in 1,067 chance to win £100,000,000.

The new 10! square has never been used before. Here's what it looks like:

Do something.

[bhz]

8

[Pikman]

Hit! Now you have £10.

I have all eight rounds set up, so if you would like to post only once more picking all the squares you want in future rounds, just go ahead. Every time your money multiplies by 10 and another bomb is added so you can choose when you want to stop.

[bhz]

3
4
6
2
7
1
5

shouldn't i get £3628800 = 10! ?

[Pikman]

Ooh, bad luck. Sorry to say, but you're leaving with only £10 here!

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<    Player     > <      Money      > <AVx> <  This Round   > <   Rank   >
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<bufar          > <£  6,305,643.8098> <  1> <£    -30,000.00> <       1st> BLAMMOED
<999_Springs    > <£  1,932,891.39  > <  1> <£    -90,000.00> <  1st->5th> BOMBED
<bhz            > <£    520,038.00  > <  2> <£    280,038.00> <       8th> POWER OF 10, DEAL OR NO DEAL
<fawk           > <£   -130,596.40  > <  1> <£    -50,000.00> <10th->14th> BOMBED

Anyway, Deal or No Deal time.

I presume you know the rules, blah blah blah... In case you still don't know, you can read them here if you scroll down to the bottom and ignore those horrid grammatical errors caused by "there/their" confliction.

Anyway, before we start, you have to confirm that you choose your box at random before the game begins. To do this you should click on the link below once:

http://www.random.org/integers/?num=1&m ... ml&rnd=new

and post here the single number that you get...

Pretty much do what it says in the quote to start.

[bhz]

2

EDIT: damn. I'm in this next round. I don't think that's a good thing...

[Pikman]

Huge Image

Okay, box 2 is yours. Guard it with your LIFE

Continuing with me making you post long strings of numbers, pick 12 more boxes. You don't have to use that link for them; that would just be annoying.













(It's the 3K and 5K that are both out now.)

[bhz]

Twelve? uhh...OK.....

22
9
8
19
21
12
15
18
1
3
13
20

[999_Springs]

Errr, I'm not sure what system you're playing, but in the UK system you get an offer after you take out 11 boxes. Then after every three. Also you forgot his AVx2 on the £10.

[Pikman]

That adds to only 20 boxes, not 21, but I see from the current game report that the last box is left for a final bank offer. So 11 boxes it is, not 12. I'm leaving out the last pick, #20. The previous game was to pick 14 boxes the first time, but I'll just do 11. It eliminates half the board at once.

Also, I was planning to incorporate the missing £10 into the game, but you spoiled that -.-

Welcome to Deal or No Deal, with your host, THE BANKER!

...what the?!

"Yes, it's true. I, THE BANKER (always in all caps), run the show. My job is to screw you into selling me that nice box #2 for cheap. HOWEVER! The Director wouldn't actually let me SEE the boxes' cash amounts, so I get to change my offer as the value of that box will obviously go up thanks to random.org. GEHEHEHEHEHE!! Now pick half the boxes at once so I can rip you off even faster!"

Box 22


THE BANKER smirks slightly as he reaches into a pocket, withdrawing a superball. "See, you're helping me already." He rolls it back and forth between his hands before the studio audience, as if to distract himself from the perils of his job.

Box 9


"Yep, just keep doing this. Knock off the high amounts. Your box obviously has a boatload of money and it means a lot to me." THE BANKER just continues rolling the superball.

Box 8


"NO! You're going in the wrong direction, what are you doing?! Better not get anything lower..."

Box 19


THE BANKER is gathering more rage, but he clenches the superball tightly to relieve some anger. "YOU FOOL! Your box is not worth NEARLY as much as you're making me pay for it!"

Box 21


After this pick, THE BANKER thrusts the superball he had been so easily rolling just a few boxes ago at the ground. It bounces very high, striking the ceiling...and causing tiles to fall, scattering on the stage and throughout the audience.

"WHAT THE HELL? Why does no one ever fix this ceiling...?" THE BANKER growls to no one in particular.

"Interns forgot to do it!" shouts a man's voice from backstage.

"WhatEVER. Get on that quick." THE BANKER turns back to bhz.

"That was a terrible pick. I hope you know that."

Box 12


THE BANKER's superball strikes him in the head while he is in the middle of a maddened, witty statement. "OWWIE! THAT *BEEP* HURT!" He is disoriented for a few seconds, at which time bhz plucks £10 from his other pocket and adds it to his RtaB total.

Box 15


"THAT'S IT!!" THE BANKER shrieks. He winds his hand around a piece of fishing line hanging down, and pulls it with great strength. Many more ceiling tiles fall, but then something happens: the stage shrinks, and around it is a seemingly bottomless pit. But it probably has a bottom with spikes in it or something; jussayin'.

THE BANKER removes the almost unnoticeable hat atop his head and quickly tosses it into the pit. "When I get MAD, I toss my HAT. DO YOU THINK I'M MAD?"

bhz intentionally doesn't answer him and selects his next box.

Box 18


"ARE YOU SERIOUS?!" THE BANKER shouts. He feels his head. "HEY! I'm out of hats to throw. Someone go get me another one, quick!"

"We've got none back here," the same voice from earlier shouts.

"But WHY NOT?"

"Interns forgot to get 'em."

"No wonder we don't pay them. Just pick your next box already."

Box 1


THE BANKER thinks for a second. "Wait...I remember this one. Is it possibly £3,000? Because someone told me it wasn't working at the beginning of the show. If so, great."

The same voice yells, "No, it's £5,000."

"Well, then, who are YOU to correct ME? I have the money around here!"

"Um...I'm the guy who randomized all the boxes?"

"Valid point. Next box."

Box 3


After seeing this value disappear, THE BANKER begins to celebrate. In the middle of his victory dance, however, five or six gentlemen dressed in full-body camo gear rush onto the stage with cans of Raid, leaping easily over the pit which actually is quite small width-wise.

"We heard there was a blobfish outbreak around here. You guys see anything?"

"No..." bhz and THE BANKER say together. However, blobfish begin to descend from the new gaps in the poorly constructed ceiling.

"YOU FOOLS!" the self-appointed team speaker says to them. "You've broken open the secret DOND BLOBFISH TANK hidden so conveniently above the studio! GET OUT OF THE WAY!"

THE BANKER responds, "Dude. We're on this tiny stage, and you want us to get out of your WAY? There's TEN of us crammed in here now. We're all gonna die!"

In the swarm of raining blobfish, bhz picks his final box.

Box 13


THE BANKER smiles at the disappearance of a relatively high value, if only to distract him from his current peril: being surrounded by a spike-filled pit and rained on by tons of blobfish while already mad at the contestant for playing so well. "Nice choice, but I don't think the rest of what you did was that great for me. Here's my, of course, overly cheap generous offer.

"Twenty-three thousand pounds. VAS O NO VAS?

"I did take a little Spanish myself," remarks THE BANKER.








If you No Deal, pick six boxes instead of three. Remember that your winnings are doubled.

[bhz]

NO DEAL!

20
17
14
16
11
4

[999_Springs]

Hehe. Nice narrative. Keep it up.

[bhz]

Looks like our host just broke the 72-hour rule.

[Pikman]

My apologies for the lateness. Last night I expected to be home long before 10:00 PM. That didn't work out.

ANYWAY...

Welcome back to DEAL OR NO DEAL! In which our contestant, banker, and in-house blobfish extermination team are all crammed next to each other on the small stage, around which there's a pit of spikes! ...Or something.

"We had to stand this way for the whole 3-DAY commercial break?!" one of the random dudes said. "My legs are KILLING me right now!"

"Then just sit down, you idiots!"

"Oh, right." From a seated position, the game continues, and bhz picks the box #20.

Box 20


THE BANKER glows with excitement. "That's definitely £3,000! Yes! YES! YESSS!"

"You're right...for once," Mr. Backstage yells.

Box 17


One of the Blobfish Task Force says, "Hey, has anyone noticed it's not raining fish anymore?"

"Yeah, but we don't really care. Because HOW THE *BEEP* ARE WE ALL SUPPOSED TO GET OFF THIS STAGE?!?" says another.

"ANYWAY," THE BANKER shouts to reclaim control of the show, "£1,000 is off the board. Just keep pickin' them off."

Box 14


"Oh," THE BANKER says. "Clearly, if a box is not working, you have lost. Please kindly exit via the pit--" He stands and tries to push bhz into the surrounding pit - you know, the one that probably has spikes at the bottom or something? - but bhz manages to make a ducking dodge move and then stands up. THE BANKER, wildly off-balance, nearly falls in himself!

"YEAIEEE! Okay, whatever, it's £750. That's gone. I'm...sorry...wait, no I'm not. I just want your money."

Box 16


"NO NO NO *BEEP*ING *BEEP* NO WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!?!" THE BANKER yells like a crazy person. "That amount is SUPPOSED to be in YOUR BOX which you SELL to ME so I MAKE GOOD PROFITS!! AS WE SPEAK I COULD'VE ALREADY BEEN BURNING THROUGH MY BILLS IN VEGAS!! SO YOU GET A MAJOR *BEEP* YOU FROM ME! OKAY?!"

"It's what you get when you use random.org to create a game show. Idiot," one of the camo dudes whispers just loudly enough to be audible.

That gets THE BANKER mad. "That 'atmospheric noise' crap is all LIES. I PROGRAMMED random.org! It's SUPPOSED to give the player the £250,000 box so I can EASILY PAY for the MASSIVE HOSTING COSTS I get from people using the site to host stupid forum games!"

"I guess you created ImageShack, too. That site TRULY sucks."

Moving on, bhz picks 11.

Box 11


"Whoops," THE BANKER says. "That should actually be a monetary value."



"Okay, there we go. But NOW I'M ANGRY because YOU TOOK OUT THE TWO BEST AMOUNTS! RARR!"

"Hey, bhz, don't be surprised if he offers you chicken feed after the next box," another of the guys says. He happens to be the only one of the group who isn't bald. "Dude's super angry and needs to chill sometime."

"I'LL CHILL WHEN I WANT TO. YOU GOT THAT?" comes the extremely loud response.

Box 4


"Whatever. It's a box. You picked boxes. Now I offer you money.

"Eight thousand *BEEP*ing pounds. VAS O NO VAS?"

"Stuck on the Spanish, I see," the non-bald guy remarks.





Remember, your winnings are doubled. If you NO DEAL then pick 3 boxes.

[bhz]

DEAL!

[Pikman]

Back from a much shorter break, bhz calls out "DEAL!"

THE BANKER actually looks amused. "I hope you know that you just made me £59,000. I'm so confident that we shall see what was in boxes 5, 6, 7, and 10 first."

Box 5 contained

Box 6 contained

Box 7 contained

Box 10 contained


"ARGH DAMMIT!" THE BANKER yells. "IT'S YOU WHO PROFITED, NOT ME! BUT, HAVE YOU EVER ACTUALLY WATCHED THIS SHOW? DO YOU KNOW WHAT WE DO TO WINNERS?" As he says this, he creeps closer to bhz. "Well...do you?"

"Uh, you give 'em their check and they go home?" bhz responds, backing away.

"NOPE! WRONG ANSWER!" THE BANKER swipes with both arms and grabs bhz's shoulder, then effortlessly pushes him into the pit of...spikes. Or something.

But whatever is really at the bottom shall never be known, because the fall of bhz was safely cushioned by six seasons' worth of ridiculous-looking hats, one episode's worth of freshly fallen blobfish, and one superball.

Following bhz, a messy check for £16,000 floated down.

Box 2 contained


Therefore, your profit was £15,500. Good game.

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<    Player     > <      Money      > <AVx> <  This Round   > <   Rank   >
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<bhz            > <£    536,048.00  > <  2> <£    296,048.00> <       8th> POWER OF 10, DEAL OR NO DEAL

So, that's it for Round 19. Back to you, Zappy, for Round 20!

[fawk]

Fun round - even if I wasn't in it much (at all)

[ChrisE]

coq.