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5 Least Favorite Current Pricing Games
TLEberle:
--- Quote from: wdm1219inpenna on December 18, 2024, 05:27:47 PM ---This Plinko idea is intriguing.
Are you suggesting the game be played with just one chip total?
I've often felt that for each chip that is dropped, if it does not land into $10,000 slot that it should increase by $10,000, so a player with 4 chips could miss the center slot the first 3 drops but if the 4th chip landed in the middle, their cash total would be augmented to $40,000. THEN Plinko would be a far more worthwhile game!
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Really? With a top prize of $54,000?
wdm1219inpenna:
Nope, still a top prize of $50,000. If the first four chips all go into $1,000 and the 5th and final chip lands in the center, the player would win another $46,000, thus augmenting their total cash prize to $50,000.
TLEberle:
Then why bother with the other chips at all? Just save the time from the zero drops and go with Jeremy's idea and have one big event.
wdm1219inpenna:
The bother with the other chips...
Let's say the player ends up with a total of 5 chips.
Chip #1 lands in $500
The $10,000 center slot then becomes $20,000.
If chip #2 lands in the $20,000, the player's total will jump from $500 up to $20,000.
In other words the center slot is a progressive jackpot. Each time the center spot is not hit, it grows by $10,000.
So using the same example above, if chip #3 lands in the center slot, that adds another $10,000 so the player would be up to $30,000 after 3 chips.
Chip 4 lands in $100 so now they have $30,100 after 4 chips.
The center slot for the last chip would be $20,000, meaning if the last chip lands in the center, the player's total would jump from $30,100 to $50,000. If the last chip landed in $1,000 for example, the player's final Plinko total would be $31,100.
Steve Gavazzi:
--- Quote from: wdm1219inpenna on December 18, 2024, 08:39:28 PM ---Nope, still a top prize of $50,000. If the first four chips all go into $1,000 and the 5th and final chip lands in the center, the player would win another $46,000, thus augmenting their total cash prize to $50,000.
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Bob Stewart is not a good person from whom to steal payout structures.
I'm sure half of you have heard this already, but here's what I've been saying they should do since I can't even remember when anymore if they absolutely need to get Plinko won: If and only if the contestant wins all five chips, after they've all been dropped, they should let the player give up the cash they've won to drop the golden Plinko chip from the MDSs. Whatever it lands in gets multiplied by five, so if they hit $10,000, they get the full $50,000.
On the other hand, if it hits zero...well, 5 x 0 = 0.
It realistically allows the game to be won without absurdly cranking the odds, and it maintains the need to do all the pricing correctly.
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