Eight of the Dumbest Game Show Losers Ever

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I’m not sure if anything gives me more pleasure than seeing stupid people get what’s coming to them. That’s why when someone loses big on a game show because of their own idiocy, embarrassing themselves in front of friends, family and millions of strangers, I laugh hysterically and compile posts like this.

I’ve only done one for each show, the best one I could find, but you can bet there are way more out there if you want to look.

1. Family Feud

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIYVQNiaBN8&feature=related

Do you need a passport to get from Paris to France?

2. Wheel of Fortune

Some people don’t know when to say “when.”

3. Deal or No Deal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDOqDgDtc9w&feature=related

Look, if I said to you, I will either give you $600,000 right now, or you could get a million dollars if this coin lands on heads, or zero if it’s tails, what would you do? This guy fails at not only probability, but life.

4. Who Wants to be a Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire would have been a lot shorter if it starred this guy.

5. The Price is Right

DAMN those are some SWEET motorcycles!

6. The Newlywed Game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3eNuuQdApo

(you’ll have to click through for this one, but it’s worth it)

People were also dumb in the ’70s. Must have been the drugs.

7. 1 vs. 100

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39QG3nepB50

Also, Bob Saget was there, so that just makes it worse.

8. Jeopardy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKL7nyJrPAM

Alright, I tricked you. There aren’t really a whole lot of dumb Jeopardy contestants (seriously, I looked), because they, you know, screen them. So here’s a clip of Ken Jennings giving an awesome answer. Bad Mormon!

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18 Comments

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  2. I read that entire thing and it comes down the fact that he had the chance to walk away with $400 grand and he bet it all on a coin flip. The article calls it “brave but foolish” but it’s just fucking greedy.

  3. It also happens that that article is also slightly inaccurate; the entire family except the mother was calling for No Deal. But there’s no better full account of it.

    It does prove that a $10,001 ceiling is plenty for many people.

  4. Unless you can show me the piece of text where I said my name…and it is NOT the name I’ve posted….then no. How biased against this guy are you that you arrived at this conclusion without a single shred of evidence?

  5. Um, how about a person who has kept a record of every contestant, and found this gross distortion of the truth online…?

    Even if I was this person, that does not excuse your use of this video, when you know the real thing…why don’t you tape this show when it airs again on GSN, and then show us the real thing?

    ….or, replace your clip with this tool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eZ4d3DKDqM. That’s the biggest bonehead move ever, and if you disagree, I want a defense.

  6. GAH. I want to leave this alone but your idiotic logic is frustrating me to no end.

    In this new clip you posted, the girl has the exact same scenario the other guy (clearly you) had. Her last two cases are $25 and $1M. The banker offers her $340K.

    If someone offers you either $340K in cash right now, or they say you can bet it all or nothing to win a million dollars on a coinflip, the smart, not greedy thing to do is take the cash that’s offered.

    She made the right decision, but you’re saying she’s a “bonehead” because her case actually did have the million.

    That’s like saying if I stay when I have 18 on a million dollar hand of blackjack, then I was an idiot to do so when the next card turns out to have been a 3. No, I still made the right decision, it’s just that I would have been extremely lucky (not smart) if I had hit.

    So these two people who had the exact same decision, the first guy (clearly you) made a stupid, greedy decision, and lost because of it. The girl in the second video made the right decision, and potentially lost $700K, but still won $340K as a reward for being smart and not greedy.

    DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW THIS WORKS NOW?

  7. “That’s like saying if I stay when I have 18 on a million dollar hand of blackjack, then I was an idiot to do so when the next card turns out to have been a 3. No, I still made the right decision, it’s just that I would have been extremely lucky (not smart) if I had hit.”

    No, the difference is that this person, in your hypothetical situation, said “I KNOW THE NEXT CARD IS A 3”, with FULL AWARENESS of the consequences of hitting, before she stood on 18. That’s the key difference, Paul!

    According to her logic, there was no risk at all in going on, because a “possible loss” of -340,975, times 0.00, equals 0. Name one reason why she should choose to stop.

    Oh, because she DIDN’T know? Well, then, you are still calling her an idiot.

    Or, perhaps you didn’t read the comments thorougly enough, and I’d point out that despite her after-game claim that there was not one second during the entire game that she doubted the $1,000,000 was standing next to her, a brief clip…say about 6 minutes and 54 seconds in the video…contradicts that.

    So she has absolutely no defense for her stupidity. “As a reward for being smart?” Get real, Paul. This sort of lack of foresight is why I came over here in the first place.

  8. I can’t even decipher what it is you’re trying to argue any more. The moral of the story for you is…what, trust your gut? Play to the end because you started with nothing anyways? None of that has any basis in logical probability. Explain how my coinflip analogy doesn’t make sense.

    So what did you spend your $10,001 dollars on?

    Also, congratulations, you annoying me about this has inspired an entire post for tomorrow, I want to hear what other people think about this.

  9. The moral is…if it’s $1,000,000 or $341,000, please, please choose the $1,000,000 or you’re a moron. The “coinflip analogy” doesn’t make sense because, apparently, there is no coinflip according to what she’s said.

  10. sure, i’m late to read this article, but andrew is a fucking retard. what she did was walk away with 6 figures. enough to set yourself up. what greedy mcfatfuck did was walk away with considerably less. that makes him the bigger bonehead.
    the only bad play she made was picking the $500K case instead of the $25 case. and, just like the play of the game, that’s purely chance.
    and andrew, you’ve kept a record of every deal contestant? wow, you really are a lame fucking retard.

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