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The return of Winning Streak
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€218k given away tonight.
I'm fairly sure that the only episode of the Million Euro Challenge that gave away more than that was the one where the million was won...
And when the million was won, there was no confetti. So it's actually quite good to see that WS hasn't ditched the stuff...
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Black Menorca wrote: »Can't watch Miriam. Truly dreadful television.
There was a time when it was good, though.
The guests were better than they are today, as was Miriam's dress sense - literally.
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Winning Streak in minor controversy shockercontestant Mary Healy from Co Limerick is shown having three symbols on her table at one point in Wheel Reveal — but just seconds later is shown with four symbols before she is chosen to push her button for the final time ...
An eagle-eyed Star reader who spotted the discrepancy called for a re-run of the show in the interests of fairness to the other contestants.
He believes the Limerick contestant may have pressed the button by mistake and nobody noticed.
http://thestar.ie/eagle-eye-viewer-catches-huge-blunder-on-winning-streak/
I tell ya, this would never have happened if everyone was concentrating on trying to figure out the rules, and looking like they would rather be anywhere else.
So the obvious solution is - Bring back Nicky Byrne's Million Euro Challenge! 0 -
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I couldn't help but count up the instances of each amount on the big wheel for this series (achieved, if you want to know, by starting at the €500,000 segment and working clockwise)...
18 x €20,000
16 x €22,000
16 x €24,000
14 x €25,000
14 x €30,000
4 x €35,000
4 x €40,000
4 x €50,000
2 x €60,000
2 x €75,000
4 x €100,000
1 x €250,000
1 x €500,000
So the player has a 10% - or 1 in 10 - chance of winning more than €50,000, which is probably fair enough.
However, the player only has a 22% chance - less than 1 in 4 - of winning more than €30,000.
Maybe the possibility of two players spinning the wheel in each episode has something to do with this - but it still feels like further meanness on the part of the new owners of the Lottery. 0 -
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Countdown is surely a game show rather than a quiz show; as is its predecessor Des Chiffres et Des Lettres (France, 1965 - present)Go Harvey Go wrote: »Well, UC has questions in it and WS doesn't...
But RTE and the National Lottery have been making this claim for several years - even when Wetten, Dass...? was still going.
This was the original German version of You Bet!, and it ended last year having run for 33 years - nearly a decade longer than the 'Streak.
And surely it, and YB!, were games of chance - all the contestants had to do was predict whether or not a challenge would be completed successfully...0 -
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Bump!
I see that the golden wheel has departed more or less as quickly as it had arrived, and hence we're back to just one contestant spinning the big wheel in every episode - yet the numbers of instances of each amount on the big wheel have not changed.
Yes, I'm looking at you once again, you mean Canadians... :rolleyes: :rolleyes: 0 -
Go Harvey Go wrote: »Bump!
I see that the golden wheel has departed more or less as quickly as it had arrived, and hence we're back to just one contestant spinning the big wheel in every episode - yet the numbers of instances of each amount on the big wheel have not changed.
Yes, I'm looking at you once again, you mean Canadians... :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Well, I don't know if you caught last Saturday night's edition of Winning Streak on RTÉ One but after the contestant won 40K on the Big Wheel + earlier winnings which came to a Total of €58,000 Marty & Sinéad bid everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year - There was none of the usual customary quip from Marty Whelan at the very end: How do ya PLAY? Ya go out a BUY a Ticket! See you all again on January 9th, 2016! Is this the 1st Christmas time that Winning Streak has taken a prolonged break in transmission?0 -
AwaitYourReply wrote: »Well, I don't know if you caught last Saturday night's edition of Winning Streak on RTÉ One but after the contestant won 40K on the wheel + earlier winnings which came to a Total of €58,000 Marty & Sinéad bid everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year - There was none of the usual customary quip from Marty Whelan at the very end: How do ya PLAY? Ya go out a BUY a Ticket! See you all again on January 9th, 2016! Is this the 1st Christmas time that Winning Streak has taken a prolonged break in transmission?
It took a prolonged break from last Christmas to this summer while the Million Euro Challenge was on. Remember?
And it usually takes some sort of a break for Christmas, anyway.0 -
Go Harvey Go wrote: »It took a prolonged break from last Christmas to this summer while the Million Euro Challenge was on. Remember?
And it usually takes some sort of a break for Christmas, anyway.
Ah well yeah of course I didn't mean the change of game to Nicky Byrne's lottery show that flopped as it was lacking in so many respects through no fault of Nicky either to be fair. The whole show concept was clearly not adequately tested among the general public as otherwise; it should never have actually made it to air.
In fact the Summer before last (June-August 2014), there was no weekly lottery show televised on RTÉ television. They did a "Money-Spinner" game draw and it went out on YouTube with Brian Ormond as the host.
Over the years, I always thought they kept Winning Streak going thru Christmas/New Year holiday period in previous Christmas times or maybe take one week off but this is 3 weeks off and you begin to wonder if this would impact in lottery scratch card sales at a time when some folk receive Christmas gifts in the form of money etc; - Surely, the show could have been re-scheduled for recording and re-broadcast later with alternative stand-in hosts like John Creedon, Derek Mooney if necessary? We all know this show never goes out live anyway! Furthermore, I'll never know why they require TWO presenters for Winning Streak these days especially when things are tighter! Marty Whelan could easily do it in his sleep
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dublinman1990 wrote: »Winning Streak is yet again taking another 3 week break to be back on the 30th of January.
The Fianna Fail Ard Fheis is on next Saturday and Fine Gael have theirs the following Saturday.0 -
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