"I'll take the Impossible Outcome" for $1000, Alex.

[Taichi]

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=2007-03-16_D8NTLBEG0&show_article=1&cat=breaking

NEW YORK (AP) - All those years of answers and questions, and it's never happened before on "Jeopardy!" What is a three-way tie, Alex? The three contestants on the venerable game show all finished with $16,000 after each answering the final question correctly in the category, "Women of the 1930s," on Friday's show. They identified Bonnie Parker, of the famed Bonnie and Clyde crime duo, as a woman who, as a waitress, once served one of the men who shot her.

"We've had a lot of crazy things happen on `Jeopardy!' but in 23 years I've never seen anything like this before," host Alex Trebek said.

The show contacted a mathematician who calculated the odds of such a three-way tie happening—one in 25 million.

The three contestants, Jamey Kirby of Gainesville, Fla.; Anders Martinson of Union City, Calif.; and Scott Weiss of Walkersville, Md; were all declared champions and taped a rematch that will air Monday.

I always wondered what would happen if this ever occurred.

[Septimus Prime]

Why didn't one of the players wager enough to have slightly more than each of the others?

[Taichi]

Nobody really knows.

and the mathematician is fucking useless.....how the fuck did he come up with those numbers?

it's not like Final Jeopardy is multiple choice, and the contestants aren't going into it clueless on what the other scores are.

how the fuck did he arrive at 1 in 25 million? He must be able to read minds.

[SynikaL]

how the fuck did he arrive at 1 in 25 million? He must be able to read minds.

And you must be a mathematician...


Just sayin...



-Kimosabae

[pherai]

and the mathematician is fucking useless.....how the fuck did he come up with those numbers?

I think it must be chaos theory kind of shit although it doesn't seem that farfetched to go through step by step what every possibility could be.

[bohdi]

i was watching this, the guy who could have won by betting a dollar more in final jeopardy was just being really nice, since all three of them get the money. i assume as much anyway

[Wild Kitty]

The same way they come up with the odds for an asteroid hitting earth in the within the next 5 years or something. Noone realls knows, I think they just throw lots of dice and pick the most likely number.

[thurst]

there are a finite number of questions and only 1 or 2 questions where the outcome isn't fixed (ie the double jeopardy questions) so calculating the odds isn't impossible at all.

[v1y]

it's 1 in 25 million if you don't count for daily doubles. the scores going into final were like 13600, 8000, and 8000. both guys with 8000 bet everything and the guy with 13600 only bet 2400.

mathematician is fucked.

[rsigley]

there are a finite number of questions and only 1 or 2 questions where the outcome isn't fixed (ie the double jeopardy questions) so calculating the odds isn't impossible at all.

how do you put odds on whether or not the person knows the answer to the question?

[Taichi]

exactly