2018 Dead Pool

January 23rd, 2018 at 9:56:12 PM permalink
Ayecarumba
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I just wrote a question about the optimal strategy for this game in my Ask the Wizard column #307. The short answer is the expected points are maximized by picking 90-year-old men.


Thanks for the analysis Wizard! Very interesting!
January 24th, 2018 at 2:51:18 AM permalink
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I just wrote a question about the optimal strategy for this game in my Ask the Wizard column #307. The short answer is the expected points are maximized by picking 90-year-old men.


I will have to read this later. Meanwhile, who thinks it would be a neat movie if a script was written with 2 people knocking off celebs to win?
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January 24th, 2018 at 1:22:05 PM permalink
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Meanwhile, who thinks it would be a neat movie if a script was written with 2 people knocking off celebs to win?


Have you heard of a tontine? It is basically a pool of money people of a similar age buy into and the last person to be left alive gets the pool. It is my understanding they are illegal due to the incentive to murder competitors left in the tontine once it is down to a small number. That, too, would make for good material for a movie script.
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January 24th, 2018 at 3:45:25 PM permalink
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Deadpools were plot devices in a “Dirty Harry” movie, and recently the source of a Marvel superhero’s name.
January 24th, 2018 at 3:49:08 PM permalink
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Have you heard of a tontine? It is basically a pool of money people of a similar age buy into and the last person to be left alive gets the pool. It is my understanding they are illegal due to the incentive to murder competitors left in the tontine once it is down to a small number. That, too, would make for good material for a movie script.


I think I'd want to chop the pot if got down to two or three.
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January 24th, 2018 at 3:58:27 PM permalink
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Quote: Wizard
Have you heard of a tontine? It is basically a pool of money people of a similar age buy into and the last person to be left alive gets the pool. It is my understanding they are illegal due to the incentive to murder competitors left in the tontine once it is down to a small number. That, too, would make for good material for a movie script.


I think I'd want to chop the pot if got down to two or three.


I'd be dead early so it would not matter.
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January 24th, 2018 at 4:03:10 PM permalink
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Have you heard of a tontine? It is basically a pool of money people of a similar age buy into and the last person to be left alive gets the pool. It is my understanding they are illegal due to the incentive to murder competitors left in the tontine once it is down to a small number. That, too, would make for good material for a movie script.


You could make the final pot even sweeter by having all the participants maintain high return life insurance policies.



For a Dumb and Dumber plot they could award it to second place.
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January 24th, 2018 at 4:32:23 PM permalink
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Have you heard of a tontine? It is basically a pool of money people of a similar age buy into and the last person to be left alive gets the pool. It is my understanding they are illegal due to the incentive to murder competitors left in the tontine once it is down to a small number. That, too, would make for good material for a movie script.

There's an episode of King of the Hill that deals with something like this.
January 24th, 2018 at 6:38:56 PM permalink
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There's an episode of King of the Hill that deals with something like this.


I read there was a Simpson's episode involving one too, where Mr. Burns and Homer's father were the last two in a tontine.
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January 24th, 2018 at 7:35:22 PM permalink
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I read there was a Simpson's episode involving one too, where Mr. Burns and Homer's father were the last two in a tontine.


http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0778451/?ref_=m_tttr_qt