About a week ago, me, my girlfriend, and some friends all went to Fastlane, which is pretty much Chuck E. Cheese for grown-ups. While we were there I spotted a Deal or No Deal game. I've always thought the show was really lame to watch, but it might actually be a fun game to play, so we gave it a shot. At the beginning of the game they have all the suitcases laid out and they show you the one that has the most tickets (200) and then they mix all the suitcases up super fast and you try to follow it with your eyes. Anyways, after all the mixing I thought it was in suitcase 14. What you're supposed to do at this point, is select the suitcase you think it's in, so it will be your suitcase to hang on to til the end for your final choice. We didn't know this at the time though, so Beth just randomly hits suitcase 4. Anyways, so we play the game and Beth is just eliminating suitcases left and right and it's awesome because we're all the way down to 2 suitcases and the 200 tickets are in one of them. The remaining suitcases are suitcase 14 which I thought the 200 was in from the beginning, and the random one Beth put aside at the beginning. So now we have to decide whether to take 100 tickets from the man upstairs or risk it all and go for the 200. I said screw it, let's go for the 200, so we did. I told Beth "alright let's pick my suitcase 14", so she hits the button for suitcase 14. What we didn't realize was that we were eliminating suitcase 14 and opening suitcase 4, I was like "No! Crap!" as soon as we hit the button. So they open up suitcase 14 to show us what would have been inside and it was.....10 tickets....which means...the 200 tickets were in suitcase 4! We won! Ahh, it was such a glorious moment the greatest waste of $2.oo ever.
When we were in the store later, using up our tickets, I was doing some math and thinking that if we always played as good as we were playing during Deal or No Deal, then of course each ticket would be equivalent to a penny...so then I started realizing how big of a scam the whole thing is haha. Like I knew I was getting ripped off when I was at Chuck E. Cheese when I was kid (that's why I just said screw the tickets, and used all my tokens on the Ninja Turtles game), but this was just ridiculous. This crappy TV/Radio thing that seriously worth $50 tops, cost over 41,000 tickets. That's over $410! Whoever came up with this idea, is making a crapload of money.
