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Instant $1m or 50% chance to win $100m?

Mark_32Red (retired acct)

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Hi Guys,

We've just posted this on Facebook for a bit of fun, I thought I'd post here to see your responses.

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Red or Green? You get one choice and can only press the button once. :)

Mark
 
Definitely Red, imagine the feeling if you choose Green but don't get it.

I'm assuming that this would be a hypothetical situation where my investment is zero and as such i don't really lose anything but still why risk it :p .

If the amounts were lower then i might be more willing to risk it but not with such large amounts.
 
Wife and I agree on green. We don't have either anyway, might as well go for it. At least that's us. Would suck to lose the million, but boy O boy will it be wicked to win the 50 million. You know how much taco bell I can eat with that kinda money?
 
No brainer for me, and instant million would kill the high rolling maniac inside me instantaneously!
A million is just that point i will probably never cross, getting one would surely provide for some good slotting :D

Of that million, I would probably spent 100K max betting on BDBA to see if i could make it 100 million that way ^^
 
It's no contest really, it would have to be red. Can you imagine how downbeat you would feel if you turned the million down and then went on to lose the 50 / 50 bet, it would be bordering suicide!

I think a more challenging question would be to take 100k instantly or have a 50 / 50 shot at 2 million. I believe as it stands, most people would be happy with red as a million is still a significant amount, so change the question goddammitt!
 
Green, as long as I knew for sure that the 50/50 chance would be decided completely fairly and transparently

A million usd is about 640 grand. You couldn't buy a decent house in Old Lenzie for that, so while it would be fantastic to win it's not really 'living the dream' money.
It would certainly make life much more pleasant and comfortable but many have worked their way through that much before, having thought they'd changed their lives forever.


But 100 mill would be something entirely different. Boys toys, yacht, honeys aplenty.
Worth a coinflip imo
 
243 lines=daft said:
Green, as long as I knew for sure that the 50/50 chance would be decided completely fairly and transparently

A million usd is about 640 grand. You couldn't buy a decent house in Old Lenzie for that, so while it would be fantastic to win it's not really 'living the dream' money.
It would certainly make life much more pleasant and comfortable but many have worked their way through that much before, having thought they'd changed their lives forever.


But 100 mill would be something entirely different. Boys toys, yacht, honeys aplenty.
Worth a coinflip imo
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Some people have blown $100 million and ended their lives penniless. Michael Jackson is one example. he probably earned far more than this in his career, but his ill fated comeback tour was because he needed the money as he was living off credit at the time.

Many people may well take the certainty of a million rather than take a 50% chance of ending up with nothing at all. Whilst you can't live the high life, a million is enough to provide for a comfortable life, but one where there is still the challenge of bettering oneself. $100 million could leave no incentive other than to decay in luxury. $100 million is also far more than the average person could get through living a "normal" lifestyle. Remember, even if invested on bank deposit, the income alone could be $1 million or more per year.

A clever and motivated person could also turn $1 million into $100 million or more, it's been done before, and people have even come from nothing to get richer than this through their own work and motivation. It would also lead to a more rewarding lifestyle.

I believe the biggest lottery wins have exceeded $100 million, and people have paid their Pound, Euro, or Dollar and ended up with a 100,000,000 x bet payout. A more ordinary life changing win tends to be between 1 million and 10 million, and is seen in the UK lottery and many of the bigger network progressive slots. Mega Moolah has made a number of players richer by between 1 million and 6 million, but the average seems to be between 2 and 4 million.

It would be nice;)

I do occasionally put a few hundred spins though, just in case, but so far my best has been the £100+ minor:(
 
I'm happy for those who said green - because 1 mil wouldnt be too life changing for you...
I would go for RED for sure. In many places in the world you could actually survive without having to work ever again with 1 mil... with the right investments and living simply.
 
Red. I'll never see a million in my lifetime and my dreams aren't that grandiose. A mortgage free home so my pay cheques are free to spend is more than fine. Besides, why would I even NEED 100 million? I wasn't raised a socialite. A cool mil could already change my life for so many ways for the good. Deffo red.
 
Alfran said:
I'm happy for those who said green - because 1 mil wouldnt be too life changing for you...
I would go for RED for sure. In many places in the world you could actually survive without having to work ever again with 1 mil... with the right investments and living simply.
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For the record, average cost of a 3 bed room home in in many areas including my own on the low end is 150K - 200K. That 1 million after our U.S. government gets done with it would be more around the 600K mark. Subtract purchasing a home for your family and you're looking at 350K - 400K left. In other words for those who would play it safe and not make any risky investments, that wouldn't be much to retire on. I'm 31 would certainly not be set for life, unless I'm dieing next year. So yes I would go big, simply because I can stomach losing 350K - 400K, and as my wife said we don't have it anyway. We both work hard, and are happy with out living situation. If we win we win. If not O well. Not to mention I would easily want to give a large chunk to my parents and my wifes parents. On that amount giving them each 50K (100K total for one side - 200K total for both) would be the likely option. Yea I'm living the comfortable life now. Sounds like I'm getting what me and my wife already make with our combined incomes.

I'm not sure what your comment was suppose to mean, but I doubt it was meant in good heart, as it really wasn't needed. And as someone else referred to the choice of picking green as stupid.

Sorry we voted the way we did. Next time I'll try to please you instead of living my life the way I choose :rolleyes:

Edit: In terms of need. We have talked about this countless times as it's fun to do. We each agree on giving parents a large amount. Her brother, my sister, a large amount. And our closes best friends a large amount. Pay of all of their bills first, and then the one lump sum after. Everyone named has sacrificed much for us, and helped us get where we are. Their support is unquestioned. It has little to do with spending money on nice cars and stupid crap. And keep in mind we area now only working with 350K-400K. It would be a nice chunk, but not life changing for us.

It would be nice to have that kind of fund, to dolly out as we see fit. Their are a few things I would like to do to help our association at work as well, which would cost a pretty penny.

edit: Sorry these thoughts aren't clear and concise, but I'm rushing to start getting ready before wife loses it on me. We are suppose to be heading to a wedding rehearsal thing.

edit 2: Please see post number 29. Leaving this one up for thread integrity.
 
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$100m is a huge amount of money. But I would take the instant $1m. It would give nice extra comfort in to my life. The tought of that extra comfort is more valuable than the extra luxuries that the $100m could get me IF I won.
 
I would go for green, imagine being able to have your own castle or something like that. If I lost I´d probably hold a grudge :P.
 
Cleveland said:
For the record, average cost of a 3 bed room home in in many areas including my own on the low end is 150K - 200K. That 1 million after our U.S. government gets done with it would be more around the 600K mark. Subtract purchasing a home for your family and you're looking at 350K - 400K left. In other words for those who would play it safe and not make any risky investments, that wouldn't be much to retire on. I'm 31 would certainly not be set for life, unless I'm dieing next year. So yes I would go big, simply because I can stomach losing 350K - 400K, and as my wife said we don't have it anyway. We both work hard, and are happy with out living situation. If we win we win. If not O well. Not to mention I would easily want to give a large chunk to my parents and my wifes parents. On that amount giving them each 50K (100K total for one side - 200K total for both) would be the likely option. Yea I'm living the comfortable life now. Sounds like I'm getting what me and my wife already make with our combined incomes.

I'm not sure what your comment was suppose to mean, but I doubt it was meant in good heart, as it really wasn't needed. And as someone else referred to the choice of picking green as stupid.

Sorry we voted the way we did. Next time I'll try to please you instead of living my life the way I choose :rolleyes:

Edit: In terms of need. We have talked about this countless times as it's fun to do. We each agree on giving parents a large amount. Her brother, my sister, a large amount. And our closes best friends a large amount. Pay of all of their bills first, and then the one lump sum after. Everyone named has sacrificed much for us, and helped us get where we are. Their support is unquestioned. It has little to do with spending money on nice cars and stupid crap. And keep in mind we area now only working with 350K-400K. It would be a nice chunk, but not life changing for us.

It would be nice to have that kind of fund, to dolly out as we see fit. Their are a few things I would like to do to help our association at work as well, which would cost a pretty penny.

edit: Sorry these thoughts aren't clear and concise, but I'm rushing to start getting ready before wife loses it on me. We are suppose to be heading to a wedding rehearsal thing.
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My comment was not meant in a negative way. Just fact, as proven by your comments.
Why I said I was happy for those who picked green. Is the fact that as you have illustrated,.... in some countries the 1m would hardly set you up for life. Which also means the standard if living is higher,... i.e. you would need quite a lot more than some other countries to survive. Whereby i compared to other places/countries where standard of living is lower,... hence one could survive by collecting rent or from owning your own home,... maybe collecting rent from another property or interest from FD. or smart investment with property could set one up for life. I live in Greece where times are quite bad here and most average income are 1000US a month (and count yourself lucky if you can even have a job). Unfortunately here property is not that cheap still or even a smart investment will probably not raise much in value and even bank interest is not that high. but things are really tough that one learns to survive on quite little. Having a private insurance is a luxury and fending for your basic needs are what most can hope to meet.... much less dreaming of private colleges for kids. And most dont even have kids for that reason,... economy. So i was not meaning it in a bad way,.... but living so tight here, has changed my views whereby i think 1m can be life changing,... at least it leaves some opportunity to make something, when otherwise,..... everything seems quite hopeless. If times were a bit easier and i had my own house, less debts and a brighter future,... I may also have chosen green. That would not make me a bad person for choosing either way, just a matter of how badly one needs the money now.
*I can see your point about the way i put the comment, and how it was perhaps not needed at all... perhaps i was jealous of those who picked green. :)
*you have to also forgive me, i was in a foul mood. Greece blacklisted about 400 online casinos and i just found out today when i could not log on to play. %$#@!!
 
Alfran said:
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My comment was not meant in a negative way. Just fact, as proven by your comments.
Why I said I was happy for those who picked green. Is the fact that as you have illustrated,.... in some countries the 1m would hardly set you up for life. Which also means the standard if living is higher,... i.e. you would need quite a lot more than some other countries to survive. Whereby i compared to other places/countries where standard of living is lower,... hence one could survive by collecting rent or from owning your own home,... maybe collecting rent from another property or interest from FD. or smart investment with property could set one up for life. I live in Greece where times are quite bad here and most average income are 1000US a month (and count yourself lucky if you can even have a job). Unfortunately here property is not that cheap still or even a smart investment will probably not raise much in value and even bank interest is not that high. but things are really tough that one learns to survive on quite little. Having a private insurance is a luxury and fending for your basic needs are what most can hope to meet.... much less dreaming of private colleges for kids. And most dont even have kids for that reason,... economy. So i was not meaning it in a bad way,.... but living so tight here, has changed my views whereby i think 1m can be life changing,... at least it leaves some opportunity to make something, when otherwise,..... everything seems quite hopeless. If times were a bit easier and i had my own house, less debts and a brighter future,... I may also have chosen green. That would not make me a bad person for choosing either way, just a matter of how badly one needs the money now.
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Apparently I'm not the only one running behind. Guess she isn't so time concise herself :rolleyes: <~~reference to wife........

Anyway I'm being overly sensitive right now. Perhaps my estrogen was a little high. I'm still in rush mode as I'm typing this and eating at the same time. Would suck if I made all those smart remarks to her about time, and then I still end up being the one not ready. So I didn't thoroughly read your post (this new one), but it sounded like you meant no harm, and as I said I was being too sensitive. So my apologizes.

Yes I know it's odd I didn't take the time to really read your new post, but I'm writing a book here. Hope you get the point in my ramblings and bad grammar.

**this post applies to anyone else I referred too.**

Ok I'm out.....definitely gone this time.
 
Cleveland said:
Apparently I'm not the only one running behind. Guess she isn't so time concise herself :rolleyes: <~~reference to wife........

Anyway I'm being overly sensitive right now. Perhaps my estrogen was a little high. I'm still in rush mode as I'm typing this and eating at the same time. Would suck if I made all those smart remarks to her about time, and then I still end up being the one not ready. So I didn't thoroughly read your post (this new one), but it sounded like you meant no harm, and as I said I was being too sensitive. So my apologizes.

Yes I know it's odd I didn't take the time to really read your new post, but I'm writing a book here. Hope you get the point in my ramblings and bad grammar.

**this post applies to anyone else I referred too.**

Ok I'm out.....definitely gone this time.
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You dont need to apologize,.. we both meant no harm. I like it when ppl speak their mind... at least it is out on the table. Have a good time tonight,... only positive vibes to you .... make good memories, these mean more than money.
 
Jasminebed said:
Have I been drinking when I see this button?

I'm almost 55, a million would let me fully retire, and I could still help my kid out with a down payment for a house.

Even with odds that good, I couldn't press my luck.

Please please don't show me a reveal on the green button, I don't want to know.
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That would make a good reality show... lol Esp the reveal .LOL
 
Is this really 50/50 or one of these "gamble feature" 50/50s where you seem to be wrong 85% of the time?
 
Def. red. Yes, that is a life-changing amount of money for most people. Maybe not for those like the aforementioned Michael Jackson or others who earn annually that or more (a relatively high portion of working people), but even people like them will take the sure thing over the gamble, probably half the time.
 
skiny said:
Is this really 50/50 or one of these "gamble feature" 50/50s where you seem to be wrong 85% of the time?
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Exactly. You take the sure bet for $1 Million. To this day I am still pissed off at McDonald's and the Monopoly promotion they ran that was rigged or the Publishers Clearing house sweepstakes that was also rigged. The list goes on and on and on. There is a reason we do not trust big business and it is because we are usually lied to.
 
Pocketdiggers77 said:
Exactly. You take the sure bet for $1 Million. To this day I am still pissed off at McDonald's and the Monopoly promotion they ran that was rigged or the Publishers Clearing house sweepstakes that was also rigged. The list goes on and on and on. There is a reason we do not trust big business and it is because we are usually lied to.
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Green. 1M is great, but no way I could retire with 2% interest rates. 100M, not only never work again, but I could give away millions to charity as well!
 
100% Red ....
I would be just happy with 1 cool million ....
That would make me able to secure my daughters futures and also would pay off my mortgage on the house ....
And then still enough left to do a lot of fun things in life ..... :thumbsup::D
 
How about we haggle?

The red is 5 million, the green is 50 million.

And it's best 2 out of 3.
 
Balthazar said:
By pressing the green button, you're basically gambling the 1M from the red button to win 100M.

100-1 odds on a coin flip is f'in insane.
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Indeed. And there may be a side to this seemingly innocous survey to get an idea of how players understand or assess relative value vs true value etc

The true value of the buttons is 50 million usd. Period.
By pressing red, the player is willingly throwing away 98% of the value of what they have in front of them
 
Jasminebed said:
You make those buttons $1000 and $100,000, and I'd be pushing green of course.

But a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush my mom always said.
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My mom always said a bird in the hand will make you go blind.

She never mentioned bush.
 

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