[KLUG Members] GJ followup (was Meeting Notes)

[Bruce Smith]

> >That one was a lemon question,  I don't even remember my rationale for it 
> >being in there.
> The thing to remeber about hescaling is thatwhile reward (and obscurity) may
> go up expoentially, the point sare still only accumulated arithmetically. This
> is the reason the Buce-Smithian strategy of cruising the top questions and 
> not answering is so effective. It might be helpful to limit or discourage this
> approach, since it leads to NO answering at all!
> 
> When the top point questions are "cruised" we have no feeling for how hard
> things get with increased point value, we're simply doing a numbers play.
> One of the nice things about Jeopardy is that running a category allows the
> player to guage how much harder things are getting during the run.

It would be fine with me if the rules were changed so the categories
were read in order from top to bottom.  It would save a lot of time!

All the questions/answers are read anyway, so the order doesn't make a
lot of difference in the grand scheme.
 
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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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