Nobody's Fool: ITV

[Milkyway]

Quizpod & tasks... with more than a touch of Traitors & Golden balls.
(Can't all be bad).

Hosted by Danny Dyer & Emily Atack... being their natural selves
£100K pot. (max)
Group of the usual contestants, in a big house trying to outwit each other & get rid of the worst, thickest or biggest liar.
(Failure to do so... the cash made is halved).

Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 24th May 22:30

[Doofus]

Omar is a . A liar, a charlatan, a gobste and a bellend.

[Milkyway]

Melissa (Cherie Blair) is a very naughty girl...48
Sonia... had the right look though.

Billy: The Children's entertainer.
(Albeit a very intelligent one).

Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 24th May 22:52

[airsafari87]

Decent enough start.

Omar clearly failed the audition for The Apprentice. Another Andrew Tate type.

Can’t remember his name. But my money is on the black lad with braids taking the win.

Wonder what dominatrix woman dies with the info she was awarded about children’s entertainer man.

[C69]

It's quite watchable, even if it is trying hard to tap into the Traitors 'who can I trust' vibe.

The quizpod is much better than the tasks, which so far haven't really been testing people's intelligence.

[Doofus]

Can anyone explain what Billy did with those numbers, so he knew it ended with a six?

I worked with somebody years ago who could "see" sums in his head, but this wasn't that.

[Sport_Turismo_GTS]

Doofus said:

Can anyone explain what Billy did with those numbers, so he knew it ended with a six?

I worked with somebody years ago who could "see" sums in his head, but this wasn't that.

It genuinely wasn’t a difficult piece of mental arithmetic for someone with that type of mind.

[Doofus]

Sport_Turismo_GTS said:

Doofus said:

Can anyone explain what Billy did with those numbers, so he knew it ended with a six?

I worked with somebody years ago who could "see" sums in his head, but this wasn't that.

It genuinely wasn t a difficult piece of mental arithmetic for someone with that type of mind.

I didn't say it was difficult; I worked it out quite fast, too. I just asked what trick he used, because he said there was one.

[nicanary]

It can be done that quickly, if you've got a brain wired up that way. However, I think he "cheated" - he realised there was a flaw in the game's organisation, and took advantage. He noticed that there were only two numbers given as possibles, and took a 50/50 gamble and got lucky.

Dyer and Atack didn't ask for the answer before the paintball part. Therefore he could just pick one of the 2 options, and in his case got it right. He didn't need to actually calculate the answer. It was a poor game.

[Doofus]

nicanary said:

It can be done that quickly, if you've got a brain wired up that way. However, I think he "cheated" - he realised there was a flaw in the game's organisation, and took advantage. He noticed that there were only two numbers given as possibles, and took a 50/50 gamble and got lucky.

Dyer and Atack didn't ask for the answer before the paintball part. Therefore he could just pick one of the 2 options, and in his case got it right. He didn't need to actually calculate the answer. It was a poor game.

I did think that too.

[Silgo]

I used the same trick, but I don't know what it's actually called! Google suggests it's the Unit Digit Method, and finds this link:

Unit Digit Method

Effectively don't try to work the answer out. Let's use the following example:

21÷3*(54+6)+112

First of all, we should follow BIDMAS, or whatever the current acronym is!

Therefore we'll take the brackets first, 4+6=0. We don't care that the full sum is actually 54+6=60.

It's easy to do 21÷3 (it's 7 ).

Anything times 0 is a 0. So we can completely ignore most of the equation.

So the number must end in a 2 (from the 112).

Simple!

[Doofus]

Silgo said:

I used the same trick, but I don't know what it's actually called! Google suggests it's the Unit Digit Method, and finds this link:

Unit Digit Method

Effectively don't try to work the answer out. Let's use the following example:

21÷3*(54+6)+112

First of all, we should follow BIDMAS, or whatever the current acronym is!

Therefore we'll take the brackets first, 4+6=0. We don't care that the full sum is actually 54+6=60.

It's easy to do 21÷3 (it's 7 ).

Anything times 0 is a 0. So we can completely ignore most of the equation.

So the number must end in a 2 (from the 112).

Simple!

Thank you. So it turns out I did know the trick, i just didn't know it was a trick.

[Sport_Turismo_GTS]

Silgo said:

I used the same trick, but I don't know what it's actually called! Google suggests it's the Unit Digit Method, and finds this link:

Unit Digit Method

Effectively don't try to work the answer out. Let's use the following example:

21÷3*(54+6)+112

First of all, we should follow BIDMAS, or whatever the current acronym is!

Therefore we'll take the brackets first, 4+6=0. We don't care that the full sum is actually 54+6=60.

It's easy to do 21÷3 (it's 7 ).

Anything times 0 is a 0. So we can completely ignore most of the equation.

So the number must end in a 2 (from the 112).

Simple!

The other ‘trick’ was that you could press the buzzer almost immediately then you still had about a minute before you actually had to commit to an answer, so if you could remember the equation you could work out the answer in the interim.

[Milkyway]

Still can't believe Ella is only 20.

In the first episode, I thought that Billy said he was a children's entertainer.
(What a Silly Billy).

Not keen on Ella or Kamaal... Schemers & not particularly bright.

Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 31st May 22:38

[C69]

Milkyway said:

In the first episode, I thought that Billy said he was a children's entertainer.

And before that he was a CPS lawyer, then some sort of scientist. But now he's a clairvoyant?

Anyway, I thought that tonight's penultimate episode was easily the best so far. At least three of the finalists need to press that Quizpod buzzer as quickly as possible, because their chances of winning the final look very slim.

[nicanary]

Did I hear Melissa say she was hoping to open a shop in Ramsgate ? She's a dominatrix FFS! Is she going to sit in the window like they do in Amsterdam? Or maybe she's going to sell bondage gear or summat.

[airsafari87]

Disappointing way to go from the final 3 to the 2 finalists.

Disappointing end game as well.

I doubt I’d watch a second series if it ever gets made.

5/10

[nicanary]

airsafari87 said:

Disappointing way to go from the final 3 to the 2 finalists.

Disappointing end game as well.

I doubt I d watch a second series if it ever gets made.

5/10

Agree on all counts.

[C69]

nicanary said:

airsafari87 said:

Disappointing way to go from the final 3 to the 2 finalists.

Disappointing end game as well.

I doubt I d watch a second series if it ever gets made.

5/10

Agree on all counts.

Agreed. It was a real letdown, especially the last 'guessing game' task. I didn't bother watching until the end.

If they make another series, the producers should rethink the format.

[Doofus]

C69 said:

nicanary said:

airsafari87 said:

Disappointing way to go from the final 3 to the 2 finalists.

Disappointing end game as well.

I doubt I d watch a second series if it ever gets made.

5/10

Agree on all counts.

Agreed. It was a real letdown, especially the last 'guessing game' task. I didn't bother watching until the end.

If they make another series, the producers should rethink the format.

I'm not sure what they could do with the format. Basically, somebody lies about how well they did in a quiz and the others have guess who it was.

Unless they can come up with a way for everyone to get some clues about how their competitors did, or some other means of adding proper strategy to it, I don't see where it can go.

In essence, they need to do The Traitors, but with different traitors (chosen via their score in the quiz pod) each day.