OK, so this is niche.
One of my wife's guilty pleasures is reality TV, usually ones centred around dating - the more American, the better. By extension, I absorb some of this noise and I'm happy to admit I can sometimes get invested.
At one point, she was (let's face it, we were) watching a show called "Are you the one?" on MTV. I'm going to show you how this game is pretty much free money.
Game rules#
Consider a group of equal numbers of men & women:
Each contestant has exactly one perfect match of the opposite sex that is pre-determined for them, as represented by the colours. Click the "Match" button to pair up the contestants correctly. Crucially, they don't initially know who their perfect match is. If the group can correctly guess all the perfect matches, they win a cash prize of $1M.
You probably have the follow up question of how the perfect matches are calculated, which is a great question. In short: dunno, it's black-boxed, but let's just say "science"? How this is calculated isn't really the point, I could even argue that it doesn't matter so long as you get your strategy right. For what it's worth, the plot of the TV show mentions employing "the most extensive match-making process ever seen".
Let's get into it. Here are the two ways in which contestants can learn new pieces of information throughout the game: truth booths and match ups.
Truth Booths#
A truth booth is where a male & female are chosen by the contestants, and it is revealed definitively whether they're a perfect match or not. So there are two potential outcomes:
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