{"id":13224,"date":"2020-10-10T11:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13224"},"modified":"2020-10-10T11:01:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T10:01:34","slug":"the-cube-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13224","title":{"rendered":"The Cube Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Incredible work from FOTB Daniel Hurst (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danielmarkhurst\">@danielmarkhurst<\/a>), a <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1AKHOBUMUx-37oA6AocNqUlwO_7y-DOKLx5mLV_rp_Rs\/edit?usp=sharing\">complete collection of stats for the original run of <strong>The Cube<\/strong><\/a>, in time for the new series next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Points of note:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Barrier is obviously the most used game, being played a whopping 21 times. It felt like a *lot* more.<\/li><li>Meanwhile there are *forty* games that have only been played once, and a further 22 that have only been played twice. What a waste of effort!<\/li><li>The Bell Curve of Boring. It&#8217;s something that affects most if not all money ladder shows and has done even since <strong>Millionaire<\/strong>, and the force is strong in this one &#8211; over two thirds of the outcomes are on the middle three rungs. As the results get more predictable, it becomes far less entertaining to watch &#8211; everyone stops in the same place. TV needs to get a lot smarter going forward to combat this.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Great work Daniel. <strong>The Million Pound Cube<\/strong> starts next Saturday at 9pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that means I&#8217;m *likely* to move <strong>Bother&#8217;s Bar Game Night<\/strong> from 9pm to 10pm to avoid clashing such a momentous event. More details in a few days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, I&#8217;m going to run another community game of <em>Among Us<\/em> tomorrow (Sunday) from 9pm &#8211; just turn up in the Discord voice chat and play. It won&#8217;t be recorded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, I&#8217;m opening up the Stool Pigeon on Monday for your Autumn\/Winter industry goss. Exciting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incredible work from FOTB Daniel Hurst (@danielmarkhurst), a complete collection of stats for the original run of The Cube, in time for the new series next week. Points of note: Barrier is obviously the most used game, being played a whopping 21 times. It felt like a *lot* more. Meanwhile there are *forty* games that\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13224\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-3ri","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}