Missing easy, double-or-nothing questions
The CASH CAB lately has been showing more contestants losing by either, three-strikes, or, chancing on the video double-or-nothing and losing that. Now I think I understand the reason. If it appears the show is more challenging and harder to win, then the show looks more enticing and exciting. If everyone kept winning, it would take a lot of the excitement out of the show. People are for the most part, competitive to a tiny degree or obsessive about it. They are exciting about winning a challenging question-and-answer contest for money.
People are taking the video, double-or-nothing challenge, and that's GOOD. But now I'm seeing contestants who show a lot of smarts, reaching their destination with zero to two strikes and still LOSING on the double-down question because they don't know the answer, or guess wrong. The problem is, the double-down question was no more difficult than the $50 questions. I saw two groups of contestants answer truly obscure questions that I would have never figured, and then go for the video question and can't answer the simple video question. I'm dumbfounded. What's going on?
P.S., I'm still seeing contestants blow the contest and incur unnecessarily one or two strikes when they originally had the RIGHT answer, and second-guessed themselves into a WRONG answer. ALWAYS GO WITH YOUR FIRST GUESS! One group of contestants incurred three strikes and out of the cab they went. But two of their strikes were unnecessary. On each one someone spoke the right answer, then someone else came up with a wrong answer and they all went with it.