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How do you NOT win at this game?


I've only watched two episodes, so maybe there's something I'm not getting about this show, and maybe this questions has been brought up several times before. But....

How is it so hard to win? All you have to do is tell the truth.

Look at it this way, once you're on the show, the truth is coming out. Either you:

1. Tell the truth, embarrass yourself and your family.......and win the money.

or

2. Lie, have the show call out your lie.....embarrass yourself and your family.......and win nothing.


Why do so many people choose the 2nd option? I don't get it.

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Great post..
I have wondered about this also..

But to know one thing you probably have your answer..

Because this is the stupidest show ever created on television.. It is quite hard to admit, but this is even more stupid than Big Brother.

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That is true of the early objective questions... what gets tricky is the questions they save for later in the game, the subjective ones about how you feel. Questions like "Do you love your wife more than your mother?"... Questions that elicit mixed emotions like that are harder to answer and doubts and fears are likely to trigger the lie-detector.

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Or, as evidenced by the one horrible episode of the woman destroying her life to win money, selling out everything she knows and loves, and gets the question near the end of "Do you think you're a good person?".. and she answers "yes".

Sometimes we lie to ourselves to be happy.

-- Chris

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"Questions that elicit mixed emotions like that are harder to answer and doubts and fears are likely to trigger the lie-detector."

And this is precisely the problem! It's a lose-lose!

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I completely agree. You might as well go all the way. Go big, or go home.

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