What a dumb show. The couple gets 1 day to hide the money and the finders get 2 days and get to do whatever they want to be able to find it, then when it's found they make the couple that had 1 DAY to hide it feel stupid. What a dumb show. If people continue to lose the money this show will tank
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That's one hour. And hiding it is much easier than finding it... if anything really sharp people should win more often than not. The sisters in this last episode only stopped in one place, they made a U-turn in that same place, and the one sister couldn't stop talking about that place... and unfortunately for them that place was small enough to search.
shareWell, so far in the three episodes two teams have lost and one has won. I would imagine that the same pattern will continue in the remaining episodes. I think the idea of the show is a bit flawed as it is, but it would be even worse if the same "team" always won and there was no suspense to the show.
The team from week 3 made the mistake of the u-turn and making it pretty obvious that that was the place on their route that was most likely to have been used as their hiding place. The team from week 2 won without the investigators getting anywhere near finding the case by hiding it in a friend's apartment that the investigators had no way of finding out about. That seemed a bit unfair to the investigator team, but fortunately most people probably won't think of that if only given an hour to think.
> The team from week 3 made the mistake of the u-turn and making it pretty obvious that that was the place on their route that was most likely to have been used as their hiding place.
I think it would have been obvious even without the u-turn. Look at the map. They zigged and zagged and then went down a dead-end road. They then turned around and headed back. It's obvious the case was on Banyan road!
And they hid it two feet from the road. Oh please. Hide it at least fifteen feet off the road.
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And they hid it two feet from the road. Oh please. Hide it at least fifteen feet off the road.
> Those detectives really earned it, though. The first ones that actually deserved to win so far.
Yes and no. For the second time in three episodes the GPS location data practically screamed out where the case was. At that point it didn't matter what the players said or did in their questioning. It was just a matter of thoroughly searching the area.
So, that seems to be the sole determining factor in this game; if you can disguise your GPS location, you win.
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As soon as they turned on the dead end I thought, 'they better not hide it there'. Or if they wanted to hide it in a dead end, they should have driven into 10 dead ends. I'd drive into several dead ends and not hide it in any of them.
This really is the first time the detectives solved it regardless of how easy you think it was.
The GPS is clearly the best advantage to the detective team, but it isn't everything. I don't think it's as simple as you suggest. I don't even know what you mean by "if you can disguise your gps location, you win". That doesn't make any sense. Every episode has relied on several factors beyond the gps. In this one, because they made no phonecalls, because they made the dead end so obvious, because they got lost leaving the dead end, and because they said Banyan more times than I've ever heard in my life, it gave the detectives a chance, a chance!
> I don't even know what you mean by "if you can disguise your gps location, you win".
I think the rules change between episodes as the producers try to figure out the best set of rules to use.
In the first episode, the detectives looked at the GPS data and knew where they had stopped, indicating that they were given time stamps with the GPS data. They knew that the boys stopped at the park for ten minutes.
But in the second episode, the couple was afraid to turn off the car because that would somehow be indicated in the GPS data. And since they left the car running, the detectives never suspected that they stopped in the area. So they were no longer getting a time stamp with the GPS data. But they might have gotten a list of where GPS data was lost (i.e., when the car was shut off).
They were able to spend about twenty minutes running to the house, finding the key, and hiding the case. Yet the detectives never knew that they spent so much time in one place, quite likely because they left the car running.
In the third episode, the detectives indicated that they got only the GPS location data. But, the pattern of the girls' driving gave away the obvious location.
> Every episode has relied on several factors beyond the gps.
So it appeared. But really, it did come down to the GPS data. The two losing teams stopped the car and picked a spot right off of their GPS path. The one winning couple selected a hiding spot six blocks off the GPS path.
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In the first episode, the detectives looked at the GPS data and knew where they had stopped, indicating that they were given time stamps with the GPS data. They knew that the boys stopped at the park for ten minutes.
But in the second episode, the couple was afraid to turn off the car because that would somehow be indicated in the GPS data.
> Because the brothers made a lot of phone calls, and the interrogators mentioned something about "periods between phone calls"
But still, they knew that the lack of phone calls matched exactly with them stopping at the park. So they knew exactly when they were at the park.
> I think that was just their fear and not based on any rules or evidence gathering techniques by the detectives.
Still, they were the only one of three teams so far that did not turn off the engine when they hid the case and it was the only time that the investigators had no clue where they stopped and when they did take a guess they were not even close to the right area. They searched in the one area where the team did turn off the engine (i.e., at the convenience store).
I mean really. In all three episodes, we saw the teams shut off the engine four times (1. restaurant and park, 2. convenience store, and 3. Banyan Road) and those four places were the only places that the detectives searched. There HAS to be a connection.
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