How far do you think you would get? (based on the tests shown) - 3% (2016) Discussion

I didn't even know there was a silver intolerance so definitely would have gone then

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Probably not the silver, but the trace elements in the sliver. I've has Silver necklaces give me third degree burns.

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Not unless they were super heated, otherwise you got rashes that resembled burns.

Sorry for being pedantic...

Onto the subject at hand, that test was very contrived and unreasonable for anyone to really explain - it was very Sherlock Holmes-ian, if you've ever actually read any you see that the deductions he makes are actually pretty incredulous, and only work from the perspective of the writer working backwards.

That more than one group would have come up with the solution is even more incredulous unless there wasn't really an answer and they just wanted to see the deductive reasoning.

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Formerly OneLeggedHershel. Poor Hershel.

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[–] DoubleUK 7 years ago

Maybe I would pass the cube test. But I don't think I would have guessed the 'mannequin-room'. I was also thinking along the lines of Ronaldo's theory about the infidelity. So... my team would've been finished. (unless some-one smarter came up with the right answer).

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[–] GiovanaSamara 7 years ago

I was also thinking along the lines of Ronaldo's theory about the infidelity.

By 'Ronaldo' you mean 'Fernando', right? ;-)

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[–] vladdx 7 years ago

The cube test was too much based on luck and getting enough good pieces. So if I got lucky and passed that test I'd probably go the the end if I got an easy task like Tiago and Michelle in the last screening.

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[–] Michael_Essien 7 years ago

did you think michelle's task was easy?

I thought it was very hard, I know she was able to play up the emotional side of her brother being killed (allegedly) but the process people didnt know that was her history.

Raphaels was easy, just get someone to help him turn a switch on

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[–] vladdx 7 years ago

While Tiago/Rafael's was much easier, I also thought Michelle had a pretty easy one and already thought of an alternative even before she showed her's which was pretty much a gamble.

Anyways it doesn't really matter because from what I gathered the final test was based on everyone's weaknesses and their journey until that moment, i.e. they knew Rafael made almost everybody else an enemy and Michelle had a close encounter with Bruna.

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[–] MoshiMoshiYoshi 7 years ago

I'd probably get eliminated at the mannequin test, unless someone else in my group was able to get it right. There's no way in hell that would've occurred to me.

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[–] dhart-2 7 years ago

I would have made it to the end. The mannequin test was easy if you have a certain level of curiosity and some logical deduction capabilities. It would help, though, if you had basic knowledge about allergies (in this case). I have relatives with severe allergies so it's something that I would consider.

The clues were all there in the drawers and in the room, which they didn't open/examine until the end to prove the theory. It would have been a lot easier if they had first examined the room instead of coming up with theories based on just what they could see on the surface.

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[–] dreadheadeva 7 years ago

*inductive reasoning.

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[–] Emathy 7 years ago

Interview I would probably pass, but I'd have to be very lucky with the cubes. Also the "what happened in the room" thing could also be subject to bad group dynamics and people not listening to every opinion in the group because the person isn't respected enough. If I somehow got past the cubes and the "is-it-a-murder?" mystery, I think I'd be okay in the lottery and fear hallway only to get clubbed to death like that one poor girl at the start of that locked dorm "gimme-yer-food" tyranny or the ensuing brawl. But one way or another I doubt I'd make it to the end, and I'd probably end up taking the same path Joana did if I got a good sense of their true colours.

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[–] NoHeadedHershel 7 years ago

One of the problems with this show is that they are looking for the three percent, but the top people can get dragged down by their groups in certain stages.

To answer the question, I might be inclined to not even enter the "process." If I did I would probably make it past the interview and cubes; the "mystery" room test was ridiculous, though.

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Formerly OneLeggedHershel. Poor Hershel.

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[–] DrunkPanda 7 years ago

I would have been eliminated at the interview stage. I hate interviews and suck at them. I get super nervous, like the girl that got eliminated for being too nervous. And at those stakes, wow

Also to the guy above me, I don't think that's a downfall of the show. I think that's the writers of the show showing how arbitrary and unfair the 3% process is

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[–] E_nineteen 7 years ago

I think I would have been knocked out by the cubes. But if I got further, I would have been intrigued about the corridor test - there's a bit where Marco asks someone 'everyone has fears and regrets' but I honestly don't know what would have come to haunt me at that stage. I suppose I'd have to have grown up in that society.

Beyond that, I'd be dead meat in the 'Blindness'-style tyrannical dorm lock-in.

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