The best banking strategy when playing The Weakest Link

L C Thomas
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L C Thomas: School of Management, University of Southampton

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2003, vol. 54, issue 7, 747-750

Abstract: Abstract The paper uses dynamic programming to investigate when contestants should bank their current winnings in the TV quiz show, ‘The Weakest Link’. It obtains the optimal strategy for the team as a whole and then looks at two possible reasons why the contestants tend to use other strategies in reality.

Keywords: dynamic programming; recreation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601567

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