The Amazing Race 15 - Page 11

ASTalumna06 · #**151** 11-30-2009, 12:56 AM

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Originally Posted by AGDee

No football before hand this week though

It's on schedule for a change!

Such a rarity!

Tonight's episode was very disappointing. The Globetrotters were the last likeable team.

The brothers are SO annoying. I really can't stand listening to them anymore. And I understand it's a race, and everyone wants to win, but to be so mean to other people pisses me off. I don't think I could ever do the things that they've done to other teams.

I guess I'll cheer for Meghan and Cheyne.

AGDee · #**152** 11-30-2009, 01:50 AM

So sad

I like the other teams less and less each week. <sigh> I'm not sure I care who wins now.

CutiePie2000 · #**153** 11-30-2009, 02:28 AM

That sucks that the Harlem Globetrotters got eliminated but come on, not being able to solve such a short anagram was a bit

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I guess I want Megan and Cheyne to win.

CutiePie2000 · #**154** 11-30-2009, 02:46 AM

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Originally Posted by OTW

I just don't understand how karma hasn't caught up to the brothers yet. UGH!

I hope they come in 3rd.

Miss & Mr. America 2nd, and Megan and Cheyne 1st.

tld221 · #**155** 11-30-2009, 12:10 PM

it wouldve been just a bit much for the Globetrotters to win TAR, huh? because theyre kindasorta celebrities?

yeah, all the interesting teams have lost. I'd feel some kinda way of the brothers won. Meghan and Cheyne seem like the obvious winners as theyve been winning legs repeatedly.

I feel like the win is going to come down within minutes - two teams running neck-in-neck to the final pit stop. I'm split 51/49 between Brian/Ericka and Meghan/Cheyne.

ASTalumna06 · #**156** 11-30-2009, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by CutiePie2000

not being able to solve such a short anagram was a bit

.

Especially after he had the first letter. There are only so many combinations of letters that it could be if that was the case. It probably would have taken less time for him to guess all of the possibilities, than to take the 4 hour penalty.

srmom · #**157** 11-30-2009, 03:37 PM

My husband said there were 600 possible results with the 5 letters, all unknown. Knowing the first letter was F would reduce it to 96 choices. (is that math right?) It would certainly have taken less than 4 hours to write down every possibility!

Oh well, it frees up my Sunday night next week when I'm going to be in Austin anyway. I cannot stand 2 of the remaining 3 teams - the a-hole brothers and Whiney McScreech and her enabler husband have driven me off the show.

I would be happy for a Barbie and Ken win, but don't want to sit through an hour filled with odious behavior (because you know, what they'll focus on are the brothers bitching at each other and that awful wife carping at her poor husband

).

AznSAE · #**158** 11-30-2009, 03:41 PM

i was wanting for the brothers to have to go back and redo the statue challange for breaking its arm. i guess the person that checked it missed this or didn't care.

also, for the beer challange, weren't they supposed to drink and celebrate with the team? it seemed like they took forever to deliver the beer as everyone had left the bar on the last delivery.

ASTalumna06 · #**159** 11-30-2009, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by srmom

My husband said there were 600 possible results with the 5 letters, all unknown. Knowing the first letter was F would reduce it to 96 choices. (is that math right?) It would certainly have taken less than 4 hours to write down every possibility!

If you knew that the first letter was F, wouldn't there only be 24 possibilities?

srmom · #**160** 11-30-2009, 04:00 PM

I think he must have done 4x4x3x2 to get 96. I'm not sure

Math isn't my thing!! LOL

ASTalumna06 · #**161** 11-30-2009, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by srmom

I think he must have done 4x4x3x2 to get 96. I'm not sure

Math isn't my thing!! LOL

I'm not very mathematical.

I just wrote it down. So.. if it had to start with F, I wrote all of the possibilities to come after that, starting with the letter A:

If N was the next letter after A, for example, there are only 2 letters that could follow that, and therefore, only two words that could start F-A-N (hopefully that makes sense!). So...

FANZR
FANRZ

Same with FAZ:

FAZNR
FAZRN

And so on. So there would be 6 possibilities starting with FA

FANZR
FANRZ
FAZNR
FAZRN
FARZN
FARNZ

Since there are 6 possibilites with each of the 4 different letters to immediately follow F...

6 x 4 = 24. I guess.

tld221 · #**162** 11-30-2009, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

I'm not very mathematical.

I just wrote it down. So.. if it had to start with F, I wrote all of the possibilities to come after that, starting with the letter A:

If N was the next letter after A, for example, there are only 2 letters that could follow that, and therefore, only two words that could start F-A-N (hopefully that makes sense!). So...

FANZR
FANRZ

Same with FAZ:

FAZNR
FAZRN

And so on. So there would be 6 possibilities starting with FA

FANZR
FANRZ
FAZNR
FAZRN
FARZN
FARNZ

Since there are 6 possibilites with each of the 4 different letters to immediately follow F...

6 x 4 = 24. I guess.

Mathematically, it shouldn't have taken long. I also think it has to do with context, which the players may rely on when solving their tasks. Maybe the Globetrotters never heard the name Franz (Kafka) before, or didnt connect the telephones to the Kafka-esque thing, or make any relation to the task and being in Prague.

I think its similar to how they got tripped up a few eps ago over the watch-combination number task.

I just wonder if, during that 4-hour penalty, the answer clicked to either of them.

ASTalumna06 · #**163** 11-30-2009, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by tld221

I just wonder if, during that 4-hour penalty, the answer clicked to either of them.

That's what I wondered, also. I was hoping they'd show them giving some feedback about the challenge.

PeppyGPhiB · #**164** 11-30-2009, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by AznSAE

i was wanting for the brothers to have to go back and redo the statue challange for breaking its arm. i guess the person that checked it missed this or didn't care.

also, for the beer challange, weren't they supposed to drink and celebrate with the team? it seemed like they took forever to deliver the beer as everyone had left the bar on the last delivery.

I said, "What kind of a defender would that guy make with a broken arm!" and I also wanted the Rabbi to turn them away.

And I'm thinking there was some major editing done, because it went from pitch black outside during the beer delivery task to actually being light out. I'm betting they had to do something like drink some of the beer, but maybe the network had to edit it out.

I just don't get why some of the teams had such a hard time with "Franz." When I looked at that collection of letters, I immediately saw Franz. They all need to play word games more often.

AGDee · #**165** 11-30-2009, 05:39 PM

It would be 4! (factorial) which is 4X3X2X1= 24, if you knew the first one was F. If not, there are 5! possibities = 24X5= 120.