{"id":11071,"date":"2014-06-16T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11071"},"modified":"2014-06-15T23:12:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T03:12:40","slug":"the-economics-of-game-show-contestants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/the-economics-of-game-show-contestants\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Game Show Contestants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/061614_0309_TheEconomic1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"372\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Buzzfeed posted an article titled &#8220;11 Secrets About Game Shows That You Probably Never Knew&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All the contestants on shows such as Wheel of Fortune appear to be the same height because the shorter contestants stand on platforms.<\/li>\n<li>Winning a prize can mean losing money. If you win a car you have to pay taxes on it.<\/li>\n<li>As soon as you leave the studio people will try to buy your prizes from you \u2013 at prices far lower than the inflated ones advertised on the show.<\/li>\n<li>In the French and Russian versions of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, the audience is notorious for intentionally giving the wrong answer when the Ask The Audience lifeline is used.<\/li>\n<li>The shows that seem to play out over the course of a week? They&#8217;re filmed in a day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the full list and find out more of the tricks of the trade over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/geico\/11-secrets-about-game-shows-that-you-probably-never-knew\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/geico\/11-secrets-about-game-shows-that-you-probably-never-knew\">Buzzfeed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buzzfeed posted an article titled &#8220;11 Secrets About Game Shows That You Probably Never Knew&#8221;: All the contestants on shows such as Wheel of Fortune appear to be the same height because the shorter contestants stand on platforms. Winning a prize can mean losing money. If you win a car you have to pay taxes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/061614_0309_TheEconomic1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11074,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11071\/revisions\/11074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}