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[MarleysGh0st]

As Howie promised in all those spoiler promos, they had a $1 million winner last night. Did anyone bother to watch?

For those, like me, who didn't, here are the details:

http://www.sltrib.com/News/ci_10359543

Spoiler

The first contestant to beat the game's astronomical odds is a stay-at-home mom from Sandy.
Her name is Jessica Robinson, a 27-year-old housewife and mother of one who is expecting a second child at the end of this month. And she not only won the grand prize but also used the show to announce to her family - and the nation - that her next baby will be a boy.

She was down to two cases left, $1,000,000 and $200,000, and she turned down an offer for $561,000 (which is uncharacteristically short of the expected value for this point in the game--they really wanted her to go it).

And that report just saved everyone an hour of TV-watching!

[dimmzy]

I saw it. I thought it was cheating a bit to have ..

Spoiler

multiple cases with a million

[gsabc]

Since they were advertising the heck out of this all weekend, I deliberately saved myself an hour by not watching. Although is it really saving time when you never watch in the first place?

I guess when you're only on once a week, you have to specify the show in which someone wins big. 'BAM, I suspect, would only advertise which week, and then would only say that someone sees the $1MM question during the week.

[earendel]

As Howie promised in all those spoiler promos, they had a $1 million winner last night. Did anyone bother to watch?

For those, like me, who didn't, here are the details:

http://www.sltrib.com/News/ci_10359543

Spoiler

The first contestant to beat the game's astronomical odds is a stay-at-home mom from Sandy.
Her name is Jessica Robinson, a 27-year-old housewife and mother of one who is expecting a second child at the end of this month. And she not only won the grand prize but also used the show to announce to her family - and the nation - that her next baby will be a boy.

She was down to two cases left, $1,000,000 and $200,000, and she turned down an offer for $561,000 (which is uncharacteristically short of the expected value for this point in the game--they really wanted her to go it).

And that report just saved everyone an hour of TV-watching!

You beat me to it, Marley!

Spoiler

Although NBC did a fair job of spoiling it themselves, with announcements all week and all through the show, in case you missed it, someone finally won the $1M. She had 5 chances to pick a $1M case and after eliminating four of them stuck with her case to the end and got the money. She received a confetti shower and there were shots of the banker looking rueful (hard to convey in shadow but evident nonetheless). The contestant was a young woman, 6 or 7 months pregnant, who wanted the money so she and her husband could move back to Texas so that her child could be born there. As an added suspense-builder one of the cases had a dollar amount and the gender of her unborn child (which she knew but her husband didn't). The suspense didn't last long because the second case she picked was the one that contained the announcement of the baby's gender [a boy]).

[MarleysGh0st]

You beat me to it, Marley!

By seconds!

Did you actually watch?

How many $1 million cases did they start with? (Oh, I see you answered that already.)

[thguy65]

The article headline states that she is a Utahn, but her goal for winning the $$ was to move OUT of Utah back to Texas so her baby could be born "on Texas soil"

[earendel]

You beat me to it, Marley!

By seconds!

Did you actually watch?

How many $1 million cases did they start with? (Oh, I see you answered that already.)

I did because elwing wanted to. The contestant started with five cases.

[frogman042]

The article headline states that she is a Utahn, but her goal for winning the $$ was to move OUT of Utah back to Texas so her baby could be born "on Texas soil"

I didn't catch the show but here in Texas if you pay a bit more you can get a bigger birth certificate that is more oranate and in big letters proclaims Natural Born Texan on it - being born on Texas soil her is a big deal. My two youngest were born in Texas but we luckly didn't have to drag any dirt up to the hospital bed.

---Jay (The first railroad in Texas was completed this many years after Texas became a state. It was the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, diminished the need for the famed cattle drives. If you know how many years from statehood to railroad then you know the rest...)

[Kazoo65]

I watched it. I tried to avoid spoilers by changing the channel whenever a commercial break happened.  Even though I already knew she'd win thanks to all the promos I saw earlier, it was fun to see it.  NOW I know where the extra confetti from BAM went.