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- The "logic" the contestants use to decide whether to continue on or take the amount the "banker" offers – they say the lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math.  The losers on this show are those who are bad at math.
- The way the "drama" unfolds with incessant pauses, "phone calls" from the banker, breaks to commercials to increase tension, the delay in opening cases
- The stupid advice family and friends give to the contestant, and the fact that the show lets them vamp to turn a 10 minute game into an hour-long show
- The stupid "tension building" music and sound effects they have on in the background – every game show of this type since Who Wants to Be a Millionaire has done this, and it bugs me to no end
- The "play at home" text messaging games – for $0.99 you get a 1 in 4 or 1 in 6 chance to be an entrant in a lottery to win $10,000 (sometimes more).  What did I say before about lotteries being a tax on people who were bad at math?

When this show first came out, I gave it a shot.  I WANTED to like it as it seems at heart to be something as cold and calculating as figuring out the odds in blackjack or draw poker.  But of course they wouldn't have their primary audience if they left it that way, so they had to turn it into entertainment for the lowest common denominator, destroying any chance of me enjoying it.

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P.S. I have watched this show on fast-forward once or twice.  It's about twice as entertaining, but still not something I'd set up to record on my DVR.

P.P.S. I need to remember when I submit a dozen potential entries to vox hunt and qotd that some might actually be picked.  I feel obligated to answer my own questions, and this is getting tiring :-)