Editing Monty Hall

'''Monty Hall''' was the host for ''Let's Make A Deal'', a game show in the United States starting waayyy back in 1963. The show's final stage was The Big Deal, featuring three doors. Hall's iconic catchphrase was "let's look at what's behind Door Number [positive integer]!".

Hall co-produced ''L[u]MaD'' with one Stefan Hatos, and served as host for Three. Whole. Decades. So Hall's name became synonymous with the show itself: as witness, the game-theorist Steve Selvin, who in 1975 published a logical problem to the ''American Statistician'' as "The Monty Hall problem" rather than as "the ''LuMaD'' problem" or even "the ''TBD'' problem".

Anyway, /tg/ relevance is that ''LuMaD'' was, in fact, a game, even if a /tv/ hosted game; it has game-theory in it.

As role-playing games go, a party will - somewhere - come across a door in the corridor which may host a trap or may host a treasure, or a monster, or all three. [[Q1: Queen of the Demonweb Pits]] is a notorious offender in Monty Hall design.

[[Gary Gygax]], with the benefit of hindsight, came to disown "Monty ''Haul''" design, wherein the special door might have too ''much'' treasure, which the DM couldn't easily take ''away'' from the players, thus unbalancing the game.

(In 1990, Marilyn vos Savant received a question in Selvin's vein, which she easily answered because she was smart. She got a lot of [[rage]] for her answer by innumerate morons. You can go look that up elsewhere.)

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