# Can you cheat on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 21, 2000, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-cheat-on-who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire/16258 "2000-04-21T14:56:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Avumede](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/avumede/32/7235_2.png) [@Avumede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avumede)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2000, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-cheat-on-who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire/16258/21 "2000-04-21T23:51:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by handy: > > Watch the question pattern. The first four don’t repeat a letter, so if its: A, C, D, the next answer is B. Kinda the same for the next four, but I gave up paying attention to it. You (or someone else) posted this in another thread. I looked out for it the next day while watching, hoping to amaze my wife with a answer prediction before the question was even known. But oops… the 2nd and 3rd question were both the same letter. So it’s not true. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2000, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-cheat-on-who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire/16258/22 "2000-04-21T23:54:00Z")
Ah, Regis, 68 years old & has plastic teeth so white, no one has them like that. Still, why are there no black people on the show? No handicapped people either. They can cut out anything where no one answers the phone. ---
**Author:** ![Major\_Feelgud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3be4f8/32.png) [@Major\_Feelgud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Major_Feelgud)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2000, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-cheat-on-who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire/16258/23 "2000-04-22T06:01:00Z")
You can cheat on phone a friend. Have a bunch of people hang out at the house. Then when Regis comes on, put him on the speaker phone. One of the friends should know the answer and just point it out. What I’ve found is that the questions themselves are not hard, it’s the scope of the questions. I myself am a history buff, general PBS buff so science and history questions are simple for me. I do not know anything about art or music though. So if I was a phone a friend, I’d gather some people who knew music, art, etc. and we could anything they’d throw at us. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2000, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-cheat-on-who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire/16258/24 "2000-04-22T06:29:00Z")
Remember when Rosie was the phone a friend on one Sunday show? She finally got phoned after asking any viewers who got on WWTBAM to use her. In an interview she said she’d been on the list for several people. She had to stay by the phone between 5 and 7 on a Wednesday night each time (well, at least now we know one of the taping times). This suggests that they tape two shows back-to-back. When she _did_ get picked there was a Thursday night ABC press release that she’d get the call on the next Sunday show. ---
**Author:** ![hardcore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@hardcore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardcore)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2000, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-cheat-on-who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire/16258/25 "2000-04-22T07:23:00Z")
Is there a visible studio audience? If so, you could bring your friends and use signals. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2000, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-cheat-on-who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire/16258/26 "2000-04-22T07:34:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by slaveone: > \*\*The phone a friend thing I dont think you could cheat on. However, I do think I found a way to maybe gain a slight advantage. > > First - Have you ever wondered how useless the 50/50 lifeline is? They always take away the ones you just know aren’t the right ones. > > Next - Most of the time when a person uses the 50/50 lifeline, they will name off the two that they know arent it… they say something like, well I think its either a or d, but I’m not sure. > > I have noticed that whenever someone says something like this, they ALWAYS remove the two that the person already ruled out, thus making 50/50 worthless. > > Now to my point - Bluff. When you use 50/50, say that you are certain it isnt one of the ones you think it might be (may need to read that again). In other words, say like, “Im sure its not a or b, but lets try 50/50”, but you are really thinking, its not c or b for sure, and its either a or d. > Let me know what you think. > > B] If I am remembering correctly, they decide ahead of time which two options will be removed with a 50/50, and they will tend to remove the two least likely answers. * * * -Obfus [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-cheat-on-who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire/16258.md?page=1)