When asking YanGorGor if he would like to play Dota(Warcraft) yesterday, I asked ‘Play or no play?’, and somehow we talked about ‘Deal or no deal’, the TV program. Apparently he hasn’t seen it because he usually not at home during the airing time of it, we talked about the rule of the game, and the thing I have observed from it.

If you know how does it work, you should know that there is about(or more than) 10 people, each holding a sealed and unopened box, which contains a unqiue amount of money and varies from box to box, eg, 1p, £5, £10 …. £10k, £50k, £100 etc. The player has his/her own box as well, which it is the amount of money he/she will received if he/she refuses to deal with the banker until the end. From time to time, he/she keep opening the boxes held by the 10people, banker give her an offer, according to the probability he/she hold a valuable box, game is finished and he/she get what is offered if he/she deal with the banker. Basically the player would like to open as many low value boxes as possible.

What is very interesting to me is that, every time when the player asked the box holder to open the box, the holder say something like ‘I hope this is what you want it to be’. And even audiences, basically they are all very much hoping that the player can win a bigger prize, although not a single penny they receive even if the player win £100k. I am very much amazed by this selfness behaviour, where people look after each other benefit so well, however when I imagine this game to be played in Chinese society, what I see is probably jealous and probably even worse which hope the player to lose completely. Not sure when is the day where Chinese can be as united as the Western, or even Japanese.