would you take £100,000 ?

[joggerjayne]

There are 2 boxes.

One of them contains a cheque for £1million.

The other is empty.

You can have £100,000 right now. Or ... you can open one box.

Would you take the £100,000 ?

[snags]

Yes.

[snags]

^ Mainly because I want that '65 Fastback...

[mrs_overall]

Yes......in fact I'll have it now please

[redman41]

I definitely would take the £100,000 JJ. I prefer the dead cert option.

[steg]

i would gamble, the odds are good

[craft1948]

No I'd gamble...........£100,000 is nice but it's not that much money.

[China Doll]

Yes. I could do a lot with £100,000... where shall I send my bank details to? :c)

[cazzz1975]

I would gamble, nothing ventured nothing gained!

[mccfluff]

is the 100,000 in cash? cos if it is i'll take that, the cheque might bounce

[Hazel104]

Take the £100,000 as it would enable me change my life completely!

[flobadob]

£100,000 every time. I'd love to hear an argument for taking the risk of coming away with nothing.

[funnygirl]

Yes give me the box with the money in it now!!!!

[joggerjayne]

flobadob ...

It's an aspirational thing.

Some people might think ...

"The only thing that would make a difference to me is buying a house.

£100,000 is not enough."

[cazzz1975]

some people might want to buy a pair of knockers, that is potentially affordable and life changing.

[joggerjayne]

You could buy a lot of nice golf gear with 100G, cazzz.

[flobadob]

Well jayne, £0 will buy less of a house than £100k would.

[daftgrandad]

Good afternoon jj
If I was lucky enough,to already have a substantial amount of money,behind me,then
yes I would "open the box".
As I am not that fortunate,I would definitely take the guaranteed option.Evens are not always the best bet.

[joggerjayne]

Yes, flob.

But is it always to adopt an economic "minimax" approach?

For instance ...

£10 / £1,000 ? ... We'd all open the box.

£100 / £1,000 ? Most, but not all of us, would open the box.

£1,000 / £10,000 ? ... I think that's a difficult one.

£10,000 / £50,000 ? ... Still difficult.

£10,000 / £1m ? ... We'd all go for the box.

But how much do we need to tempt us to not open the £1m box?