PLAYERS on the game show The Weakest Link should either take no
chances at all or cast caution to the winds. A team does best if it banks its
winnings either after every right answer or only after a run of six successive
right answers.
Eight players compete on the show, answering questions in turn and
accumulating money for the group when they answer correctly. At the end of each
round the players vote off one player—the “weakest link”—amid
sarcastic comments from the show’s famously vitriolic host, Anne Robinson. The
last player takes home the entire team’s winnings.…
