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Tell me please the difference between the following sentences!

Hello there, how would you like a ticket to one of the most influential form of mass communication the world has ever known?

Hello there, would you like a ticket to one of the most influential form of mass communication the world has ever known?

In this video the presenter used how. At first, I had thought that the presenter meant something like: In what way would you like me to provide a ticket..., until I looked up the phrase in this dictionary, which says that it basically means to offer something, except you think someone will like. But I still cannot see the difference, and how the word how can make it.

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  • It's just an intensifier and used a lot in speech. How would you like to speak Russian? I would like it a lot. Would you like to speak Russian? Yes, I would.
    – Lambie
    Apr 15, 2019 at 15:11
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    Think of it as how much would you like . . . (A lot, not very much, not at all, and so on.)
    – Jason Bassford
    Apr 15, 2019 at 15:32

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Jason Bassford has the right of it. In your example there is an implicit "much" following the "how". This is because both questions are asking about the same thing: the amount that the ticket is desired. Using "how" changes it from a yes/no, binary, do you want it or not question into a more nuanced, open-ended question that leaves room for other commentary and greatly widens the range of possible emotion or tone of the response.

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