Let's see what happened in past years around this time
In 2006 Maxine played after 11 shows on the wings without witnessing a single blue win and won £10,000 from her box, Fadil joined the 1p club but him and wife just kept smiling and were geniunely grateful for the experience, and Gabrielle got the first ever banker handout as her initial winnings of £1,000 were doubled to £2,000 because it was Easter and Gabrielle was playing for charity
In 2007, Vikki was the second wheelchair bound contestant to appear on the show (although her game was far less exciting than Peter's), Miles had a great win of £26,400, Steve's game had above-mean offers and contestants doing the robot dance
and Penny almost did what Keran did 19 months later....if only she'd swapped
In 2008, Things were really starting to go wrong with Janna and Ronnie being cautious and missing out on huge wins in the aftermath of Derek and Bash's trainwrecks, and Bash's game also saw some odd behaviour from Noel, as he actually tried to guilt-trip Bash at the end for not taking the second offer
In 2009, we were seeing the last of the contestants from H2005's game play, with Will and Trudi both dealing at around £16k-ish on £250k or peanuts 5-box boards and being right to do so, Ollie and his short-lived record as the most vocal Hull-ite to appear on the show (
), and Daimon become the second player to join the infamous 'Nothing Network' after Lee. After the somewhat comedic nature of Lee founding the Nothing network, the novelty was immediately killed by Daimon's game
April 2010 was (IMO at least) possibly the last good month of DoND before the show started to really go downhill, and the month saw the twist at easter produce some interesting finishes and Ramesh's £77,000 win, which was actually the first time the £250k ever came to the table during the month of April
April 2011 started well with £20k Paul and £46k Sophie's games but then hit rock bottom again with the middle part seeing the first ever run of FOUR consecutive blue wins. Things continued to struggle for the rest of the month, but that would all change when May rolled around!
I can't really be bothered doing the rest right now