Hello, and welcome to the second week of "What Would You Really Do?"! Your host today is Mark! ...no, not that Mark. I, too, am named Mark.

The rules are simple. Once per day I will post the next round of this game. You have until I post the next round to make a decision! If you forget to make one, or otherwise are incapable of posting for whatever reason, your decision will default to "No Deal", and, if it's the final round, "No Swap". If you deal, you are stuck with the amount that you won!

Absolutely no twists are in store (except for the Swap, which is guaranteed). That means: No changes to the offer once it's made (unless I goofed and added another 0... or something. ). No one-box-at-a-time rounds. No Banker's Gambles. No looking in the box... er, well, I guess I already know the outcome of the game, so I guess technically I've already looked in the box.

Since I'm acting as both the independent adjudicator and the banker, there is a formula in place for determining the offers. It may or may not produce excellent offers. Hate the formula, not the banker, please.

(Maybe in the future, we can have a guest banker participate? Oooh, there's an idea!)

The leaderboard so far:

Net winnings/average per game (both are the same right now!)
1.) box11, daniel123, hogwild94, KP (£35,000)
5.) JoelDavies (£20,500)
6.) Archstered (£13,000)
7.) American Coupon Boy, Skyline (£5,000)

Banker spankings
1: box11, daniel123, hogwild94, KP
0: American Coupon Boy, Archstered, JoelDavies, Skyline

(Any suggestions on what else to include here?)

With that said, here we go!

Box 10 has been brought to the table today.

Round 1:

6 - £5,000

15 - £35,000

22 - £3,000

20 - £10

18 - £250

The 17-box configuration:



Banker time...

A new game brings with it a new offer formula. Will this one start as friendly as last week's?

Banker's offer:

£5,500

So... what would you REALLY do???

Deal or No Deal???

Well, in early 2006 that was decent; mid-2013, it's rather poor really.

I support the proposition of a guest banker; but I do think he/she'd have to be someone who wasn't playing, or at least if they were playing, to abstain from playing that particular game, just in the interests of fairness.

NO DEAL!

Absolutely NO DEAL. I also think there should be guest banker(s), as most of Saperogo's "formulas" will probably produce mostly mid-2008/mid-2013 CRAP offers and drive most to the end. I personally would make mid-2006 level offers, offering moderate offers at first and more generous ones towards the end (though not 2005 level ones).

Why is "formula" in quotes?

No offense to you personally, but they're not good formulas if they produce CRAP offers that would push the majority of this forum to the end.

Putting it in quotes makes you imply that you think they aren't really formulas. Bad formulas are still formulas.

This is one offer out of six. Please reserve your judgement on the utility of this formula until after you have seen the offers and the formula has been revealed.

(To be completely honest, part of this is to experiment whether I can come up with a pretty good means of developing offers. The only means of accomplishing this is to test this against humans.)

NO DEAL

Saperogo, may I say, because clearly not everyone is capable of, thank you for taking the time to do this mini series for us. Much appreciated.

And I have faith that the formula will produce better offers later on.

No deal thank you!

Yeah, thanks for producing this series for us. It's a really fun concept.

For now though, it's a NO DEAL.

NO DEAL from me.

It's the first offer... so a resounding No Deal.

Oh, American Coupon Boy... must you be a douche everywhere you go?

Must you act like Daffy Duck all the time, Skyline?

That's not really on par with the initial shot at you, as far as comebacks go, ACB.

And watch it, calling each other douchebags and, well, ducks . You're on my premises here, and I reserve the right to....er, edit your posts, because that's still as much as I actually can do....

IT IS still a nifty weapon I have at my disposal, however, for I can make it look as if you've said anything at all....so beware.

Hang on....this is Skyline's forum as well. Smith, we are not above the law even here, you know.

Yep, indeed we have control over this forum... never knew that



Nothing wrong with acting like good ol' Daffy, Coupon Boy. There is something wrong with criticiSing everything in an unfriendly way and thinking that everything he says is gold. Your tone of posts here are making you very unpopular here. Someone had to say it.

Sorry, daniel123, but I'm not willing to stoop to Skyline's level as far as my language.

Wimp.
No, that's very good of you, ACB.

Now, let's stop the silliness on this thread.
American Coupon Boy, if you haven't anything nice or of any value to post, then don't bother posting. What you posted in the first instance was rude, uncalled for and just a waste of time, really. You could have put across what you wanted to say in a much nicer and less arrogant way.
Skyline, stop creating drama, this isn't EastEnders. I know you haven't slept for quite a bit of time due to your journey to Corsica, but there isn't any reason to get cranky.
daniel123, your presence amuses everyone, but this thread's gone off-topic.

So yeah, who deals the first offer? NO DEAL. Yes, I'm fully aware I already posted that.

Oof. This is an interesting sequence of drama, here. But yes, let's keep this thread on-topic in terms of the game and let the wars wage in the Members' Off-Topic Area.

I want to be clear: I welcome feedback on how excellent or horrible the offers turn out being. But let's use constructive criticism instead of writing rude posts, okay? Unlike the real banker, the real players, and the real Noel, I can actually respond to actual logical arguments and learn what works well for making people deal and what doesn't. Being rude about it makes me less likely to listen to you. So please avoid being an ass about it.

With that said, let's continue with the game!

Round 1 results:

In live play
American Coupon Boy
Archstered
box11
daniel123
hogwild94
JoelDavies
Skyline

First offer was unanimously considered poor. Unfortunately the current formula has no feelings and is deaf to your words.

Round 2

8 - 10p

19 - £1,000

5 - £75,000

Board at 14-box:



Banker time...

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...

...

...uh oh. The banker has said he is actually not deaf at all and resents being told that his offers are crap!

Banker's offer:

£7,250

Oh dear... oh dear... oh dear... If you need me, I'm going to be some place where you can't find me.

So... what would you REALLY do???

Deal or No Deal???

Well thanks, but that's a NO DEAL from me, obviously.