Meh, what's £8,000 between friends?

We need to see the Offer Box and the hundred now!


4 - Offer Box (£46,900)! There's one of them! PLEASE let th-

** RING **

Eh?



"We're one box away from the end, can I tempt him?"

BANKER'S OFFER

BANKER'S GAMBLE

He's pulled out a 3-box Banker's Gamble!

Can you avoid the hundred grand in your final box?

Banker's Gamble... Deal or No Deal?

I'll tell you what Banker: I'll consider this IF AND ONLY IF you give me the chance to predict the final offer and have RANDOM POWER 5 added to the Box 23 outcomes if I'm within 10%.

** RING **

"You may indeed predict the final offer. Get within the 10% and I will indeed add RANDOM POWER 5 to the roster. However. If you fall outside of that band, I will replace those two blue cards with two NOTHING cards..."

Interesting proposition there Ben! What do you make of that?

Exactly what I was expecting, except I was half expecting the Banker to also say that the £100k has to stay in order for me to predict the final offer.

Since I have nice consolation options even if things go wrong, I will DEAL the Banker's Gamble and open Box 9.

It's a DEAL! £21,000 is gone and we're playing miss the hundred grand.

It doesn't matter whether it's the five hundred or the one thousand, just miss the big one...



9 -

BT...

** RING **

"Ben. I've made an offer that I am going to change once you've made a prediction. It's more than £1,000 but less than £100,000. Throw any other ideas you have away. Game On."

Fighting talk! What on earth has he done though, has he low-balled it? Has he pitched it ridiculously high? Is he trying to throw you off guard and is actually going to make a sensible offer for that board?

Ben, make your prediction. Good luck!

I'm NOT letting the Banker get into my head again. I was thinking he would double the offer at best, so I'll predict:

PLAYER'S PREDICTION

£37,800

Thirty-seven thousand, eight hundred pounds. With that in mind, you NEED this offer to be in the band of £34,363.64 and £42,000...

It's a big band, but you certainly aren't anticipating a low-ball offer here...

... were you ACTUALLY right on point with the logic that he was going to DOUBLE the money you just handed back to him?




He's now going to call back with a revised valuation...

** RING **

"I'm terribly sorry about that Ben. I can't even pretend to say that without it sounding patronising. Take this as a consolation for my pettyness..."

BANKER'S OFFER

£35,000

It's a Power 5 amount, so it's either going to be £1k, £35k or £100k. Box 23 could still get you £300,000 out of this game which would be an insane result!

Thirty-five grand is now yours if you want it Ben... Deal or No Deal?

The Banker is a VERY clever man. Had the revised offer been less than £32,000, I would've gone for it and swapped out of fury.

As is, however, I'm just relieved to get an extra £14,000 after being being sucked into the Banker's trap, so DEAL.

I would've swapped had I went on.........

It's a DEAL for £35,000! What a game, that was a proper horn-locked battle between you and the Banker!

It's no surprise that you'd have swapped here. We haven't had anyone bring one of the top two to the table, and Box 19 hypothetically would have let you down two out of the three times you've swapped for it! Were you on for a HUNDRED GRAND?!


19 -

And now we head over to Box 23...

You've gotten yourself thirty-five grand! You may wish to buy Box 23 with that, because there's some cracking options...

TRIPLE (£105,000)
DOUBLE (£70,000)
DOUBLE (£70,000)
+£10,000 (£45,000)
MONEY BACK (£35,000)
NOTHING (£0)
NOTHING (£0)

£105,000 would be an magnificent result here, and there's TWO chances of you leaving with £70k if you buy it! There is also, however, two chances of losing the lot!

Biiiiig decision now Ben. You have £35,000. With that money, would you now like to purchase Box 23, Deal or No Deal?

WOW, I spanked the Banker.

I'm not touching Box 23 with a ten foot pole now that I have a 28.5% chance of losing all of my hard-fought £35,000 to it, so NO DEAL to that. I would've chosen Option 5.

He's very pleased with his result, but did the reward outweigh the risk? Box 23, option 5...

That was an incredible match between Ben and the Banker. They locked horns big time at five-box and all hell broke loose! He's very happy with his result as he walks away with £35,000! Genuinely brilliant game there Ben, thanks for playing!