For the bonus box...

BANKER'S OFFER

£27,500

... and it's a CRACKING prediction! Less than 2% in it means you'll only need £20k to crack open the Bonus Box! This could be a huge game, and maybe our first jackpot winner?! But £27,500 is where we're at Archie, Deal or No Deal?

NO DEAL!

4, 13 and 7 please

We have everything in place for this to be a truly magnificent game. All we need now is for the boxes to fall in Archie's favour!


4 - £250! Boxes like that, for example!

13 - £250,000!! Blast, and down comes the ceiling, but there's still a huge amount that could be won here...

7 - £75 helps to restore the damage somewhat! BT...

Very interesting configuration here, and a heck of a call to make a 14-box prediction at all!

** RING **

The Banker loved seeing the biggie go there! He says it's the beginning of the end, and that this will be your last shot at opening the Bonus Box tonight...

BANKER'S OFFER

£20,001

Oh Banky, you're so full of doom and gloom! NO DEAL!

Boxes 10, 1 and 15 please

Archie clearly isn't phased by that 'minor hiccup', and we play on for possibly £400,000...


10 - £50,000! We definitely felt that, and now we only have two mega sums left on the board...

1 - £10,000 works in our favour, but we need a blue now to keep things nice and strong for us...

15 -

BT...

** RING **

"Right, let's start giving him some real exit options..."

BANKER'S OFFER

£33,333

OR

BANKER'S OFFER

£42,042 & NO BONUS BOX

Very tasty indeed! I shall.. DEAL the £33,333!

11, 17 and 22 would have been my next picks

That could be a devil of a Deal with the BB!

And just like that, it's an 8-box exit from Archie! We'll see what he can make of that £33,333 in a short while, but let's get this proveout underway...


11 - 1p! Would've been the perfect start!!

17 - £100,000! We would've been narrowing the game even more now! One box game in terms of mega money...

22 - £1! But you'd still have been in it to win it!



You'd have had a 90% chance of taking that yellow or higher, and a 40% chance of taking the £75k home, hence...

BANKER'S OFFER WOULD'VE BEEN

£33,333

OR

BANKER'S OFFER WOULD'VE BEEN

£42,042 & NO BONUS BOX

... these would've been exactly the same! We need two more now, so where would we have gone now?

2 and 14...

Need to find that 75...


2 - £17,5000! That won't cut it...

14 - £5!! Youch, you'd have been guaranteed £20k, and a 2/3 shot at the 75...



... which would've led to this:

BANKER'S OFFER WOULD'VE BEEN

£55,000

OR

BANKER'S OFFER WOULD'VE BEEN

£74,000 & NO BONUS BOX

But was the £75k destined to be yours?


Boxes 9 and 20...


... had £20,000 and £10! So you weren't indeed!! Box 18 which you saved to the very end had the £75,000!

Now then, we've got two bits of business before we send you on your way...

Firstly, we have Box 23:

DOUBLE (£66,666 & BB)
+£15,000 (£48,333 & BB)
MONEY BACK (£33,333 & BB)
HALF (£16,666.50)
NOTHING

You're already in BB territory, but if you make the right move here you're on for over £133k... So with your £33,333 Archie, would you like to purchase Box 23?

With going to the end only having a 6 in 28 chance of producing a blue box win and the EV of the board being £47,142, I think I actually would've went on when Archie dealt! I probably would've dealt at 5 box, though, with the offer being 85% of the EV.

With a 40% chance of loosing out on the Bonus Box, I shall NO DEAL to 23. Hypo 5

Making sure he can take the money to the Bonus Box, but could you have pumped even more money into it?

Nope, not at all! Bonus Box time...