Second game of Series 2.1... and we've got a player who is surely ready to exploit the additional strategic opportunities we now have on this game. It's AARON!

This is the new 24-box starting board:

1p
10p
50p
£1
£5
£10
£25
£50
£100
£250
£500
£750
£1,000
£3,000
£5,000
£10,000
£15,000
£20,000
£35,000
£50,000
£75,000
£100,000
£150,000
£250,000

I want you to pick five reds, five blues, and five greens - all 1-12. What will you be playing with?

Reds: 6, 9, 10, 11, 12
Blues: 3, 4, 7, 9, 10
Greens: 3, 5, 8, 10, 12!

OK, here's what you've got...

£100,000, £35,000, £3,000, £150,000, £15,000
£50, £5, 10p, £25, £1
25%, 50%, 5%, 10%, 30%

Fascinating options, and we know that you're going to be playing for £250,000 whilst spreading some of the money away from the top two backups! But how much of it?

Alrighty, here's what we'll do:

£15,000 - 30% to 10p
£35,000 - 50% to £25
£100,000 - 25% to £5
£3,000 - 10% to £50
£150,000 - 5% to £1

That leaves you with this new board!

1p
£4,500.10
50p
£7,501
£25,005
£10
£17,525
£350
£100
£250
£500
£750
£1,000
£2,700
£5,000
£10,000
£10,500
£20,000
£17,500
£50,000
£75,000
£75,000
£142,500
£250,000

You have Box 15, and five to open in round one. LET THE DEALING BEGIN!

And off we pop! 9, 10, 11, 20, 23 please!

Box 9 - £5,000. Will do.

Box 10 - 50p! Will very much do!

Box 11 - £20,000. Not as bad as that last one was good.

Box 20 - £750. The big five are intact...

Box 23 - £100! Super start!

How high will the Banker go on this configuration?

1p
£4,500.10
£7,501
£25,005
£10
£17,525
£350
£250
£500
£1,000
£2,700
£10,000
£10,500
£17,500
£50,000
£75,000
£75,000
£142,500
£250,000

The all-important first prediction time...

That was a cracking start, I can't see this being below 12 really, so...

PLAYER'S PREDICTION

£13,200

Unfortunately it is below £12,000...

BANKER'S OFFER

£10,600

Fortunately that's only 20% off so there's no downgrade to the money menu, just not an upgrade either!

BOX 23 MONEY MENU
0%
50%
100%
150%
200%
300%

At £10,600, Deal or No Deal?

Quite surprised by that given the stability, but at least it's an easy NO DEAL!

3, 8 and 14 please.

Box 3 - £25,005. Best of the rest outside of those big five.

Box 8 - £500! That's a good one...

Box 14 - £1,000! So is that! Very powerful game so far...

Where has he gone now?

1p
£4,500.10
£7,501
£10
£17,525
£350
£250
£2,700
£10,000
£10,500
£17,500
£50,000
£75,000
£75,000
£142,500
£250,000

The all-important first prediction time...[/quote]

Not sure where he'll have gone with this, I think it should have gone up by about 50%... I'll try

PLAYER'S PREDICTION

£16,000

BANKER'S OFFER

£16,500

Well, that'll do! 3% out! Add a +£17,000 to that board, meaning a crash to a blue is not only unlikely but has a 2/7 chance of getting big-time redemption...

BOX 23 MONEY MENU
0%
50%
100%
150%
200%
300%
+£17,000

At £16,500, Deal or No Deal?

Offers starting to go somewhere now which is good to see, but I can still play on quite comfortably now so NO DEAL!

4, 7 and 13 next please.

Box 4 - £17,525. When purplised blues are about as high as you're taking out...

Box 7 - £350! Oh my word...

Box 13 - £10,500! This is ridiculous!

I've just realised this needed to be two four-box rounds haha, so let's open two more!

My word, let's not mess it up with 5 and 17!

Box 5 - £7,501! Yet another purplised blue we can treat as disposable!

Box 17 -