Ben pulled off the comeback with an assist from what looked like it could have been his own mistake, tying his own record win. But now AARON gets a crack at £510,000 knowing this Banker still hasn't paid out even 10% of that!

1-6 for the game mode mix...

6 please!

That will give us...



And that will be fired up after nom

Second time in a row this has come up after I needed to take a quick break before the beginning.

Regular board to start...

1p
10p
50p
£1
£5
£10
£50
£100
£250
£500
£750
£1,000
£3,000
£5,000
£10,000
£15,000
£20,000
£35,000
£50,000
£76,500
£127,500
£510,000

...but there will be some tweaks before you start! There are ten silver pots here with these ten sums: £3,000, £6,000, £9,000, £12,000, £15,000, £18,000, £24,000, £30,000, £36,000, £60,000. You will be picking one at a time to add to whichever boxes you like - the first one goes to one box, the second is split between two, the third between three, and the fourth between four. You must, in total, add money to five reds and five blues - the jackpot isn't red, you can't touch that, and you can't touch the 1p either.

Pick a number 1-10 for your first silver pot!

6 again to start!

Getting sixy... and it's £3,000. The minimum, so at least you can't hit that when it's split! Pick a destination for that one.

I’ll put that on the £5,000 for now, then i’ll take 4 please.

Pot 4 is guaranteed to be higher... and it doesn't get higher than £60,000!! Say hello to TWO £30k injections... where, though?

That can go on the 10p and the £75,000 please! Then Pot 2...

Of course the £75,000 has already been bumped up, but only by £1,500. You've added twenty times that, definitely not the Ben play there but the Banker will surely be worried by those three six-figure boxes!

£18,000 is your third pot, so it's a 6-6-6 add-on now...

I’ll pop that onto the £1k, £3k and £10 please, then I’ll end with Pot 1!

And three blues and a red will be the recipient of a 25% share of... £12,000, so it's four £3k add-ons here!

Which to no surprise will be 50p, £1, £5 and £10k!

So this is now your starting board!

1p
£30,000.10
£3,000.50
£3,001
£3,005
£6.010
£50
£100
£250
£500
£750
£7,000
£9,000
£8,000
£13,000
£15,000
£20,000
£35,000
£50,000
£106,500
£127,500
£510,000

Fascinating game in prospect, and Box 11 is on the table for it. Five to open in this first round. GAME ON!

Someone has to break that record someday!

8, 15, 5, 4 and 14 please.

Every game that doesn't produce a win of over £50k will extend the narrative!

Box 8 - £500! Always good news to start the game.

Box 15 - £8,000 breaks up the weirdest cluster of reds seen this side of the Crucible...

Box 5 - £3,005 breaks up the weird blue cluster! Good start so far...

Box 4 - £20,000 can be shrugged off for now...

Box 14 - £750! Excellent start!

There is definitely danger ahead here for the Banker.

1p
£30,000.10
£3,000.50
£3,001
£6.010
£50
£100
£250
£7,000
£9,000
£13,000
£15,000
£35,000
£50,000
£106,500
£127,500
£510,000

Your money menu here is as follows:

DOUBLE
+£5,000
+£2,500
MONEY BACK
HALF
NOTHING

I say that because the Banker is already in shenanigan mode...

BANKER'S OFFER

£17,500 ON COMPULSORY 23

Looks like a huge opening bid, maybe it actually is one, but it'd be forced onto an EV- money menu! Deal or No Deal?

It’s far too early in the game to be considering the true value of conditional offers - NO DEAL.

9, 19 and 1 please.

AMAZING reaction. Onwards!

Box 9 - £100! The true value of that conditional offer looks like it might be "not as much as the board's about to be worth!"

Box 19 - £30,000.10! The big blue is gone, but the entire Power 5 is there...

Box 1 - £510,000!! Oh.

For a moment, the Banker had to be terrified. Now? Maybe not so much.

1p
£3,000.50
£3,001
£6.010
£50
£250
£7,000
£9,000
£13,000
£15,000
£35,000
£50,000
£106,500
£127,500

It's safe to assume he's gone down here?

BANKER'S OFFER

£17,500 ON NO-UPSIDE 23

Erm, that's one way to go down. Deal or No Deal?