Another day, another game, and bigger decisions than the real show, today anyway...

Especially after this first shift. £250,000 is replaced... by £400,000!!

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
£75,000
£100,000
£400,000

How will that affect the opening offer for box 21?

Banker's offer:

£12,000

No Deal at this early stage...

Let's have a flash round: 2, 3, 5, 7 and 11

2 - £5!
3 - £75,000! Serious reality check, there...
5 - £750. That'll do nicely.
7 - £50,000! That won't...
11 - £100,000!

An extraordinary board - already a one-box game, and that one box could go...

...it doesn't, it's £5,000 that goes, and we do not want to see this shift into blue territory...

...and it doesn't, it's now £16,000!
1p
10p
50p
£1
£10
£50
£100
£250
£500
£1,000
£3,000
£10,000
£15,000
£16,000
£20,000
£35,000
£400,000

Banker's offer:

£12,000

I'm going to say No Deal to that!

13, 15 and 17 next please!

Already every box is of real importance...

13 - £500! There's one blue...
15 - £1! There's another...
17 - £1,000, and no real harm done there either!

Shift time... and goodness me, do we ever need to keep that £400,000 intact...

£3,000 goes, so we keep it intact... but it drops, to £101. Still, the board's strengthened, though the colour balance isn't improving...

1p
10p
50p
£10
£50
£100
£101
£250
£10,000
£15,000
£16,000
£20,000
£35,000
£400,000

Difficult offers already.

Banker's offer:

£16,000

He's not valueing the £400,000 much...so No Deal!

19, 4 and 6 please

19 - £15,000, one of the fallback reds, and it doesn't help your shift chances...
4 - £250! That does, a bit, and it's another one survived...
6 - £101! Gone as soon as it arrived!

Now, which new amount shall enter the fray instead?

10p is gone, which is good... and just to add to the drama, 25% comes in! When you hit that, if you hit it - it's worth nothing if you have it in your box and Wakey it - your top prize, whatever it may be then, goes up or down by 25%, making it either £500,000 or £300,000.

25%
1p
50p
£10
£50
£100
£10,000
£16,000
£20,000
£35,000
£400,000

Banker's offer:

£25,000

I'll risk one more round, No Deal!

8, 10 and 12!

Here we go, big round here...

8 - 25%!

Now, which way is your top prize going? Is it going up to half a million?

£300,000. Nope - it goes down. But the important thing is it's still there for now.

10 - £50! And that's another one down! One more to survive...
12 - £20,000. Survival it is!

Only the shift can be costly now before this offer...

...and it isn't! 1p has gone!

In its place is a skiing trip to Whyteleafe. Only kidding, it's two weeks in Mexico!

50p
£10
£100
Two weeks in Mexico
£10,000
£16,000
£35,000
£300,000

Banker's offer:

£27,000

That's decent; it'd be generous on a usual gameboard, so the extra £50,000 makes it count I guess...

Alright! It's a Deal!

We'll open 14, 16 and 18 next!

14 - £16,000, which would have hurt the shift, but it's not the one...
16 - 50p! We're in trouble now..
18 - £10,000! So now, to prevent a higher offer, it's probably necessary to hit a mere 8% chance of downshifting the jackpot...

We don't, it's £35,000 shifting... to £80,000!! Yeouch!!

Banker's offer would've been:

£44,000 + first-class train ticket to Upper Warlingham station

BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

We'll leave 22 to the end, the other three can be opened!

1 - Two weeks in Mexico...
9 - £10! Oh crumbs...
20 - £300,000! Thank fiddle-de-dee for that!

£100 versus £80,000, but you would've had the option on the Seventh Shift if you were prepared to risk a crash to an all-blue finish to chase a mega-money ending...

We'll take the shift, then see what the offer would have been...

We shall see indeed...

£100 would have shifted to £32,000!

Banker's offer:

£44,000 + first-class rail ticket to St Pancras + Eurostar to Aime-La Plague for two weeks' skiing holiday

After all that, it was £32,000 in your box, £80,000 in 22. Not that they started that way.