The words, phrases and definitions have been contributed by various forum members:

£26,000: The banker’s "Old Faithful", which many people have dealt.

1p Club: The group of contestants to have won the lowest possible prize of 1p.

1p kiss: Noel suggests that whoever reveals the 1p in active gameplay should deserve a kiss off the player.

1990s money: Refers to a game when the highest amount left is a low red as gameshows ten years ago had much lower prizes.

50 shows Lucy: Nickname given to the longest running contestant Lucy who did 50 shows.

AMO: Above Mean Offer - an offer greater than the mean (average) of the remaining boxes. Such generous offers are very rare.

'All or peanuts' game: A phrase used by Noel to describe a game which has one valuable sum of money left in the game, and the rest is comparable pittancy.

Advent calendar: A forum thread set up each Christmas, covering funny visual moments from DOND during the year.

Banker: The person who is on the other end of the phone to Noel and makes offers to try and buy the player’s box for as little amount of money as possible by making them deal. The banker makes his offers based on what is remaining on the board and also what he thinks of the player.

Banker beating / spanking: See "TPW" and "OPW".

Banker's Birthday Week: Used for a week of specials in May 2008 and May 2009. The players either received extra offers, or the banker could look in a box.

Banker's Gamble: Where the banker offers the chance for the player to undo their deal, and go back into live play. Only ever offered at 2-box.

Banker’s Power 5: The five lowest amounts on the board - 1p, 10p, 50p, £1 and £5 – the opposite corner to the player’s Power 5.

Barge: The fictitious location of the home of the 1p winners.

Battle of the Sexes: Four weeks in 2007 when there were male contestants only for two weeks, then female contestants only for two weeks. At the end, a comparison was made to find out which sex was luckier.

Beryl: Contestant who made possibly the most cautious deal ever, accepting £3,100 at the third offer with £250,000 still on the board.

Black Widow: A female contestant with a record of frequently revealing high amounts.

"BLUE, BLUE, BLUE" chant - Now defunct chant, used by the audience and contestants when a box was about to be opened. Was scrapped near the end of Season 2[/b]

Bother’s Bar: Gameshow-related website, and the first site to do a regular daily DOND commentary. The (now discontinued) commentaries were statistically oriented.

Box colours: While the regular boxes are red, other colours have been seen at various times for special occasions.

Boxgate: A name given to two incidents involving the boxes: 1. Massimo's game, when Tom accidentally knocked his box over causing it to fall on the floor and open; and 2. David's game (March 2008) where a box was actually empty and had nothing in it!

Cat flap: A "letterbox" at the bottom of the board when the £750 and £250,000 have been removed, or other symmetrical amounts (such as 10p and £3,000).

Chasing The Money: When a player no deals offers later in the game in order to chase higher offers they may have had earlier in the game.

Crazy Chair: Noel’s nickname for the chair in which the contestants sit when they play their game.

Christmas Stars: In 2007 and 2008, special shows over Christmas saw nominated players raising money for charity.

Donna's game - The game which started off the debate about whether friends, family members, boyfriends, girlfriends, etc. should be allowed to get involved as Donna dealt after letting her boyfriend influence her decision and she ended up with the dream finish and Donna broke down in tears.

Double Deal Week: A week in June 2006 when there were two games a day.

Double Or Nothing: A gimmick used on some games on some international versions of the show where a contestant can risk his/her final winnings to try to double them. "Double or Half" is another variant.

Dream factory: Noel’s phrase to describe the DOND studio.

Dream offer: An offer which contains no money, but rather a dream such as a holiday abroad.

Dream scenario: The final pair of £100,000 and £250,000.

Easter eggs: Used during Easter. The eggs can give the player an advantage over the banker, or give the banker an advantage over the player (e.g. by doubling winnings if a good egg is found or reducing winnings to £0 if a bad egg is found).

Fair deal: Statistical measure originating on Bother’s Bar, calculated as the mean of the square roots of the values remaining, squared. It is often seen as a better guide to offers than the mean as it is lower for volatile boards and “one-box games”.

Flood: A freak storm during a recording in late May 2008 meant the studio had to be evacuated and recording abandoned.

Forcing offer: When the banker makes an offer that is so low, the contestant has little choice other than to no deal.

Greenyism: The concept of dealing, based on forum member greeny whose attitude to the game is very cautious.

Halloween Week: A week of special shows to celebrate Halloween, including twists which see extra advantages for the player or the banker, depending on whether the player chooses the randomly selected TRICK or TREAT box.

Honorary Blues: Term used to describe the lowest reds.

Hypothetical swap: After a player has dealt, Noel sometimes asks if the player would have swapped their box had they carried on.

Independent Adjudicator: The person who seals all the 22 boxes and is the only person who knows where the money is.

Joke offer: An offer made for comedy value, by being very low and/or containing a number of significance to the player.

LTL (Legalised Telephone Lottery): The viewers' phone-in / web competition. Originated on Bother's Bar. This is no longer a part of the show after the widespread so-called “phone-in competition scandal”.

Love Week: A week of special shows to celebrate Valentine's Day, in which extra offers can be gained by using a "Love necklace".

Lucky items: Used by Noel when a player is running out of luck - includes a lucky tea bag and various lucky hats.

Mally's Law: The system where contestants who had a high/low value yesterday are considered less likely to have one today. Named after contestant Mally from 2005.

Mummy / Daddy: Roles given to one female and one male contestant at any time, with responsibilities such as welcoming the new contestants etc.

Newbie: the new player in a game.

One-box game: A game where only one amount of significant value remains, or where the gap between the highest amount and the next highest is very large.

OBW (Outright Banker Win) : The contestant deals for an amount lower than the box value, OR the contestant no-deals to the end and wins an amount lower than their highest offer.

OD (Outright Draw) : The contestant deals for the same amount as the box value, or no-deals to the end and wins the same as the peak offer.

OPL (Outright Player Loss): The contestant deals the lowest of the six offers, which is also lower than their box amount.

OPW (Outright Player Win): The contestant gets the highest amount of money out of the game. Also known as a "banker spanking".

Pilgrims: Audience members.

PJ: The first contestant to be offered a SWAP and no money at 2-box. Probably the earliest 'controversial' game.

Pound Table: The table at which the contestant’s box sits, along with the banker’s phone and Noel and the contestant's mugs.

Power 5: The 5 highest values on the board - £35,000, £50,000, £75,000, £100,000 and £250,000.

Proveout offer: An offer the banker makes after the player has dealt.

Psychic Sarah: The show’s best psychic. Sarah correctly predicted the contents of many boxes.

Quickie: When the player chooses three boxes very quickly and they are opened very quickly.

Red cards: Used by Noel to jokingly send someone out of the studio, as in a football match. There is also a yellow card.

Risk and Reward: Playing the game can be risky, but you could be rewarded with big money.

Rock, The: The £20,000 value, due to its status as a solid "safety net". Originated from Bother's Bar

Safety net: The lower reds are often called the "safety nets".

Santa or Scrooge: Similar twist to the "Trick or Treat" one, used for the Christmas shows.

Sequencegate: Term used for the DOND scandal in early 2006, when it was discovered that the show accidentally used the same few sequences of amounts in the boxes.

Spank the Banker: To conclusively beat the Banker and take the most money out of a game; see "Outright Player Win"

Stick: When the Banker makes the same offer as he did in the previous round. In some situations this could be seen as a "trap offer".

Swap: when the Banker offers the chance for the player to swap their box for another box.

Sweep: When the player asks the advice of the other contestants standing behind the wings.

Targetist: A player driven by a particular financial target, which they are likely to accept if offered, whatever remains on the board.

Technical Banker Win (TBW): The contestant deals for an amount greater than the box value, but less than half the peak offer.

Technical Draw (TD): The contestant deals for exactly half the peak offer (and this amount is greater than the box value).

Technical Player Win (TPW): The contestant deals for an amount greater than the box value, and more than half the peak offer. Also known as a "banker beating".

Terminator: The male equivalent of a "Black Widow".

Trainwreck: A disastrous game, typically ending in a blue amount being won.

Trick or Treat: Twist used during Halloween week, where the advantage either goes to the player or the banker.

Wakeyism: The idea of “no dealing” due to the aggressive pro-gambling nature of (now banned) forum member wakey1512.

Walk of Wealth: The path along which the players walk at the start of their game.

Wings: The benches behind which the contestants stand. There is the East Wing (on the right as you watch the TV) and the West Wing (on the left).

Wing position: Where a player stands on the wings.

This quite simply amazing thread has now been updated in order to help people decode the somewhat weird abbrevations and phrases often used on this forum and on the show.

I've just spotted this on the official Channel 4 DOND site:

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/deal ... -lingo-a-n

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/deal ... -lingo-m-z

I wonder where they got the definitions for "OPW" etc from! A cynic might suggest they got them from this thread, seeing as such abbreviations have never been officially used on the show.

So more than three years after their invention on Bother's Bar, these have now made it to "official" status!

Would have been even better if "Wakeyism" had made it though Hope you used it during your game H!

In fact a fair number of the definitions have been copied word for word, or almost word for word, from here!

Would the C4 mole please reveal him/herself?

Hah! We've made it! Wish we'd sorted out the draw definition beforehand though!!

I thought "VENTRESS" used to be one of the references (though to be fair, I'm the only one who still refers to Stuart (1) as that)

Given the flack that C4 has given certain members for posting copyrighted material on youtube, can we do the same to them and ask them for credit for copying verbatin our definitions?

QUOTE OF THE NIGHT!!!

BRILLIANT!!

I know that stuff written on internet forums and Haloscan probably isn't copyrightable but I honestly think C4 have a nerve.

I'll suggest another thingy to go on the list. Markism - The theory of estimating the amount a player (as in, the person in the chair) will have in their box, based on the blue/red ratio of their box amounts in all of their past shows. Named after forum member Mark.

That definition probably needs a bit of doctoring as I don't fully understand Markism myself. My apologies if it's been suggested already

I think these are worth adding:

Hobo 5 - Short Term word used for The Banker's Power Five

Sbanking - A short term used for Banker Spanking

Brilliant.

killersbee - thanks for the suggestion of my inventions

Hope you don't mind me adding to the list:

Baby Faced Assassin - Young beauty by the name of Joey who often had high values in her box and got dubbed BFA because of it.

Isn't £20,000 called "The Rock" because back in its time, it was the most popular value on the table?

I think a new one should be added, courtesy of cfd:

"£NO_DEAL" to indicated joke/forcing offers (and other variants thereof).

And you could also have "17-box opening round" for games where a twist comes at 5-box so they have to ensure the player gets that far!

They're definitely good additions!

Here's a few terms I've cooked up while watching the show; feel free to use them if you wish:

Big Red - The £250,000.

Confetti Hound - Someone who plays until the £250,000 is out of the game, at which point they deal immediately.

Crimson Shock - A phenomenon where a player does so well in the opening half of the game, they psych themselves out and are unprepared for the eventuality of taking out reds in the second half.

Cyanophobia - Fear of the color blue. Typically used to describe players who Deal on above-average boards simply because they don't want to leave with a blue.

Foster Farms Award - Given to players who Deal at 8-box or sooner when they had the £250,000 in their box.

Freeroll - Situation in which a player is guaranteed a large amount (generally at least £10,000) regardless of the outcome.

Harry Houdini Award - Given to players who Deal at 8-box or sooner with excellent boards (Generally the £250K and two other Power 5 numbers), and spank the banker anyway.

Hinge - The median amount on a 5-box board. So named because the game can still "swing either way" if it's taken out, as it's a component of both a perfect round and a nightmare round.

Junior - The £100,000 box.

Marginal Value - Borrowed from poker, it's the hypothetical value of the money being risked, versus what you'll have if you win or lose. Typically, the money you risk is worth more than a proportional amount of money you stand to gain, but less than proportional amount you'll still have if you lose.

Purples - The £1000, £3000 and £5000 amounts. Can be treated either as red or blue, based on what the board makeup is when they're taken out.

Self-Defeatist - A player who undermines their own game by confessing to a life of bad luck or never winning anything, which often results in games where the player deals both too soon and for much less than they may have gotten if they hadn't been so pessimistic.

Three-Digit Rule - States that a player should be far more willing to gamble in situations where the worst result is a win of at least £100.

I definitely like "Confetti Hound" and "Hinge"!

Also "Purprles" tend to me more well-known here as "Oranges" but purple actually does make more sense as it's a cross between red and blue!