Your not alone in your thoughts Nick, there are quite a few people who have picked up on the bankers lower offers at key moments in contestants games. As you point out above Trevor had low offers throughout his game, even at the end when he had 5 boxes left and one of them was the £250,000 the banker kept the offers low.

There are numerous other games where the banker has offered low amounts which seem mean for the values in play, is it just gameplay by the banker trying to make entertaining viewing and mixing it up a bit? If his offers were always predictable the game could become less appealing, by varying the amounts it can add a little drama that the contestants/audience react to.

Nick, only problem with that is the fact that Garvan actually had a red amount in his box!

Oh...Well it was the 5K wasn't it? Not the highest red.

If a contestant had spotted the sequence, do you think they would have been entitled to keep the money if they's used it to win the highest possible amount they could? Or would the producers be able to disqualify them for 'cheating'?

probably yes, if they went 1p, 10p, 50p, £1, £5 e.t.c

What I'd do is work out where the £250k is and then just pick the others off at random so no-one can detect it!

I think they would have probably allowed them to keep money, even if they spotted the sequences there is still a small random element at the start of the game as to spot which sequence is being used you need to have 3/4 boxes opened.

They are not really 'cheating', they have spotted a pattern in the cash distribution and used this to help them, they would have been cheating if they had been given 'inside knowledge' of the cash ditribution by someone from the independant adjudicators. As such, I think they would have allowed them to keep the money but immediately changed the cash allocation procedure as soon as it was dicovered, like they have done.

This is what i'd do in my game: MY BOX=8
(all in the exact order)

Round 1:
£10,000
£1,000
1p
£250
£10

Offer = £7,200
no deal

Round 2:
£50,000
10p
£1

Offer = £9,500
no deal

Round 3:
£5,000
50p
£50

Offer = £19,400
no deal

Round 4:
£750
£100
£35,000

Offer = £30,000
no deal

The board looks like this.

£5
£500
£3,000
£15,000
£20,000
£75,000
£100,000
£250,000

Round 5:
£15,000
£5
£75,000

Offer = £44,000
no deal

Board looks like this.

£500
£3,000
£20,000
£100,000
£250,000

Round 6:
£3,000
£500
£20,000

Offer = £165,000
probably no deal
My box 8 contained £250,000
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Slightly off topic here.

the chances of £250,000 or any other number in you box is 1/22 or
the chances of a red number in your box is 1/11 or
the chances of having one of the power 5 in you box is 5/22
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in the game i presented above, the point im trying to make is (if the sequences were still going) to have a mixture. dont take all the blues out in the first 3 rounds, or else its obvious. keep the top 3 toward the end and take out the 75k in the 4th round. take out 35k and 50k earlier on in the game in the 2nd or 3rd round, but not in the 1st round or else you wont get good offers throughout your game.

Shouldn't that be 1/2?

yep sorry about that. am i right about the power 5 bit?

I think so

[quote="Aaron Brock"]This is what i'd do in my game: MY BOX=8
(all in the exact order)

Round 1:
£10,000
£1,000
1p
£250
£10

Offer = £7,200
no deal

Round 2:
£50,000
10p
£1

Offer = £9,500
no deal

Round 3:
£5,000
50p
£50

Offer = £19,400
no deal

Round 4:
£750
£100
£35,000

Offer = £30,000
no deal

The board looks like this.

£5
£500
£3,000
£15,000
£20,000
£75,000
£100,000
£250,000

Round 5:
£15,000
£5
£75,000

Offer = £44,000
no deal

Board looks like this.

£500
£3,000
£20,000
£100,000
£250,000

Round 6:
£3,000
£500
£20,000

Offer = £165,000
probably no deal
My box 8 contained £250,000 [quote]


Just found this topic and that game is suspicly like Kirstys!!!!