We'll skip more rapidly through the quiz this time. Suffice to say that there was a question right at the start on a politican made into a Barbie doll (Angela Merkel, as opposed to Michelle Obama or Hilary Clinton).

Red half of the audience (blocks 1-5) win the first round by an embarrassment. And it's now a permanent feature, it seems, for a prize with product placement to be awarded to the winning half of the audience - a DVD recorder last week, a satnav this time around.

Linda says these are 'three difficult questions'. I'd judge if I could translate them. Block 3 won the second round, just.

The lead changed hands in the third round... but B won by the narrowest of margins, 37-36! So it's the top five from the upper tier of block 3 who will be in the final six along with a random remote pick... and that's an old man from seat 8 in block 9B!

Into the poll-the-audience round, where our host Linda is having fun with old ladies.

Mark goes out first (€1,000) with a truly embarrassing guess (225, answer 50).
The second question refers in some way to the 'kredietcrisis'. Esther is out (€2,000 for her) with a guess of 298 (answer 120).
Third question, I think it relates to putting the toilet seat down... Gerard guessed 75, answer is 299, and he's gone (with €3,000).
Final question eliminates Nora (€4,000) with a guess of 280 (answer 399).

The final showdown is Richard v Harry. Wakeyists, you can now stop reading this thread.

Harry is a bespectacled, grey-haired man, self-employed I think, wife and two kids, mentioned involvement in cars. Must need the money now. Richard is engaging in banter I can't understand, and appears to be involved in some way in the media, mostly radio but also TV. I assume they did do some sort of eligibility check, but either way, I've picked sides for the first time ever (?) on this bit - I want Harry to play.

RICHARD STOPS AT €17,150! (No, not the same Richard!!!) And it was going rather quickly too... oh he came for a car! Linda asks if it was worth €17,000. I couldn't understand his response. The cash clock was to stop at €55,000. Bit of banter between Harry and the host, Linda uses the remote to pick someone to be used as a case-opener in place of Richard (7B, seat 15, a nutty lady called Nelly), and we take a break.

ShinyGarmentWatch: black, purple, glittery, don't ask me to describe the pattern. Shoes to match.

Harry chooses case 17. Random €10,000 winner has one of the best names ever: Thea Hage-Rovers. Back to Harry, he's got his wife of 27 years, Brigitte. Did Linda just ask if she was a hooker?

Your starting board:



For the first time I can remember, we get to see the board projected behind the contestant. The graphics for this are very minimal in blue, and not what the TV viewers normally see.

Round 1
22 (guess €50) - €10. Nearly! Gets applause at least.
11 (guess €25,000) - €50! There it is!
7 (guess €2,500) - €5! Linda is getting into this already and so are the crowd.
13 (guess €75,000) - €10,000. Again applauded, that is utterly disposable. Nice trill from Harry to pick...
15 (guess €1,000) - €5,000,000! She didn't want to reveal that, she was horrified and didn't show it to the camera for a while.
3 (guess €500) - €100,000.

Brilliant two-thirds of a round...

Offer €14,000

I don't even need to tell you what he did to that. NO DEAL.

Round 2
18 (guess €750,000) - €100
20 (guess €750,000) - €500. That's your hint... guess €750,000 and your case will be tiny!
24 (guess €200,000) - €75,000. Applauded, it's fine. Linda points out there's 17 cases left including his own 17.
10 (guess €400,000) - €1! 'Prima!'
6 (guess €1,000,000) - €750,000! Oh dear.

Another round with one, and only one, mega hit. That it wasn't €2,500,000 was critical.

Offer €65,000

More like it. One wag said Deal, I think. Linda points out how much it is, and that Phlip last week won rather less (the unspoken; after turning down more). Still, there's too many ways to win more from here. NO DEAL.

Round 3
25 (guess €25,000) - €400,000! 'Aiieeee.'
14 (guess €5,000) - €50,000. 'A zero missing! Unlucky!' Is what I think she said. Halfway stage and five of the top eight, but only one more on the right. Pretty well average so far.
2 (guess €5,000) - €1,000. Nearly... but good for Harry!
5 (guess €0.50) - ADBREAK? ALREADY? Fine...

We come back... to reveal€200,000.



Offer €128,000

That got the crowd stirring a bit. I've seen people Deal offers like this at least once if memory serves. I wouldn't. Brigitte is briefly consulted, Linda excitably opens the case... Harry fakes a button-press but closes the case instead! NO DEAL!

I think Harry's a tad nervous now.

Round 4
9 (guess €0.01) - €2,500. That'll do.
4 (guess €20) - €0.20! Linda's getting excited now, crazy hand-signals ahoy! Consultation with Brigitte to pick...
23 (guess €0.01) - €300,000. The crowd applaud it... it will do right now with three higher!

Three huge amounts, two cases to open, one life-changing offer coming up after Linda points out the 3/8 chance of at least €500,000 in the case...

Offer €202,000

My instinct is No Deal on the maths, but I'd probably play for about this sort of target on Miljoenenjacht... 'A euro is a euro', I think he said. The offer is 202,000 of them... he asks Brigitte whether he should stop... he looks anxious... fakeout again! NO DEAL! And I bought that one completely too, and looking at her so did Linda!

I think it'd have been the right move for him to stop... think... but mathematically he had to play on.

Round 5
21 (guess €500,000) - €20! Harry looks stunned! Linda reckons the million is affordable now 'but not the two and a half'.
19 (guess €25,000) - €5,000! Brigitte is stunned, Harry is a little bewildered, I'm delighted... Linda points out just how good this is...

FINAL SIX
€0.01
€0.50
€25,000
€500,000
€1,000,000
€2,500,000

Offer €375,000

With one to open I'm playing on, worst case scenario gets me back to €200k again; I'm not so sure he is or should be. Linda mentions a whirlpool for some reason. One to open remember. Harry points out €2,500,000 is still in play... hand up... long pause... NO DEAL!

Brigitte now looks more nervous than Harry is. This could be massive. Linda asks who has the cent for the selection of...

Round 6
Brigitte eventually suggests 8... long chat over this... oh did she suggest 26? It is...
26 (guess €0.01) - €1,000,000!

Harry immediately points out the €2,500,000 is still in play, and Linda points to the 20% chance it's in 17...

This is probably Deal time for me...

Offer €404,000

Oh that's Deal time for me alright, and validates his previous decision. He's nodding his head in tiny movements. He has to take this surely? Linda suggests the offer would be €100,000 if the €2.5m went, if I understood her correctly. Sounds right to me.

I think he's going to go. I think he should go. Another fakeout... this time the button's pressed! DEAL!

And that's a massive win and the crowd are loving it! But that's not it...

Round 7
8 (guess €25,000) - €2,500,000! How good is that?!? It was the one mentioned earlier too!

Only one way to miss out on the OPW now... Linda is loving this! 'The perfect moment to stop' Linda says.

Round 8
12 (guess €500,000) - €500,000! First correct guess of the night earns her €4,000 and it certainly WAS the perfect moment to stop!!

Round 9
16 (guess €25,000) - €0.01. Who cares?

€0.50 or €25,000... case 1 guesses €25,000, but he has €0.50. Case 17 had €25,000 and he sold it for €404,000!! An awesome game, one of the best I've ever seen.

Oh, and someone at home wins what the player wins on this show... and we get a live video insert, like Keith Chegwin on GMTV but far less annoying and for far more money!