Twenty grand coming up now I think - third offer Deals are acceptable for telly and unacceptable for Noel, so Endemol won't mind throwing the classic targetist offer in now with associated Deal potential.

Oh, fifteen. The Banker is making absolutely sure this one goes to five-box, then. I'd take this next round as six boxes to open to be honest!

Wow this is emmense!!

Stats after Round 3
Offer: £15,000
Mean: £48,546.01
Offer (%): 30.90%
Fair Deal: £24,796.15
Cash left on board: £534,006.10
Volatility: 0.88
Board balance: 29

Board

10p

£1
£5






£1,000
£3,000



£20,000
£35,000
£50,000
£75,000
£100,000
£250,000
Guide to Stats

If he'd have gone up like he should have last time this offer should be £20k really.

wHats with the offers?? i dont think he wants her dealing!

Brian says the banker's testing her nerve, and he says he's cautious but the board's worth more than £15k, and the others give words of encouragement... Noel says imagine a final 5 of all the Power 5 amounts...

Em NO DEALS

Very powerful board and, with this suitcase twist in play, we could be seeing a very, very interesting game today... I don't recall ever seeing the banker getting to look in the box with some really big money left in play so it would certainly be unique to see her pick the sunburn box if she keeps the board strong.

£15,000 offer- that's abysmal though, deserves to be rejected without batting an eyelid.

And it is- well done Em.

Avoid the top three for as long as you can...

5 - Bez - £50,000

Noel says that's still not bad though at this point

10 - Tim - £75,000

7 - Helen - Noel says this is becoming a difficult challenge now, and he calls a break

There went one of the top three... Expect a joke offer even if 10p is next to go.

That's the inevitable damage here, and it makes utterly certain that we're going to five-box.

In fact I think she's going to be bullied all the way here. We'll see where that leads her to if it happens...

Doesn't the offer normally go up after a good round?

If I were playing, and the Banker mucked about with my offers, I would feel like complaining.

Em has a good round, and the Banker drops the offer to £5k, then has another good round, and he raises to £15k. What if she'd had a bad round after the £5k offer - the Banker would have to go down from £5k, even though the second round offer should have been at least £10k higher than it was.

I know some people think the first couple of offers don't matter, but they affect the offers later in the game. The £15k third round offer should have been higher, and now Em starts hitting the big numbers...watch the offer tumble next round.

It should have, as the £10,000 was acceptable to lose at that point.

We're back

7 - Helen - £1

Banker time

The banker says he's been given a chink of light now...

Banker's offer:

£12,500

Interesting from Muinimula there. But I think with this twist it's obvious that the first four offers are just scene-setting, low enough to force a No Deal and hence the activation of a five-box twist.

Should be looking for £20k+ here...

Stats after Round 4
Offer: £12,500
Mean: £51,125.64
Offer (%): 24.45%
Fair Deal: £23,780.70
Cash left on board: £409,005.10
Volatility: 1.57
Board balance: 20

Board

10p


£5






£1,000
£3,000



£20,000
£35,000


£100,000
£250,000
Guide to Stats

Haha, the old Chinese oversensitivity forum trick!

And I think that offer proves my last point.

Em says it's a lot of money and she gets Harvey down from the audience...

Em NO DEALS

£12,500- If Endemol are trying to push her on to 5-box, they could at least be subtle about it...

Harvey from the audience? Not the 'board reader' who was anything but surely?