Meena's game today.

Noel says the banker prefers the east wing and has been very rude about the west wing, so Noel gives us some more info about the west wing.

Meena has box 17.

Meena is a housewife and she came from India in 1970. She talks about how she has a chemistry, botany and geology degree. She has a flower necklace thing for Noel and the banker. She shows a pic of a cookery class which she runs as she loves cooking, and also shows a pic of her family. Her daughter is in the audience...

Here we go...

She has no system...

5 - Chelsea - £3,000

21 - Pete - 10p

12 - Judy - £500

13 - Ada - £5,000

18 - Claude - £50,000

Banker time

The banker recognises how positive Meena is. He says Meena was the name of his 4th wife... he was Mean and she was Meena He says it ended in failure when his son by her was a charity worker. He says his 5th wife was beheaded.

£8,500

Meena NO DEALS

4 - newbie Tony - £1

3 - Charlie - £35,000

Meena is going to put a bindi on each of the women during the break... Noel calls a break

We're back

All the women (and Pete ) now have bindis on their foreheads...

15 - Claire - £100,000

Banker time

The banker says that was lovely. Meena says her tea is lovely... and everything is lovely...

Banker's offer:

£2,000

That gets a bad reaction...

Meena says NO DEAL

7 - Julie - £250,000

Noel says the last 3 boxes have all been Power 5s...

Meena chooses Gill next and Meena says she's the newbie but Tony is the newbie today and Meena's already selected him Meena's daughter doesn't think Meena should go for box 11 with Gill so Meena changes her mind.

6 - Whitey - 50p

Mark next but he says the west wing is on strike because of what the banker said about them yesterday and they want an apology from him before they open any more boxes!! Noel says we've had a walkout before but never a strike... The banker phones and says he has his own way of negotiating with people who are on strike and he wants to negotiate... so he offers £10 to any pilgrim who wants to open the west wingers' boxes!! Mark says he'll open it anyway!

8 - Mark - 1p

Banker time

That gets a bad reaction from everyone and Noel says the offer's good as it's gone up after the loss of £250k. The banker phones and says he'll give £10 to any contestants who wants to thump one of the pilgrims

Meena asks for advice and Mark says she has a good block of reds as backups, and there's another round there... Pete agrees, and so does Bill and others. Meena says she's seen games go wrong...

Meena DEALS

What the! Silly woman!

Noel says "ooh wow" and he says it's very rare for a deal at the 3rd offer to work out! Some rather unusual bongy sad music plays (don't think it's been played for ages!) whilst Noel and the others discuss the deal and Meena says she's a very cautious and practical gambler!

Noel says we had one of the biggest gasps of surprise ever there!

Noel calls a break before we do the proveout...

Not sure she's done the right thing there, at least one more round there, probably 2.

There was at least another round in there

And this is my personal opinion, I think she let her daughter influence her too much and I think this is going to blow up in her face

I don't think she should've dealt there... yes it's true she could knock out the £75k but she had some low reds as backups. Also she was supposed to be a positive person so shouldn't have brought past games which have gone wrong into it. Also what is a cautious gambler?!

We're back

Proveout time...

Noel says despite the fact Meena's daughter would've gone on, Meena may end up being one of the cleverest players we've ever had... or not

20 - David - £10

Noel says that would've been a great start...

11 - Gill - £100

"NO, second component" says Noel...

14 - Penny - £250

Banker time

The banker says she's done the right thing...

Banker's offer would've been:

£13,500

Noel says Meena must have a nightmare round now... Meena asks Pauline who says she has a red in her box

1 - Pauline - £5

Noel says she's had 4 blues in a row... Doug thinks he's due a large amount so she goes for Doug!!! (Playing with honesty? )

2 - Doug - £20,000

10 - Arann -£50

Banker time