I didn't look them up, I was trying to think of periods where there have been runs of good fortune such as Spring 06, early 07 as Power 5 mentioned, Xmas 08 etc.....

I still haven't thought of the third one!

In that case, you are a huge nerd, and I congratulate you profusely.

It's my claim to fame at work that someone asks me a date (since 31/10/05 obviously) and I tell them the name of the contestant who played that day and how much they won.

Someone sat with Wikipedia open and asked me about 10 and I rolled them all off!

Looking at that, it does look really good but having OPW's to go with it would've been much nicer

I did think the third run of three £30k+ wins was going to straddle two seasons which is why I thought it was hard but there were blue wins either side of Nick D/Lance, and wins in the teens either side of Asim/Rossano, and summer 08 was almost all low wins anyway!

Oh and KB - this week or a week with 6 OPWs but the highest of which is £10,000?

It was certainly a tense game and Liam was playing a clever game.
I do have to say though hats off to the banker for being brave and telling the truth although if I was playing I wouldn't let the banker look in any of the boxes.
I do think that he should have gone for it as he had a minimum of £15,000 but still £60,000 is nothing to be sniffed at and I do hope that he does his nursing training.
Just think he will still have about £40,000 after the nursing training although probably pay off a lot of the mortgage with the money.
I am so pleased that he a happy person and what he said at the beginning when he mentioned he had only ever a maximun of £1,400 in his bank account proves that people don't have to be filthy rich to be happy.
I would rather I just had enough money to live comfortable, be extremely happy and try to enjoy every moment if I could than be greedy and not be happy.

Excellent psychological game today, so many facets and twists and turns, and a great battle between player and banker, and for once the player was nearly matched up perfectly to the board - it did seem possible at one point that he might well have become the second quarter-millionaire.

It's not often in a game I would contemplate turning down £60k, but today's was one of those occasions, and not because my instinct said the £250k was in box 2 as the banker had said, but because I would be perfectly satisfied with £15k, and would never have a 66% chance of winning £100k again.

It was another extraordinary mega money game like a lot recently where the peak offer has approached 6-figures! I thought Liam was brave to let the banker look inside the box, and perhaps if he didn't his route to £100k would've been easier without the mind games, but 60k is a great result, and a good finish to the week of specials.

MisterAl, you are minxy!

The other run was the first three Xmas star shows in 2007, I'd totally forgotten about those!!!

I've not seen this game yet, though at 8 pages long already, and on a sunday too, i'm really looking forward to it, hopefully for all the right reasons!! Will be watching it very soon!

You're not referring to the xmas stars '07 (Alan, Bridget, Sylvia), are you? Although technically those wouldn't have been filmed as consecutive shows...

Hee hee! Yep, as James1978 spotted, games 627 (Alan), 628 (Bridget) and 629 (Sylvia) all had wins of above £30k.

I worded my question very carefully!

What a brilliant end to Birthday week. That was a real battle of wills with some interesting twists, not least Liam agreeing to let the Banker look in a box.

Third game in a row where the player has bowed out before the game had peaked and i get the impression Liam is the one who regrets it most. But then being convinced you know where the £250k is one thing, risking £60k on a hunch is something else.

On the one hand i have to say £60k was an excellent and almost irrisitable offer (certainly a vast improvement on the banker's initital offer of £45k) but at the same time that was such a strong board at three box, and given Liam's target was only £18,000 I'm a little surprised he didn't go for it. Worse case scenario he'd be left with £15k & £20k and the likelihood of an offer close to the mean which would have been near enough to his target for a deal.