That is a good move says Jerry. He goes on to say that he is still here to play the game.

Jerry says

NO DEAL

Assuming the bikes and consoles cost no more than a total of £1,000, then including the extra £2,000, that offer was only about £3,000 - not that good really!

Round 6

7 - 10p Tel

2 to go says Noel

20 - £50,000 Shell

Such is life says Jerry. He remembers he wanted to keep 20 now!

5 - £10 Paul


Banker time with £1 and £250 remaining

Well now I bet he is gutted that it wasn't his game yesterday as all this talk about here to play the game, then well he probably would have gotten the £100k. Ah well, it's never to be.

Jerry says that his boys said they would frame the cheque if he lost.

Banker's offer:

2 photos of 2 top of the range games consoles

2 photos of 2 top of the range bikes

and 2 envelopes with 50p in each!

Jerry says

NO DEAL

Noel opens box 13 and reveals £250

Box 12 with Kyle contains the £1

The bikes would probably have amounted to £1,000, then maybe another £500 for the games console - £3,500 is poor even for a one box game.

I actually thought he might have repeated the generosity of the 8 box offer and stuck but that made it more personal I guess.

I don't think the bikes would've even reached that. Probably no more than £300 each, seeing as they'd probably be children's bikes.

I don't understand his children's logic that he'd be letting them down if he didn't play to the end. Surely it'd have been better for them if he'd tried to take something home?

What a shame, I really thought he would be the one to win big

Sounds like a disappointing one Bit gutted for Jerry, like KB I thought he'd do well. Did they mention what part of Louisiana Jerry's from? I have a friend who's from there.

2 days in a row 13's come to the table, and yet again it contains a blue! Hasn't the banker commented on that before? When was the last time it was on the table with a red in?

Just tuned in on Channel 4+1.

We're at 11box. Board not brilliant,

Player seems a tad annoying to me.

How on earth has he got an £8,500 here???

Easy deal all day long for me.

But I forgot. He wants to "play the game".

ok, no dealing £5,000 in that spot is frankly daft imo

5box offer isn't quite as clear cut. no idea how much bikes cost. guessing total value is about £3,000 though, so i prob no deal this if i'm actually this far

haha, comedy offer by the banker.

one of those games where i can't help but think it served him right

A new month, a new game, a new one-post summary. Thanks for doing the same yesterday Moxx.

Nic had an average game, made a very safe decision, and got a moderate TPW. How has that encouraged everyone to go systematic? Automatic? Let's hope the introduction goes like greased lightning!

First round post is at 4:20pm. Oh dear. Still, the contestant's originally from the US, whose game show contestants could never be accused of risk-aversion (not least because there's too much else to accuse them of).

The penny drops right away! That's that albatross off his back. He gets the expected Power 5 hit out of the way next box before hitting three values that would count as safety nets in trainwrecks, but can be treated as zero for now. Jerry is right to like this; the Banker openly endorses a player's intention to play to the end regardless, and offers £NO_DEAL. Excuse me, isn't the Banker's job to, you know, buy the box? These days, the Banker incites Wakeyism more than Noel does, and that's even ignoring his 'offers'.

We move on. Two values that are always useful safety nets go next, and oh crumbs there goes the jackpot. The Banker increases the offer by 250% after that, surely the highest relative increase ever after the £250,000 has gone. Jerry says he's come here to play the producer's game, 45 minutes of having fun without so much as thought for the financial decisions; as far as I'm concerned, the game is called Deal Or No Deal, and 'playing the game' means considering that question, rather than treating 'playing the game' as ignoring the gameplay.

Blue, big hit, blue. Still, he's got two huge sums left, and this is no worse than 'below average' for now. Oh crumbs, Mr Banker, can you be any less overt in endorsing reckless gambling next time? Second time the offer's more than doubled, and it's now positively dealable for a conservative player. Nic would have gone here, unless she was gullible enough not to stop before the Acceptable Deal Point; Jerry isn't, so at least he's honest.

And there goes £100,000. At this rate playing to the end will be an almost obvious decision anyway... and, indeed, Jerry notes the same at eight-box. Despite having taken out what is now a useful safety net, something the Banker quite brilliantly reminds him of by offering that very amount. I'd be gone here, it's about two-thirds of the mean unless I'm sorely mistaken; Jerry now appears to be a fatalist-Wakeyist, saying the game's rubbish anyway so he might as well gamble. What, the weakness of the board is a reason to No Deal? Am I missing something?

One-box game at five-box. Time to see if he really is a Wakeyist. Not long enough on the clock to celebrate a £50k win, is there? Oh-ho-HO, a cash-plus-prizes offer, with added family blackmail! By 'top of the range console' he clearly means either an Xbox 360 Elite or a PS3 80GB - both around £300 at the time of filming I believe. Some top-end mountain bikes can sell for four-figure sums (like these) - two of those bring the total offer past £6,500, around two-thirds of the mean on a one-box game and insta-Deal territory. Childrens' bikes are of course cheaper, the most expensive I found were these; two of those and two consoles come to about two grand in all, so treat as a £4k offer. Or, if you're Jerry, as the penultimate speed-bump before revealing what you've won.

Oh, it's a blue. After all that, he ends up losing courtesy of picking the number he meant to keep, and the Banker produces the most deranged moment of the season with an evil comedy offer.

And thus we have the finest example yet of the show's predicament. It is caught horrendously between being a show about gambling and a show about people, a show of mid-2000s origins and a show airing in the midst of the post-credit-bubble fallout, a show that openly induces recklessness and a show that resembles Noel's Recession Presents. You can almost feel the show trying to disown its past while being trapped in its own catchphrase-driven vernacular, never more so than when the contestants use it themselves. In that sense, Jerry's blue win could be a real turning point. Could.

As soon as we got a player who clearly though the name of the game was "No deal or No deal" and turned down 2 relatively generous offers at 11 box and 8 box, it seemed there was only ever going to be one result.

Only interesting fact is that at 4 box, the £10/£50k finish of the last 2 days was still a 1 in 6 chance (although he then took those 2 out in successive boxes)

Shame, he took a risk but he clearly wanted to play to the very end whatever he was offered or whatever was showing, I guess he was true to his word in that respect. Pity he didn't go home with a decent amount though.