Joyce expresses her displeasure again.

Banker phones back again and says no-one would offer £20k there!

NEW Offer...

Banker's offer:

£7,000

Round Four Stats

Mean: £10,313.75
Median: £875
Absolute Balance: 7
Significant Balance: 1/4, 1
Fair Deal: £4,994.45
Volatility: 1.54

Not a particularly good board so far, but it could be worse. £7,000 is good; I'd take it.

Joyce says NO DEAL

Round 5

5 - Matthew - £250

Matthew gives Joyce a big hug. Eric now, but Joyce calls him Ernie and she can't stop laughing!!

12 - Eric - £50,000

22 - Debs - £500

Banker time

Round Five Stats

Mean: £6,532
Median: £1,000
Absolute Balance: 4
Significant Balance: 1/5, 0
Fair Deal: £3,686.74
Volatility: 1.70

Joyce is annoyed that the offer's gone down and not up. Chris tells her to think about the money. Joyce asks if the banker will give her £10,000. She then says she wants £5,000 and she'd deal.

The banker phones back and says NO DEAL. It's £4,000 or nothing, he says...

Joyce says NO DEAL

Round 6

Noel asks Joyce what she's done....

14 - Linda - £10

Noel asks Joyce to stop squeezing him so hard.

1 - Aimee - £1,000

18 - Zoe - £10,000

Banker time with £750 and £20,000 remaining

Round Six Stats

Mean: £10,375
Absolute Balance: 5
Significant Balance: 1/2, 1
Fair Deal: £7,123.99
Volatility: 26.67

£7,000 was a good offer, and one that I'd probably be taking.

Noel says Joyce has been very brave and this offer might be enough for her.

Banker's offer:

£6,750

Joyce's daughter comes to the pound table and she says Joyce loses more than she wins at bingo.

Joyce says DEAL

Joyce has £750 in her box 9

Box 21 with newbie Hazel contains the £20,000

Joyce says the money will do a heck of a lot for her as she's never had that much money in 74 years of her life so far!

Blimey Joyce got soooo many cuddles I was sooooo jealous.
Anyway a good fun game bless her and she got quite emotional at the end. Enjoy your money Joyce xx

Fair play, yet again the big money disappeared early so the meaningful money was paramount to a good win...

That reminded me a lot of Helen's game - not a big money show but very entertaining throughout. Joyce was slightly bonkers but had a good heart and brought her full personality to the game, and a character to be missed for sure. I also thought it would be Jean today, so she might last 'till love week now!

Is there ever gonna be a game where the big ones stay longer than the second round, there seems to be a curse going on...

Sometimes with a big charector like Joyce their personality can become overpowering and the game gets a little lost but for all her outgoing vivaciousness and fun Joyce did seem to be taking the game seriously.

It was a fun show, not a lot of luck (the first offer was the highest by a fair margin) but full of zest and with an underlying heart. I thought she pushed her luck a little asking the Banker to up the offer twice - you can get away with that once if you're lucky but twice is asking for trouble - and at one point i did wonder if she was going to go all the way regardless, but the mask slipped in those final moments. There's a lot more to Joyce than you see on the surface, I think to an extent the Banker underestimated her.

The kind of game that makes DOND so great. A player with a wonderful character who pretty much got the most out of her game. It did seem towards the end that we might get another gambling older lady who was going to get a nice red box win but luckily she dealt an offer which I thought might have been a grand or two more.

I'm actually surprised that with Joyce living in Bristol and having an infatuation with Noel that she hadn't been a pilgrim before applying for the show.