Round 6 - Proveout round

2 - £75,000 Stacie

15 - £100,000 Huddy

1 - £5 Brian

Banker time with £50 and £50 remaining

Ruth says she nearly played on and is happy that she didn't.

Banker's offer would've been:

£99

Noel opens box 16 and reveals £250

Box 7 with Caine contains the £50

Ruth says she was looking for £7,000 for a deposit, so this is a real bonus.

I noticed it said "With thanks to Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc." at the end of the credits. I assume that's because Brian was wearing an Elvis shirt...

Yay! This was definatly what we needed, right deal at the right time, indeed

Am I right, but has John made an appearance on Deal or no Deal before, as I remember a few weeks ago, Noel was talking to a player on the wings ( cannot remember who), about clothing or something, and he said your friend John, and it went to a person looking very similar to him.

Excellent game...well done petal xx

Top comedy at the start of the game. (We're ignoring Noel for now.) A classic turn-of-the-decade situation here: reasonably paid professional cut adrift from the property ladder, first by the bubble, then by the lenders' response to their losses from the bubble. Hang on, though - she's a teacher, surely she could get a place via a Keyworker scheme? A quick search of Rightmove for two-bed shared-ownership properties produces about 40 results (excluding retirement properties)...

Anyway, on the evidence of a four blues/Rock opening round, she's going to get her deposit soon enough. Prices of two-bed places in Liverpool vary wildly, presumably because the inner-city areas are actually as bad as the right-wing press say they are - all depends on which area she teaches in, and hence where she would want to live. Opening offer is fairly well in line with long-term expectations for such a start, making it seem almost stingy on recent trends. Second round is in line with expectations - one Power 5, a blue and an orange - and the offers are being kept down today. Ruth saying that offer is brilliant, when it isn't, will ensure that trend lasts for at least one more round if not four.

£15,000 and £35,000... expensive? If this is blue it's no worse than an average round. Blast. Well if there wasn't going to be a useless offer before, there will be now. Onto the ADP... two blues... ten grand's OK. "Could have been a good round", Mr Edmonds? I'm sorry, but that was a good round!



Did you hear that? That's the sound of everyone watching this in London roaring with laughter. There really are properties that cheap in Liverpool, like this, this and this. I don't know Liverpool at all though, so I've no idea if any of these areas are remotely habitable.

Oh, she mis-stated the offer and it was revised as a result? Hah! I've lost track of whether that's a good offer for the board... not great but not bad... seems like she's leaning Deal. Oh, she plays on. Hope that came from within and not from without. And that it pays off.

Which it does! Is Ruth deliberately channeling the 'canny Scouser' stereotype here? In my position, with a similar goal but a location in the south, I'd play on, just - but in her neck of the woods £18,500 gets her the all-important 20% deposit that lenders are looking for now, so it's past an inflection point on her utility curve, and she's quite right to Deal for her.

Oh, and quite right she was!! Immense relief and an OPW from sound play. Good to see yesterday's game didn't sway the five-box decision.

I liked the 2 quickie rounds today - sometimes Noel's tension building at critical moments can get repetitive. Classic 2 box game at 8 box configuration today and with the offer pitched perfectly between half the average for the respective 1 box games if one of the 2 biggies went between 8 box and 5 box, a deal would have been sensible but the no-deal wasn't overly reckless and it was rewarded with a great 5 box offer and a perfect prove-out.

Great game, thought Ruth was going to deal at 8 box but she held her nerve and got out at the peak of the game. Well played girl. Oh and i love the new rule for speed rounds, makes them much more effective!


LoL at Noel picking on the newbie as well

Great game, with a very likeable contestant.

Was half expecting her to deal at 8-box, so was very pleased for her to go on and have a decent round and then get an OPW.

I quite liked those speed rounds, can we have a few more often please..?

Great stuff, and loving the sudden return of the speed rounds!