Elaine's game today.

Noel wants to remind people about something and goes back to Toni's game, and if the £250,000 goes early in your game it takes the potency out of the game, but in a game like Toni's with the £250,000 hanging around the offers can leap up greatly in the final stages.

Elaine has box 21 today.

Elvis wheels to the stage, Elaine is a freelance writer,and talks about some of the writing she has done. Elaine explains about the condition she has which is Osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bones, and she talks about how her parents discovered her condition and was then told she would not live beyond 5, but she has now passed her 50th birthday. Elaine talks about her wheelchair which she uses to get her around and calls it sexy, but would love to change her 'upstairs' wheelchair with any winnings as it is a 70's model and needs updating. Elaine shows a picture of her wedding day, and another of her family. She has her sister in the audience for support today.


Here we go...

Elaine's condition may well explain why she's playing in just her 17th show - but she's now the third player in four to do that amount of shows or less...

Hopefully, HOPEFULLY she'll give us a game that's free from squandered big money and crashes...

Round 1

4 - £1 Kim

7 - £100,000 Steven

6 - £5 Andria

8 - £35,000 Clare

16 - £20,000 Charlton

Banker time

OH DEAR... not a good opening round...

This had better not be a sign of things to come...

The Banker will be in love after that round says Noel. The Banker says he saved a fortune yesterday, and the best thing was she left all the tear soaked tissues behind and he came down and sucked all the juice out of them. He says that Nicola was expecting to play today, and she is so nervous and he overheard her talking about it and she said she was so nervous today that she gave the toilet a right battering!

Banker's offer:

£2,000

Elaine says

NO DEAL

Noel calls a break....

Well, this is Nicola's 23rd show.

But it's also Caroline's 24th...

I can imagine that her game will be Bananas.

We're back

Round 2

19 - 10p Cat

20 - £50,000 Daphne

18 - £500 Phil

Banker time

Noel thinks the Banker will still have a smile on her face. The Banker picks on Cat for getting Elaine's name wrong, as she called her Lorraine.

Banker's offer:

£3,000

Already it's a relative two-box game...

Noel asks Elaine's sister what she thinks as he is worried if he leaves her out for too long she will get upset, as she looks the sort!

Elaine says

NO DEAL

Round 3

Noel goes through some of Elaine's dreams, and she would like to give her mum and dad some money for all the help they have given her over the years. Elaine's mic transceiver falls out and a sound engineer comes out dressed all in black and Noel jokes about him being the Milk Tray man. The Banker calls and says that the sound engineer has to make a proper Milk Tray exit and he then plays the advert music. Elaine forgets if she has answered the question, and the Banker calls again and checks if Cat has been paying attention so asks her if Elaine has answered the question, but she doesn't know either, so the Banker tells Noel to throw Cat out of the studio!

15 - £1,000 Elvis

1 - £75,000 Tristan

Noel calls a break

I could sense Cat would get chucked out as soon as the banker started telling her off for forgetting Elaine's name...

QUIT MESSING ABOUT FOR GOODNESS SAKE!!
I'm so sick of Noel throwing people out. We've seen this about 100 times now!

Anyway, Elaine is really having some bad luck. I don't want to see her end up with 1p.
I've noticed that when she takes out one of the Banker's Power 5 she follows with one her Power 5. I hope this pattern doesn't continue.

MORE throwing people out of the studio... they obviously don't think it's become tiresome now...

And OH DEAR... OH DEAR... OH DEAR...

Now Elaine basically has to keep the £250k to get anything decent out of this game...

We're back
Last box before the Banker

14 - £250 Newbie Iain

Banker time

The Banker tells Noel to go outside and send Cat back to the hotel! He goes outside and finds someone driving a quad bike towing a trailer and asks if they can take Cat back to the hotel, so she gets in the trailer and they drive off with her!

Banker's offer:

£5,000

Noel talks about Elaine gambling on the horses, and talks about the massive amounts of money she has won. Elaine weighs up her board, and Noel runs through it as well.

Elaine says

NO DEAL