Gareth's game today.

Noel is dressed as the captain of a spaceship and he introduces us to all the members of the ship, who are standing on the wings!

Fantastic set and costumes, hopefully a brilliant to go with it!

And I'll be back on stats today

This set ironically looks like the set for any other daytime game show in the HD era. Not sure that was the idea

Amazing costumes though.

Hopefully all the players will have a go with the "twist" at five box.

Gareth has box 2.

Gareth has a soft-toy monkey which his boyfriend bought him, and his boyfriend and mum are in the audience today. Gareth works as cabin crew and is from Nottingham. He shows a photo of him doing his pole-dancing, and Noel talks about how the banker gave him the opportunity to perform that in the studio recently. Noel says Gareth's ambition is to have a bigger pole.

Here we go...

I wonder what the twist today is. Banker hasn't mentioned anything yet. He usually does at the start.

The twist is mentioned here - http://blog.dealornodeal.co.uk/the-show ... -birthday/

Round 1

10 - newbie Leone - £3,000

8 - Marcia - £500

3 - Bex - £750

19 - Ann - £1,000

18 - Julian - £15,000

Banker time

Courtesy of Ice Lolly no doubt.

Noel wishes the banker a happy birthday. He says there'll be a skill-based game at 5-box, which will give Gareth the chance to go forward one box at a time and win a luxury holiday.

Banker's offer:

£13,000

Stats after Round 1

Average: £32,083.33
Fair deal: £11,885.04
Volatility: 0.85
Board total: £545,416.61

Banker's offer:

£13,000

1p
10p
50p
£1
£5
£10
£50
£100
£250




£5,000
£10,000

£20,000
£35,000
£50,000
£75,000
£100,000
£250,000

The others encourage Gareth to go on.

Gareth says

NO DEAL

Noel calls a break

Considering he hasn't touched ANY of the Banker's Power 5, that is a generous offer!

Looks like possibly another cautious player.

Plus break at 9 minutes past... possibly still in live play at five box.

By the sounds of it, the twist is similar to last year's Banker's birthday twist. Contestants can complete one section of the voyage for a holiday and if they succeed they get a chance to do the 2nd section for a chance to go one box at a time, but if they choose to do the 2nd portion the Banker will look in their box of they fail.

This isn't a configuration where I'd want to be dragged to 5-box.

On this evidence, Gareth won't be...

You know, you've been saying that multiple times now and it's getting a bit irritating.

You think he is cautious because he says that is a lot of money?

We're back

Round 2

6 - Aurea - £10

16 - Rohima - £100,000

12 - Karen - £50

Banker time