Well, yes. My shady experience of Bitcoin leads me to believe 0.5p can, in fact, still exist - just not in physical form any more.

My old coin collection once included a great many ha'pennies, but I've long-since lost what remains of it, sadly. I do have a few 3d coins, however, which seem to have survived the last few years - and the last few wars. Octagonal, I believe!

There was a chance for Dave to escape winning the ha'penny. It may have masqueraded itself as a poor offer, but it was an offer regardless, and it was called £4,300, and it doesn't exist any more. Can I criticise turning it down? In most cases, no, but with 1p the lower amount, absolutely. Risking £4,300 for a penny, unless you can afford to do so, and most can't, for those people is silly. So goes my view.

A sad blue win today, but at least history was made. Besides, Dave may be able to get a few quid out of that certificate on eBay, something no other blue winners can do nowadays thanks to their winnings being paid in cash.

Funny thing is, when I was Pilgrim Of The Day first time round last year, you god a VIP tour of the studios and a certificate... and the Half Penny certificate are a cheap, rip off version of that! I'll post a pic onto twitter later on.

Well, of course they are. They've got to be done on the cheap. It probably costs them more in printer ink than they're worth. They're half-penny certificates, not half-million...

I remember I had the WWTBAM board game as a kid, and the £1,000,000 was gold and shiny..

I still have the first WWTBAM game! I was looking over it just the other day. Used to play it all the time at the height of the show's success, and we even did our own version of the Major Fraud, complete with coughs!

Ha! This made me chuckle (and then have a coughing fit)

Do you mean £0.005? I'd have thought 0.005p would be 1/200 of a penny.

Edited to remove grave mistake regarding 0.005p being 1/1000th of a penny, because, er, it's not, er, I always knew it was 1/200th, er, um, er...nothing to see here...

Yes... Oops, I do indeed mean that!

No, wait! That was 0.001p! I'll go back and edit it so no-one notices my grave mistake...

Funnily enough, I recently stumbled across this exchange between MisterAl and JR from seven years ago, whereby JR suggests that in America, '.98¢' is the same as '$0.98'. To me, .98¢ is the same as 0.98¢ which is 98 hundredths of one cent, and not 98 cents as JR suggests. So it seems an American may interpret '0.5p' differently, although I don't know if the '0' is an important factor. The link that MisterAl supplied goes into more details on this!

Congratulating Dennis on winning 50p. I bet he was chuffed, Dan.

Liking the tangent this thread has gone off on.

£4,300 wasn't a bad offer on that board but I can see why someone might risk it.

I was like...I was like ACB, just...much, much worse... Hang on...ACB! Are you...trying...to imitate 2006/2007 me? Is that what your game plan's been all about since you joined here? Thanks for the attention-to-detail, you've done a rather good job, I must say!

Ahem. Off-topic.

£4,300 I can just about understand, given it was the 1p in play...I've seen worse. By which I mean, Sharon (August 2006) or was it September 2006? Sharon either way, and she turned it down to win the penny, too, although her offer wasn't too far off Dave's, at £4,500.

Ahem. On-topic.

I'd have offered £8,000 on that final two. Seems like a better offer to me.

Dave also wins the WCOAT Award for his "efforts" today.

I would like to get on the show one day and win negative money. See my signature below for how that would play out, if it ever were to happen.

On virtually ANY foreign version, that would be bang on or even slightly low for what you could reasonably expect for that finish. Sadly, this Banker is such a tight arse that he wants any player with a board without big money on it to go the end and crash to a blue, not caring about how the abundance of blue wins will influence viewing figures.

Of course he doesn't care. They're mad. He's mad, Noel's mad, Glenn Hugill's mad. We're all mad.

Sometimes, you get it exactly right, old sport. Replace the word "Banker" with "Producers," and you have the real answer. We just had a jackpot win. The producers are reeling, and are doing anything they can to save money. Hence these poor offers and the rampant blue wins.

Deal or No Deal... the only game show on television where you can win a denomination of money that hasn't been in circulation for 30 years. Where is the sense in that?

Methinks someone on their staff is a few sprinkles short of a doughnut, if you know what I mean.

Speaking of "mad," I used to be Mad Mark, but after spending some time in the Kestral Memorial Rehab Ward for Miscreant Forum Members (KMRWMFM), I emerged as a somewhat changed man.