Deal Or No Deal is about to start. You all like Deal Or No Deal, don't you?

As usual, I'm sat here not far from the kitchen, armed with sharp and/or tasty objects should it all get too much.

That intro sounds, and I'm still not sure whether the box lands ON Noel or just in front of him at the end.

Apparently "Doing a Tendai" is now in the DOND vocabulary, as that's what Jamie did.

Today it's GILL and she's going to win half a million pounds apparently!

Gill has box 22. She's a psychiatric nurse and helps people in difficult situations (that don't involve being on a game show, seemingly). There's a photo of her fiance, she has family in the audience.

Onward we go.

Hopefully a good result today.

Round 1

Gill is using a "story with numbers".

Box 11 - Vic - 50p

Box 19 - newbie Rikki - £5

Box 14 - Wally - £500

Box 4 - Katy - £5,000

Box 18 - Traci - £750

That story about getting picked on the show produced a good opening chapter! RING RING

I liked her story, wonder if she can keep it up.

fantastic opening

btw. Hi everybody!

Banker notes that the 1p's been on the table for 3 of the last 4 games. He doesn't like Gill's story at all!

BANKER'S OFFER

£10,000

Gill thinks her story's going to have a good ending! It's a NO DEAL.

Noel tells us to come back for the next chapter!

Plug for the competition, a holiday in Cancun is up for grabs. Didn't a player win a holiday there once?

We're back. Noel can't remember someone using a story as a system before - Nic from September 2009 might have something to say about that.

Round 2

Box 15 - Lyn - £250

Box 5 - Mo - £10

Gill's goddaughter begged her to pick box 22 - and she has!

Box 3 - Stevie - £10,000

come on! that was good! hope to see a big cracking game we would remember for a very long time

Obligatory banter about box 23 - yes, there are still people out there who probably can't recite every possible option.

RING RING. The banker doesn't like this story, and states this in a whiny child style.

BANKER'S OFFER

£15,000

Gill says NO DEAL

Up 5k that all . I was expecting 17k al least

Round 3

Box 9 - Samantha - 10p

Box 8 - Mandy - £1,000

Box 16 - Lorraine - yup, saw that break coming...

Some board this is turning into!

If this next is £15,000 or below, offer should start with a 2.

Spot on brick I saw it coming as well

That is fair to say hogwild94

We're back.

Lorraine has in box 16... £250,000

Phooey. Veering off the story didn't pay off. "That's so..." you know the rest.

oh no... similar game to Sam Hunt who won 100k...

she didn't seem do have been sure selecting box 16.