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You did the right thing - dont let anyone tell you otherwise. When you see a game go so pear shaped, you have to try to make sure that it doesnt happen to you. You were never going to get mega offers because you so unuckily took out the top 2.

Welldone! I think that was the right deal for you, and hey I wouldn't turn down £6,000 if it was offered on a plate! Have a lovely wedding and enjoy every penny!

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Oh, isn't it easy when you know how. Thanks very much. Just goes to prove, you are never too old to learn!!!

I spoke too soon! Why didnt i have a white box like everyone else. Sorry to be so thick!

i have mastered it.

Thank you!

I think you deleted the bit out of the first bit of the message

Congratulations

Anyway - I would just like to say thank you to everyone for being so warm, welcoming and interested.

Kestral, this is a great community you have here and I'm very pleased to be part of it

And here comes the "Tell your friends!" line

I agree, kestral does a great job especially since it's actually costing him to build a community for other people like us.

Cheeers - see, i am an expert now!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS, Flash! Well done on a good game, and beating the Banker! Enjoy the money and have a FANTASTIC wedding! I still think you should have used the windsock/donut method though.

Welcome Flash and congratulations on snatching good money from a bad board

You may have heard about Bother's Bar, another site providing commentary (usually with lots of statistics involved)... I'm one of the commentators and statisticians there, and I have to say you made a justifiable decision. Not necessarily what I - or most people - would have done, but looking at our statistics that offer was very much in deal territory for a cautious player.

I'd personally have offered £5,000 instead of £3,000, and £7,000 instead of £8,400... would have kept the themes going and would probably have more reasonably reflected the board at each stage.

You did indeed beat the Banker. The Bother's Bar definition of beating the Banker is selling the box for more than its value and for more than 50% of the highest offer, and you did that. Bear in mind that at least half the players don't manage that, and you can feel a lot better about your game

Thanks KP! It was a strange game, and quite frustrating in that the big money never materialised. Means that the records for runs of 5 digit deals are equalled but not beaten

But it was never there, so I can't be too upset. I think I beat the banker, and everyone there did too, so it helped me feel better!

Thanks very much for your comment.

My dodgy attempts at statistical analysis says that this isn't so unreasonable an offer.

(Warning: the remainder of this post contains mathematics. Read on at your own risk.)

£8400 was 75.3% of the mean of the remaining amounts at that time. So far, out of the 81 broadcast games that were still in play at deal-of-five, 22 of those games saw a more generous offer.

The average offer at this stage for an in-play game works out at 58.3%-of-the-mean, with a standard deviation of 21.9. Your offer of 75.3%-of-the-mean is within one standard deviation of the mean, which as any statistician will tell you gives no reason at all to doubt its validity.

In fact, in terms of what's happened in games so far, the £3000 hypothetical offer at deal-of-eight is more unusual. That was just 18.4%-of-the-mean. Only eight of the 110 in-play offers at that stage so far have been less generous.

The average in-play deal-of-eight offer so far is 43.0%-of-the-mean, with a standard deviation of 18.7. Your offer there was around 1.3 times the standard deviation away from the mean; a much less common occurrence.

Sorry for all that maths, but seeing as though you impressively stated that 1 is not a prime number today I thought you may appreciate it. Out of curiosity, is there any reason why you didn't continue choosing the remaining prime numbers (boxes 2, 5 and 17) through round 2?

Yeah, I think it was a bit unfair of the banker to claim he'd won because he 'saved money'. All things considered, he sold the box for more than what it contained, so 'saving money' doesn't come into it. I certainly reckon you beat the banker Flash, and well done on a great game!

No... I had planned to do that for rounds 1 AND 2... but my brain went fuzzy when I was sitting there....

I was just glad I didnt merit Noel writing 1 2 and 3 on my hand!

Ah right. I'm not sure it'd have made much difference anyway. If I'm right, boxes 2, 5 and 17 contained two blues and a mid-red, whereas the square numbers you actually chose also revealed two blues and a mid-red.

(I really should work hard on making my posts here more entertaining and less, er, factual.)

TBH there was no way I would of dealt at £6K, but then I wasn't sitting in the chair

Flash, we have seen people not deal and walk away with a lot less. As it happens you did a good deal.

You wanted £6K for your wedding and you remained focused on that. Well done.

To be honest Flash, I found you very boring.