It would have been very risky to no deal at 5 box unless you were 100% sure. There was only a 10% chance of avoiding both big numbers from 5 box and only in those circumstances would the offer have been any more than £50,000.

AAARRRRRGHHHH!!!

Oh butterfudge. I'm not that fussed she had the £250k in her box, even if she swapped for it. I suppose £36,400 is 'chunky money but Sarah rocks and deserved ten times that amount. *

What a great game though. I loved the moment when she picked box 3, even though she couldn't win. I don't know what amount I wanted to see!

* I know that's an impossibility.

Someone please get Sarah an application form for the next series of Channel Five's "Britains Psychic Challenge". That'd be cool!

Me too! I think if she'd been playing it still, she'd have picked it anyway, the last 'test' to see if her powers are reliable enough to take the gamble at the last deal.

I *beep* LOVE SARAH!!! She's an absolute legend, both on the show and on this site...I actually could not care less that she had the £250k, as I was so worried throughout most of the game that she was going to end up with nothing. I'd definitely definitely have Dealt when she did too, and I'm really glad she got such a big amount. Well done Sarah!!!

Well done Sarah - you really deserved to win and £36k is a great sum of money.

To those who say you should have gone on - well to them - it is really so stressful sitting in the chair and it is easy when you are not in that position. You dealt at the right time

Can't wait for your party -I am deffo coming down and am staying with Brian and Val, It will be great for us all to get togetehr again.

You did good girl - and oyu came across as nice on the show as you are in real life.

Pam x

At the point she dealt, I was valuing the board as:

10% chance of an offer of £120k (which would then be turned down )
30% chance of a slight increase (which I would have dealt)
30% chance of a drop of about two-thirds (which I would be in two minds about)
30% chance of complete disaster

That means a cast-iron deal in my book!

It's not going to be the same without Sarah.

Aah, that game messed with my mind!!

I've got so many conflicting emotions here. First of all I'd convinced myself Sarah's game was going to be a total trainwreck and she was gonna win a blue, as the legends always do. So with all the reds going early it seemed to confirm this, but the sudden turnaround at the end caught me COMPLETELY by surprise. I was pleading her to take the £36,400 as the only way she was going to get a higher offer was if she left the £250k there, and considering recent Banker behaviour it wouldn't have been much bigger.

But she SWAPPED 10P FOR £250,000!! That's the second best swap anyone can ever do ever! I really dunno what to think...£36,400 is an amazing sum of money and really really really well done for winning it, but wow, how gutting must that be!

Still, had you not swapped there'd have been no way you'd have got anywhere near that figure, and £36,400's massive. It wasn't the biggie, but well done anyway! Gonna be a shame to see you go, you rock!

(By the way, some of Sarah's psychicness must have rubbed off on me today...as soon as she picked Andrew, '£10,000' immediately flashed in my head! I really scared myself when that's just what he revealed!)

I was convinced that you were going to win a blue as well, so well done Sarah. You deserve every penny!

AMAZING. a day after i claimed box 21 was officially the unluckiest box on the table. it usually is though.well done on £36,400 though sarah, you really are psychic!!!

WOW! What a game. Well done Sarah..£36,400 is a lovely amount of money

Woops I think I got that wrong!

Well done Sarah, you deserve the money. Great shame about having the £250K, but look on the bright side, you broke one record and equalled another! 8 Reds in a row and best swap ever!

Congratulations Sarah on winning £36,400!

Because even though they have a superstition or similar telling them to go to a particular number, they're rational enough to know that if the Banker offers walking money, they ought to walk? And I don't think '99% of the time' they've been right, there must be plenty of counter-examples.

I only followed this game in text and it sounded a quarter of a million times more exciting than Laura's. Who said January's Game of the Month was a shoo-in? The only way Laura's going to win is if the 'no, Laura's game sucked' crowd are too split between Sarah, Mariette, Nicola and Brian... and probably Bunney if his game befits his time on the wings!

Well Done Sarah

You played a good game. Shame you didn't win the big one.

Enjoy £36,400

Very Well Done.

And another spooky occurrence - Rachel (who originally had the £250k) was wearling a top just like Laura did when she played!

I got a bit too drunk at lunch today so I only caught the last 10 minutes of this game on YouTube but WOW it really was a weird game, I think had Sarah been slightly older / in a more positive financial situation she would have gone on, certainly I didn't think she was going to deal at that point considering how they edited Noel to say 'If you go on...We could have our second QM' etc.

I'm surprised the banker didn't play mind games and try to get her to use her physcic powers to predict the offers! (Or I missed that)

P.S. I loved how she said 'I knew it was there' AFTER the box had been opened

Congratulations, Sarah, on winning the money, enjoy it. I couldn't believe it when the £250,000 turned up in your swapped box. Weird!!!