Richie's game today, in the second of the special love week shows.

It's a year since the banker proved he had no heart in Richard's game when he made some horrible psychological offers involving Andrew who won a blue... will the banker prove he does actually have a heart today? Will Noel mention Richard's game? Probably not.

Noel runs through the rules of the love week - the player chooses a player to hang the heart necklace on, and when that player's box is opened, the banker will make an offer straight after...

Not too bad it's his game today even though his last three games he has had three reds, yesterday £15,000, Saturday £20,000 and then £100,000.

Last time he had box 17, it was on Friday, £100,000 in there.

Richie has box 17.

Richie says he's nervous and Noel says it's good His name is Richard Puddle and Noel has a joke about being called Dick Puddle! His girlfriend Lizzie is in the audience, and they met at a party in the 6th form. He is a student studying motorsports... He has done racing all his life, starting with go-kart racing when he was 8. Noel says with a name like "Puddle", he must be good in the wet. Richie says he's been in the local paper several times and the headline is always "Puddle makes a splash"...

Here we go.

Richie chooses who to give the heart to and he chooses the person rather than the box... Noel asks if Lizzie should worry and Richie says yes He gives it to Chris with box 19!!

Richie's first 5 numbers are motor-sport related, and the rest are random

16 -Barry - £50,000

Richie says "Never mind"...

11 - Katherine - £250,000

Lizzie says £100k is still there

2 - Ruth - £50

21 - Sarah - £3,000

Richie says it's alright...

10 - Debbie - £15,000

Time for the banker...

Noel wants more positivity... the banker is doing car impressions down the phone He also said that round was the pits and he had 2 blowouts!!

Banker's offer

£800

Ooh, my favourite player has the 250k in my favourite box!

I think that was a bit of a stall at the start there... just hope he doesnt crash

Stats after Round 1
Offer: £800
Mean: £14,568.59
Offer (%): 5.49%
Fair Deal: £5,069.19
Volatility: 0.68
Redometer: -17

Board
1p
10p

£1
£5
£10
£50
£100
£250
£500
£750
£1,000

£5,000
£10,000

£20,000
£35,000

£75,000
£100,000

The banker says Richie has all his eggs in one basket which is called Chris!

Richie NO DEALS

13 - Rachel - £75,000

Silence greets that one

20 - Jill - £20,000

Noel says this is destructive so far... but Richie says £100k is still there

12 - Kate - Noel says if this is £100k, this is an extraordinary game, and he calls a break, reminding us how the heart Richie gave to Chris could still change everything...

Do you really need to post something like this at the start of every single game? None of it has any relevance whatsoever...

We're back...

Noel says he feels like Murray Walker as if he made a comment about a driver, the driver would crash

12 - Kate - £35,000

Noel says it's unbelievable..

Banker time...

Oh deary me Can Richie have the Siobhan replica?

The banker is heard laughing hysterically down the phone...

Banker's offer

£4.50

He may as well have just spun off into the gravel traps with only a tine hope of getting out now...

Stats after Round 2
Offer: £4.50
Mean: £8,404.72
Offer (%): 0.05%
Fair Deal: £1,886.07
Volatility: 5.66
Redometer: -39 (↓22)

Board
1p
10p

£1
£5
£10
£50
£100
£250
£500
£750
£1,000

£5,000
£10,000





£100,000

Noel reminds Richie that £4.50 is real money

He NO DEALS

That 100k looks stranded

Noel wishes we had a set of jump leads which we could use to attach George to Richie, as George has so much energy!

Richie calls Bing "June"

7 - Bing - 1p

Noel hypes everyone up...

9 - Steve - £250

22 - George - £10

Banker time...

Noel says with a bit of positivity, the next offer will be £6

Noel wonders if the banker missed the all-blue round as he was laughing so much - the banker says he did miss it as he was looking for coins in the back of his sofa for the next offer!

Banker's offer

£3,000

Stats after Round 3
Offer: £3,000
Mean: £10,673.28
Offer (%): 28.11%
Fair Deal: £2,866.45
Volatility: 5.75
Redometer: -19 (↑20)

Board

10p

£1
£5

£50
£100

£500
£750
£1,000

£5,000
£10,000





£100,000

Jesus. Bad looking board and only reminds me of Geordie. Except his board was 15 times better. I reckon with that board a Geordie-Richard-esque blue win, as is the style in February.

Oh, and we had Richard on this day last year, now another one

By the way I posted this at the end of Round 2...

Richie wonders what the next offer will be after another all-blue round, and the audience cheer and applaud...

Noel says it's the right way to think and reminds him of Chris and the heart. Lizzie thinks NO DEAL. She says last time he had box 17, he had £100k

Richie NO DEALS

Siobhan had an all blue round to get back up but to only 575 pounds

George is pumping his arms in the air... Noel gets George to stand in front of the gameboard - and Noel gets Reg to stand on the other side

They both punch the air around the board!

15 - Nicola - £5

George and Reg shout "COME ON! COME ON!"

4 - Shaz - £750

Noel calls a break so we can sort out Reg's pace-maker

We're back...

Richie chooses Justin and Noel gets Derek to join Reg and George!!!!!

14 - Justin - £500

Banker time...

The banker says if it weren't for love week, the offer would be £5,000, but instead it's

Banker's offer

£8,000

Watching those 3 jump around is possibly one of the funniest things for a very long time

Stats after Round 4
Offer: £8,000
Mean: £14,518.89
Offer (%): 55.10%
Fair Deal: £4,504.90
Volatility: 6.19
Redometer: -9 (↑10)

Board

10p

£1


£50
£100



£1,000

£5,000
£10,000





£100,000

I agree! It was hilarious!!

Richie asks some others what they'd do... and it's mainly no deals... partly due to the offer after the love box is opened. Derek says that love changes everything, and therefore Lizzie should come down from the audience and she does so... She says she thinks he should go on, but if he knocks out £100k, he'll be chasing £10k... Noel reminds them about the love twist.

Richie says NO DEAL

5 - Andy - 50p

Noel says if the next box is blue Richie will join 2 other men who hold the "most number of blues in a row" record. Noel asks who would play the heart now and everyone says yes...

19 - Chris with the heart - 10p

Banker time now as the heart box has been opened

Richie thanks Noel as he did the sweep about whether or not to choose the heart box. The banker says he hates Noel even though he's ill! Richie joins 2 other men in the 8 blues in a row club... the banker is confused by his own love week tactics now....

Banker's offer

£16,000

B e a utiful! 8 blues in a row to equal the record after we got so close yesterday (I think)

Stats after Round 4.2
Offer: £16,000
Mean: £19,350.17
Offer (%): 82.69%
Fair Deal: £7,789.86
Volatility: 6.21
Redometer: 6 (↑15)

Board



£1



£100



£1,000

£5,000
£10,000





£100,000


Ooo one more and he gets another offer but £100k is very perilous...

I think I'd carry on but be prepared to stop at the next offer.

Richie says it's a very good offer... Noel reminds Richie that there will be an offer after the next box as normal, as there'll be 5 boxes remaining

Banker phones

The banker says he has some information and speaks to Richie... he said if Richie goes on one more box, if it's not £100k, he'll offer £21,000... if it is £100k, he'll offer £1,000... and hung up.

Noel asks if Richie believes the banker... and he's not sure. Noel says he wouldn't believe him.

Banker phones again and says what he says is guaranteed.

Richie gets those in the audience who would deal to stand, and only a few do so...

Richie DEALS

8 - Paul - £1,000

Banker time...

Banker's offer would've been

£21,000

Stats after Round 5
Offer: £21,000
Mean: £23,020.20
Offer (%): 91.22%
Fair Deal: £9,917.71
Volatility: 6.62
Redometer: 5 (↓1)

Board
£1
£100
£5,000
£10,000
£100,000

Richie says he'd have said DEAL here...

18 - Derek - £10,000

3 - Martin - £100,000

1 - newbie Margaret - £5,000

Banker time with £1 and £100 remaining...

Banker's offer would've been

£4.49

Perfect round!

Stats after Round 6
Offer: £4.49
Mean: £50.50
Offer (%): 8.89%
Fair Deal: £30.25
Volatility: 100.00
Redometer: -12 (↓17)

Board
£1
£100

Noel opens Richie's box 17 and reveals £100

Noel says Richie owes Reg a big drink as Reg brought so much energy to this game!

The other box - box 6 - Reg - £1

Noel reminds us Richie is a member of the 8 blues in a row club, and he's done some good work as he has £16,000...

Noel finishes by saying the heart trick changes everything and it's a fantastic opportunity

well that was up and down

I'm liking this twist...

Seemed as if this show was recorded over 2 days. You see blue in the ceiling during the day (later part of the show) but at the beginning it was dark :S

Interesting game today, a good result after a terrible start. Seeing Reg and co doing their bit was very funny.

I can't imagine a formula 1 driver called "Dick Puddle" though!

Cant believe I told him to deal at £8,000 !!! Think I must of still had a hang over !!!

A deal at £8,000 wouldn't have been bad. However, as he hadn't yet played the heart, I think it would be more sensible to carry on if he was going to choose it in that round.

I think that's a different type of hypothetical lie.

Are you saying the blue would be the daylight? huh

The studio doesn't have skylights as far as I know... unless I've mis-understood you. Anyway I don't think it was recorded over 2 different days.

This was a great show with lots of nice little twists that added to the game. They turned what potentially could've been a fairly standard fourth / fifth offer deal (albeit an OPW if it was a 5th offer deal) into something much more interesting. I think that's the first time we've had an offer at 6-box.

I was actually surprised he used the heart when he did... I thought he might leave it to get a 4-box offer perhaps. Once again the heart actually made the player win less because in a normal game Richie probably would've dealt at £21,000 at the fifth offer... but the offer may not have been that high normally. Who knows with the banker these days.

It was also a good show thanks to the trio of Reg, George and Derek - it was hilarious seeing those three all pumping up energy around the gameboard whilst Richie remained calm.

Well done to Richie for clawing his way to a good offer after that terrible start and those joke offers!!!

Wasn't remotely stupid advice - the only way it could have been a mistake is if it's seized upon as evidence that you didn't come to 'Wakey it', and I would more than likely have dealt too with that generosity as I'd have wanted to save the heart until three-box...

But the six-box use was smart today. Although even with the heart to play, £21k in that five-box configuration and I'm out like a rocket. £16k would have been a clear five-box Deal for me too (and I'm normally less risk-averse when chasing the £100,000 than any other big red!), but at six-box with a probable £21k (and I suspect the real offer, if not £21k itself, would have been £20,021 or some other 'evil' twist, and again I'm gone) I'm probably risking it. Probably.

That's two straight games where all the good luck has been in the mid-game - only this was even more extreme than yesterday!!

The banker guaranteed the £21K before he dealt, so it was accurate.

2nd contestant to have 8 blues in a row? Well done to him!

£8,000, if I was offered that, I would've gone on

That was undoubtedly one of the biggest turnarounds we've ever had

hi,sorry to see you take some biggies out at the start of the show but never mind you have a nice sum of money,best of luck Rich.Pat.xxxxxxxxx

You're very sweet to the contestants Pat shame you had to reveal big numbers to them.

Good game + deal - who else has done 8 blues apart fom Matt?

That was great, I thought to get a 5-figure sum out of that at the second offer would be virtually impossible, without having 10k or 100k in the box or 100k in the last pair! And the twist worked really well today too. It does give the player more difficult decisions than in a conventional game, that's for sure. Only troubale was at the time of the deal, it was only a 1 in 6 chance of an OPW!

Two things I wasn't keen on - the banker saying "If you take out box x, I'll offer y, and if you don't, I'll offer z". He did something like that in Ferno's game as well (and Shaz in November when he guaranteed at least 20k if she missed the 75k in the last round). Part of the challenge to me is trying to predict the banker's next offer against the one you've got - the only knowns should be at 2-box when you know if you no-deal it's one box amount or the other. For instance, Richie should have had to think "What will he offer above 16k if I take out a blue? Will it go down if I take out the 10k safety net?" etc.

The other thing was the stupid proveout offer - I know it doesn't really matter on an all-blue finish, but it seems as though he offers something stupidly low if it's impossible to offer something more than the amount that was dealt at (see also Stan's £1,500, Jean's £1,300 for instance). He should have just said something realistic like £21!

Ayway, enough moaing - Richie was great and hopefully the 16k will fulfill his motor racing ambitions - you never know, he could be the next Lewis Hamilton! You'll certainly know if its him with a name like Puddle!

And Derek, George and Reg are complete legends.

Clive i hate to see people loose i like to see everyone have biggies,i felt so sorry for the 1p players they were such nice people but if anyone has a low blue all the contestants give 10 pounds each to the player to boost their money up a little.

Ah, so all players like Shaun and Katie who win 1p for example get paid £200-250 say?

Another interesting game for love week. The game looked like it might be over before it had even started. So for Richie to get £16,000 out of the game was a good result.

When Reg, George & Derek were in front of the board giving positive energy I thought I must of been on something, as it was so random, but funny

I also think that Richie played the heart at the right time. I found the tactic played by the Banker of telling Richie what he would offer next interesting as well. With it being a 1-box game is it really worth risking £16,000 for the chance of an extra £5,000?

So despite my intial feelings this game was going to be a complete disaster Richie managed to pull it back and win a decent sum of money and get in the hall of fame at the same time with 8 blues in a row.

It's like the start of christmas week Louise won 5000 and Sandra won 8000 Viv won 5000 and Rich won double 16000

I really enjoyed this game. Yes, it was not a massive win but heck, £16,000 is lovely money.

Richie was awesome, i personally didn't see anything wrong in his attitude (as commented by noel as being too negative). And also, he played the game really well.

Awesome game, well done Richie!!

thanks guys, it was a nerve racking experience (although funnily enough the 4.50 offer settled my nerves slightly!) Great bunch of people though and an experience I wouldnt swapo for anything!