And so, we celebrate today's date,
April 30th:
2006 - No game on this date as it was a Sunday, just us trying to process all the madness from Massimo's game the day before
2007 - Roy's game peaked at £14,999 at 11-box, then dramatically fell apart during the next few rounds, but ultimately resulted in one of the most hilarious trainwreck games ever, thanks to this little exchange:
Noel: "£49 Roy, Deal or no deal"
Roy: "There's
no way I'm joining the 1p club.....DEAL!"
*Roy shakes Edmondo's hand as he deals for for a 49er*
2008: Elaine won £32,000 in one of the
extremely rare £30k+ wins during the post-Derek Brown "unlucky era". Unfortunely, this was still written off as a squandered great game and power-5 as she could've had £64k if she went another round and had £50k on the table!
2009: Mel initially dealt at a fairly lacklustre £10k offer at 5-box with the £15k, £20k and £50k. Being left with the £1/£50k at the final 2 boxes, Mel was still unsure about her decision, and so the banker pulled out his infamous draw card - The device then known as the BANKER'S GAMBLE, the first time he'd played this card since his fatal mistake in Alice's game 6 weeks earlier, and sure enough, Mel ACCEPTED the gamble, greeted with audible gasps in the studio!! In the big buildup to the box opening, Mel seemed to think she'd made a mistake as tears started rolling down her cheeks.....and then erupted into a frenzy of happy tears and shrieks of delight after Noel flung open the lid to reveal
£50,000!!
2010: The player rounding out April in 2010 was Johnny, one of rather a few contestants to appear on the show with that name. This particular Johnny-boy was known for his broad New Zealand accent and his tearful meltdown when he had to open his box at a serious moment in one of the games he was there!! In terms of his game, he had one of those games that got to a high offer, then crashed, then recovered, only to find out he could've had more if he opened his box. I think he dealt at about £6k or so at 2-box but had the £15k on the table
2011: No game on this date as the weekend shows were on a Sunday in 2011, just 10,000 hangovers were being nursed after the big WillXKate hitch
I can't be bothered typing the whole list but in terms of the other games on this date. In 2012, Craig sold a £20k box for £3k (much to the anger of a certain troll from the switch...), in 2013, Steph dealt at £9k and missed out on a big finish, in 2014, Jason turned a 1p win into a £10k win by purchasing box 23, and Walter had a great game (in contrast to his comedic namesake from 09) and won £33,000
There was no show in 2016, as the show was on it's lengthy hiatus before returning
6 months later for it's official swan-song run