24 boxes, £1,000,000, and just one question: Where the *beep* is Archstered?

Oh, there he is in the crazy chair, ready to go from being the host to a contestant for only the second ever time, and the first time under the current set of rules.

Fittingly on the show's first anniversary, you have been assigned Box 1 at random. Please start by choosing your first five boxes.

Thanks, Ben!

5, 7, 10, 13 and 8 to start please

5- £10

7- £1,000

10- 10p

13- £15,000

You are one box away from undoubtedly the best first round board in the entire series!

8-

Banker Time................................

Board:

1p

50p
£250,000
£5

£50
£100

£500
£750

£3,000
£5,000
£10,000

£20,000
£35,000
£50,000
£75,000
£100,000
£250,000

** RING **

The Banker says he's going on a walk with his mommy now, so he needs you to Deal now by all means necessary, even if it means making a record first offer:

BANKER'S OFFER

£30,000

WOW!

But.. No Deal.

16, 19 and 12 please

The Banker is back from his walk, so we'll continue.

16- £10,000

19- £5

Doing great so far!

12-

Board:

1p

50p
£250,000


£50
£100


£750

£3,000
£5,000


£20,000
£35,000
£50,000
£75,000
£100,000
£250,000

** RING **

The Banker wants to thank you for doing a great job hosting the show over this past year. He knows you desperately want to top the highest win on the show to date (£420,000), so he's going to give two gifts that will increase your chances of doing so:

1. For this show only, MONEY BACK will be replaced with DOUBLE on Box 23.

2. For this show only, one of the MONEY BACKs will be replaced with DOUBLE on the Bonus Box.

HOWEVER, you must earn these "gifts" by correctly predicting this offer with 10%. If you fail, the Banker gets his own goft of being able to look inside ALL of the main game boxes. Of course taking this on is optional, though.

So,

BANKER'S OFFER

BANKER'S PREDICTION CHALLENGE

Deal or No Deal?

I'll take this on..

PLAYER'S PREDICTION

£41,800

And the actual retail price offer is:



So, keeping in mind this is the HIGHEST 2ND OFFER to date and that's enough money to activate the bonus box, Deal or No Deal?

No Deal.

17, 3 and 14 please

17- £20,000

3- £50

One box away from yet ANOTHER record-breaking board!

14-

Banker Time........................

Just as a reminder, the button is now ACTIVE!

The Banker says he can't think of an offer that will stop you, so he'll let you make your own offer.

HOWEVER, he has written down the maximum he's willing to offer on this board, and if the amount you suggest is over that amount, the Banker will instead offer you an END GAME.

Also, to throw a furtjer spanner in the works, he'll add £10,000 to whatever you suggest if it's within the boundaries and the next box is not one of the jackpots.

So, what do you want the Banker to offer?

Could you post the board. please?

You'll be SHOCKED at what the Banker was prepared to offer:



Which means your offer is indeed:

BANKER'S OFFER

£65,000

Remember, as part of the twist the Banker will offer £75,000 if you dodge the £250k boxes one more box and then press the button.

So, £65,000, Deal or No Deal?

DEAL!!

I like to keep the OB deep into the game, so I wouldn't have used it in the next round..

15, 21 and 18 would have been the boxes

It looks like the Banker got what he was looking for, there. Was he WAY too desperate for his own good though, or was your 3rd offer Deal a grave error?

15- 1p

As you well know, the Banker would've offered £75,000 at this stage had the button been used. Hopefully that was the extent of your error.

21- £100,000

Surely you wouldn't have kept BOTH jackpot boxes to 8 box??!!

18-

Banker Time....................

The Banker would've been so desperate for a Deal at this stage he would've been forced to go above the average!

BANKER'S OFFER WOULD'VE BEEN

£75,000

Next 3 boxes, please.

Hmm, I would have took that, too..

9, 2 and 6. Would have thought it was unlikely that I would have hit both 250k..