Hello, and welcome to Week 20 of What Would You Really Do?!

As I mentioned in Week 10, weeks ending in 0 are special weeks with twists! Last week was an exception because I felt like going with the Halloween theme. But now we celebrate twenty weeks of people making poor decisions!

There will be two somewhat interesting twists this week. First off, to go with the theme of it being Week 20, here is the board for this week:



Hopefully the second £20,000 box will make for higher chances of £20,000+ wins.

But wait; there's more! 20 will be extremely significant this week, and here's why:

Once either £20,000 box is discovered, one of eight things will happen. The box selector for this week, hogwild94, will choose a number between 1 and 8. American Coupon Boy (who claims he is basing this decision on random.org) will then determine the next twist!

Here are the eight possible twists:
1. Double. The top prize at the time the box is opened doubles.
2. Half. The top prize at the time the box is opened halves
3. £1,000 bonus. £1,000 is added to each player's winnings, eliminating the threat of a blue win. (The player must be in live play to get this bonus.)
4. £1,000 penalty. £1,000 is taken off everyone's winnings for the game, and every blue win will become a 1p win. (The player must be in live play to get this penalty.)
5. One Box at a Time. The final round is played one box at a time.
6. Banker's Peek. American Coupon Boy will be informed of the contents of the box on the table.
7. Banker's Proposal. American Coupon Boy will make a proposal that can benefit both the players and himself, and it will be put to a majority vote to decide if it is accepted. (For instance, he will offer the average at the final offer IF the top prize halves.)
8. Nothing. The game continues as normal.

Isn't this exciting?

In addition, I'm going to temporarily alter negotiations. For those of you new (hi willrelf!), we previously had established that each player had one opportunity to negotiate with the banker on an offer each game. If the attempt for negotiation was no higher than the banker's previously established "max negotiable offer," then the player's new personal offer was that negotiated offer; however, if the negotiation was for higher than that max negotiable offer, the player was penalized with a personal offer of 90% the original offer.

Well, I'm going to change this in two ways:
1.) There will be no more negotiation penalty;
2.) Players can negotiate twice per game.

Hopefully this will make for more negotiation opportunities!

The game will begin at midnight!

Why does ACB have to decide the twist

That's the twist!

Box 14 has been brought to the table this week. (It would've been more interesting had it been box 20, but alas, random.org wouldn't cooperate.)

Round 1

hogwild94 really loves getting the taboo boxes out of the way first.

22 - £35,000

It's not quite death, but it is somewhat painful.

13 - £50,000

Are we going to do a WWYRD first and take out the power 5 in order in the opening round?

Newbie next. Let's give him a warm welcome

18 - (newbie) - 10p

It'd be really bad for there to be something like, I don't know, "the curse of the newbie."

9 - £10,000

One box left. Will we see one of the £20,000's in the opening round?

3 - £100

Nope! We are still in regular gameplay (at least, as regular as you can get with two £20,000's in play).



American Coupon Boy time...

(Proof.)

(hogwild94, please remember to send me your next three boxes. )

I've learned several things from the last 2 times I was guest Banker One, early 2007-esque offers will just lead to half the contestants dealing by the 3rd offer and the other half Wakeying it, and two, I shouldn't go Joe Pasquale on people.

Anyway, I am very much looking forward to how this twist plays out. Since I want everyone to be in live play when the twist plays out, I'm low-balling the offers prior to it :

Banker's offer:

£9,999

Also, this week's twist is based off a twist from a foreign version of Deal or No Deal. The first person to tell me which version it is will automatically get the maximum negotiable offer the first time they negotiate.

It's a good offer, actually. NO DEAL for now, though - and there was I hoping there'd be a monetary reward of some sort this week...

There's a possibility of a monetary contest taking place between Weeks 21-30.

Interesting twist, good offer, but it's never an option to deal at the first offer, so No Deal!

I don't know which foreign version the twist is based on, but I may as well guess and say the Australian one?

Sorry, the Australian version has a LOT of twists, but this isn't one of them.

The American one?

Definitely not.

This is from the Italian version.

NO DEAL.

Correct.

The Italian version of the show,Affari Tuoi, has a similar twist called La Matta (translated to English as mad-woman ). Double and Half were possible consequences of it since it was first introduced, and Banker's Proposal, 1k bonus, and Nothing all used to be possible consequences of it. Most of the other possible consequences of it are too complicated to do over a forum game, such as using a counting game or asking an audience member to pick the next box, a forced swap for another box, undergoing a skill test devised by the Banker for a 1k bonus, being told the location of a random blue, and being forced to abandon the current game and have another player replace you.

You have to leave the show, and go home with nothing?!

No, you would go back to the wings and wait to play another game from the start.

Round 1 results

In live play
daniel123
KP
willrelf

...only three people?

I need at least six participants in order for a Week 21-30 monetary competition to take place.

Round 2

I forgot to mention this, but if the £20,000 gets discovered, the twist of deciding which twist to employ will be decided upon completion of the round. Otherwise, Week 20 would last two weeks.

4 - 1p

hogwild94 kisses Jafar.

12 - £250,000

You can't get more of a contrast between two consecutive boxes than that.

19 - £75,000

Oof. Score that round as a good one for the banker. This also means the second and third highest amounts on the board are both £20,000. That is actually really painful.



American Coupon Boy time...

(Proof.)

(hogwild94, your next three? )

Ugh, terrible round.

Well, that round was a very bitter-sweet one for both sides. I lost the chance to enroll you lot into the 1p club, and you guys lost £325,000 in return. Since the penny was found, however, the offer won't crash through the floor:

Banker's offer:

£5,000

As always, you can negotiate a higher offer.

Well, I'm fairly sure we did worse in that round than you did, Monsieur Le Banquier...

NO DEAL for now, thank you!

No Deal...