Yeah that's a very good offer.

Difficult one because there's not much difference between 30 and 35..

I'm going to take it. DEAL.

17, 5 and 10 next

It's a DEAL for £30,000! It's a funny old game is Two Boxes, accelerates very quickly but it can also fall apart just as easily - but you've got yourself some chunky cash - now validate that decision!


17 - £750 NO NOT GOOD ENOUGH

5 - £50,000! Good! We need one more biggie here...

10 - £50! Oh no I think you were very much still leading after that round!!

£100
£5,000
£35,000
£35,000
£75,000

That would've been £5k guaranteed...

BANKER'S OFFER WOULD'VE BEEN

£42,500

Next three! Hit either the £100 or the £5k and you were playing for a guaranteed Power 5 win...

13 and 8...

Next two OBVIOUSLY that's what I meant


13 - £5,000! Oh and you WOULD have!!

8 - £35,000!

Well that leaves you with £100 vs £35,000 vs £75,000...

BANKER'S OFFER WOULD'VE BEEN

£57,500

However, you've piqued his interest...

BANKER'S OFFER

BANKER'S ONE BOX GAMBLE

Hand back your £30,000 and relinquish ownership of one of your boxes and he will let you continue in live play as if we were playing a normal, non-Two Boxes game, and you will then open one box and then receive a final offer as you would normally!

What are we thinking? If you do say DEAL, let me know which of those boxes you want to keep and which you'll give back.

NO DEAL!

And NO SWAP

Refusing the gamble! Let's see where this money was...

On the table, 20 had £35,000 and 15 had £75,000!! What a power couple, what a game this could've been if you'd have kept with it! £100 was over in Box 2.

Box 23 time...

The Antidote makes this very interesting indeed...

DOUBLE (£60,000)
+£20,000 (£50,000)
MONEY BACK (£30,000)
HALF (£15,000)
FLOOR [ANTIDOTE] (£18,000)

The worst you could do is halve to your worst offer, but you could double back up to the highest!

Is this the final gamble you've been saving yourself for, or is it job well done at thirty grand? Box 23, Deal or No Deal?

DEAL, OPTION 2

Let's have it! This game started off so wonderfully, crashed and then you got out on the second incline! I hope there's one more uplift in this for you...


Option 2...

That was quite the game!

The thing is that 23 was an increasingly marginal proposition at huge stakes but a must-take at those ones, so the incentives were absolutely complicated! And it was hard not to get carried away by the upside on that 14-box board whatever the generosity, and it was also difficult to assess that generosity so there was never likely to be a 14-box deal there. And then, as Craig Charles might put it, it all went pants!