We go on...

Box 16 - £2! Would have completed a beautiful sequence... in the last round.

Box 14 - £10 and the belated blues cruise continues...

Box 12 - £20,000. Of course!

Now, you have three predictions and three offers, but you can pass on any or even all of them...

2p
£1
£100
£500
£1,000
£1,500
£10,000
£30,000

Is this prediction time?

BANKER'S OFFER

£7,000

You're in the range! Well, at least you're batting 1.000 at something tonight.

Will you be putting £7,000 through that newly-improved money menu? Up to you... Deal or No Deal?

I don't see the offer being much higher unless I have a near-perfect round, but with only an 11% chance of losing all hope I think it's worth another punt.

NO DEAL, and hopefully I can FINALLY have an all-blue round with 10, 8 and 2, please (not opening 6 as it's obvious that it has the £30k ).

Is that a hilarious system break I see before me?

Box 10 - 2p! Well, that's one problem out of the way. At least £101 is going through the mangler!

Box 8 - £100! Make that £501! The floor is being belatedly raised... a bit...

Box 2 -


Prediction? It's not compulsory...

Of course.

No prediction.

BANKER'S OFFER

£3,950

OR

BANKER'S OFFER

£1,337 + SAMSONITE NEOPULSE SUITCASE AND NO 23

The suitcase is £225 courtesy of John Lewis!

Two offers... one question. Deal or No Deal?

Based on how the game has gone so far, I'd be a fool not to take one of these offers. However, as this is a RANDOM game and as such regardless of my prior misfortune I have a 60% chance of keeping the £10k in play (and hopefully a straightforward final prediction as a result), I'm going to be a fool and go for it.

NO DEAL, open 4, and then reveal the £10k in box 6, please.

Box 4 - £500! Four figures guaranteed in the money menu!

Box 6 -

PLAYER'S PREDICTION

£7,480

BANKER'S OFFER

£7,777

Obviously no problem there, the Banker pointing out that his formula didn't let him make the AMO he'd have considered for spite.

Two lots of MONEY BACK on the menu, and an alternative offer now...

BANKER'S OFFER

£3,333 + £777 ON 23

Potential for an unorthodox sum regardless.

If you turn both offers down you're taking the sum of your two boxes through to Box 23... Deal... or No Deal?

I'm definitely taking one of the offers here, but the question is which one?

Since the fixed offer is roughly 90% of the EV of Box 23 with £7,777, I don't think it's worth risking that dreaded NOTHING, so I'll gladly cut my losses and DEAL the £3,333 + £777 on Box 23.

I would've swapped for 19, and I'll go for Option 5 for Box 23.

We've got £3,333 locked in!

I'd ask which box you'd have swapped away but let's get on with business and confirm... Box 19 had £10,000 so you'd have been right to swap! Box 3 had £1,500, Box 11 had £1,000, doesn't matter much which you'd have swapped if you played on as long as you did!

Of course, you'd have risked losing the lot anyway and now you're not...

...because you have £3,333 plus something off this money menu instead.

MONEY BACK (£777)
MONEY BACK (£777)
75% (£582.75)
HALF (£388.50)
QUARTER (£194.25)
NOTHING

Option 5...

Fair enough. Had I blindly gone all the way I only would've won £5,500 after Box 23,

Sadly, this game invented the concept of a fatal 11th box. Had the jackpot stayed another box I probably would've predicted, gotten and dealt a Power 5 level offer, but at least I salvaged something half-decent in the end.