And the jackpot keeps rising. £485,000 is now available for BEN to play for!

How will he play for it, though?

Let's break the bank with Option 5, please.

You can look forward to a game of...



(In a bit, I'm just having a bath.)

Back in business! Regular board to start...

1p
10p
50p
£1
£5
£10
£50
£100
£250
£500
£750
£1,000
£3,000
£5,000
£10,000
£15,000
£20,000
£35,000
£50,000
£75,000
£121,250
£485,000

...but there will be some tweaks before you start! There are ten silver pots here with these ten sums: £3,000, £6,000, £9,000, £12,000, £15,000, £18,000, £24,000, £30,000, £36,000, £60,000. You will be picking one at a time to add to whichever boxes you like - the first one goes to one box, the second is split between two, the third between three, and the fourth between four. You must, in total, add money to five reds and five blues - the jackpot isn't red, you can't touch that, and you can't touch the 1p either.

Pick a number 1-10 for your first silver pot!

Pot 1, please.

And you make an opening splash with £36,000!! Where are you putting that?

To the surprise of no one, 10p.

Pot 3 next.

No shock there.

And... wow, £60,000 now!! What a start with these picks! Confirm which two are getting bumped up by £30k...

50p and £1.

Pot 5 next.

I'd put that in before you posted.

£18,000 split three ways this time, and at least one red must be involved here...

Let's go with £5, £10 and £1,000.

Pot 9 to finish things off, which will be added to £3,000-£15,000.

Boxes 1, 3, 5, 7 and 11 (or 13 if one of them is on the table) to start, please.

Alrighty! Let's get the final pot done... it's £6,000 so that's £1,500 to each of those, and here's your board!

1p
£36,000.10
£30,000.50
£30,001
£6,005
£6,010
£50
£100
£250
£500
£750
£7,000
£4,500
£6,500
£11,500
£16,500
£20,000
£35,000
£50,000
£75,000
£121,250
£485,000

As it happens, it's actually Box 13 on the table! So here's your first five...

Box 1 - £485,000!! First. Box. After such a good preliminary stage!

Box 3 - £500, more like it!

Box 5 - £4,500, also good...

Box 7 - £50,000! That isn't.

Box 11 - £100! Quality reply at the end at least.

Obviously the Banker is relieved.

1p
£36,000.10
£30,000.50
£30,001
£6,005
£6,010
£50
£250
£750
£7,000
£6,500
£11,500
£16,500
£20,000
£35,000
£75,000
£121,250

He says this would have been an appalling opening round, but with the money drops, it is merely a bad one!

BANKER'S OFFER

£7,100

Make of that what you will. Deal or No Deal?

Even without the 3 extra £30,000 amounts, this would still be a NO DEAL.

15, 17 and 21, please.

No surprise...

Box 15 - £35,000! Good job you've got three new amounts around there...

Box 17 - £750! You're picking those blues well!

Box 21 - £20,000 isn't ideal, but those money drops really are coming into their own here!

This would've looked ugly in different circumstances. But we're not playing in different circumstances.

1p
£36,000.10
£30,000.50
£30,001
£6,005
£6,010
£50
£250
£7,000
£6,500
£11,500
£16,500
£75,000
£121,250

A reminder of the Box 23 setup here:

DOUBLE
+£5,000
+£2,500
MONEY BACK
HALF
NOTHING

That reminder is because you've got this offer:

BANKER'S OFFER

£7,100 ON NO-DOWNSIDE 23 + 55" LG OLED TV

That TV is a 4K OLED with Dolby Atmos sound, comes courtesy of John Lewis & Partners, and is valued at £1,399. And you'd then get £7,100 on a Box 23 where the blue options become MONEY BACK. So he's gone up, but he's kept that £7,100... Deal or No Deal?

Yeah, let's continue and find the 1p, £50 and £250 so that I can be guaranteed at least £6,000.

NO DEAL and open boxes 22, 20 and 18, please.

You really are only one round away from that floor! What a great point that is...

Box 22 - £11,500...

Box 20 - £30,000.50! First one of those three...

Box 18 - £30,001! Another one. (DJ KHALED!)

Only one of those new big three in play for you, but with the focus on the new blues and the absent jackpot, it's become weirdly easy to forget you have those two reds there!

1p
£36,000.10
£6,005
£6,010
£50
£250
£7,000
£6,500
£16,500
£75,000
£121,250

This is a serious attempt to buy the box, he says...

BANKER'S OFFER

£14,200

Double the opening offer, despite the damage since! You'd have a Box 23 option on that, which could be interesting with that menu too... Deal or No Deal?