It's been a confusing Christmas to end a confusing year, so we thought we'd provide some confusion in the best possible way with the 2020 Christmas Crossover!

Myself, Archie, and Aaron all hosted a game for each other over Skype - six games total. All of these were played under a rule set that combined twists from all three of our series and beyond - what we called "Unified Rules".

From the Aaron series, we threw in the board-bending chaos of Twelve-Shift and the time-bending chaos of the Replay.
From the Archie series, we added the regular spin of the Deal Wheel and the endgame option of the Bonus Box on a £35k win (this threshold can be removed on one of the wheels).
From this KP series, we tossed in the opening damage of Double 99 (applied before the shifts) and a modified version of the Booster Bids where both predictions were for a Win Boost.

And on top of that we added Kall's 23 with its agonising QUADRUPLE/DOUBLE/+£20,000/MONEY BACK/HALF/QUARTER/NOTHING money menu.

Over the next few days, you'll see how all six of these games played out with these Unified Rules. Game 1 saw ARCHIE play against the KP Banker, leaving Aaron to bring you this recap...

... and we kick off your 2021 with the first game of this sextet of shenanigans, which saw KP hosting for Archie!

Before each game gets underway properly, there's a Double 99, six shifts and a wheel spin, in that order.

Getting a kicking down is £3,000 and £100,000 to £30 and £1,000 respectively, and as you may have clocked, that already has hefty shift implications...

... the first six of which, are as follows:

£50 becomes 1p
1p (the original one) becomes NOTHING
£5 becomes £4 and drops a shift category, annoyingly...

£10 lifts up to £69...
£1,000 (again, the original one) becomes £16,666 and improves one shift category...
£500 becomes... £66,666! A wonderful uplift to complete "a very even early shift process" sates KP!

Box 3 is on the table, and we're playing with this board:

NOTHING
1p
10p
50p
£1
£4
£30
£69
£100
£250
£750
£1,000
£5,000
£10,000
£15,000
£16,666
£20,000
£35,000
£50,000
£66,666
£75,000
£250,000

And we're off!

Spin 1... is almost negligible - TINY PRIZE! That'll come later.

Box 7 - £1,000 "which started as the hundred thousand!"
Box 15 - NOTHING! "It does not get bluer than that!"
Box 22 - £250,000! "Of course, it's a Christmas Crossover game!" cries Archie. KP reminds him of the existence of the replay.
Box 12 - £15,000
Box 4 - £100!

Archie's bolstered by the power of Twelve Shift and refuses to replay here, meaning we're going straight on to Shift #7...

... and it moves 50p to 2p. Changes nothing, really! "The Banker will be looking to coin it at the end of this game!" The punguin strikes again!

No prediction from Archie here, and his first ticket out of here is...

BANKER'S OFFER

£4,321

A quick and easy NO DEAL from Archie, and we almost forget the Deal Wheel... will Archie wish we did?

+£10,000 TO BOX 23 JACKPOT taking the additive to +£30,000! He'll be glad we didn't!

Box 18 - £69! "Any way up!"
Box 2 - £50,000! "One of the big three shifters..."
Box 19 - £30! "That is your orange and your fake red gone!"

Archie, unsurprisingly, keeps his replay.

Shift #8 sees £4 moves to £147! "The cumulative damage is going to be that much harder for the Banker to rely on" says KP as he confirms the offer is locked in.

1p
2p
10p
£1
£147
£250
£750
£5,000
£10,000
£16,666
£20,000
£35,000
£66,666
£75,000

Prediction 1 of 2 incoming...

PLAYER'S PREDICTION

£6,789

Actual offer?

BANKER'S OFFER

£5,678

"That's an abysmal offer with shifts and Deal Wheels galore to come, the EASIEST NO DEAL I'll make tonight!"

One of those Deal Wheels comes now and gives him £3,000 CASH IN HAND! "Now you knoooooow you're spinning better than you did at Halloween, you're not getting spooked!"

Box 8 - £250! We're still looking for 1p, 2p, 10p, a pound...
Box 11 - £66,666! "The beefed up blue could bring a replay for you! This is where the danger lies and that's why he deflated the offer!"
Box 1 - £75,000! Marilyn, yet again, failed to deliver.

As the clock strikes eleven, Archie deploys his REPLAY.

Box 10 - £20,000! Archie states that has to be the top of the round now.
Box 17 - 10p! One of the huge downshifters!
Box 21 - £10,000! Archie is relieved, KP states it was very much worth the replay!

Shift #9 sees 1p moving to £6! "You're down to two huge downshifts and that's made the game very quietly better!"

2p
£1
£6
£147
£250
£750
£5,000
£16,666
£35,000
£66,666
£75,000

No prediction here...

BANKER'S OFFER

£6,543.21

Archie seems very much unshifted from his 14-box position, and now he's bolstered by a £3,000 Cash in Hand spin, it's another NO DEAL!

His Tiny Prize is revealed to be a 1kg of Carrots from Waitrose and Partners! "Well I love Waitrose and I love Carrots!"

Round 4 begins with Wheel 4... -40% OFF TOP VALUE! "We were due some damage from the wheel rather than the boxes and that's what we've got!" £75,000 drops down to £45,000"... but it is still a huge upshifter!"

"We want to see blues and we want to see real blues..."

Box 14 - £6! "A good one to not worry about!"
Box 6 - "Be not shít..." - £750!
"Engine engine" number 9 - £66,666! A noticeable eye-roll from Archie...

Shift #10 comes into play now means we see £5,000 out and we see £16,750 come into play! Hurrah!

2p
£1
£147
£250
£16,666
£16,750
£35,000
£45,000

There has to be a prediction here, his first failed...

PLAYER'S PREDICTION

£7,250

... will this?

BANKER'S OFFER

£7,890

No, that's good for a 1.9% Win Boost! "What a boost... NO DEAL" was the immediate response from Archie! Four amounts over £16k now, what can he make of it?

Round 5, Wheel 5... TINY + MINI + MAXI PRIZES! "You're doing all your best work on the wheel tonight, there's worse places to do it!"

Box 11 - £35,000!"If you can keep 45, you still have the huge upshift potential!"
Box 5 - £250! "We want the copper or the shiny coin, it doesn't matter which..."
Box 16 - £16,666! "That, I would say, is about the round the Banker could've expected, potentially on the worst side!"

Shift #11 and big money is at risk here... but it isn't. 2p moves... "are we about to bring some serious money into this game via the back door?" No. It's NOTHING.

NOTHING
£1
£147
£16,750
£45,000

BANKER'S OFFER

£5,678 + 10% of 2-box average

... which would be the 2-box average after the Twelfth Shift, too! Archie asks Aaron for advice, he says that he doesn't think the offer is as strong as it should be for somebody with that much in prizes and cash already tied up. KP states that the Banker says it could've been an oversight on the Banker's part! It's NO DEAL for the time being! "I wonder if perhaps the Banker misread the situation because it's so much less scary than he thought. It might become a lot scarier than it is now though..."

Round 6, Wheel 6... DOUBLE TOP VALUE! "This is the biggest top prize you've had since before your first offer!" 45 up to NINETY NINETY NINETY! "The Banker is thinking can he make another offer? No, because he's going to hit the £90,000 in the next box!"

"It's been spun, spun, spun, spin to death!" says Archie as the excitement starts to kick in...

Box 13 - £1!! "Two shots to find one blue and guarantee yourself a shot at the Twelfth Shift!"
Box 8 - £90,000! "We still have £16,750!"
Box 1 - £16,750!! Until we don't. "It is el-zippo against £147..."