This is it. Will you be playing for big money on the time ladder?



The Banker rings and says that he doesn't have time to worry about stopping someone from winning £900, so he's letting you choose a box from 1 to 16 and you'll win the amount of payments inside that box.

No, it has nothing to do with you.

Evil is the operative word here, bud.

This was a game rigged for failure so that the host could laugh at you.

You know, this forum can be a sick, twisted place sometimes.

I forbid others from being subject to this kind of abuse.

Box 9!

I shall have to see proof via an excel spreadsheet screencap as soon as you see this message, before jumping to conclusions!

And winning £1.50 out of a forum thread has hardly affected my life!

Should've been more. You wuz robbed.

Skyline could've easily had £115.50 more had he read the board properly and dealt at 5 box.

Well, let's give Jacques his proof, just to make absolutely sure.

I have a spreadsheet set aside for my next game, available for public consultation post-game .

You don't have to be smartest person in the room, but you do have to be the most truthful.

Your move, Benjy.

Moving along ( ), Skyline has selected Box 9. It contains

Thanks for playing, Skyline.

And so ends the most unfair game in forum history. Sorry you had to endure that, Skyline.

I know our host enjoyed that more than you did. He's that sort of person.

Until next time, help control the fraudster population. Provide proof that your games are not rigged when prompted to.

Stay tuned for a special 1958 episode of Twenty-One next, over the most of these NBC stations.

Good night, everyone, and thanks for watching .

I'm failing to see why ANYONE would want to rig an forum game, in fact, the only forum game I am aware that was ever rigged was one I played that Skyline hosted..

I could think of a few.

1. Personal enjoyment.
2. Revenge.
3. A vendetta.
4. The desire to take advantage of someone.

It's just a forum deal or no deal game... don't worry too much about it Dr.!

Archstered... I hope you're still not peeved about that, haha

Not at all Dr. H just reminded me of it

The good doctor is always looking out for his patients here on the ward .

Well...I accidentally almost rigged a forum game in the summer of 2006 - I say 'accidentally' because I wasn't yet aware of how this business was meant to work, and how to randomise stuff, and I basically just wanted to wreak havoc and mayhem anyway. The game got to about 15-box or something like that before my contestant (maybe Qwerty, I think) cottoned on to the suspicious patterns and abandoned ship...this was accidental, however.

As my mom says, all of this was accidentally on purpose .

Skyline, we'll start the Le Banquier Hanukkah Special soon. I've got my spreadsheet ready, so there will be no funny business .

Ah, memory failed me! My contestant was the eminent albolton...feast your eyes on this monstrosity:

viewtopic.php?f=25&t=2959&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

That thread was an utter disaster. I winced while reading...

And for the BILLIONTH time, Dr. Hindsight, if I wanted to rig the game so that Skyline would win next to nothing I certainly wouldn't have offered 77% of the average on a 2 box game at 5 box.

It...yeah. It wasn't fantastic...