I think Brunhilde's was the most painful, for me at any rate. Especially as it was box 13 that had the biggie, and 13 is her lucky number. At filming it seemed she picked the box without realising it was 13, perhaps she just picked the person behind it?? And she was like, Oh m God, what did i do? I didn't want to pick 13! As she needed the money for her daughter, it was even worse. She was really upset afterwards. She deserved so much more

Michael's game has to be up there with the worst, although I felt worse for his wife than him.

I think Tink (deal final offer of £2,900 for an OPL with £15k in her box) could possibly be a contender... and also Sarah from Thursday, simply because her deal came at a time when the banker was in charge anyway... and it didn't contribute to the players' luck.

Let's give this a revival

Any contenders from the later years?

I didn't see it but wasn't there in the last year or two (the Box 23 era) where someone no-dealt around £30,000 at 11-box and ended up dealing something like £2,000 and turning down Box 23 which would have got them extra?

That would be Claire from November 2015. She crashed to £2,300 (3 box button offer on 2 blues/£15k) and £15,000 went in the next box plus Box 23 had NOTHING so at least she narrowly avoided a total crash.

She didn't take it that badly from what I saw.

A more painful one from my perspective was £4,450 Matt from May 2014, as he dealt £8,900 at 5 box, missed out of 100k, then lost half his deal to Box 23, and he really felt stupid and beat himself up for taking the wrong gamble there in the end.

Yes that was the one I meant now I've looked it up, I think I got mixed up with another game for the Box 23 - it probably was Jen? who sold the £250k for about £10,000 then turned down 23 and it had DOUBLE in it but no idea how she took it as never saw that game.

Whatabout Esher who swapped away 75k for a 1k I remember the Banker's comments after that game "Self Belief can win you a lot of money but it can also rob you of a lot of money"

I often joke that her game was so painful that it scared Kestral away from the forum, as that was his last commentary and posts until recently.

Think after all this time it's pretty hard to topple Barbara from 2006. One of the few occasions where to this day I believe the contestant is still having major regrets. The 100k was *there*, about to be opened. And it was swapped for absolutely no reason at all, Mally/Mark baseless logic.

Oh yeah, she was forever nicknamed “Swappy Barbara” on here afterwards!

The swap seems to be a thing of the past, don’t think it’s been offered in live play or proveout at all in the new series. I remember them even occasionally offering it at the start instead of the first monetary offer!

I still remember word-for-word her speech after giving it away and taught it to my son as it made him laugh so much I wonder if Barbara realises her legacy 17 years later

It was her decision, alright? There were---th---th---reasons---it's just that her fingers were---there were, it was her decision, OK? Her decision.

Every time she's had the....she's had blue, she's had blue, she's had blue

Loved Sarah top left of your signature, just shame her game didn't go to plan!

She was the world's greatest <3

I stuck her game onto the 'tube during the lockdown and I remember thinking ''ye, that lad was on to something there''

Absolutely someone I'd be sharing a cig with outside a dingy nightclub alley