Was that Scottish Graeme? I'd have gone at £21,000 too. I saw Martin's game on More4 today, I'd probably have got £50,102. I think most people who didn't have a family to consider would have.

Yes, it was.

By the way, I'm going to disagree with anyone who says Pip today was an easy mega win, but it was one of the easier £250k wins - there was one big decision, at a sub-£30k offer, and then it was joke/joke/no swap to £250k (and very few are going to swap on any £250k finish).

Add Maureen's game to this list even though she somehow Dealt!

I was going to say Kerrie too but many Wakeyists would only have got 15k, and it wouldn't have been too unreasonable to have dealt the 20k at 8-box either.....

Maureen's game is definately on my list. Even my mother would have got £50,000.

Been a while since this thread was updated! Remember, for those new to this thread: we're looking for any game where almost anyone would have won £30,000 or more, even if the players somehow didn't (usually because they took very safe sub-£30k Deals - occasionally because of a £30k+ No Deal in the realms of insanity).

First to spring to mind is Amy's game - anyone should have made it to eight-box and £31,000, and anyone who can add up and divide by five should have gone at £75,000!

Seeing as no-one had previously posted in this thread since January 2009, Alice's game hasn't been mentioned!

Most people who dealt at 8-box for £17.5k would've probably taken on the gamble and won the £250k (assuming there was no swap). Of course those who dealt at 5-box for £30k (or whatever it was) were less likely to take on the gamble, I suppose.

£30k + non-cash guilt-trip-inducing stunt package

Yeah, her gamble was super mega easy to take. I wouldn't have taken the £17,500 at 8-box though so would probably have taken the 5-box offer. Would I gamble this? .Yes, if given the chance.

I agree about Amy's £75,000 Deal

But I have two others to say, £50k Des is one of the recent ones, I bet a lot of people would've gone to that point and dealt, targetists would've gone at 8-box, I'm sure

The second one has to be about £100k Maria, I think only Greeny and KP would've won the £100k through a swap since it was in 11 and a lot of others would've dealt at £40,550

Yes, I'd have won 100k in Maria's game as it was in 11, likewise I'd have won 250k in Kathleen's game as it was in 11.

100k Betty, while not necessarily easy, didn't need stupidly big risks to win big.

Yup, Betty's misses out because the final offer was definitely dealable and under £30k. I think most would have got there.

Marie had a tricky five-box offer if memory serves, or maybe I'm confused with Gaz 1 who had a similar board. (Gaz 2, £70,000.01 Gaz, counts here though!)

Des? Can't remember if he had any dealable sub-£30k offers - once you got to five-box you'd get two chances to take £50k and there was £100k in the box so only swappy Wakeyists would've got £20k. It's on the fringes of consideration for me...

Des's 8-box offer was arguable either way and was £25k. He had the top 2/35k/20k and blues IIRC.

Most people would have gone at £31k or £55k in Marcus's game, and also reached 5-box in Gary (Apr 06)'s game (although his deal was for £29,999 ).

possibly Carrie's game - the board was stable enough to continue to 2 box and win 35K+, hard to say how bad a 25K deal would have been in that game.

Although most people would have probably dealt at 5 box if the offer had been 30K

How about Nicola from Feb 08? From what I recall , £44,000 was the default result in that game

I watched Maria's game again when it was repeated during the summer break, and the 5 box offer was tricky. If I remember correctly, she was offered just over £9k on a £100k/£15k/3 blues final 5. I think a lot of players would have taken it. Betty's final offer was tricky, as most people would be looking for a bit more, but it was a lot of money to gamble.

Lower the cut off point to 25k for the revival and today's game is easily the easiest mega win EVER, and the player STILL missed out on it.

ALL of the offers before 2 box were easy no deals given how terrible the offers were statistically the stability of the board, and even the 2 box offer should be a comfortable no deal for anyone who doesn't have a rigid 30k target.

This will be the last odd thread I bump to express my distain for today's game, I promise.

Since we've bumped the thread for the ITV version, may as well mention some other easy big wins of 25k+. Chris has been astutely summed up above, and we also have:

Simi - exceedingly poor offers until 2-box. Almost everyone (apart from Chris!) would have won either the £29,500 she dealt at or £75,000 from the box.

Matthew - with the sheer strength of his board even £21,190 was a fairly easy no deal. From there you either dealt the £31,190 he did, £51,190 at 2-box or (if you were totally insane!) 25k in the box.

Looks like we can also add Helen to the list, easiest EVER 50k+ win there.