We're now officially halfway through the year, so I thought I'd ask what people's opinions of the shows from January to June are.

I stopped watching just after New Year, but from what I've gathered, there was a deaf guy who communicated with sign language, someone called Reg, someone won £100k and some guy called Richard did a silly deal and then no one won over £20k for weeks. And loads of people have won 1p.

What's been the most memorable episodes this year, and who have been the best players? What events have particularly stuck in your mind? That sort of thing!

10 Words to describe DOND's 3rd season

1. Sobs
2. Squander
3. Sheep
4. Emotion
5. Strength
6. Cowardice
7. Loss
8. Innovative
9. Low
10. Superficial

My Best Games.

Clive
Betty
Mavis
MJ

My WORST Games

Richard
Hayley
Martin
Geoff

Worst Moment: Mattys Game, The moment when Richard said 'I'm going to deal'

Best Moment: Clives 'argument' with the banker!

Am I missing something, ah yes............

NOEL A BIGGER EEJIT THAN THE LAST TWO SEASONS!!!!

I created a similar topic a few weeks ago asking for ideas for the advent calendar. Seems rather early but I wanted to get some "inspiration" whilst the first half of 2008 was fresh in everyone's minds. I didn't get many responses in the thread... maybe because people can't think of that many events of 2008 so far... who knows?!

Anyway, the best contestants (in my opinion) between January and June 2008 have probably been Clive (the farmer), Eunice (sweet old lady), Graham (looked like Noel), £100k Betty (great attitude), Reg (1) (slighlty mad), Don (slightly mad), Jess (slightly mad), Tom P (the one in my sig) and Charles (Lance Mk 2).

The best moments so far have been (in no order): The light blowing in Sarah's game (Mar), Reg and the other old blokes doing "power pumping" in front of the board (Feb), Deano hugging Noel (Jun), David and the empty box (Mar), Semi's phone going off and Noel putting it in a cup of water (Feb), the whole of Clive's game (Jan), most of Eunice's game (Apr), Noel rapping in Emjay's game (May), Noel wearing a pink wig in Sylvia's game (Jun) and Betty winning £100k (May).

The most memorable episodes...

Clive (needs no description)
MJ (old lady who turned out to be a gambler and won £41k)
Semi (undealt, swapped and got an OPW)
Joy (painful trainwreck)
Matty (painful but slightly amusing trainwreck)
Boxgate David (dealt at the 3rd offer as well as one of the boxes being empty)
Eunice (amusing show)
Angela (big character transformation from enthusiastic to crying due to self-inflicted trainwreck)
Graham (looked like Noel)
Betty (won £100k)
Tom (fun and enthusiastic!)
Richard (worst deal ever)
Tommii (irritated me no end, but memorable because of that)
Don (crazy)
Sylvia (people randomly crying in her game, Noel wearing the wig and her selling £250k for £12,500 - the lowest ever for the £250k box).

There have been some amazing games so far this year. Betty's, Mavis's and Eunice's to name but a few.

I would have to say my favourite game of the year so far though was Tom's in May. For me, it was a perfect game. One of my favourite players combined with some good entertainment and a decent win.

I'm one of the select few (or perhaps the only one) who really got annoyed with Clive so his game wasn't that great for me.

Worst moments, well Richard's deal is certainly up there. Also 1p Matty's game was hard to watch.

Heres my list:

Best games & Players:

Clive - £9,501 - had me in stitches the whole way through
MJ - £41,000 - Great player, great game!
Laura (2) - £15,000 - Really liked her and glad she got a £15k OPW
Semi - £20,000 - The only one to take the bankers gamble and it payed off, plues the thing with his phone!
Phyl - £2,050.01 - Complete trainwreck of a game, but managed to keep her nerve and get an OPW!
Big Ron - £31,675 - I actually thought he was going to win the £250k, but it was a fantastic game!
Eunice - £13,000 - Great woman and a great game!
Emma - £17,000 - Liked her and got a 3rd offer deal that was a OPW!
Graham - £30,030 - Great comedy with him and Noel!
Betty - £100,000 - Fantastic player, great attitude and £100,000 won in great style!
Tom - £20,000 - Great player with great energy with a great win!
Zoe & Zara - £3,000 each - Loved them! So have to be on my list!
Harry - £9,000 - Great game with a good result!
Jade - £8,000 - Great player and a good win!
Tommii - £2,000 - I really liked him and liked the banter with him and Noel!

Worst Games:

Joy - £250 - Just a complete disaster at the end of the game
Matty - 1p - I couldnt actually watch the end of it with all the crying
Olga - £5 - Lovely girl with just a trainwreck of a game
Hayley - £3,000 - I didnt mind this game until everybody on here went mad at her
Richard - £22,500 - One of the strongest games ever and he blows it by having a 3rd offer deal
Janine - £250 - Lovely girl with a trainwreck of a game
Gracey - £250 - Just horendus luck for a great girl
Suzi - £250 - Lovely girl with a terrible game

Best Moments
Natasha turning up late
Namfon's board
Noel mucking up the start in Clive's game
Realising MJ was part Indian
Mark's translator
Reg, Derek and George's support moments
"Frodo...Lord of the Bings"
Gemma's game
Olga
Eunice
The strange Phyl game
Derek and Simmo
Peter walking
Betty winning the £100 000


Worst Moments
The £250 000 being squandered 3 times in 4 shows
Chris's pathetic game
Matty's game
Joy's game
Olga's game
The way David's game was dealt with
The SOB STORIES!
Me missing Allan's game =(
Richard's game

I forgot Gemma's. That was another awesome game!

I didn't see January. But apart from that:

Favourite players
Bing
Steve (5th march)
Sarah
George
Olga
Eunice
Janna
Angela
Diddy
Tom
Zoe and Zara
Jade
Melissa
Tommii
Jess


Favourite games
Gemma
Rachel
Betty
Tom
Zoe and Zara
Mark
Steve (3rd june)
Melissa
Mavis
Colleen
Yvi


Most irritating players
Dave (April)
Matty
Clayton
60k Matt
Richard

Worst games
Most of February
Olga
Ronnie
Richard
Kelly (SO boring)
Mandy (ditto)

I'd say overall, my favourite game throughout was Gemma's. Rachel's and Betty's would tie for third.
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richards and colleens games are the worst by far,
cant say theres been a best game this year yet.
will keep u posted in that one

Favourite shows this year... Betty, Clive, the twins, that's about it really.

Worst... well, most of the others really. Haven't watched one for about 3 weeks now but it doesn't appear to have got much better recently! Betty's game revived my enthusiasm briefly, I thought it might inspire a new golden era of classic games but instead we got the exact opposite.

'Best' - Possibly Betty - fantastic game and perhaps a few characters like Eunice/Graham but there hasn't been enough 'good' to really pinpoint much. (also a few good games in Feb/March perhaps)

'Worst' - a majority of games since Derek Brown's game but the really annoying thing was Richard's game and the ugly games follwing as part of the '20K thing' (even though that was presumably designed to force/engineer gambling)

Wow! The whole of the forum is in united hatred of Richard.

I wouldn't call it hatred from my part, just it wasn't a great game to see.

And i forgot Derek Brown, that was one heck of a game.

Best moments so far of 2008:

Clive's game

Greame the Noel lookalike

The Twins

Betty cause of her courage

And Gemma cause she won a power five after 5 months


Worst moments so far:

4 people blowing the chance of the quater-mil

Richard's deal

Katie winning the 1p

Coleen cause she cried a lot

And unlucky Ann, she should've taken the banker's gamble...

I'm not! The more everyone massively overreacts to his game (even over a month after it happened ), the more I like him...

Well your as weak as him and probably would have done the same thing.

Best moments..... Er not many Bettys £100,000 win and Marias £100,000 win and thats about it.

everything else has been a squander of huge proportions or horrendus sob stories no one cares about when your trying to eat your tea in a evening.
The crying is AWFUL and then you have RICHARD AND HAYLEY and RONNIE and 1K MICHAEL people like this brought the game down to a new low.

Yeah, I probably would have done the same thing...except for the fact that I wouldn't. I'm just sick of seeing utterly ridiculous things like "he's a disgrace to the human race" and "if I were his wife I would leave him" and people blaming him for all the other crap games that have happened since; there were plenty of crap games before him so it's not like he suddenly changed how the show was going, if anything you'd think his game would have encouraged people to gamble as it showed how cautious deals can go wrong. And the £20k prediction crap was the fault of the Banker/producers/whoever and nothing to do with him (although the fact that nobody did win more than £20k for ages suggests maybe his deal wasn't so bad after all, the object of the game is to win money after all and no one won as much as him until Colleen the other day... )

Oh and Maria and £1k Michael were last year, not 2008.

Yer my bad lol I got confused with that season 3 thread of Jiveclives.

As for Richard disgrace to the human race thing It was not me who said that was Basic I think. deffo not me.
I just think he was a disgrace to the game.

Even less was good than in 2008 if I remove Maria.

I think you're the only human being who condones that ghastly deal.

Okay he is not a disgrace to the human race but I've seen more bravery in a flock of sheep as Basic so rightly puts it. He was disgraceful and the po-faced look on his face after the deal really put our annoyance to a all time high.

And if Richard does come on this website (god help us all), he wouldn't be too pleased that people are putting him down for making his own decisions. He was just terrible.

EDIT: I meant encourage as in encouraging bad deals.

Could I just ask how exactly not hating someone who made a god-awful deal means you'd make the same deal?



He'd have every right not to be pleased!