Well funnily enough, it was only until about Brenda's game (9/2/2006) that I started wondering: "Wouldn't it be better and a lot more useful if they color code the box amounts for the relevant values inside?" And sure enough, come Gary's game (27/2/2006) they did just that which was very welcome.

I always thought it was odd how CJ, who did 8 shows in 2007 before getting the alleged red card from the show, was without fail, always chosen during the early-middle stages of the games she appeared in (which meant it was impossible to track down any footage of her opening boxes on the ilovedond.co.uk site, since only the last 10-15 minutes were uploaded there). I wonder if no one left CJ until late in the game because they couldn't trust her with such a burden at a critical point in the game since she appeared to have zero emotional investment in the game or with her fellow contestants

Actually, I just thought of another contestant who was shown the door before they could take that coveted walk down the wooden aisle to sit in the UK's most beloved wooden chair (which was probably on sale for £10 while gathering dust in a thrift shop by mid-2015, and then taken home by a family whose unruly 5-year-old probably destroyed it by swinging on it), Yvonne who spent the last 3 shows of season 4 on the wings, yet was nowhere to be seen at the start of season 5 and was never heard from ever again - we never even got to see her in casual attire since her ultra-short stay was in the seaside specials.

We've already heard the reasons why she ended up out on her ear (which seemed a bit odd to me - "You already won a gazillion pounds on a different game show and you're not from a struggling family who wants to win a couple of grand to save your dying dog, so you're out!"), but I noticed in her first 2 games, she seemed pretty relaxed and content when she was picked to open her box, but in her final game (Calum's game, the big season closer), she said "you deserve to win big money" with this rather disappointed-sounding tone in her voice, and when the credits rolled at the end of the show, she left the wings well after everyone else gushed in, Yvonne seem to just walk straight past the big group at the table and out the studio door - it's like she actually knew she'd gotten the red card by that point, and was pretty much reduced to a mere spectator for her final show.

That exchange between Calum and Yvonne when he asked her to open her box was amusing

Calum: "Good luck with your game, by the way"
Yvonne: "Calum, are you sure?"
Calum: "No love, I was being sarcastic. You're already a rich girl so you don't deserve to sit in the chair, and you'll be on your merry way once I'm finished here!"

It was her indeed, maybe they didn't want this smug so-and-so to appear on their show....

Found the game on YouTube - I never noticed her walking past the group at the end before! (Though it is me who said in the comments it's the mysterious Yvonne)

What other games was she on before that again? I think I have them uploaded on YouTube, if anyone can spot her do let me know

Found the game on YouTube - I never noticed her walking past the group at the end before! (Though it is me who said in the comments it's the mysterious Yvonne)

After 16 years you finally have a surname

The way 1p Matty's game went into absolute free-fall after he turned down the "£20k + 1 egg" offer felt like poetic justice for his cockiness at the start. Literally everything that could possibly go wrong went disastrously wrong after 11-box!:

- He took out all 7 reds one after another and then followed it up by taking out the 2 highest blue amounts, leaving him with almost the worst possible finish to a game

- He swerved away from the box he swapped away at the first offer, and took out £250k, then came back to his original box straight after, only to take out the next highest amount (£50k)

- He got no offers worth thinking about after the game started to apart, and was left helplessly playing on as his whole game came crashing down during the latter half of the game

- He failed to find the good egg at 5-box in an effort to try and rescue his game by getting an offer each box. Initially, he was torn between two eggs, and his alternative choice would've been the good egg!

- He took out the last red (£35k) in the very first box of the final round

- He joined the 1p club and learnt that he'd thrown away £50k in exchange for the smallest prize available (which means that if you include the £50k box he swapped away AND the £35k he could've won by taking the £20k + 1 egg offer and finding the good egg, then he unwittingly turned his back on £85,000 collectively, and got basically dead SQUAT in return!)

It was the cherry on top when the banker gave Matty back his money tree and tissue box! Now imagine if Matty did find the good egg and got an offer after each box (still taking out the £35k in the first box), with the final round dragging out while the atmosphere in the studio was totally dead and Matty being inconsolably crushed!

Well, in all honesty, no, I didn't. I can certainly understand why others would have, due to the bravado he displayed early in the show, but I honestly think that was just playing to the camera. He wasn't the first to do that, and he certainly wouldn't be the last. Nor the last to crash and burn like that.

I also don't think he regretted the swap that much, as it clearly what he wanted to do. I honestly think he regretted turning down the third offer more. KP said at the time that, had either of those second or third offers come at 8-box, he'd have taken it, and I find it hard to disagree.

I also think the show maybe suffers from being viewed in isolation, rather than in context following on from Matty's weeks on the wings beforehand, where apparently he was a prominent and popular figure and did the trails for the Easter shows. I remember James1978 saying that he found John G's crash a lot sadder after watching it after his time on the wings, where he came across well and provided good advice and encouragement to the others.

I just love it when a player who's so arrogant and cocksure (i.e. Matty) gets a final result that leaves them speechless and looking like "Woe is me"! I agree that was poetic justice when he didn't take that £20K + 1 egg offer, the game basically just fell into an abyss.