Basically a thread which can be dedicated to terms used on DOND.

What, like the DONDictionary in the Behind the Scenes book?

We could also use the thread to explain common fan terms, like The Rock, OPW/TPW/TBW/OBW, LTL, etc.

Very clever, Billy!

Yeah.


Not sure about the behind the scenes book but I think the type of thing yeah.

I actually started compiling one of these a while back but never got round to completing/posting it! Here's what I've got so far, in alphabetical order:

Black Widow: A female contestant with a record of frequently revealing high amounts.

Blues: The values from 1p to £750, which appear in blue on the gameboard and inside the boxes.

Cat flap: A "letterbox" at the bottom of the board (£750 and £250,000).

Honorary Blues: Term used to describe the £1,000, £3,000 and possibly £5,000, which are "reds" but in most game situations removing them is almost as good as hitting a blue.

Joke offer: An offer made for comedy value, by being very low and/or containing a number of significance to the player - the Banker is not usually expecting the player to seriously consider dealing.

Letterbox: An opening taking out adjacent values on the red and blue sides of the board.

LTL (Legalised Telephone Lottery): The viewers' phone-in/web competition. Originated on Bother's Bar.

Mally's Law (or Mally Logic): The system where contestants who had a high/low value yesterday are considered less likely to have one today. Named after contestant Mally from November 2005. The opposite theory is to avoid "Black Widows" and "Terminators".

One-box game: A game where only one amount of significant value remains, or where the gap between the highest amount and the next highest is very large.

OPW (Outright Player Win): a game when the player wins the largest amount of the six offers and their box value. From Bother's Bar.

Phonebox: Former "home" of the 1p club. Noel used to refer to "Four men in a phonebox" etc.

Reds: The values from £1,000 to £250,000, which appear in red on the gameboard and inside the boxes.

Rock, The: £20,000. From Bother's Bar - due to its status as a solid "safety net" amount which is valuable to keep in play.

Stick: When the Banker makes the same offer as he did in the previous round. In some situations this could be seen as a "trap offer".

Terminator: The male equivalent of a "Black Widow".

Trap offer: An offer from the Banker designed to unsettle the contestant or tempt them into an unwise gamble - either through being low in relation to the state of the game, or containing a reference to a target or a previous game.

Wonderful! Here's a few more...

1990s money: From Bother's Bar, it refers to a game when the highest amount left is a low red (ranging from about £1,000 to £20,000), as gameshows ten years ago, especially daytime ones, had much lower prizes. Variants can include a specific year, such as '1997 money'.

Sequencegate: Term used for the DOND scandal in early 2006, when it was discovered on Bother's Bar that the show used the same few sequences of amounts in the boxes. Eventually it turned out that they were using a Microsoft Excel random number generator that wasn't random at all, and things were back to normal from about early March.

Boxgate: A name given to the infamous moment in Massimo's game, when Tom accidentally knocked his box over causing it to fall on the floor and open, meaning all the boxes had to be reshuffled.

'Player 14': Term used for contestant Madie, who played in the 14th show, turned down a massive offer, and eventually went home with what was at the time the lowest DOND win ever. Famously he asked DOND sites to remove the details of his game, although since his game was reshown on More4 in August, the secrecy has gone and most posters refer to him as Madie.

Noel Sharp: Nickname for Noel with his mullet, a combination of his name and legendary mullet-wearer Pat Sharp.

Spaz: Originated on youtube when someone used the term referring to Noel's "AAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUU!!!" in Linda's game. Is mainly used to refer to that, but is also used to describe any odd Noel Edmonds moment, verbally or physically.

Spaz Mix: A very popular youtube video which remixes Noel's 'spaz' in Linda's game. Phrases from it ("You're dim!" "You're making the situation worse!" and Linda's "I'm far from dim!") have become popular in the DOND world.

Hand Spaz: Refers to a moment in Alan's game where Noel flapped his hands about dementedly after putting the phone down. Also a popular youtube video, and was worked into the Spaz Mix.

HALLO/HULLO WELLCUM: Popular in the chatroom, this is a reference to Kirsty's game, where Noel greeted her in a very odd Mr Bean-like voice for seemingly no reason.

Oh, so that's why people always go 'Hallo, Wellcum' when I go in!!!

It really annoys me, but I never knew there was a reason for it. You learn something new everyday....