This was asked in Donna's game (and slightly similar to another thread), and if i were on the wings this is what would always say.

What would hurt more?
Selling a £250k box for say £20k or blowing an offer of £21,000 and ending up with say £1.

for me, it would be the first one, as i would think that even though i had lost out on 6 figures, i still have something meaningful (though i always say if someone wins a £1, they could go and get a lottery ticket and win £7 million! )

Neither winning a £1 would not reduce me to tears because I have been through a lot harder times. Secondly I would not be so foolish to sell the box for 20k. I would play the whole game.

I'd rather blow a big offer, because then, you know that it was only bad luck that you did end up blowing it. If you deal, you're setting yourself up for a crushing defeat by the banker.

Tricky. If I took an offer of £20k or so and then I had the £250,000 I would be more gutted than if I went home with a few quid. However if I blew a massive offer of like £50k that would hurt a lot. It's a tough one to call really.

id prefer to blow a big offer to be honest, so then i can think "I gambled"

I'd feel more uncomfortable with a trainwreck that I could have got out of if I'd taken a decent early offer - I'd never forgive myself for not taking it.

I'd have equally dramatic, but very different, pain if I never had the chance to win big and just had a disastrous game all along, like Ken's game.

A game like Donna's... that would depend on how well I reacted to Noel trying to take me on a guilt trip (and there's no doubt he would).

There are results that you would settle for before your game. There's nothing much you can do about the proveout when you don't know what's in the boxes, but when you get a huge offer you have control over whether to accept or reject it. Real money is available to you and it has to hurt when you know you could have had it, where as regardless of how the proveout goes, you can know that faced with the board and offer that you dealt for at the time you would do the same again with a similar board and offer. Blowing a big offer to go home with peanuts would hurt the most.