Noel welcomes everyone, "to your Dream Factory." Noel says they should be doing better! He goes on about Managers, as Sheron, Elaine and Joanne do.

Playing today is... ELAINE! Elaine takes the walk to the table with her Box 7. Lucky today? We need luck...

Good luck with the commentary Aaron.

Oh dear, yesterday she had £50,000.

Elaine Taylor from Worcester, manages a retirement company. Reg is in the audience. They've been together since they were 11! She has fostered 15 foster children. She has Sarah, Ian and 5 grandchildren. She has numbers in a book while she shows a family photo. She has a dream to dance the rumba on a tropical island, "wooo!" She would like to take the banker, lined up, saying, "Yeeehaw!" We go to the book and she explains she picked them from Tower Cards. No significance of Box 7, while she confirms that she chose the box randomly and the rest... Let's have a good game!

Long winded intro usually means they are filling time so i'm expecting an early deal.

Hope I'm proved wrong.

Thumbs up with everyone to start.

1 - Jimbo - £750 Good start.

Noels ticks the numbers off and points.

18 - Twins - 50p! Elaine gets a hug off both of them.

20 - Tony - 1p!! She isn't in the club!

17 - Betty - £5! Another blue! Is this going to be an all blue?!

"It's going to be an all blue opening round!"

6 - Linda - £1!! WE'VE DONE IT!!

Everyone goes wild and Elaine seems happy.

Banker calls... He doesn't believe it. "Two bulls locking horns," this could be interesting. Back to the line dancing... But he decides on Ballroom. She'll try Salsa, and the banker says he has the hips for Salsa! He sheds the skin off his hips...

Bankers offer: £12,000!

B. E. A. Utiful... doesnt get much better than that!

Stats after Round 1
Offer: £12,000
Mean: £33,231.01
Offer (%): 36.11%
Fair Deal: £8,943.16
Volatility: 0.79
Redometer thing: 36

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Elaine is there for the game...

NO DEAL

5 - Julie - £35,000

12 - Joanne - £100! Another blue goes...

He says 14... There's a mistake, because she didn't include the break in the system! You know where we're going...

No hint of any target-ism. Doesn't seems to have any financial or family pressure on her. Will she resist the inevitable mid-game ~20k offer?

We're back... "It's going up!"

14 - Maggie - £75,000! "Oooh no..."

A little less stable, yet the big two are still in play...

Useless fact about box 7 being on the table: This year it has come 7 times and 5 of these times it has had 1 of the power 6! Hopefully it has come with another power 5!

Good game so far! Hope Elaine can win a lot of money!

Over £100k going in that round but still a very nice board.

Stats after Round 2
Offer: £9,000
Mean: £32,487.44
Offer (%): 27.70%
Fair Deal: £5,352.64
Volatility: 1.22
Redometer thing: 24


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She miscounts, even with the rounds marked out

Phone rings... Noel asks for a brief conversation...

The offer has dropped to £9,000 which is applauded

It also has the highest average contents of the boxes never to have brought the 250k, and has one of the highest averages of all boxes in season 3.

"Ready for the question..." Pretty quick... but Noel writes something down on the paper... she replies with Most Probably...

NO DEAL

He rings back... "I'm not telling you!"

15 - Jo - £10!

13 - Si - £3,000

Aaand... 3 - Sal - £250! "OH YES!"

This is looking up...

He rings and he still won't giving anything away. "Most Probably" still echoes... The bull thing is back. "WOW"

Offer is £17,500!

Nearly 3 times as many reds as blues!!

Stats after Round 3
Offer: £17,500 + a jolly good tug
Mean: £41,051.01
Offer (%): 42.63%
Fair Deal: £4,873.38
Volatility: 1.24
Redometer thing: 31

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