Laura was £45k on a £3k/£250k so would probably have been about £30k.

I expect this show will get repeated many times like Laura's did. It's typical then, that the one show where I make a muck-up and almost drop the box when hugging the player, has to be in this show!

Congratulations to Alice - a lovely girl, and as she was one of the ones I arrived in Bristol with at the start of our time on the show, I felt quite a close link to her!!!

I was genuinely shocked when the banker's gamble was offered and I knew it'd create a bit of discussion on here. It was an amazingly generous banker's gamble (easily the most generous ever) and she just had to take it, so it was great that she did. A potential loss of £17,499.99 against a potential gain of £232,500 on a coin-flip was an obvious decision really. However, I would've respected Alice had she not taken the gamble as £17,500 is still a huge sum of money when compared to 1p. Although £250,000 is considerably larger!

I don't really think the claims of it being "manufactured" can be substantiated to a great extent as it's not as if Alice was forced to either swap or no swap. She had a free choice and there was a 50-50 chance that she was going to get 1p or £250,000. And quite frankly, who cares about the maths, stats and so on when you get a game like this? The show has waited over 2 years for another jackpot winner, and we've got one at last.

I felt extremely privileged to be part of this show as it was such a historic moment. I'll never forget the moment when those confetti cannons went off. Again, a huge CONGRATULATIONS to Alice - the second quarter millionaire!!!!

If I had one question for Alice it would be why didn't she swap for Box 3?

Was it because she couldnt live with the guilt of swapping away Box 8 because it was her game or the fact their was too much going on at the time to even think straight either way I found it strange that she kept Box 8!

But well done for making the right call

That was when it was the biggest Banker's victory.

Will be interesting to see in what direction the banker goes from tomorrow

Will he do what he did the day after Laura's game and offer swap after swap, because god help the player who has to follow that game and the best of luck to them whatever the banker pulls out of the hat tomorrow

No, Tolleck a few months ago sold £250,000 for £9,000.

Yes but it was way before that as I remember watching it.

I was so glad that Alice kept box 8. It was lucky for me. That was one fantastic show and I hope Alice enjoys every penny.

I agree with you david, lucky you getting best seat!!!!!

Oh yes, I have just noticed

I feel sorry for any of the other contestants who has to play tomorrow

Haha, you took the 555555th post killersbee

Well done Alice on becoming the second £250,000 winner

Though I knew there was a £250,000 winner today I didn't know who or how.

Can't even imagine what it must have been like for everyone in the wings, David, when she dealed the Bankers Gamble

Everyone's nerves must have been in absolute shreds before Box 8 was opened and well done you for witnessing a VERY unique moment first hand in DOND history

Agree with what you say about putting the maths and the stats to one side just for today, I think it's irrelevant given what has happened

YAY!!!

YES! YES! YES!

I have just watched todays show and I can hardly type. Totally awesome, what a show, two at last! Well overdue. I hadn't heard or read any spoilers, so I had no idea what was going to happen.

Alice just had to take that bankers gamble, it was incredibly generous, though I was dreading her box containing the 1p.

DOND has been on its best run ever over the last couple of months in my opinion.

If you ever read this Alice................................Well done, congratulations!!!!

I loved todays game
it did get emotional at the end for some people
Congratulations Alice,Fantastic game!

I don't think anyone thinks the win was manufactured completely, because as you say, there was still a swap available, but it was definitely meant to tempt the player to take it with it's huge generosity, but Like I say, whatever the reasoning for the offer, it's immaterial. I'm just glad she took it and won it.



I chatted to Alice and a load of other players about the merits of swapping while I was still in Bristol (theres a lot of tactic talk down there). When I saw her again after her win, we had another chat. Basically, I always said that taking a swap has absolutely no odds advantage in a game that is random, but there are different consequences by taking a swap over a no swap.

If you take a swap, you are making an active decision to choose were the money is, you aren't improving or decreasing your chances, but YOU are making the decision. This could then be a decision that may haunt you forever if it goes wrong. However, if you no swap, this is a passive decision. It allows you to stay with the random selection that was given to you by selecting a ball out of a bag. this way, if the decision goes bad, then you can rationalize it easier, because it wasn't in her box anyway. The bad loss can be palmed off as a bit of bad luck, not an active decision.

In both cases, a win is not treat with any analysis of why a decision was made, just a lot of celebration that it went well! but in a loss, I believe that a swap will be treat with more mental anguish than a no swap.

I will say that the only player who can believe and follow through with this logic is someone who does not believe that their lucky number is anything other than an arbitrary number in this game. Someone who believes in numbers having a significance are more likely to have the opposite outlook and if they didn't take the chance to open their lucky box would be a more regretful decision than to take some random box that was assigned to them.

But the choice of a swap or no swap is based on the players thoughts on what the boxes mean. Alice was in the camp of "the numbers are arbitrary", so she no swapped, as I expected she would.

I was so pleased for you that you were there for Alice's show. it made it an even better show knowing one of the biggest fans was on the wings to see the confetti well done David

how did you know it was the 555,555th post? I can't see any post numbers on the messages...

Also tomorrow is Friday the 13th. What a day to play on!