Jen thinks her luck has got to turn.

Jen says

NO DEAL

That corner has had almost all the big money today. The 250k, 100k, 75k and 35k all at the end of the East Wing

Round 5

6 - £75,000 Grace

15 - 1p Marilyn

8 -£750 Debbie

Scrooge or Santa time

Noel goes over to the 3 snowmen, one has a yellow scarf, one has a red scarf, and the other green. If Jen finds the SANTA he can play the final round 1-box at a time before getting an offer, but if he finds the Scrooge the Banker gets to look inside his box and he has to open all 3 boxes in the final round before getting an offer.

Jen chooses GREEN which contains SCROOGE

RED contains SANTA

YELLOW contains SANTA

The Banker now gets to look inside Jen's box. A polar bear takes the box and away and returns it with the Banker's seal on it.

Noel tells Jen not to allow the Banker to mess with her head too much now. The Banker calls and says he knows what Jen has now, and she is also guaranteed the SWAP at the end and he would advise her to take the swap!

Banker's offer:

£750

Scott asks what Jen would have done if the Banker had not seen inside her box, and Jen says she would have played on.

Jen says

NO DEAL

Round 6

1 - £1 Detrix

That is a good start says Noel

12 - £100 Sobia

Wow says Noel. The Banker then calls back and says that Jen has 50p in her box! He is now prepared to allow Jen to SWAP her box right now!

Banker's offer:

SWAP

why would she swap if he knows she has 50p

Jen says

SWAP

She swaps for box 13 which belongs to Daniel

Round 6 - Continued

Noel says that Jen should really being choosing box 5 now if she believed the Banker when he said she had 50p in her box, otherwise why did she swap!

5 - £20,000 Daniel

Banker time with 50p and £5,000 remaining

The Banker says he is a very bad man!

Banker's offer:

£700

Jen says

NO DEAL

Noel opens box 13 and reveals 50p

That was unbelievably cruel!!!

Amazing says Noel, the Banker says Jen had 50p in her original box and she actually swaps her box and brings it to the table!

Box 3 with Jay contains the £5,000

Jen breaks down into tears and says she is gutted as she thought 13 was her lucky number, and it won't be from now on.

yes. amazing pyschological trick by the banker. to get her to swap 20k for 50p or the 5k. Even if you were rooting for her, you have to hand it to the banker for that play.

Right, let's whizz through the irrelevant bits of this game.

At 17-box: yes, it's middling. Banker reminds us of this week's other twist in an attempt to make this look like a slightly higher speedbump than it is. Still, at least it's actually a reasonable offer - presumably to make sure she blindly chases the game if she faces four-figure offers late in proceedings.
At 14-box: this game still hasn't taken its decisive turn, but an exposed top three is an adequate position at this point. Offer creeps up, as expected.
At 11-box: Ouch. Right, now we'll get £NAFF_OFF. Three grand. Told you.
At 8-box: Unlucky to hit the top box when she did, but she has a mid-red backup, at least. Offer is again useless, and now we see why the early offers were perfectly fine - she's got something to chase so she doesn't stop at five-box.

Or at all, after that round. The lack of four-box and three-box offers is fairly irrelevant; the psychology may or may not be. And it is; an unexpected mid-round swap. How very Franco-Italian. Noel intervenes with the box selection, and the highest amount goes. How very... is there another version where the host intervenes even more consistently than Noel does? I think the Italian version is one, actually...

50p in the box to top it all off. The good news for the players due to play soon is that on past history, Endemol are going to change course and gift a couple of big wins to ensure the show at least retains the illusion of being a feel-good show. Definitely at this time of year, anyway. If I were on the wings now, I'd really want to play as soon as possible!

Poor Jen. Unfortunately she fell victim to the Banker's mind games and effectively cheated herself out of a big win. Though i suspect she would have swapped at two box anyway, if she had kept the £20k in play at least she would have (hopefully) earned an other worth dealing.

The good news for the players due to play soon is that on past history, Endemol are going to change course and gift a couple of big wins to ensure the show at least retains the illusion of being a feel-good show. Definitely at this time of year, anyway. If I were on the wings now, I'd really want to play as soon as possible!

True KP and as it is Noel's birthday tomorrow let us hope we get a better game

We were very surprised that she believed the banker