Andy's game today.

Noel talks about Betty's game yesterday and says it was a horrible start but ended up with £23,000 and a holiday, although she had £100,000 in her box.

Andy has box 1.

Andy is a joiner and delivery man from Bradford, and he talks a bit about his job. We get to see a photo of Andy's girlfriend, and he says he's just received news that she's pregnant. Andy also shows a pic of his existing son and says he's a massive fan of DoND and of Noel! Noel reads on his cue card that Andy always fidgets, and he has a dancing talent as a result. He says he falls asleep if he sits down for too long!

Noel explains the Scrooge or Santa twist that takes place at the 5-box stage. There are 3 snowmen and 2 of them have a Santa and 1 has a Scrooge, find the Santa and the contestant gets an offer after every box in the final round, but find the Scrooge and the Banker gets to look inside the contestant's box and the final round continues in the usual 3 box style. There is also a Christmas tree where the contestant gets to the chance to win a holiday.

Here we go...

Round 1

Andy says he has a system, and that's that he doesn't want to take any box with a 2 in it! He's leaving 22 and 2 to the end as he likes the number 2.

13 - newbie Claire - £1,000

Noel tells Claire to keep her box open as not everyone's seen it.

17 - Dave - £35,000

11 - Matty - £100,000

7 - Tracey - £250,000

14 - Scott - £1

Banker time

Banker says that was a miraculous opening round, and he talks about the moment that Andy gave us on Christmas Day. He talks about the mystery Christmas Day on the holiday, and says tomorrow is the final day of these specials, and it's also the 1,500th show! He says if anyone gets the destination of the holiday correct, he'll give them £1,500 during tomorrow's show.

Banker's offer:

£2

Round 2

8 - Mia - £250

19 - Rina - £500

Noel gets Andy to call a break...

We're back

Last box before the Banker

Noel says Andy needs money to do up his house.

15 - Dale - £5

Banker time

The banker says Andy was out late last night, dancing to the Pussycat Dolls! The banker pumps music into the studio and gets Andy to do a dance...

Banker's offer:

£6,500

Andy says that's a lot of money.

Andy says

NO DEAL

Round 3

18 - David - £10

9 - Jim - £50,0000

You've had another one and this is uncanny, says Noel.

5 - Haroon - £3,000

Banker time

Banker's offer:

£3,250 + 1 gift box

an easy no deal, given that he has the 75k there.

Noel reveals that today's holiday is a week for 2 in Tenerife. David offers advice and says you have to hit blues after hitting lots of reds. The others say it would be one of the worst scenarios if Andy went away with nothing though.

Andy says

NO DEAL

Round 4

4 - Ian - £15,000

"Ooh no" says Noel.

16 - Marilyn - £20,000

Noel calls a break...

Rotten luck. Yet another 75k one box game so soon. It would be ironic if the boxes he's reserved for later actually have low blues in them. If he keeps the 75k I don't think the offer will be much above 8k again.

We're back

Last box before the Banker

Andy asks everyone to think BLUE.

10 - Lucie - 10p

Banker time

Banker's offer:

£4,000 + 1 gift box

Andy says the board's in his favour as he has more blues to hit, but Noel says it's in the banker's favour as there's a higher chance of a blue being on the table. Noel reminds us of the Santa vs Scrooge twist at 5-box.

Andy says

NO DEAL

For once, Noel actually gets something right and corrects a player's positive spin. Half-expected a Deal after that.

Round 5

Andy asks everyone to will a blue into the box again.

12 - Julie - £75,000

20 - Grace - £10,000

21 - Irene - £5,000

Santa vs Scrooge time

WOW. Why hasn't Noel mentioned Nikki Tucker? She was only talked about last week with a similar board.