Noel does seem rather comfortable

Ok, a visual summary of today's game, which once again makes interesting reading. What I quite like about this is that it's an impartial calculation based partly on maths (secret formula! ), but it's amazing how often I find myself agreeing with it - and, more astonishingly, how close it has been to the banker's actual offers in recent days...



I think I'd settle for that money ladder, and once again the banker follows my calculator advice to avert further danger, but get spanked once again! He's not doing a lot wrong lately, just the players are getting a bit lucky hitting the 27% (2 of top 3) quite frequently. Oh, and the banker's gamble was just not worth the risk for me.

Would that have made him more inclined to go for it though? Surely he'd consider it less likely that he'd have the same amount two games in a row. Anyway yesterday's game is irrelevant it's random selcetion after all

Think Stu made the right decision personally. Like Dolly yesterday he had a board that looked stronger than it was and £25k is a respectable amount to walk away with. That Banker's gamble was far too risky IMO, triple your money or go away with a pitance. No thanks

Now that IS spooky! I imagine even Justin would have been less willing to accept the gamble today though.

I was wondering if perhaps his wife was actually refering to the hypothetical swap, rather than the gamble? They do do it at the end of some games and maybe she didnt mean gamble at all and the banker just put a spin on it.

I found this game a bit boring, nodded off, tried to catch up on +1, but Stu forced me to nod off again. He choose the right time to deal though, I remember something about a caravan, I think £25,000 will buy him a nice caravan.

I thought the same. I don't know where the banker got the idea about the gamble from, unless he heard something that the viewers didn't.

Mathematically, it's not that spooky.

If we assume there are 48 weeks of episodes a year then there are 5 episodes a week that have a corresponding episode on the same date the year before. There are 462 combinations of final box on the table and box on the wings, so the odds of none of the dates having the same combination is (461/462)^240 = 59.5%(approx0 and consequently 40.5% of a shared final 2 happening.