Stephen says the banker warns this will get worse.

Karen says

NO DEAL

Was the (mobile phone) call 'really' from the mobile phone or organized behind the scenes?

I'm sure when I was in the audience back in the Manchester days there was zero phone signal in the studio - probably on purpose to prevent any interruptions during filming!

Round 5

7 - newbie Paula - £2,000

Karen asks Russ about birthdays.

9 - Nay Nay - £100

18 - Wendy - £10,000

Banker time

£1
£250
----------
£1,000
£4,000
£5,000

Karen says what a game - you can see how it just goes.

Stephen calls a break...

And we enter a wave of caution from a low probability board collapse.

2nd offer deal will happen in the next few, quid's in.

It's *beep* like this that justified Richard's deal back in Beatlemania or whenever it was.

We're back

Stephen wonders if box 5 could be a connection with £5k. The banker says the game's collapsing.

BANKER'S OFFER

£1,170

Karen says it's fair, and her partner says it's a good offer but she should play on.

Karen says

NO DEAL

Round 6

13 - Matt - £4,000

11 - Chris - £1

Banker time with:

£250
----------
£1,000
£5,000

ONE blue and TWO reds

Karen says she hopes the banker will be generous. She says she imagines he has small, thin lips and that her grandmother said never to trust anyone with those lips The banker says he has trumpet player's lips.

BANKER'S OFFER

£1,695

Meg says the offer's only £700 above the £1k which is still on the board.

Karen says

NO DEAL

Round 7

10 - Sue - £1,000

Banker time with £250 and £5,000 remaining...

Stephen says he knew the banker would be clever.

BANKER'S OFFER

£2,930

Karen says

DEAL

Stephen opens Karen's box 5 and reveals £5,000

Box 16 with Meg contains the £250

Stephen says Karen can throw a great party for her daughter's birthday with that.

Interesting game - it’s so statistically unlikely to take out the top three like that.

Urgh can I just say though - I do wish the Banker would stop offering such random amounts. £2,930 is just a load of numbers. The player and audience has stopped listening once the first number has been said. Make it either 2k or 3k.

First £225,000 total nightmare round of the revival.

At least Karen did well to get back to roughly 3k after that nightmare round. Most players probably would've been shell-shocked by that and dealt at 5 or 3 box believing the luck isn't there.