On the way back up again!

Round 5 Stats
Boxes left: 5
Mean: £24,000.20
Offer: £19,000
Offer (%): 79.17%
Fair Deal: £12,635.74
Volatility: 1.67

Again, no deal! If the £10,000 was a blue I might consider dealing though.

But there are still two power 5 remaining with a nice backup. The 1p is just any other blue to me.

Noel does his "You'll never sit in that chair again" speech.

Kev says

DEAL

Really?! Lucky Kev!!

Proveout round

14 - £10,000 Newbie Sarah - Not enough says Noel

3 - £35,000 That's alright says Noel

22 - £1

Banker time with 1p and £75,000 remaining

Hah! 1p vs. £75,000...

The offer will go up! Not by much though, I would imagine.

Oooh, nearly the dream collapse.

Round 6 Stats
Boxes left: 2
Mean: £37,500.01
Offer: £26,000
Offer (%): 69.33%
Fair Deal: £18,763.70
Volatility: 7,500,000.00

Noel says the banker is loving it at the moment

Banker offers

£26,000 + A mug

At least the offer's just about right.

He could have still sold a 1p box though!

Bah, a hypothetical swap.

Oh, now the banker is offering the hypothetical swap.

I hate post deal swaps but I'll forgive it as the 1p is still there.

Kev says he might have chased the money if he played on and gone all the way, he also says he would have swapped for 19.

The banker calls back and says he would have offered the swap. Noel does the swap, so Kev now has box 19...

Noel opens box 19 and reveals 1p

Box 12 contains the £75,000

Don't kid yourself! You sold a £75,000 box for £19,000, OBW.

It's about time box 12 bought a big number to the table. The last power 5 bought with 12 was Patrick in March last year!

(Monica also had £15,000, but that's.... middley)

Oooh boy. What can you say about that?

Eight-box offer range of £11,500-£15,100. Remember, three boxes earlier, the £30,000 offer was near the low end of the range; the £12,300 here, likewise.

Three boxes later, and we have a very interesting final five, offer range £16,750-£20,900. £19,000 is very much an offer worth taking.

A 1p/Power 5 finish can produce an offer of almost anything, that is if Noel were to gag himself again. Having said that, the offer range here does start at The Rock and go up, to £33,500; £26,000 is a sensible offer, being an £11,500 saving on the mean and yet still one that few rational individuals would reject.

As for the swap... who cares? Would anyone aware of the value of money still be playing at this point?

Welldone Kev, enjoy the money!

Hmm, the game was a bit disappointing what with the crash in the middle and that bloody hypothetical swap at the end, but I really really really really liked Kev...he was awesome. In fact, although the games haven't been classics, every player this week has been an absolute legend. Hurrah!

What a horrible 4th round. He had the worst 4th round possible given he had the 75K! And the hypothetical swap is strange and lets players off the hook.

The 3rd offer was a bit low considering Nicola was offered 35k and Paul H was offered 40k. He was definitely right to no deal 30K given the board.

Anyway Kev was a good character so well done on 19k.

Brilliant start, well done Kev enjoy £19,000

Well done Kev on £19,000, it was a great game!

To be honest I was surprised that Noel didn't do the hypothetical swap before the banker's call given that he had asked Kev if he would have swapped. Obviously the banker/production team wanted him to do it!