Aileen’s game today. She has box 1.

Aileen is from Scotland and has brought some pictures with her. One is of her, when she was about 6 years old, with Dave Lee Travis at Radio 1 Road Show at Ingliston. Noel was racing a car, apparently! She shows another picture of her with her husband and son, and some random person in a Pink Panther costume.

Noel does the housekeeping and off we go…

Round 1

3 - Norma - £15,000

18 - Helen - 50p

10 - Russell - £20,000

15 - Chris - £5,000

7 - Paula - £50,000

Aileen talks about how she has been labelled 'The Black Widow’ because she has revealed large reds in peoples games. Noel says she’s ruined more games than any other player. Oh shut up Noel. It’s not her fault!

Banker time…

The banker speaks to Aileen. He says the black widow has one natural predator, which is a special kind of wasp. “Buuuzzzz”

Banker's offer:

£2,800

Aileen says it’s understandable.

Aileen says

NO DEAL

Round 2

4 - Okiem - £3,000

16 - Fin - £100,000

Groans for that one.

Aileen asks Daz what he thinks about his box, he says she should leave him for a bit.

John M with box 6 after the break.

We’re back.

6 - John M - £250

Aileen says she feels lucky today.

Banker time…

Noel tells the banker he has no idea where the money is anymore than they do. "Ohhh" Noel chucks the phone down and blows the banker a raspberry.

Banker's offer:

£1,400

“Sorry I’m not trying to make it more difficult, but that’s ridiculous.” says Noel. Aileen agrees and says “There’s nothing wrong with that board.”

Aileen says

NO DEAL

“Yeah, you and me both” says Noel.

Round 3

11 - John G - £1

“Lovely smile, lovely number. Please do both, now” says Noel.

8 - Linda - £250,000

Oops. Well 1 out of 2 ain’t bad.

“You are the new BW” says Noel.

2 - Lucy - £750

Banker time…

Noel says this is bizarre. The banker is offering £100 for each spider leg.

Banker's offer:

£800

Aileen says

NO DEAL

Noel asks Fin what he think is going to happen. Fin says it all depends on where the £75,000 is. John M says she’s been very unfortunate not to have be called a centipede.

“He doesn’t say a lot, but what he says is magical every time” says Noel.

Round 4

Noel asks Aileen if she wants a quickie. Oooh er Noel!

13 - Anna - £1,000

17 - Sam - 10p

22 - Peter - £10

Cheers for that round.

Banker time…

Banker's offer:

£11,000

Noel asks the newbie Paul what he thinks. “She’s just too good looking to be unlucky enough to take out those top two.” “You smoothy. I can‘t believe you said that on your first show.” says Noel.

Daz thinks she’s going to win a lot more. A friend of Aileen’s, who is in the audience gives some advice.

Aileen says

NO DEAL

Round 5

19 - Brenda - £10,000

12 - Benita - £5

20 - Donna - £35,000

“Oh no!” shouts Noel.

Banker time…

Board at 5-box:

1p
£50
£100
£500
£75,000

Banker's offer:

£8,000

Aileen asks for Peter’s advice and he says she has no room to manoeuvre. He asks her if she’s willing to risk £8,000 to get a few hundred pounds. Aileen’s friend comes down to the pound table. Noel asks those in the audience who thinks she should deal to stand up. The majority stand up.

Aileen says

DEAL

Round 6 - proveout

Noel asks those who think she should have no dealt to stand up and if she finds the £75,000 in the next round, they’ll have to apologise to Aileen personally.

21 - Paul (newbie) - 1p

9 - Glen - £75,000

Noel gets the audience members who said no deal to say sorry one by one, and even gets one of them to get down on bended knees.

14 - Gary - £500

Banker time with £50 and £100 remaining.

Banker's offer would've been:

£60

Someone in the audience gets over-excited. Aileen says she would have gone to the bitter end because she’s twisted like that.

Aileen’s box 1 contains £100.

Daz with the remaining box 5 contains £50.

How come this one was on last night when it's Barbara's game from about a month later on tonight? Are there two separate re-run series going on at the same time?

Apologies for the confusion. Aileen’s game wasn’t on Sunday but in fact shown about a month ago on Challenge. I kept the recording and thought I do a full commentary on her game for the archives, as her original game thread commentary is incomplete. I hope nobody minds!?

As far as I’m aware, Challenge are showing just one re-run of series 2 at the moment. If the schedule is right then the next show should be Alison’s (24/3/06) on Wednesday 25th April at 6.30am.

Again, sorry for the confusion!