£45,000 is CLEARLY OVER-INFLATED! I would've thought about £30,000 as maximum. It was an all red round too so WHY does that mean a £25,000 increase? Why doesn't the Banker ever play with honesty? Also, I noticed some poor editing in the last round. Watching the board, I could see the £100,000 disappearing BEFORE the Box was even opened.

Yeah I noticed that too and I don't think the £45,000 was over inflated in my opinion as he's usually offered that with those 2 remaining at 5 box anyway. Al played a cautious but great game, I wish he had gone on one more round although he might have picked differently had he done so. I would have gone on at £20,000 but clearly it meant alot to him and at least there were no gimmicks, although there would have been if one of those 2 had stayed to the end with a blue.

Has anyone noticed the blue and red amounts in boxes look a lot poorer than they did and they look a bit whiter, why are they doing everything they possibly they can to destroy this show? The screen graphics look a lot worse in my opinion and the offer at the bottom of screen, I think if they are so keen to improve deal or no deal they should introduce offer after every box in the final round and abolish the banker's gamble- other deal or no deal's in other countries have offer after one box at a time when it comes to the end

I've always wondered if the other versions of Deal or No Deal in other countries have sank as low as the UK version. In other words do they also have the Banker's Gamble, special shows, offer after every box at 5 box, future offers and many more.

And do the bankers on the other versions offer decent amounts of money unlike owr banker? Makes u wonder...

You are all forgetting that the Offers in the earlier games were much Higher, because the Money was given by the viewers by means of the Phone competition. If only 2% of the 4 millions viewers Phoned that was £80,000 per game

Hi everyone, Over here in Australia, we do have a few "gimmicks" as follows: Chance - works exactly the same as Banker's Gamble. However, used much more rarely and never used for an amount over $50,000 (our top prize is $200,000). Generally used once per 30 to 40 shows where it could be used. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's where your banker got the idea of the Banker's Gamble - from our version (though I'm not 100% certain). Double or Nothing - at the end of the game, two extra suitcases are brought out. One says double, the other says Nothing. If the contestant whiches to play, they choose one and either get double their deal or absolutely nothing. Supercase - at the end of the game, an extra large suitcase is brought out. It can contain amounts between 50 cents and $50,000. The contestant can choose to give back their deal and go for the Supercase and risk going home with 50 cents or win $50,000. Usually brought out when the player deals at around $10k to $20k. There are special shows but the gameplay is the same. There is an offer after every suitcase (we don't use boxes) but don't forget our format follows the ORIGINAL DOND from Holland. We start with 26 cases and we open them 6 in the first round, 5 in the next round, 4 in the 3rd round, 3 in the 4th round, 2 in the 5th round and 1 in every other round until 2 cases remain, then the contestant's case is opened followed by the final case on the platform. We don't have the gimmick where the banker can look in a box/case. Over here, the player picks which case he starts out with and there is no SWAP at all throughout the game. To win the biggie, you must pick the biggie. Another thing interesting about the Australian version is the banker. He has a name (Walter P. Smythe) and he does not call the host. Instead, he calculates the offer and the offer is then shown on the screen. This again is directly from the original Dutch version. Generally, Australian contestants are more "laid-back" and are prepared to make the most of their one opportunity. I have seen people no deal offers here of 50k+ with $200,000 and two blues for example. Also, I have seen your version and have to say its quite amazing the mind games the banker plays. I wish our version had something like that. All in all, I like several of the different versions of DOND due to the nature of the way the game is played.

(con't from previous post) Just to give an example, if we assume the gameplay of the British version, 90% of Australian contestants would have No Dealt the 20k offer at 8-box and around 30% would have no dealt the 45k at 5-box. I should point out that the banker over here offers very near the average when you're down to two boxes/cases. Its not at all unusual to see offers of $90k when there's a blue and $200k left and around $40k for 100k and blue. We also use colours but we have three: Blue, Red, Green. Blue is for the entire left side, red is for all the amounts on the right side except the top four (Power 4 instead of Power 5) and the "Power 4" are green amounts. Two players have won the top prize here and the first winner was probably the maddest or bravest contestant ever who turned down 100k to win 200k despite the other amount being only $5! The other winner though had a near perfect end with $200k and $75k and probably everybody would have turned down the $125k offer to have a go for it - at least in Australia. Wonder if some people would not have gone for it in the UK? Another thing about our version is that the contestants that hold the cases (we don't use models like the US version for the cases) can make 1 guess to what they hold. If they are right, they win $500. Copied directly from the Dutch version though in that version you win 1000 euros per box remaining. At least our version is not like the US version and its "Million Dollar mission". Even Australians think that gimmick of having more than 1 top prize case was a bit silly.

Well the Irish version does use boxes, and uses the format in Australia and several other countries. It airs on Friday nights on TV3, though each show is split in half by Coronation Street. As it's run by the Irish National Lottery, entry is by scratch card, and the contestant selected to play is announced on the breakfast show Ireland AM (which may I add is way better than GMTV). The boxes are green, and around half of them are opened by friends and family of the contestant, the others by members of the public - though for whatever reason, the latter are referred to as being members of the 'Green Box Club' by the host, the illusionist Keith Barry. It's only been going for just over two months, so it hasn't had any gimmicks in it just yet (though there has been a winner of the top prize of 250,000 euro), but as it is produced by the same people as the UK version, who's to say that it won't have Banker's Gambles, future offers and silly specials later on? On the other hand, it's not quite as overblown as the UK version more often than not is, and Keith's presenting style has very little in common with Noel's.

I bet you wish all those gimmicks on the Australian version would come to an end as well. Has anyone won the top prize by the Banker's Gamble like us here?

The Chance/Banker's Gamble feature here is never used when the higher of the two amounts is more than 50k so it will never happen. The two winners of the top prize were all "legit" wins by saying no deal throughout the game. I don't actually have a problem with the gimmicks because they are used much less often than in the British version - about once per 30 to 40 episodes where the situation for a Banker's Gamble arises compared to maybe once per 5 episdoes in the UK version. Oh and I think our version holds the record for the most unluckiest opening round ever. One contestant lost the $200k, $100k, 75k and 50k in his first four selections (the entire green section was gone in 4 case selections) and in that order! Odds of this is 1 in 358,800. Anyway, I think our host, Andrew O Keefe appeared in one of the ad breaks of Show Number 993 or 994 (can't remember) of your version in the build up to the 1000th show. We reached 1000 shows first but our "off-season" is longer so I'm sure that you guys have overtaken us for the most number of Deal or No Deal episodes. As for why a lot of UK contestants seem to have "sob" stories, I suspect that it has to do with the way the audition is conducted - I have never seen any contestant on our version of DOND cry on national TV for example. It does seem that the audition process here is designed to avoid choosing the wrong sort of contestants.

I wish the same rules applied for our version too, that way we would never have had Alice's win and we wouldn't have all these contestants with all these dreaded sob stories. I wish Endemol would stop picking players who have great expectations and sob stories, it's out of hand and i'm starting not to believe them.

NO, £40,000 WOULD be offered here. The biggest two were there, and bare in mind the Banker only had 10p as his power 5 AND the highest blue remained. I think £40,000 would have been offered at this point.