Past Games
Did our players did win big, or very little indeed?

April – Lewis – Box 22 - Won £40

April’s game saw Lewis in the ‘crazy chair’, who got off to a good start revealing two of the lowest sums on the board in the first round. Things then took a slight turn for the worse when he revealed both £100 and £85 in the next round. Not tempted by the banker’s offers, he carried on opening boxes as things started to look better when he finally reached his last two boxes, one of which contained £40, the other, £50. The banker rang with an offer of £42, which Lewis declined, as well as the subsequent offered swap, and walked away with £40. Not bad for the first ever game!

May – John – Box 1 - Won £35

In May, it was the turn of John Darch, who immediately knocked out the £100 in the first round, but then made up for it with two ‘all-blue’ rounds later on in his game. After having a chat with the banker, he declined his offer and continued in active play, until he reached the 5-box point with two quite nice sums of money left. He declined another offer and had the perfect round, as he kept his highest money sum on the board, giving him the chance to win a possible £35. The banker called and offered £19, which John declined, and also refused to swap, and in doing so won himself a whopping £35.

June – Amy – Box 16 - Won 80p

June’s game was all set to be one of the highest winning games yet, as Amy was in the chair, and after revealing the ‘middle-valued’ money, followed by two rounds of mostly blue numbers, she reached 8-box without touching the three highest sums: £75, £85 and £100. She also broke the record for the highest offer in active play; the presence of the three biggest numbers unsettled the banker so much that he had to offer her £30. After a sweep of the contestants, it was pretty half-and-half as to whether to deal or not to deal, and Amy clearly believed that her luck wasn’t going to run out yet and so declined the offer. In doing so, she immediately discovered £75 and £85, followed by a blue, sending the offer crashing down to £19, which she declined. Straight after this, the £100 was revealed, leaving a one box game, with the £45 and three blues, one of which was revealed, but soon after, so was the £45, leaving her the chance to win either £6 or 80p. She declined the huge offer of £2.50 from the banker, as well as the swap, and went away with 80p, which is the lowest win to date. And we all thought it was going so well.

 

July – Ann – Box 6 - Won 1p - First Member of the 1p Club

Well, well, well. Ha, ha, ha. And a couple of tra-la-las. That's how we laugh the day away in the merry old land of oz. Anyway.
We already have our first 1p winner; the honour falling to Ann Harris, who had a game that was, in a word, 'hideous'. She almost had an all-red opening round, apart from a rather beered-up individual revealing £8 as her first blue. Things were already starting to look rubbish, and to make matters worse, she took out yet another three reds, the £45, the £75 and the biggy - the £100. So by the time we got to the fag break, she only had four reds left, the highest being £85, and an absolute mountain of blues. Now some may view this as a good position to be in, but believe me, we could all hear the banker's manic laughter from the other end of the phone; he praised Ann as "the best contestant he's ever seen at this game". Anyway, after the break, Richard welcomed everyone back by saying "Welcome back", in the style of Richard Madeley, prompting the cameraman to burst into hysterics, for some reason. Moving on further into the game, Ann stood up, kissed several individuals as they began revealing blues, before being betrayed for the third time by a member of her family: her son had £85, his wife had £40, and her husband had the £30. So between just these three, a total of £155. Eventually we got to the end of the game, with one shred of hope in winning £15, or the horror of winning the 1p. The banker phoned, the offer was £5.50. After realising that the pub charged loads for whisky and also that she could buy "nearly a pint for that up ASDA", she declined the offer, and the cheer that followed when Richard revealed the 1p could have been heard in Eastleigh. To be honest, I don't think it would have been as loud if she'd won £15. Good old Ann. I wonder what she'll spend the money on...

August - Summer Break

September – Marilyn – Box 2 - Won £75

Finally, after a spell of - as Noel Edmonds would say - 'relentless bad luck' with the players, we have a big winner. It was none other than Marilyn, who somehow managed to choose herself on the random player selector (ahem...fix...fix...ahem) and ended up facing the banker for a chance to win £100. Sadly, the builders down the road had accidentally cut through the phone line to the club, meaning that the banker's phone was replaced by a slightly more updated model. By that, I mean Mel Smith's (Griff Rhys Jones had to go out) mobile phone set to a ringtone of the brilliant tense sounds of 'Rehab' by Amy Winehouse.  Another small cock-up was that there was some sort of 50th birthday party up the road and many regular 'Deal-or-no-Dealers' had decided to betray us and go to the rival venue.

Besides all that Marilyn was eventually selected to play her game - and what a game it was - she started off well and reached the first offer of £11 (woooo!) without touching the 'power five'. She then removed another two blues but then started to hack away at the big numbers. After another rather un-tempting offer from the banker (still £11), she played on, and kept revealing blues, until she reached the 'five box point', still with the biggest three reds - £75, £85 and £100 remaining, with two blues left. The banker called - "They try to make me go to Rehab, I say no no no" was heard and the record for the biggest ever offer in active play was broken once again - this time a staggering £60!


The banker had to offer Marilyn a massive amount - she had the top three of the power five remaining at the five-box point!

Richard had to ask the banker to say that in numbers as he couldn't believe he'd offer that much! Anyway, Marilyn was about to say 'No Deal' after a reassuring sweep, but she then said "Would you change your minds if I took £60 and bought you all a drink?", to which everyone replied "Yeah alright, Deal, Deal...", but even so, Marilyn declined the offer. She then revealed a blue, but sadly this was followed by the £100 and the £85, leaving her the chance to win £75, or a measly 10p. The banker called (and yes, they tried to make him go to rehab, but he said no no no) he offered her £25 for her efforts at destroying her chances of winning the top prize. She declined this, and then later when he called again to offer her the swap, she told him to "shove the swap up his a**", Lovely. And so the time came to reveal her winnings, and it was the highest win to date - a whopping £75. Good for her - a bad night turned into a real good'n.


September to November - Autumn Break

Christmas Games - Double Deal or No Deal
December – Jan – Box 13 - Won £30

Christmas had just passed, and everyone was in high spirits. Apart from the banker of course, he was drinking spirits. Above all that, we had a whopping £150 jackpot for the first special christmas game! Yes indeed. Anyway, Jan was selected to play, and then things started to go wrong rather rapidly. By reading the above game account, you'll notice that we had problems with the banker's phone. This game was also no exception, as James managed to somehow pull the plug off the phone cable, meaning that he had to rush back to Richard's house, and raid their cupboard for another cable. Eventually, it was all sorted out, and Jan's game got underway.


Jan got the red mist early in her game -
she took out the special christmas jackpot of £150 in the second box!

Oh dear. Revealing the £150 in the second box was not a good idea, and neither was revealing three others from the power five in the opening round. A measly £8 was offered; Jan considered this greatly, before eventually saying "No Deal". In fact, she kept saying "No Deal" to every offer from the banker, until we reached the last two boxes; one contained £30, the other, a meagre 5 pence. She once again declined the banker's final offer, and the swap, and went on to win a life-changing £30. Hooray! One thing that could be said about her game though, was the lack of audience participation, particularly when the 1p was revealed, and Richard said "And the crowd goes wild!"... there was silence from the other players. Lovely.

December Game 2 – Tom – Box 1 - Won £30 (DEALT)

And yes, not content with just one christmas game, everyone soon came back (after they had all had a valium and calmed down after Jan's game), and joined in once more for the turn of 'Tom the Bomb', who found it absolutely hilarious to say a box number, whilst looking at the opposite side to where the box was. Richard kept walking the wrong way, tried to suffocate him with his hood and whack him with a microphone, and cheered loudly when Tom revealed £100 later in the game. (He also exclaimed "Dammit!" when the 1p was chosen). Anyway, the banker rang unusually before the game had started, and asked to speak to Tom, who declined. This sent his first offer, from an expected £16 or £17 down to a whopping £1.50, which Richard found brilliant.


Tom's brilliant opening offer, after he refused to speak to the banker!

Moving on further into the game, he kept revealing low reds and blues, leaving him at the eight-box position with three of the power five, a low red and four blues. He declined an offer of £28, which was the highest offer in the game so far, but then went on to reveal £50 and £100. He reached the final two boxes, having not dealt, with £6 and £75 left. For the first time in the history of these games, he actually DEALT AT £30, and also let the banker walk through his garden to get home. Tragically however, he could have actually won £75. How awful. It was still very funny though!

March – Anna – Box 11 - Won £40

Well the first game of 2008 was a bit of a cracker as far as we're concerned. The audience had never been so lively (understatement of the year) and at times they really needed to be quiet. After all, where did they think they were? Watching a live version of a smash hit Channel 4 gameshow? Honestly. Anyway, Anna was selected to sit in the crazy chair and face the 22 red boxes and the banker to try and win some big money. She started off her game in the perfect way - the first box opened was the 1p!


Anna takes out the 1p in her first box. The perfect start!

She then proceeded to take another two blues and the lowest two reds, leading to an opening offer of £11. In actual fact, getting the offer in the first place was a bit of the challenge; the banker had somehow be wired into 'line 2' and so instead of the banker's phone ringing, the one in the bar did instead. After sorting this problem out, the banker decided to hang up on Richard, and so he just went and found the banker to get the offer. After this, she then got the red mist and took out six massive reds, including four of the power five, leaving her with just three reds remaining, and a mountain of blues. Her offers decreased to a measly £2.85, and then up to £8.50; she declined both, and then went on to reveal six blues, getting her to the five-box point with all three reds intact, and two small blues. Strangely, after discussing the point on a previous channel 4 version Deal or No Deal, where one box was found to be empty, we had exactly the same problem about five minutes later. Box 10 did not contain a number.
 

The empty box 10 - it was found that it should have contained £1.50.

This resulted in James having to have a look in the remaining boxes to work out what was missing. He decided that it was the 5p, but later on, the 5p was revealed in someone's box. Oh. It was actually the £1.50. Not too much damage done there. Anyway, Anna's final three boxes were £25, £40, and the jackpot of £100. Could she be our first jackpot winner? Sadly not, as her last selected box, box 18, contained the big amount. An offer was given as £28, she declined this, and then, for the first time for any player, accepted the swap from the banker. She gave away box 11, for box 6, and this was opened to reveal £40! The biggest amount of the two, and also higher than any of her banker offers, and so she beat the banker! Nicely done!

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