11:12 a.m. - 3rd February 2007
Deal or no deal???
Days like today are wonderful
They start off with thick ice and then gradully develop into really warm, dry clear days with bright blue skies
Then the kind little old posite delivers you three books from Amazon alongside 2 CD's....YEAH! Amazon parcels on a day that you're home to recieve them! Can it get any better?
Went out with P after work on Thursday too and NEVER laughed so much...she's a nutter to beat all nutters.
ANyway now I'm going to try and explain in brief terms Deal or no Deal UK version.
22 people (who become the east and west wing)randomly select a box each which is numbered on the outside from 1-22.
Somebody is randomly selected to be at the front and bring their box with them
The person at the front, then selects boxes they want to have opened. Each box contains a card which states a differing amount of money from 1p (which is probably a cent on US) through to �250, 000 (which is about $50000-I think).
The person at the front selects one box at a time to be opened.....initially I think 5 boxes. Always hoping the box thye have opened contains the lowest amounts of money.
The banker then rings and offers them an amount of money....at this point the person has to decide if they want to deal (which means take the money they have been offered) or no deal (which means they continue opening boxes).
Most times in the early stages people say "no deal" and then they have to continue and open another group of....I think three boxes. At which point the banker makes another offer.
The banker offers money based on what is left "on the board" so if somebody still hasn't opened boxes with high amounts of money in them, it's likely the money he offers will increase.
If however they open the high numbers he wil "buy" at a lower rate.
Once somebody takes the bankers offer...they have to continue opening the boxes, in the order they believe they may have played the game, until only their own box remains. At this point they open thier box and one discovers if the bankers offer was higher or lower than if they had played to the end.
If somebody plays to the end, they have the amount of money from thier own box.
Over here it's become quite popular - the people who go on the show differ so much. Most believe they hae a strategy that will beat the banker. The banker however, appears to be able to play people quite well. A cross between a psychologist and a poker player I would imagine!
I imagine this is quite a confusing explanation......but if you watch it, it's easy to pick up
PS Ugly Betty was good last night!!
