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15 minutes to go to the first DoND to be shown in complete darkness, thus giving the illusion of a primetime show. |
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A tuxedoed Noel! |
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Noel looks natty. He plugs the viewer competition again. |
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No Bow tie though. |
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Today's player is ..... |
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...That's not a tuxedo, that's a suit. |
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It's Lee! He's been fabulous value on the West Wing. |
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Tuxedo, suit, whatever. |
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Tuxedo, suit, whatever. |
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It's Noel's birthday, apparantly. Is that today or on the date of recording, I wonder. |
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It is today. Noel was born December 22, 1948 |
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Interesting strategy, and the Banker will hate it apparently. |
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"Each stage is a new game." We have the potential for a great player here, then. |
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Lee wants a fast paced game |
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Box 7 (Alan) £10,000 |
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Box 1 - £1000 |
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And he's going to go with speed rounds all the way, it seems. |
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Lee suggests £6k. Noel knows that's high for an opening offer and implies he'd have to take him very seriously to do that. |
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No Deal at £6k. |
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FD is £9,464. |
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Round 2, or Game 2 in his mind. |
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"I've learnt to expect the unexpected." (apparantly he's also learnt to expect when the breaks occur) |
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I think this board is worth £8k or so with the £250k and one, but only one, safety net. |
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I'd say if the 1p goes next, we're at an average but slightly-worse-than-start board. |
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And we're back, and this is a pivotal box. |
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Box 8 contains £5,000 |
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And it's £5,000. |
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Box 8 contains £5000. |
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'He is resisting you'. £3,000 offer will be turned down. 'That's the yorker, the bouncer, call it what you will'. The two are complete opposites, heh. No deal. |
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Offer of £3000, and a swift No Deal. |
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The spooky Box 13 goes. £35k! 'Wow! Yet another red!' |
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Box 13 - £35000 |
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Box 21 (Pat): £750. Hell, at least it's blue. Median is a catastrophic £175 now, but FD isn't bad at £7,261.69, and the mean is above the start value. |
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Lee's wife is in the audience again. Gets a good luck card from his kids to put on the table. |
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We won't get a much more bipolar board than this at halfway. Only four values between £5 and £75k! |
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Noel reminds people that contestants are away from home - 5 weeks in Lee's case. |
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Lee claims he's spent 'five weeks away from home'. I think he means 'two or three, but I've been told not to reveal this show's being recorded three times a day even though it's common knowledge'. |
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'You are going to have such a miserable Christmas' says Noel to the Banker, who teases him over the £3k offer. |
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Offer of £12,000 |
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FD at £8,377 |
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NO DEAL at £12,000. |
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A no deal. Too quick for my liking, myself. |
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A 5.5% chance of taking out both big ones. |
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Box 9 (Gill) £20,000 - 1 safety net gone. Now only 3 reds and 7 blues left (5 of them the lowest ones) |
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Box 22 (Jenni) £5 |
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Box 12 (Irene) - a failed psychic.. |
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Box 9 contains £20k. 'You have a red fixation'. 'Yes, it's very interesting'. Cue giggles. 'Nervously interesting' says Noel. |
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The median briefly fell to £52.50. That's insane. |
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And we're back. This is a scary game. |
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Box contains £1 !!!!!! |
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£1! And I think we're heading for a deal. |
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'You'd have to be extraordinarily unlucky in the next three boxes to take out £75k and £250k'. 10.7% is not that extraordinary. FD is £11,613.23; I'd take anything above £15k. |
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It's a bit early timewise in the show for a deal now. Still 15 minutes to go. |
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board is better now. |
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Offer is £17,800 |
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He says the existence of £250k is 'terrifying' him, though he feels reassured by the loss of £20k. |
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£17,800 offer. He takes the 'try and avoid a 250k in final five' option, it seems. |
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Lee's wife Nicola is consulted. She says this is an offer worth serious consideration because the board could turn very quickly. |
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And he's going to play on. |
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No deal.. |
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No Deal. This could be... interesting. |
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A No Deal. He really needs those low numbers. |
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Crucial 3 boxes |
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Box 4 (Simon) £3,000 |
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We can afford to lose £75k at this point, incidently, as far as offers are concerned. |
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35.7% chance of keeping both big ones. |
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Box 3 (Angela) 10p |
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This'll be a no-brainer offer. |
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sounds like a good game so far.... |
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I'd deal this next offer. Even if it turned out the £250k was in my box, I wouldn't mind. Just too risky to go on. |
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Will he triple it to £53.4k? That would be interesting. |
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Bloody hell, this board is huge. |
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Phone lines now closed for viewer comp so I sense a deal coming now ...... |
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Noel does the walk... |
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...Well... Saw that coming. |
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£50k was my guess too. |
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40% chance of a six-figure offer, but a 30% chance of a disaster. That's a no-brainer in my book, because blue/£75k will be nowhere near £50k. |
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Lee's wife joins him at the stool and then walks back to her seat. |
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His wife gets up and comes over to him, giving him a kiss and a reassuring hug by the looks of things. |
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DEAL (thank goodness) |
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Deal. Well, saw that coming from when he said that the offer was more than he expected it to be. |
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Box 19 - £500. |
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Prove out time |
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*stands corrected* |
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...Wow. |
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Here we go. £150k offer perhaps? |
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Offer would have been £160,000 !!!!!!!! |
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Well, when you're dealing with figures above £100k, what's £10k? |
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Box had £75,000. |
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The 30% chance of a disaster was too much. |
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That's 3 days running people have dealt 1 deal too early but with justifiable reasons. |
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Someone brings out a birthday cake for Noel. |
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A man wins the viewers competition for the first time in yonks. |
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It's been the week of players taking good deals to find their luck wouldn't have run out after all... |
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Should be noted that he made the right choice at the wrong time there. |
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But you have to consider what the offer would have dropped to - no lower than £30k, which is still a lot of money. I would have ben very tempted to risk it, but that's just me. |
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That's a comprehensive banker win yet again. Good winnings so far this week though. |
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