Deal Or No Deal

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Does anyone else watch this incredibly gripping game show?!

Quite simply, for those who do not watch it there are 22 boxes (Including one for the person playing the game) and quite simply the box who belongs to the person playing it is considered an item. Now a person only known as "The Banker" phones up the player every time the player eliminates 3 boxes (They cannot eleminate their own box). Each box contains an amount of money going from 1p to £250'000. The objective of the banker is to make an offer for the player's box seem so good that they will sell their box for that price. But the banker's offer is based on what amounts of money have not been discovered yet, example:

Today the final 4 boxes were 1p, £50, £250 and £250'000, the player chose a box and it held £50. So that eleminates the possibility the player has £50 in their box.

Now if he stayed away from the £250'000 box next turn, he would be looking at a mammoth offer from the banker to stop the game there (probably around the £120k mark).

The next box he picked happened, sadly, to be the £250'000 box and so the banker offered a pathetic £99 for the player's box as it can now only hold either 1p or £250.

He went away with 1p at the end, considering he was only 3 boxes away from a quarter of a million, he must be gutted.

So, does anyone else watch this great, yet evil game show?
 
Noel Edmonds doesn't do it for me, he's as exiting to watch as a rabbit having a ****. All in all, the shows not too bad, but I'm not keen on it.
 
I do not like that particular telivisual experience.

Plus it has to be scripted in some parts I swear.
 
I like it, but yeah, Noel can get VERY annoying when he repeates himself so many times over and over. It's even worse by the way he says it.
 
Here in North America, we have Howie Mandel as the host, and our boxes range from $1 to $1,000,000 US. This week though, they made it special, and this week it theres an extra $2,000,000 box, and next week a $3,000,000 box. Last night was a good one too, the girl decided to say no deal to $129,000, thinking she had the $300,000 in her box, and walked away with $1. I couldn't stop laughing after they opened the box. :lol:
 
I just watched the game for the first time last night. It's odd how the this thread got started now, even though this show has been on the air for a while now.

It was pretty good. Not great. It's just a game about picking the correct box, and that's it. Not much to hold my interest.

I saw the chick win $407,000. She could have had more, but decided that she didn't pick the case with $2,000,000 in it. And she was correct. She only had $75. But, they would have offered her $1,000,000 if she went down to the final two cases.
 
Charlie Brooker (The Guardian)
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Charlie Brooker
Saturday January 28, 2006
The Guardian

We've had gameshows based on card games. We've had gameshows based on pub quizzes. But never have we had a gameshow based on the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. Until now.

I'm talking, of course, about Deal Or No Deal (Mon-Fri, 4.15pm, C4). In case you haven't seen it, I'll try to sum up the rules in a way that a) makes sense and b) isn't so boring you fall asleep halfway through and start dreaming up surreal, sexually-charged rules in which Noel shaves parts of his body at random while you shrink to the size of a bee and lick specks of milk off them.

So. The game starts with 22 contestants, each guarding a sealed, numbered suitcase. Each suitcase contains a sum between 1p and £200,000. One of the contestants is chosen to play: the object of the game is for them to open the other suitcases in whichever order they choose, continually evaluating the likely value of their own suitcase as they go. So, if I open box number five and it contains the 1p, I know my own box doesn't. It might contain the 200 grand. Every so often, Noel takes a phonecall from "the Banker", a shadowy offscreen figure who offers the contestant a sum of money to make them stop playing. So, if the banker offers me £3,000 to stop, but I reckon there's still a chance my box contains the jackpot, I'll reject his deal. Hence the title.

In other words, my suitcase contains the financial equivalent of Schrodinger's cat: a sum that exists in a theoretical superposition, being both substantial and meagre until I open and observe it, thereby assigning it a quantifiable value in the physical universe.

Obviously, this raises complex philosophical issues about the nature of reality, which is why Deal Or No Deal is hosted by Noel Edmonds. He's well into this ****. Did you know Noel's House Party was based on Hilary Whitehall Putnam's twin Earth theory of semantic externalism? Well it was. FACT.

Still, Noel's central task isn't to chinwag about collapsing wavefunctions or the viability of consistent histories. No. He's there to distract you from one glaringly obvious fact, which is that the game is actually a massively pointless exercise in utter bloody guesswork.

Because, hilariously, even though there's no applicable strategy whatsoever, Noel spends the entire show pretending there is. He continually says things such as "what's your gameplan?" and "what drew you to that box?" and "ah, I see where you're going with this - I like your style", as though it's a game of 3D space chess between Einstein and a Venusian supercomputer.

In other words, the game largely exists in Noel's head. In fact, he's the only person in the studio with any gameplan whatsoever, since he has to employ various cunning strategies to maintain the viewer's interest if the £200,000 prize is eliminated early on.

I say "cunning strategies". I mean "different facial expressions and/or tones of voice". Every afternoon, Noel's basically taking part in an improvisational drama workshop in which he plays the hysterical id of a man arbitrarily flipping a series of coins.

"Christ, I hope it comes up heads. If it doesn't come up heads we're in serious trouble. I do NOT want to see heads now. Not heads. Please God no ... IT'S TAILS! HOORAY! Well played! How skilful! OK, time to flip the next coin ..."

The weird thing is, it sort of works. Something about Noel's ceaseless interest in unpredictable events draws you in. Best of all are the moments when he lifts a telephone receiver to discuss proceedings with the Banker, who I suspect exists solely in his mind. In fact, he might as well do away with the prop phone, and instead simply roll his eyes up and have pretend conversations with God. While dressed as Peter Sutcliffe.

So there you go. It's all a figment of Noel's imagination. Maybe we all are. Maybe he's dreaming us now. And he's about to wake up and we'll cease to exist.
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Pretty much my feelings about this surreal programme...:crazy: Noel Edmonds is bizarrely entertaining, although possibly not for the reasons that he thinks he is...
 
I love this show.

People failing is funneh
 
So it is 8:00 last night and my wife is using the computer. I don't want to start playing a video game because I am waiting for My Name is Earl at 9:00.

I go ahead and flip on NBC. I watch this show for about 5 minutes before I realize that it is BBBOOORRRRIIINNNGGG. I mean, it would be like watching roulette or some guy try and pick a card or something else mindless. So, I flipped channels. My other choices were: American Idol :yuck: Survivor :yuck: Sweet Home Alabama :yuck: :yuck: :yuck: and Smallville :indiff:

I watched Smallville. I have never even seen it before but that was how much I hate reality/game show television. Jeopardy is the only thing that fits this category that is worthwhile in my opinion.

I'm glad you all enjoy it but it just isn't my thing. It was this thread that encouraged me to watch it in hopes that it would be different, but no. You all enjoy, but if any of you are in a Nielsen family I beg you to turn to G4 or something.


By the way, I hated Smallville too, but it had a script and a plot not some people trying to get rich/famous without putting in the hardwork that makes them deserve it. At least it had a vague semblance to Superman. I won't be watching it in the future either.
 
I enjoy watching it, love watching the shmucks make a boo boo and deal at the wrong time or not deal at the rite time. Noel dose suck a bit, but who els could do it?
 
FoolKiller
By the way, I hated Smallville too, but it had a script and a plot not some people trying to get rich/famous without putting in the hardwork that makes them deserve it. At least it had a vague semblance to Superman. I won't be watching it in the future either.
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Smallville used to be pretty good, but now it's just dull.
 
Touring Mars
Pretty much my feelings about this surreal programme...:crazy: Noel Edmonds is bizarrely entertaining, although possibly not for the reasons that he thinks he is...
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Charlie Brooker has, like most people, completely missed the ****ing point of the game!!!

It's emphatically not a game of trying to pick the best boxes from the 22. It's all about the relationship with the banker, and the position of the game with respect to the offer being made. Sometimes it doesn't work - usually when the high numbers go early. But quite often you're left with a strange distribution of remaining amounts. The Banker is (as you would expect) supremely gifted at evaluating his exposure to loss, and offers accordingly (with a bit of plus & minus thrown in).

So the Banker offers a sum which he feels is appropriate given his exposure level (i.e the number and value of high boxes remaining against the total number of boxes remaining etc.). The player then has to weigh their decision to (no) deal based upon what they think their exposure is. Usually they have little or no understanding of this, however, which is why they so frequently make the wrong choices.

It's also why it's fantastically unlikely that anyone will ever take the full £250k.

Since part of my job is risk evaluation and management, I find it a very interesting show to watch. The general public really doesn't understand risk very well at all.
 
ultrabeat
Someone's already won the £250k.
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You mean other than Noel Edmonds....?

(ooh, I'm such a cynic :sly: )

I'd like to see the banker just offering £1 every time... now that would put the mockers on it completely...
 
Touring Mars
You mean other than Noel Edmonds....?

(ooh, I'm such a cynic :sly: )

I'd like to see the banker just offering £1 every time... now that would put the mockers on it completely...
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HAHA yeah. :lol:

Yesterday (or the day before?) someone would have gone away with £250,000. He went right to the end then took the offer which was pretty low for what was up there, £27,000. Unlucky, but it was the right choice at the time and you have to be happy with what you get. :)
 
No. Four or five people have had it in their box, and some at the end. Didn't Germaine take £120k-ish?
 
I could have sworn he was the first quarter-of-a-millionaire.

You might be right though.
 
Yes, no one has won the quarter-of-a-million-pounder yet. Noel still says "will this person be the first quarter of a millionare!"
 
Somehow I didn't even catch this thread. I HATE this show, and any other game show that stops the game before it's over so you're forced to come back and watch again. An game show should have a COMPLETE game EVERY show. This crap and "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" are both garbage simply for that fact.
 
Anderton Prime
An game show should have a COMPLETE game EVERY show.
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Erm, they do in the version over here in jolly old Britain...
 
Anderton Prime
Somehow I didn't even catch this thread. I HATE this show, and any other game show that stops the game before it's over so you're forced to come back and watch again. An game show should have a COMPLETE game EVERY show. This crap and "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" are both garbage simply for that fact.
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Ours does. It would annoy me intensely if it didn't.
 
Noel Edmands, I can't stand him either.

"Say 'this is a really strong game' one more time and I'll show you a really really strong game!" :mad:
 
Noel tries to make the game more interesting than it actually is. He tries to convince you that it's not just about opening boxes and hoping for the best, which of course is exactly what it is. It's just a game of luck.
 
Well this is Howie Mandel:

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