Deal Or No Deal

Drpepper · Post by **Drpepper** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 9:52 pm

Was very chuffed last night, managed to get an endgame after requiring 61000 points, must have answered at least 50 questions.

Just wondering what everyone elses record for highest points total achieved was... I'd expect to see some immense totals.

Also does anyone else find the questions on DOND easier than on other games??

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:45 am

I've achieved similar points totals once or twice and in fact have never seen many targets set beyond about 65,000. The reason for this is that Deal or No Deal has just about the most blatantly distinct set of spoiler questions I've ever seen, with the possible exception of The Weakest Link, in the sense that I am sure that two entirely separate question sets have been created for the game:

(a) the standard set - these may indeed be slightly easier than the questions on other games as you believe. You will be asked only these questions if the machine is in payout mode and by playing the game a lot you should get to recognise and remember many of them

(b) the spoiler set - these start appearing when you are around halfway to the required points total and when the game has paid out recently they will come up one after the other so even if you guess the first couple right you will get killed eventually. As I said, they are so much more difficult than the standard set that I believe they were created separately from that as a deliberate method of managing payouts. All games probably have this built into them but on Deal or No Deal it just seems more obvious.

In case you aren't sure what the spoilers look like, the following should rapidly become familiar if you play the game a lot:

- Which of these four star movies was released first between 1939 and 1955?
- Which of these clubs won the European Cup in basketball first?
- Which of these singles (all usually from the same year in the 1950s!) was Number 1 in the UK first?
- Which of these countries won the African Nations Cup first?

and so on...

Having these spoilers means that you are going to have to do extremely well to get to a points total above about 60,000 as the chances are that this will require answering around 10 of the spoilers.

Vidmar · Post by **Vidmar** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 1:04 pm

Have to agree with the above post, although spoilers i encounter always seem to centre around the f**king Osmonds.

Which Osmond was left handed?

Which Osmond was born on XXX?

Which Osmond cites blue as his favourite colour?

I hate the damn Osmonds.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 1:09 pm

and various other z-listers, what was the first record lorraine kelly bought

who gives a tinker's cuss about that, at least C&R type spoilers are things it might be worth knowing in life not useful only to remember in case they crop up again.

i still don't know whether john thaw was married to sheila hancock or helen mirren despite having had that question at least a dozen times.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 2:39 pm

unknownpseudonym wrote:at least C&R type spoilers are things it might be worth knowing in life

As a founder member of SDUUAA *, can I ask what 'C&R' is?

* the Society for the Discouragement of the Use of Unclear Abbreviations and Acronymns

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 2:48 pm

cops&robbers.
i'm not counting the silly ones about land mass/inland water in this.
i trust we are all on the bandwaggon with millionaire's row.

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 4:02 pm

Can't say I'ever come across a spoiler in S & D personally.

Drpepper · Post by **Drpepper** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:48 pm

I suppose the spoikers are a joke, plus only having to choose from 3 answers also helps too.

Got burned for a good fiver last night on this, only offering 30k to get to the end game, but the questions as you say were a disgrace, it was actually an achievement to get to an points offer.

Xuenilom · Post by **Xuenilom** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 9:40 pm

Played this a few weeks ago, got to the cash game and had 2 Boxes left 20p or something or £10, I switched boxes and got the £10, was I lucky?

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:23 pm

The issue of whether the end game on Deal or No Deal is random (and hence whether a £10 win would be just as likely as a 20p win) has been the subject of much discussion on here (http://fruitchat.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=4551) but it's certainly not unusual to be given the larger of two wildly different amounts.

This is how I tend to play the game now, i.e. I aim for one big win as opposed to collecting the early offers of £2-£3. If you do this you have to be prepared to kiss a few metaphorical frogs on the way, i.e. to be given 10p/20p/30p 'wins' after struggling through to the end game so it may not be the best policy for everyone, and I've still yet to win the Jackpot on either the 50p/£20 or £1/£40 variants, but I'd still rather play this one than 90% of the other dross that is out there (talking of which, has anyone suffered the garbage that is the new improved South Park yet? - unless I was just unlucky the allegedly skill-based end game on that is more fixed than anything I've ever seen on Bullseye or Battleships).

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 5:30 pm

Had a nice £7.50 from one DOND and £4 from another before the footy yesterday. First one was from a 17000 for the prize board, and the second was 16500. Only put a quid in each one too!

My favorite SWP at the moment!

echoes · Post by **echoes** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 5:52 pm

I had a great endgame yesterday with three boxes left: 20p, £10 and £20. The last box chosen got rid of the 20p and the machine dumped £10 out. The offer was only £12.50 so it was a risk worth taking.

A few other games saw another £10 and some lower prizes, with £40.50 in all for not all that much in. A good day

The £20 jackpot remains elusive though.

tka · Post by **tka** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:52 pm

Don't know if anyone is watching it. But it is obviously rigged on TV for the birthday show.

It is definately rigged on SWP.

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:46 am

Do you think that Birthday Show was rigged? I'd have thought it was if the guy had the quarter mil in his box, but it remained until the last which kind of made it look less-rigged.

Keep seeing DOND games up around the 66000+ mark around me. Just a bit out of my reach pretty much all the time...

Mattb · Post by **Mattb** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:06 am

I've still never got to the end game on the DOND SWP. I can get to end games in like most other games, but i just get shafted on this even if i do well. I've had it down at like 25000 and still not got it. Had a great board and got offered £17k. Dealed and tried to get the other 8k, but got some harsh questions, and loads of 4Qs. Bloody machine! :x