Deal or No Deal

tka · Post by **tka** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 2:52 pm

I played this for about 20 games yesterday. It only let me get to the endgame twice first time for 30p and the biggest win the banker offered was £2. I kept going because it only wanted 30,000ish but kept taking away all the good boxes. Anyway eventually it gave me £10. Normally I'd be pleased with £10 but it took so long and so many dodgy offers that I just took the money and shoved it through the fruit machine. It cost me about £10 to win £10 but at least it wasn't £30.

Barry Trotter · Post by **Barry Trotter** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 10:52 pm

I'd rather play Take It Or Leave It than this game, and TIOLI is a horrendous pile of frog semen... I've never had an offer of more than 35p, even when i had the majority of the large boxes left.

I have to say that i now find that i'd rather go in to a pub with a gamesnet terminal, or a paracon in it rather than an itbox, and that wasn't something i'd have said too long ago. I love fruit frenzy, and the selection of other games beats the games on itbox IMHO. I thought Monkey Business would change my mind, but after about 5 or 6 goes, i don't really like it any more. The game has too many different ways of fcuking you off - speeding the row addition up, speeding the timer up, speeding time itself up (probably)... Text tiles just annoys me, Hi-Spy is a poor mans quiz game, and there aren't too many new games on there to shout about.

Am i alone in thinking that ItBox is starting to lag behind?

Vidmar · Post by **Vidmar** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:46 am

£10 off DOND last night, worth noting it was a new Gamesnet in a recently refurbed pub. Was left with £7 and £10 boxes, which was nice.

Vidmar · Post by **Vidmar** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:14 pm

Another £8 today.

Did we ever get to the bottom of that free game thing?

foxy · Post by **foxy** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:34 pm

where were you playing vidmar?
i got 3 £7's today.
hopefully everyone is coming round to my non-fixed theory now!!!!

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:30 pm

Cos you won a bit of money?

Surely the dullards filled it up for you?

Vidmar · Post by **Vidmar** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:43 pm

foxy wrote:where were you playing vidmar?
i got 3 £7's today.
hopefully everyone is coming round to my non-fixed theory now!!!!

Hey if you tell me where you were playing....

I'm only interested in Gamesnets these days. ITBox is a dead duck.

COASTERDESIGNERPRO1 · Post by **COASTERDESIGNERPRO1** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:04 pm

"Gamestec backs UK tournament for Deal Or No Deal"

"Ambitious claims are being made that BFG's latest quiz game could be the best- performing machine ever launched."

Coinslot August 18th- August 24, 2006 page 4

quizard · Post by **quizard** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:24 pm

It is certainly the top earner (for the operators) at the moment. How far it has to go to outstrip Millionaire and Bully I don't know. When you go in a pub and someone is playing the machine it is most frequently that game they are playing. The money game does have a compulsive element to it (if you delude yourself it isn't fixed of course

sorry foxy).

I see it has now arrived on the IT Box.

Hangmanfan · Post by **Hangmanfan** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:35 am

I have yet to find a DOND on any cabinet in Carlisle

We're the last for everything.
Annoys me so much!

Hangmanfan · Post by **Hangmanfan** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 11:18 am

Well I played it last night, and lost lost lost. I'm sure I just got all irrational 'cos it was my first time, so i didn't bother reading the rules

What's with the "?" box...

Same with Sudoku actually. First £4 I put in I just pressed on Q all the time instead of trying to fill the grid in :/

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 2:51 pm

i was in the court on tot ct road for the first time ever to break the WU record. got demoralised when it wanted 2350 for £1. anyway DOND was behaving very erratically. first go upstairs was at 20000, first offer 19500, no deal, then i got all the big ones and after 3 deals i died. next go it was up to 45000ish; lost eventually.
on the downstairs machine first go: 16000

but i picked all red and each had QQQQ took a deal for 4000 after 8 boxes and died soon afterwards.
still a few quid here and there paid for my (revolting) lunch.
just my ramblings. la la la.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:20 pm

unknownpseudonym wrote:got demoralised when it wanted 2350 for £1

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:52 am

[quote="unknownpseudonym"]i was in the court on tot ct road for the first time ever to break the WU record. got demoralised when it wanted 2350 for £1. anyway DOND was behaving very erratically. first go upstairs was at 20000, first offer 19500, no deal, then i got all the big ones and after 3 deals i died. next go it was up to 45000ish]

It IS an "erratic" game in that the target can jump about but here are a few tips:

(a) two or three games in a row of 50,000+ means it's probably time to play something else

(b) the biggest Deal I've seen for a round of 5 sets of questions is 22,500, which you are offered when all or virtually all the higher (red) points amounts are still available so I wouldn't bother trying for more than that

(c) more a personal choice really but I virtually always go for each points Deal - I find you rarely get much of an improvement in the second offer and you obviously run the risk of losing Try Agains answering the additional questions

(d) the game on the ItBox seems to be much tighter than on the Gamesnets - of no surprise to anyone who plays anything else on there!! Without wishing to sound too much like a broken record, I can't believe how far the ItBox has deteriorated in the last couple of years...