Deal or No Deal - 14th-19th May

OK, time for a weekly Deal update.

Monday 14th: Candice
First show back after the specials, and a bit of a disappointment. Candice was a very pleasant lady, but her game never really gave her a chance to take a deal. In the end, she was left at 5-box with £75,000 and 4 blues. She battled on, but lost the £75,000, leaving an all-blue finish. She won £5 from the box. But as it turned out, she needn't have worried...

Tuesday 15th: Lee
I've said enough about Lee's game, and how it split opinion on the forum. Here's what I wrote on Tuesday.

Wednesday 16th: Olga
Olga came across as rather quiet and nervous, and her game kind of relected that. The board slowly collapsed, and at 5-box, the 1p and the 10p remaining, along with £250, £5,000 and £10,000. After turning down a low offer that was dragged down by the bottom two, she pleasingly took both out in the final round. But £5,000 left a final two of £250 and £10,000. A low offer of £2,250 would've been easy for most to turn down, but she took it, and, pleasingly, it was the right thing to do, as £250 was in her box.

Thursday 17th: Rich
Another controversial game. Rich reached his third offer with all of the Power 5 bar the £100,000 in play. The Banker offered £16,000. After much calling back, he told Rich that, if he took out the 1p, 10p and 50p (best possible round) in the next round, the next offer would be £40,000. But Rich decided to deal at £16,000. Amazingly, he nearly did that perfect round, only with £10 instead of 1p, and the offer would've been £36,000. However, the game began to fall apart afterwards, though the £75,000 stayed, and his final two were 1p and £75,000. For the second time in under a week, the Banker's Gamble was bought out, but Rich sensibly turned it down. Alas, the £75,000 was in his box.

Friday 18th: Alhena
An odd game. Alhena was certainly bubbly and lively. Her game stayed neutral throughout, resulting in her first four offers all being £6,750 (the Banker has a strange fondness of multiples of 250). A recovery in the fifth round saw a 5-box board of 1p, 50p, £5,000, £10,000 and £100,000. The offer rose to £9,000, but, despite the wingers advising her to deal, Alhena went on. A balanced final round saw the 50p, the £100,000 and the 1p go (in that order). The offer collapsed back to £6,750, which Alhena turned down. In a final cruel twist, Alhena swapped her box, and ended up winning £5,000 from her box. Never nice when a player swaps their box, and ends up with the lower sum as a result, but the difference was so small, it didn't make that much difference (unlike, say, Orry from Christmas 2007).

Saturday 19th: Ron
A very rare all-red opening round saw Ron become a bit frustrated that his game wasn't going well. However, a good run of blues saw the offer rise to £9,000. The Banker later called back, and said that, if Ron dealt, he could sing the show out with a performance of 'My Way'. Ron accepted the offer. However, a good next round would've seen the offer rise to £19,000, but the game collapsed afterwards, and £500 was in his box. Ron concluded the show with a rather good performance of 'My Way'.

That's this week then. Tomorrow, Katie 'Jordan' Price plays the sixth edition of Celebrity Deal or No Deal. Wonder if she will do better than her ex-husband did last week!