You are left with one of the banker's power 5, and the £250,000. You're offered £12,500 walking money and one egg. Pick the egg and it's worth £90,000.What would you do?

Probably deal, but be absolutely gutted if I choose the wrong egg.

Exact vice versa I think here

This is a tricky one... if I dealt and picked the wrong egg and walked away with £12,500 and had £250k in my box, I'd not be happy, as I'd no deal £12,500 on a blue vs £250k board!

On the other hand, if I no dealt and then won the blue, and it turned out the egg I would've chosen had the £90,000 bonus, I wouldn't be pleased either!!

However, with a 1 in 3 chance of getting a total of £102,500, I think it'd be a deal for me!!

No deal, as I'd ignore the egg and consider the offer in monetary terms alone - which would be a no-deal even for the most cautious people here!

Hmm, thats a tough one. Knowing me i'd probably deal but then be annoyed if i chose the wrong egg and had the biggie in my box.

Fabulous scenario. Absolutely fabulous scenario.

Two lotteries. One gives a 50-50 shot at £250k or £100. One gives a two-in-three shot at £12,500 and a one-in-three shot at £102,500.

I'd look for £40k or so on that final two normally; I'd value the lottery at... less than that, I'd No Deal. But I really, really, really wouldn't want to.

No deal to the offer and the stupid eggs

The cynic in me believes that Endemol are using this Eggs twist as a cost-effective device to save money, after all it has been a while since they've had the LTL, which raked in hundreds of thousands of pounds. So, every so often they engineer a twist which is designed to be to THEIR advantage, not the contestants (but sometimes this backfires - SEE: Chris B £76,000). There's even another twist coming up soon.

They can disguise that they are still giving out good offers through the eggs, but the odds are not in your favour most of the time. So if you deal, you are more likely going to end up with a worse-offer-than-usual sum. So, you can't really deal for sheer humiliation factor.
The maximum sum you can win is often at the lower end of the usual offer threshold IMO. Today, as I stated, £40k should have been the lowest offer, not the lottery-based offer, and players are being manipulated into thinking it's a good offer.

There has to be SOME set of rules in place, because otherwise the banker could say he'd offer £100k on 1p/ £250k ONLY if the player picks the good egg, and £20k if they picked a bad egg (or something). So, their offer would be "GOOD EGG=£100,000, BAD EGG=£20,000, Deal or No Deal?" (that would be kinda interesting, actually)

Anyway, the point I'm trying to take is that it just doesn't seem fair or is a significant advantage to the show's bank balance.

Don't blame you for thinking that - and they saved a good few days of LTL revenue with Jo Jo! - but it needs the players to work this out.

Done right this twist is superb. However, the only one it's working for right now is the Banker. Well except for today.

Guys, I think it is just 90k, not 102.5k. I said ND because I would rather have won the blue than 12.5k with the QM in my box. Even though I would deal 90k, it is a 67% chance of 12.5k, which is too much. I think 60k would be my tipping point.

Tough but I think i'd no deal.

I would consider £12,500 as too low and the the 1 in 3 chance of getting an additional £90,000 too risky. So I would most probably no deal.

I've changed my mind on this one actually, having seen more of the egg thing. I'd be very tempted to no deal here...

The voting is totally split at the moment. I would deal because £12,500 is at least some insurance to gamble for £90,000 with.

Well basically its a 1 in 3 chance of going away with £90 000
And a 1 in 2 chance of winning the £250 000


I know what odds I prefer..