Would you prefer to see contestants deal early in the game if they
receive generous offers that give them a better chance of achieving
their financial targets and beating the banker....

or should contestants at least go to 8 box before they deal for the sake of providing an entertaining show. Vote now!

#2 for sure.

I don't have a preference. I'll go along with what they do.

I'd like to see a variety. Too much of one thing would be boring, whatever that "thing" is. Overall though, I'd rather generous offers early on were dealt if the player can't cope with the game going wrong. Look what happened today!!

The most likely thing to get them an OPW, or failing that a good win with not too much money missed out on.

Either, but obviously a lot more of the latter.

That depends on how strong the board is

I have no problems when people deal..it's their choice...nothing i can say on here can change that.

A nice balance of both would probably be best.

Well I think it's better if they at least go to 8-box. However it all depends on the board, offers & the player.

Personally I would like to see some of the contestants call the banker's bluff by dealing excessively generous early offers. It might force the banker to make more realistic offers for each stage of the game.

If someone has a target of £20,000, they get offered that as the 3rd offer with an average board but turn it down then it all goes wrong then they can't blame anyone else.

What rico7 said. The correct way to make players go to eight-box and make the first half mere 'scene-setting', which apparently Endemol want, is to make the first three offers low. The incorrect way, which is what Endemol have done, is create a social stigma around anyone who doesn't No Deal their way to eight-box, but create high early offers so that if they're turned down and it goes wrong, the loss-chasing players will chase that regret and usually Wakey it, often (as we saw today) to a blue win.

And a second-offer Deal would create variety and be a talking point! What more could Endemol want?

If someone dealt that early, would Endemol actually show the episode? Anyways, I think a bit of variety is great. If all the players "wakeyed" it then it'd be boring. If all the players were cautious then it'd be boring. As long as the end of the game isn't as uncomfortable as Matty's then it's OK.

Sadly, probably not...



And that illustrates why this would be wrong. We need variety, and one second-offer Deal would provide just that and a memorable game regardless of the result of the first ever twelve-box proveout. (It wouldn't be the first four-round proveout, that was Wrighty's as he had three one-box rounds from five-box after an eight-box Deal!)

Could they get away with not showing an episode when there would obviously be continuity problems (it would mean having to edit out all references to the day of the show)?

If they ever cut a show though the contunity would be *beep* up for months. Especially when days are mentioned.

Sure they could edit them out but look what happened when they moved the weekend show around when it wasn't planned. Sometimes a reference to day would be cut and then later on it would be kept it.

But then seeing as no-one is ever going to deal the first or second offers anyway unless A. Someone does it as a joke or B. The Banker actually makes a decent offer for the board.

Plus even in the unlikely event they do deal I suspect they would use some twist to bring it back into live play, such as "The Banker's Gamble".

Yesterday's game saw a 2nd offer of £20,000 which was very generous for the board. I think that you would almost certainly see "The banker's gamble" with a 2nd offer deal but given that the contestant might be over cautious anyway, it would have to really tempt them.

That was a good 2nd offer and considering a lot of people have a target of £20,000 they could actually deal there and be done with it.

But I guess due to the stigma of the early offers and that of the contestants not wanting to feel like a coward/wimp etc (which i'm sure 99% of viewers wouldn't think even if they did deal that early) by dealing so early, that even if their target was £20,000 they still wouldn't deal it.

I'm not sure - only if it was really generous as a 1/2 off occurence.

I would be hopping mad at a 2nd offer deal.

It would be just money grabbing with no intention of playing the game or attempting to go for the big money. Cowardice and greed of the highest order.

If it ever happens I hope Endemol pull the show. Who wants to watch 10 minutes of game and then a long tediious meaningless proveout.

I wouldnt mind a third offer deal or even a second offer deal as long as it was a very generous offer, but i wouldnt like it to happen very often. I like games where people take at least one risk at getting the big money.

I would love to see a second offer deal and see the proveout go brilliantly and just knock out the big numbers straight away. I would just want to see the reaction on here!