Why not just remove it off the board completely and have £100K as the Max jackpot and replace it with another red (£65,000)?

That would just look wrong, and feel cheap.

And wouldn't people, in your view, just squander the £100,000? Where would it end?!?

Hahahahaha yeah that quite funny! Why dont they just get rid of the money completely?

No.

Maybe we could get rid of £15,000 and make a new red; £150,000. Although, it will probably end in more frustration when players deal early.

Just wondering, why not?

You'd probably still end up with people "squandering" money, as KP said. Also, due to the gap between £100k and £250k, it makes for some potentially very interesting decisions at 8-box and 5-box. The values on the board don't need to change - the banker's offers do. Offering £12k at 5-box with £35k and £250k there is stupid - it needs to be more like £20k to make the players think about it more.

I take your point about the Banker, the show really needs him to do better offers so that we can take them seriously

But there is a difference between dealing a target and blowing big money, I'm sure 36 players have blown £100K and 29 players have blown £250K

I know it can't be helped, but all this squandering is starting to get out of hand after nearly 3 years of DOND

This is possibly your most ridiculous idea yet.

It sounds rediculous, but even the most rediculous idea has turned out for the better... (Trojan Horse anyone?)

They definitely should. And then replace the £250k, with another cheap value, possibly £2,000 or £7,500? It would suit it more, especially now.

That's the thing - they are thinking about it though, when they shouldn't. The other day I was watching the end of Sarah-Jane's game where it was 4 blues/£50,000 and turned down £5,000.02 immediately, but not stupidly.

But accepting £5,000 on such a board wouldn't be stupid at all - there was an 80% chance she had a blue in her box, and if that were the case, a 75% she'd take the big one out in the next round...

After seeing 800+ plus shows it'd just look wrong and out of place if it weren't there, and regardless of whether it gets won again the £250,000 can still provide an exciting game, especially between 5-box to 2-box.

Plus it'd just look like they're trying to save money by scrapping the top prize (even if they are actually trying to save money at the moment?). It'd also mess up a load of stats as well i'm guessing.

I wouldn't watch the show if this was implemented. As it is, I can barely continue watching once the £250k has been revealed.

If they took out the £250k there'd be a quarter of a million frowns.

Sarah-Jane was my last official BB commentary (for a while at least) and I thought she was crazy for rejecting the offer! I'd have taken it in a flash!

It is OK to be cautious here, right?

What would be the point? Definitely not.

This has just reminded me of a dream I had where someone dealt for £2.50 and Noel was like "Well everyone tries to win the quarter of a million, but you've won a quarter of a tenner!!!" and everyone laughed for ages even though it wasn't very funny. Actually I think it may have been me who won the £2.50. Yes I realise this should probably be in the dreams thread...

What a crap idea.