Me and Aaron were talking about this earlier. What is the strongest 5 box? Or maybe the one you would want most? Post your ideas!

Do you mean the strongest you have seen on the show ?

If so then Daniel from Aug 2007 would take a lot of beating with 4 of the power 5 and £750 left......in fact did he not have all the power 5 left at 6 box.


Jim

Yes I do mean on the show. Remember it could be the one you would want not necessarily the strongest in term of the stats.

Well the one I would want is the Power 5

Really! What about on the show that has actually happened?

Oh no not on the show it hasn't. I mis-read the question a bit

I know it hasn't! So what players board would you want mike?

You obviously want the biggest amount still in play (the £250,000). You also want a good backup (another Power Five amount). The offer is always more fairer and usually greater if the backup is solid (so maybe another Power Five amount, or £20,000 at the very least?).

That's three of the five. But if you had a board like Daniel's, where there was very little to lose in terms of life-changing amounts, you would be next-to confused if you had the Power Five at 5-box. Sure the chance of big money would be massive, pretty much guaranteed. But the object of a gamble would be worthless, as almost everyone would see the situation as a win-win situation. So say it happened, and you was offered £95,000 (the average is £102,000 for the record)...despite it being a massive amount, the majority of people would see it as a guaranteed £35,000 and you wouldn't be able to view the offer as "massive" as it should be viewed.

I'd want a 5-box like Christmas Star Ian's; the big three there (which fits the bill from my first paragraph), and then there is still a risk of a massive crash possible there. But should the worst happen, at least it wouldn't be "peanuts", and in fact still a healthy £1,000 at the very worst.

And then of course, if the £250,000 went in the last round, the game would still easily reach a brilliant climax if you could keep whatever the other two large amounts were!

I'd probably prefer Brenda (1)'s last 5 to Daniel's to be honest - he could still have won £750 whereas she was guaranteed 10k. But I'd have dealt the offers on both irrespective of that!