Jill's game today.

Noel says some people find the game and the experience very challenging; he says players often bring relatives, who end up interfering in some way. We see a repeat of Alex sparring with his wife yesterday.

Soon... the 50,000th box will be opened!

Jill has Box 20.

Jill Christian, from Liverpool, a kitchen assistant at a primary school, known as 'Little Jill' to the pupils. She has a photo of her with her late father, and another of her two children; her husband John, her cousin and his wife are in the audience. Noel practices some (very bad) Scouse!

Here we go...

1p in the first box.

Now 3 of the Banker's power 5, it's looking good!

what a start

Round 1

Box 2 with Natalie - 1p

Some Scouse banter with Ste next!

Box 4 with Ste - £5

Box 12 with Beverley - £1

Can you hit all of the Banker's Power 5, says Noel.

Box 16 with Nick - £250

You're not going in the Hall of Fame, says Noel, but can you still do an all-blue opening round?

Box 11 with Kelly - 50p

Banker time...

woo hoo

Excellent opening round

Offer should be no less than £15,000

1 in 2,772 odds of doing what Jill has just done!

The Banker says that is the best opening round of all time! He also says this is a landmark game, as someone has calculated that the 16th box of this show will be the 50,000th to be opened on the show! He also says that this is the lowest average height between presenter and contestant of all time!

Banker's offer:

£16,000

I do believe that is in the top 3 opening rounds of all time. Surely not the best, though?

Stats after Round 1
Offer: £16,000
Mean: £33,259.42
Fair Deal: £15,144.58
Volatility: 0.79
Board total: £565,410.10

Board
10p



£10
£50
£100

£500
£750
£1,000
£3,000
£5,000
£10,000
£15,000
£20,000
£35,000
£50,000
£75,000
£100,000
£250,000

Wow, that opening round was practically the inverse of Irene's back in January 2006!

Jill's husband says he's never seen an offer that high, and he's speechless! Noel wonders if Jill will deal this!

Jill says:

NO DEAL

Noel calls a break...

Just looked at the stats, and nope, it's not the best opening round of all time. The average of Jill's board is currently £33,259.42, however Lisa's (24-9-2010 – game 1415) average at this stage was £33,268.24. Jill's opening round is the 4th best opening round of all time, excluding special games.

If another all blue round we could see the £26,000

Though she is more likely to hit 2 or 3 reds!

I make the odds of doing Jill's opening round again 960/3160080 = 1 in 3,291.75 (~0.03%)!

Let's hope she becomes the second person in the show's history to take 8 blues in a row from the first box.

We're back...

Round 2

Noel says it was a sensational start, and can we keep this going?

Box 21 with Craig - £50

Six blues in a row, says Noel. Some banter about when Jill met her husband next.

Box 9 with Kelvin - £100,000

And the run ends with a major trip, says Noel.

Box 10 with Gemma - £35,000

Banker time...

2 of the Power 5 gone. Had to happen sometime though.

Same offer again probably...