GAME 33 | SARA (has Box 19)

ROUND 1
12 - £500 | 22 - 1p | 2 - £250,000 | 20 - £75,000 | 16 - £3,000
OFFER: £1,900 | NO DEAL

ROUND 2
14 - £10,000 | 17 - £50,000 | 7 - £5,000
OFFER: £3,400 | NO DEAL

ROUND 3
15 - £250 | 11 - £1 | 8 - £5
OFFER: £7,100 | NO DEAL

ROUND 4
18 - 50p | 6 - £15,000 | 3 - 10p
OFFER: £12,900 | NO DEAL

ROUND 5
21 - £100,000 | 5 - £20,000 | 10 - £50
OFFER: £5,100 | NO DEAL

ROUND 6
1 - £35,000 | 13 - £1,000 | 9 - £10
OFFER: £376 | NO DEAL
Swap rejected

Box 19 had £750 (Box 4 had £100) | Peak offer £12,900 | Prize won £750 | OBW

Summary: Thanks (...I guess) to daniel4389 for reminding me Sara had a £20,000 target, because otherwise I might have had her Deal... I spent forever trying to decide what she would have done until I got that reminder. It just got rubbish after that.

GAME 34 | TINA (has Box 6)

ROUND 1
2 - £35,000 | 9 - £10 | 16 - £750 | 7 - £250 | 10 - £50,000
OFFER: £4,400 | NO DEAL

ROUND 2
13 - £75,000 | 1 - £5 | 12 - 50p
OFFER: £8,700 | NO DEAL

ROUND 3
22 - £20,000 | 8 - £5,000 | 20 - £500
OFFER: £15,400 | NO DEAL

ROUND 4
4 - £15,000 | 14 - £100 | 5 - £250,000
OFFER: £8,800 | NO DEAL

ROUND 5
3 - £10,000 | 19 - 1p | 18 - £3,000
OFFER: £13,700 | NO DEAL

ROUND 6
17 - £100,000 | 21 - £1 | 15 - £1,000
OFFER: £21 | NO DEAL
Swap rejected

Box 6 had £50 (Box 11 had 10p) | Peak offer £15,400 | Prize won £50 | OBW

Summary: Tina turned down £2k on 50p/£5k after a rubbish game in which she seemed stuck in auto-No Deal mode. I assumed this to be typical of her, and if this had been her game I would have laughed at this self-inflicted trainwreck. Check that final offer though...

GAME 35 | KAI (has Box 21)

ROUND 1
2 - 10p | 1 - £75,000 | 19 - £1,000 | 12 - £250,000 | 6 - £100
OFFER: £2,000 | NO DEAL

ROUND 2
8 - £50 | 16 - £750 | 3 - £10
OFFER: £4,500 | NO DEAL

ROUND 3
20 - £5,000 | 4 - £15,000 | 5 - £10,000
OFFER: £8,400 | NO DEAL

ROUND 4
11 - £35,000 | 13 - 50p | 7 - £50,000
OFFER: £9,200 | NO DEAL

ROUND 5
14 - £100,000 | 15 - £500 | 17 - £20,000
OFFER: £492 | NO DEAL

ROUND 6
10 - £250 | 18 - £5 | 9 - £1
OFFER: £1,300 | DEAL

Box 21 had £3,000 (Box 22 had 1p) | Peak offer £9,200 | Prize won £1,300 | OBW

Summary: Not even the psychic can reverse the curse, a third tiny-money OBW in a row. I had him consider £9,200, but the £20,000 would have lured him in, I think.

GAME 36 - ELAINE (has Box 16)

ROUND 1
3 - £3,000 | 8 - £1,000 | 14 - £10,000 | 20 - £250 | 4 - £10
OFFER: £5,200 | NO DEAL

ROUND 2
6 - £750 | 7 - £50 | 22 - £35,000
OFFER: £10,000 | NO DEAL

ROUND 3
10 - 10p | 21 - £5,000 | 17 - £20,000
OFFER: £20,700 | DEAL

ROUND 4
15 - £100,000 | 5 - 50p | 1 - £250,000
HYPOTHETICAL OFFER: £10,400

ROUND 5
12 - £1 | 9 - £50,000 | 11 - £100
HYPOTHETICAL OFFER: £12,300

ROUND 6
13 - 1p | 19 - £15,000 | 18 - £5
HYPOTHETICAL OFFER: £31,400

Box 16 had £500 (Box 2 had £75,000) | Peak offer £31,400 | Prize won £20,700 | TPW (66-34)

Summary: An amazing board fell to a cautious player. Go figure. Elaine would have taken £20,700 as a job well done, I'm sure. And forget that last offer - it WAS a job well done.

GAME 37 - AUDREY (has Box 3)

ROUND 1
1 - 10p | 20 - £15,000 | 4 - £1 | 13 - £35,000 | 2 - £10
OFFER: £4,300 | NO DEAL

ROUND 2
12 - £3,000 | 17 - £100,000 | 21 - £10,000
OFFER: £8,800 | NO DEAL

ROUND 3
9 - £5,000 | 22 - £5 | 5 - £500
OFFER: £16,900 | NO DEAL

ROUND 4
6 - 1p | 10 - £250,000 | 18 - £100
OFFER: £11,300 | NO DEAL

ROUND 5
14 - £1,000 | 8 - 50p | 15 - £250
OFFER: £20,100 | NO DEAL

ROUND 6
11 - £20,000 | 7 - £750 | 19 - £75,000
OFFER: £23,200 | DEAL

Box 3 had £50,000 (Box 16 had £50) | Peak offer £23,200 | Prize won £23,200 | OBW

Summary: Audrey didn't have one difficult decision all game. She had more than her fair share in this one! I felt she might have been sucked in by the stability of the board - though I'm not sure the brilliantly-pitched fifth offer would have been rejected. The old-school final offer justified the preceding No Deal and an OBW is a harsh result here.

GAME 38 - ROB (has Box 9)

ROUND 1
22 - £10,000 | 11 - £500 | 18 - £10 | 3 - £1,000 | 17 - £75,000
OFFER: £4,600 | NO DEAL

ROUND 2
12 - £100,000 | 14 - £100 | 20 - £1
OFFER: £8,100 | NO DEAL

ROUND 3
10 - 1p | 15 - £15,000 | 4 - £35,000
OFFER: £13,900 | NO DEAL

ROUND 4
8 - £50 | 2 - £250,000 | 7 - £250
OFFER: £6,200 | NO DEAL

ROUND 5
13 - 50p | 5 - £5,000 | 16 - £50,000
OFFER: £3,200 | NO DEAL

ROUND 6
1 - 10p | 6 - £750 | 19 - £20,000
OFFER: £1,300 | NO DEAL
Swap rejected

Box 9 had £3,000 (Box 21 had £5) | Peak offer £13,900 | Prize won £3,000 | OBW

Summary: We didn't find all that much out about Rob's utility curve either, but I think he'd have gone to the end in this early-peaking game.

GAME 39 - JO (has Box 6)

ROUND 1
16 - £1 | 11 - £50 | 1 - £20,000 | 12 - £750 | 4 - £15,000
OFFER: £4,300 | NO DEAL

ROUND 2
3 - £10 | 20 - 50p | 22 - 1p
OFFER: £10,900 | NO DEAL

ROUND 3
7 - £250,000 | 5 - £3,000 | 18 - £5
OFFER: £10,300 | NO DEAL

ROUND 4
8 - £500 | 2 - £35,000 | 21 - £50,000
OFFER: £14,700 | DEAL

ROUND 5
19 - £250 | 9 - £5,000 | 13 - £100
HYPOTHETICAL OFFER: £25,000

ROUND 6
17 - £1,000 | 14 - £10,000 | 10 - £100,000
HYPOTHETICAL OFFER: £33,100

Box 6 had £75,000 (Box 15 had 10p) | Peak offer £33,100 | Prize won £14,700 | OBW

Summary: This was frustrating, she had a very similar board but with £50k/£20k instead of just £75k, and took a very generous £19k. I think she'd have taken this but now I'm thinking she wouldn't. Would have been right not to as it turned out. This is going horribly.

GAME 40 - JASON (has Box 2)

ROUND 1
13 - £15,000 | 6 - £1 | 15 - £50 | 20 - £3,000 | 9 - £5
OFFER: £5,100 | NO DEAL

ROUND 2
14 - 10p | 12 - £35,000 | 10 - £20,000
OFFER: £11,000 | NO DEAL

ROUND 3
8 - £250,000 | 7 - 1p | 16 - £5,000
OFFER: £9,200 | NO DEAL

ROUND 4
22 - £100 | 3 - £50,000 | 21 - £10
OFFER: £14,500 | DEAL

ROUND 5
17 - £250 | 1 - £75,000 | 18 - 50p
HYPOTHETICAL OFFER: £17,500

ROUND 6
11 - £10,000 | 4 - £750 | 5 - £500
HYPOTHETICAL OFFER: £45,200

Box 2 had £100,000 (Box 19 had £1,000) | Peak offer £45,200 | Prize won £14,500 | OBW

Summary: See also Jo's game, but his real game was a bit better and this ended up even worse.

GAME 41 - HELEN (has Box 5)

ROUND 1
7 - 50p | 3 - £5,000 | 6 - £5 | 19 - £10 | 1 - £250,000
OFFER: £2,600 | NO DEAL

ROUND 2
10 - 1p | 17 - £1,000 | 20 - £75,000
OFFER: £4,900 | NO DEAL

ROUND 3
18 - £20,000 | 21 - £3,000 | 9 - £500
OFFER: £8,300 | NO DEAL

ROUND 4
15 - £50 | 16 - 10p | 8 - £50,000
OFFER: £12,100 | NO DEAL

ROUND 5
11 - £100 | 12 - £750 | 4 - £35,000
OFFER: £19,000 | DEAL

ROUND 6
13 - £15,000 | 22 - £1 | 14 - £10,000
HYPOTHETICAL OFFER: £46,900

Box 5 had £100,000 (Box 2 had £500) | Peak offer £46,900 | Prize won £19,000 | OBW

Summary: Oh now it's just getting ridiculous. Helen never had a difficult decision to make all game - five joke offers and an AMO! - so I had her play the game relatively moderately, the rise after the £35k hit proving the tipping point.

GAME 42 - JEFF (has Box 17)

ROUND 1
8 - £10,000 | 7 - £750 | 2 - 1p | 5 - £5,000 | 4 - £1,000
OFFER: £4,600 | NO DEAL

ROUND 2
1 - £1 | 13 - £500 | 3 - £50,000
OFFER: £11,000 | NO DEAL

ROUND 3
6 - £5 | 9 - £100 | 11 - £20,000
OFFER: £20,500 | NO DEAL

ROUND 4
15 - £50 | 12 - 10p | 19 - £3,000
OFFER: £39,000 | DEAL

ROUND 5
20 - £75,000 | 14 - £100,000 | 21 - 50p
HYPOTHETICAL OFFER: £44,500

ROUND 6
22 - £250,000 | 16 - £15,000 | 18 - £35,000
HYPOTHETICAL OFFER: £115

Box 17 had £250 (Box 10 had £10) | Peak offer £44,500 | Prize won £39,000 | TPW (88-12)

Summary: At last, someone makes a profit on the box! I suspect Jeff would have seen £39,000 as too much to turn down, and would he have believed the big money couldn't possibly come to the table again? Either way, a spectacularly damaging proveout, although the late-game offers don't quite do it justice.

GAME 43: KAREN (has Box 15)

ROUND 1
22 - £750 | 11 - £50 | 7 - £35,000 | 5 - £250,000 | 10 - £75,000
OFFER £1,900 | NO DEAL

ROUND 2
6 - £20,000 | 2 - £10 | 9 - £5,000
OFFER £3,600 | NO DEAL

ROUND 3
4 - £1,000 | 3 - £500 | 17 - 1p
OFFER £6,800 | NO DEAL

ROUND 4
8 - £250 | 1 - £10,000 | 13 - £1
OFFER £12,900 | NO DEAL

ROUND 5
12 - £100,000 | 14 - £50,000 | 16 - 50p
OFFER £2,900 | NO DEAL

ROUND 6
20 - £5 | 21 - 10p | 19 - £3,000
OFFER £7,400 | DEAL

Box 15 had £15,000 (Box 18 had £100) | Peak offer £12,900 | Prize won £7,400 | OBW

Verdict: One of the most painful games I've simulated, if not the most. Why did I have Karen No Deal at £12,900? It took a lot of thought, as her board was so different to her real one and yet oddly comparable, but then I remembered her dream (to become a pilot), looked up the cost of acquiring all the licenses required from scratch (roughly £50k), and figured that with both that and the £100k in play she'd go for it. To see the top two go at once like that was horrendous. At least she scrapped her way back to good money though!

GAME 44: MARY-ANN (has Box 10)

ROUND 1
2 - £10,000 | 1 - £35,000 | 3 - 50p | 4 - £250,000 | 5 - £50
OFFER £2,300 | NO DEAL

ROUND 2
18 - £20,000 | 8 - 10p | 9 - £15,000
OFFER £5,200 | NO DEAL

ROUND 3
13 - £5 | 7 - 1p | 11 - £1,000
OFFER £10,400 | NO DEAL

ROUND 4
21 - £1 | 12 - £10 | 6 - £5,000
OFFER £18,300 | DEAL

ROUND 5
17 - £3,000 | 22 - £500 | 16 - £250
HYPOTHETICAL OFFER £34,600

ROUND 6
15 - £75,000 | 20 - £1 | 14 - £50,000
HYPOTHETICAL OFFER £41,200

Box 10 had £100,000 (Box 12 had £100) | Peak offer £41,200 | Prize won £18,300 | OBW

Verdict: Oh thank heavens for that - the board ended up very similar indeed to the real one at eight-box (swap £5k and £35k for £3k and £50k and you're there on the reds!), and the offers were almost identical, thus making the decision trivial... at least I can't think 'she wouldn't have done that' after that OBW! Doesn't make it any less painful though...

GAME 45: CHRIS (has Box 2)

ROUND 1
12 - £750 | 19 - £35,000 | 9 - £10 | 8 - £500 | 21 - £100,000
OFFER £3,900 | NO DEAL

ROUND 2
11 - 10p | 15 - £20,000 | 4 - £250,000
OFFER £3,300 | NO DEAL

ROUND 3
17 - 1p | 13 - £100 | 14 - £1
OFFER £5,900 | NO DEAL

ROUND 4
3 - £15,000 | 7 - £3,000 | 6 - £50,000
OFFER £7,100 | DEAL

ROUND 5
5 - £75,000 | 16 - £5 | 10 - 50p
HYPOTHETICAL OFFER £2,400

ROUND 6
20 - £250 | 18 - £1,000 | 22 - £5,000
HYPOTHETICAL OFFER £4,500

Box 2 had £50 (Box 6 had £10,000) | Peak offer £7,100 | Prize won £7,100 | OPW

Verdict: AT LAST! When a stable board turns unstable and the offer goes noticeably up from non-insulting levels, it's just too easy to Deal. Very interesting proveout too, the OPW seemingly sealed in one box but not actually confirmed until the very end!