Cranfield Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Am I going to be the only person to miss this programme, now that the current season has ended ? I am not a fan of "Game Shows" and similar programmes, but I really like the very different format of this show and I think Noel Edmonds does a really good job. I wonder if anyone has ever calculated the odds on the Contestant getting the £250,000 in their box. It must be very high. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 I got an email that there is a variant of the Deal or No Deal game on the online gambling sites. I love it when people's greed takes over - everyone chases the 1/4 million whereas the sensible people bail out with a tax free sum of money they consider to be a lot to them - this normally ranges from £10,000 to £50,000. Anyone that shoots for more than £50,000 has always ended up looking like a **** who should have taken the £25,000 tax free that was on the table not 5 minutes beforehand. Back to your questions (1) yes, I am a saddo (2) sort of, Noel's a bit of a **** with a nasty streak but he does his best filling time in a game that could really only take 5 minutes from start to finish (3) the odds are the total number of boxes to 1, so 22 boxes = 22 to 1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darebear Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 naw, the odds are greater than that surely. not 22x21x20x19 and so on? no hold on, thats possibilities of combinations. urgh. anyone else know for sure or is it 22 to 1. because with those odds, surely people would just go all the way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulos Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 not wishing to sound a miserable ****, but i detest the show, i hate it with a passion so great i feel it may one day push me over the edge, resulting in the savage beating of noel edmunds although i am still mighty impressed at how the producers mangage to span out what is essentially a guessing game for 40 minutes and still keep people watching. its far too scripted and rehearsed for a game show. i cringe in embarrassment for derren browns and uri gellars that go on the show professing to know exactly where the numbers are yet still go home potless. axe it! phew.. i feel better now paulos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertie2 Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 I've had an interview for the show down manchester on 14th of feb. ******* never got back to me though so looks like i'm set for another year of poverty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 Bertie, they were probably worried you wouldn't understand the rules... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 I think its a total crock of **** to be honest. The game show is in the same bracket as "reality TV show" as far as I am concerned. If you think about it, at 40 minutes a show each weekday you are wasting 200 minutes of your life each week on a TV show! I am a self confessed geek so all I watch are programs about how stuff works, if I am not going to learn something off it goes and I do something else. The way I see it you get old and spend the last years of your life wishing you did this and that, how ****** off are you going to be if you wasted several weeks watching TV game shows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertie2 Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 Bertie, they were probably worried you wouldn't understand the rules... No they were maybe worried about keeping me in food and drink for 3 weeks or so, whilst filming! Boy can i scran and well i'm from north east, i can drink with the best of them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 No they were maybe worried about keeping me in food and drink for 3 weeks or so, whilst filming! Boy can i scran and well i'm from north east, i can drink with the best of them! Yep, being a big northern lad myself I agree with bertie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret Master Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 I think my tutor was on it. She brought a picture of her in on it but nobody watched the tripe to be able to say we had seen her on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurcherboy Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 It is absolute ****, yet I am drawn to watching it, but only because the wife has it on LB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darebear Posted July 28, 2006 Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 It is absolute ****, yet I am drawn to watching it, but only because the wife has it on LB yeah yeah yeah convenient huh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurcherboy Posted July 28, 2006 Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 It is absolute ****, yet I am drawn to watching it, but only because the wife has it on LB yeah yeah yeah convenient huh? I don't argue with a 15 stone rottie LB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted July 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 I don't look for deep, educational, mind expanding, significance, when I watch TV. I tend to go with what I consider "entertaining". Its probably the expressions of greed on their faces when they struggle with accepting the deal, or gambling they have more in the box, that I enjoy. There have been a few that have turned down over £30,000 and left with .1p. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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