Let's Make a Deal (Episode 10)

[Ciara24]

I'll take more cards.

1, 14, 28, 33 and 51 please

[IceGuy]

Are you sure? Offering you

$50 in cash

as well as your choice between a red and a yellow envelope. I can guarantee they are both neither empty nor contain a Zonk.

[Ciara24]

I'll take the cash and the yellow envelope!

[IceGuy]

You get the

$50 in cash

I promised as well as another

$50 in cash

from the yellow envelope, so you've now got

$460 in cash

and

$100 in jewellery vouchers

!

(applause)

For the next deal, I've got a question. It will have three wrong answers and one correct answer. If you choose the correct one, you get

a laptop worth $1000

. If you don't, you Zonk out. The question will be about

islands

.

Do you take the deal?

[Ciara24]

I'll take the deal!

[IceGuy]

Here's your question:

What's the capital of Iceland?
a) Tórshavn
b) Alþingi
c) Reykjavík
d) Østfold

You can get one wrong answer struck in exchange for taking the next lower model of laptop worth

$850

.

[Ciara24]

C. Reykjavik!

[IceGuy]

Are you sure? I'm offering you

$700 in cash

to back down.

[Ciara24]

I'm sticking with my answer!

[IceGuy]

Upping my offer to

$800 in cash

.

[Ciara24]

Nope, sticking with my answer.

[IceGuy]

And that's a good decision, because the answer is correct! You've won

a laptop worth $1000

!

For your next deal, I have six envelopes: red, green, blue, yellow, orange and purple.
Two of them contain a Zonk.
Two of them contain

$1500 in cash

.
One has a

wellness weekend worth $2000

.
And the last one has

three one-ounce gold coins worth $3300

.

Do you take the deal?

[Ciara24]

I'll take green and blue please!

[IceGuy]

Sorry, should've specified: You can only pick one.

[Ciara24]

Oops, sorry!
I'll take blue.

[IceGuy]

Offering you

$1200 in cash

if you back down.

[Ciara24]

I'll stick with my envelope.

[IceGuy]

Upping my offer to

$1300 in cash

.

[Ciara24]

Staying with the envelope!

[IceGuy]

Last offer:

$1300 in cash

plus your choice of a silver or gold envelope which are neither empty nor contain a Zonk.

[Ciara24]

ooooh... okay, I'll take the cash and the silver envelope.

[IceGuy]

That means you're getting

$1300 in cash

as well as

$200 in cash

from the silver envelope, for a total of

$1500 in cash

!

(applause)

By the way, the blue envelope would've contained the gold coins.

(oooh)

For the next deal, I've got twelve spheres numbered 1 to 12.
Two of them contain a Zonk.
Four of them have

$150 in cash

.
Another three have

$250 in cash

Two have

$350 in cash

.
And the last one has a

weekend trip worth $500

.

You have to take four spheres, or three spheres and $150 in cash, or two spheres and $300 in cash.

Do you take the deal?

[Ciara24]

I'll take spheres 5, 8, 12 and $150 in cash!

[IceGuy]

Let's open the spheres...

Sphere 5 has

$350 in cash

!

(applause)

The next one, sphere 7, has

$150 in cash

!

(applause)

You're now at

$2000 in cash

. I'm offering you the gold envelope you didn't choose before if you don't want sphere 12.

[Ciara24]

I'll take sphere 12!