Deal or No Deal (it's goodbye from me...)

[StrangerCoug]

Case 11: $1
Case 12: $300
Case 17: $25

$100	CAR	$10,000	$100,000	$500,000
$75,000	7	$50	10	$1
$300	13	14	15	$5
$25	18	$750	20	$25,000
$750,000	$5,000	$0.10	$200	$75

Cases to Open	3
$0.10	$1,000
$1	$5,000
$5	$10,000
$10	$25,000
$25	$50,000
$50	$75,000
$75	$100,000
$100	CAR
$200	$300,000
$300	$400,000
$400	$500,000
$500	$750,000
$750	$1,000,000

It's jumped to $97,596. Deal or no deal?

[RichardGHP]

Tempting, but

No Deal.

Open Cases 13 and 15

[StrangerCoug]

Case 13: $1,000
Case 15: $400,000

$100	CAR	$10,000	$100,000	$500,000
$75,000	7	$50	10	$1
$300	$1,000	14	$400,000	$5
$25	18	$750	20	$25,000
$750,000	$5,000	$0.10	$200	$75

Cases to Open	1
$0.10	$1,000
$1	$5,000
$5	$10,000
$10	$25,000
$25	$50,000
$50	$75,000
$75	$100,000
$100	CAR
$200	$300,000
$300	$400,000
$400	$500,000
$500	$750,000
$750	$1,000,000

$112,576. If you reject the deal, you just have to open one case at a time from here on out. Deal or no deal?

[RichardGHP]

Hard to say no, but seeing as I still have $300,000 and the ever-coveted top dollar,

No Deal.

Open Case 14

[StrangerCoug]

Case 14: $300,000

$100	CAR	$10,000	$100,000	$500,000
$75,000	7	$50	10	$1
$300	$1,000	$300,000	$400,000	$5
$25	18	$750	20	$25,000
$750,000	$5,000	$0.10	$200	$75

Cases to Open	1
$0.10	$1,000
$1	$5,000
$5	$10,000
$10	$25,000
$25	$50,000
$50	$75,000
$75	$100,000
$100	CAR
$200	$300,000
$300	$400,000
$400	$500,000
$500	$750,000
$750	$1,000,000

$136,109. Deal or no deal?

[RichardGHP]

Ooh, this is hard. I'm forcing myself to say

No Deal.

Open Case 10

; *hopes it isn't top dollar*

[StrangerCoug]

Case 10: $50,000

$100	CAR	$10,000	$100,000	$500,000
$75,000	7	$50	$50,000	$1
$300	$1,000	$300,000	$400,000	$5
$25	18	$750	20	$25,000
$750,000	$5,000	$0.10	$200	$75

Cases to Open	1
$0.10	$1,000
$1	$5,000
$5	$10,000
$10	$25,000
$25	$50,000
$50	$75,000
$75	$100,000
$100	CAR
$200	$300,000
$300	$400,000
$400	$500,000
$500	$750,000
$750	$1,000,000

$185,159. Deal or no deal?

[RichardGHP]

Hmm... give me a moment to think it over.

[RichardGHP]

No Deal

Open Case 7

[StrangerCoug]

Case 7: $400

$100	CAR	$10,000	$100,000	$500,000
$75,000	$400	$50	$50,000	$1
$300	$1,000	$300,000	$400,000	$5
$25	18	$750	20	$25,000
$750,000	$5,000	$0.10	$200	$75

Cases to Open	1
$0.10	$1,000
$1	$5,000
$5	$10,000
$10	$25,000
$25	$50,000
$50	$75,000
$75	$100,000
$100	CAR
$200	$300,000
$300	$400,000
$400	$500,000
$500	$750,000
$750	$1,000,000

It's skyrocketed to $266,803. Deal or no deal?

[RichardGHP]

Oh, man... not being omniscient is really nerve-racking. I'm not enough of a risk taker to continue.

DEAL

If I were made of stronger stuff, I would have opened Case 18 next, then refused the deal and finally switched cases. Care to put me out of my misery?

[StrangerCoug]

Spoiler: If you're curious how it would have gone if you had said No Deal...

Case 18: $1,000,000. Looks like you took the deal just in time.

$100	CAR	$10,000	$100,000	$500,000
$75,000	$400	$50	$50,000	$1
$300	$1,000	$300,000	$400,000	$5
$25	$1,000,000	$750	20	$25,000
$750,000	$5,000	$0.10	$200	$75

Cases to Open	1
$0.10	$1,000
$1	$5,000
$5	$10,000
$10	$25,000
$25	$50,000
$50	$75,000
$75	$100,000
$100	CAR
$200	$300,000
$300	$400,000
$400	$500,000
$500	$750,000
$750	$1,000,000

You would then have rejected a deal of $230 to switch your case for Case 20, which had $10. If there's any way of preventing a nightmare, you've done it.

Spoiler: If you just want to cut to the chase and open up Case 8...

$500. You made a very good deal.

And with that, I hand it back to you. How do you think I did running this?

Also, /in again.

[RichardGHP]

*breathes a sigh of relief*

I'm happy with that outcome and you did very well running the game. Thanks again!

Mehdi2277 is next, but he will be V/LA in a couple of days, so I'm just checking with him what he wants to do.

[RichardGHP]

OK, Mehdi2277 has asked to be put on hold until he gets back, so I'm contacting doctorwho.

[doctorwho]

Hello!

[RichardGHP]

Which of the 26 cases would you like to keep for yourself, doctorwho?

[doctorwho]

I'll take 23, please.

[RichardGHP]

23 it is.

1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20
21	22	24	25	26

Cases to Open	6
$0.10	$1000
$1	$5000
$5	$10,000
$10	$25,000
$25	$50,000
$50	$75,000
$75	$100,000
$100	CAR
$200	$300,000
$300	$400,000
$400	$500,000
$500	$750,000
$750	$1,000,000

Which six cases would you like to open first?

[doctorwho]

3, 5, 7, 11, 13, and 17.

[RichardGHP]

Case 3: $200
Case 5: $400,000
Case 7: $400
Case 11: CAR
Case 13: $75,000
Case 17: $1

1	2	$200	4	$400,000
6	$400	8	9	10
CAR	12	$75,000	14	15
16	$1	18	19	20
21	22	24	25	26

Banker's Offer	$13,714
$0.10	$1000
$1	$5000
$5	$10,000
$10	$25,000
$25	$50,000
$50	$75,000
$75	$100,000
$100	CAR
$200	$300,000
$300	$400,000
$400	$500,000
$500	$750,000
$750	$1,000,000

$13,714 is your first offer. Deal or No Deal?

[doctorwho]

Yeahhhhhhh... no. No deal.


I'll take 4, 8, 12, 16, and 20.

[RichardGHP]

Oh, no...

Case 4: $500
Case 8: $300
Case 12: $50,000
Case 16: $5000
Case 20: $1,000,000

1	2	$200	$500	$400,000
6	$400	$300	9	10
CAR	$50,000	$75,000	14	15
$5000	$1	18	19	$1,000,000
21	22	24	25	26

Banker's Offer	$12,493
$0.10	$1000
$1	$5000
$5	$10,000
$10	$25,000
$25	$50,000
$50	$75,000
$75	$100,000
$100	CAR
$200	$300,000
$300	$400,000
$400	$500,000
$500	$750,000
$750	$1,000,000

A slight decrease to $12,493, after knocking out top dollar. Deal or No Deal?

[doctorwho]

No deal!

22, 14, 9, 1

[RichardGHP]

Case 22: $500,000
Case 14: $0.10
Case 9: $25
Case 1: $300,000

$300,000	2	$200	$500	$400,000
6	$400	$300	$25	10
CAR	$50,000	$75,000	$0.10	15
$5000	$1	18	19	$1,000,000
21	$500,000	24	25	26

Banker's Offer	$34,191
$0.10	$1000
$1	$5000
$5	$10,000
$10	$25,000
$25	$50,000
$50	$75,000
$75	$100,000
$100	CAR
$200	$300,000
$300	$400,000
$400	$500,000
$500	$750,000
$750	$1,000,000

With the bonus, it's $34,191. Deal or No Deal?

[doctorwho]

No deal.

6, 15, and 24 next.