Deal Or No Deal

[Bazile]

The game is a simple  game of pure chance only .

Why do contestants bother with all this business about  ' special numbers ' - number 26 - my wife's birthday etc etc etc 

[maggiebee]

Cheap TV and they have to pad it out to make a programme otherwise it would be 15 min maximum.

[andy-hughes]

It's a tribute to the skill of Noel Edmunds that, as you rightly say, he managed to create an atmosphere of tension out of a game of pure chance.

I am unable to invest in the nonsense this creates, so I don't watch the programme, but millions love it, which is why it has enjoyed a resurgence with Stephen Mulhern.

[davebro3]

I wonder if anyone has simply gone in number order 1-20odd (or in reverse), or across the line-up end to end box by box or all the odds then all the evens?

I would do summat like that.

[douglas9401]

You mean 'random'?

[THECORBYLOON]

It could be over in much less than fifteen minute.

Pick a box, look at its value and decide whether to keep it or the one already given, end of game.

[Old_Geezer]

Superstition.

And I guess those that do get selected to play on the team.