Deal or No Deal

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Deal or No Deal is a television game show format owned by Endemol, a Netherlands-based production company known for creating such shows as Big Brother and Fear Factor. The first version of the show was broadcast in the Netherlands as Miljoenenjacht (the hunt for millions in Dutch), followed by an Australian version, which was the first version with the Deal or No Deal name.

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[edit] Format

Philippine version of Deal or No Deal.
Philippine version of Deal or No Deal.

The basic format of Deal or No Deal consists of a number of cases (usually 26, but varies in some countries), each containing a different amount of money. Not knowing the sum of money in each case, the contestant picks one case which potentially contains the contestant's prize. In the U.S. version[1]; the odds of picking the case which contains one million dollars is: 3.84615%. The contestant then opens the remaining cases, one by one, revealing the money each contains. At predetermined intervals the contestant receives an offer from the bank (run by "The Banker") to purchase the originally chosen case from the contestant, the offer being based on the potential value of the contestant's case. The contestant must then decide whether to take the deal from the bank, or to continue opening cases. If the contestant decides not to take the deal and reveals low value cases, then the next bank offer is likely to be higher (as the contestant's case is proven not to contain these low values). Alternatively, there is risk in revealing higher values, lowering future offers from the bank. The aim of this system is to try to make an exciting and suspenseful game. Each offer from the bank is typically significantly less than the expected value of the player's case, especially early in the game. However it is not uncommon for the bank's offer to exceed the player's expected value very late in the game, where it seems the bank becomes much more risk-averse. The format of Deal or No Deal varies in each country. In the UK version, for example, contestants choose from 22 boxes rather than 26 briefcases which are opened by future contestants[2]. The concept of pitting a contestant against an in-house adversary (in this show, the Banker) is unusual, though not unique, among game shows. For example, Win Ben Stein's Money possesses a similar format.

[edit] International versions

The show has many versions that air around the world:

Country Name Host Channel Language Premiere Website
Flag of Argentina Argentina Trato Hecho Julian Weich Telefé Spanish 2004 Link
Flag of Australia Australia Deal or No Deal Andrew O'Keefe Channel Seven English 2003 Link
Flag of Belgium Belgium Te Nemen of Te Laten Felice VijfTV Dutch 2007 Link
Flag of Brazil Brazil Topa ou Não Topa Silvio Santos SBT Portuguese 2006 Link
Flag of Bulgaria Bulgaria Sdelka ili ne Rumen Lukanov Nova Television Bulgarian 2005 Link
Flag of Canada Canada Deal or No Deal Canada Howie Mandel Global English 2007 Link
CHTV regularly airs first-run episodes of the United States English-language version, though episodes have also aired on Global. Episodes are repeated on TVtropolis.
Le Banquier Julie Snyder TVA French 2007 Link
Flag of Chile Chile Trato Hecho Don Francisco Canal 13 Spanish 2004 Unknown
Flag of Croatia Croatia Uzmi ili Ostavi Mirko Fodor Croatian Radiotelevision Croatian 2006 Link
Flag of Czech Republic Czech Republic Ber nebo neber Pavel Zuna TV Prima Czech 2007 Link
Flag of Denmark Denmark Deal No Deal Casper Christensen TV 2 Danish 2006 Link
Flag of Estonia Estonia Võta või jäta Sepo Seeman TV3 Estonian 2007 Link
Flag of Finland Finland Ota tai jätä Pauli Aalto-Setälä Nelonen Finnish 2007 Link
Flag of France France À prendre ou à laisser "Arthur" TF1 French 2004 Link
Flag of Germany Germany Deal or No Deal - Die Show der GlücksSpirale Guido Cantz Sat.1 German 2004 Link
Flag of Greece Greece Deal (weekdays) Christos Ferendinos ANT1 Greek 2006 Deal
Super Deal (weekends) Super Deal
Flag of Hong Kong Hong Kong Deal or No Deal/一擲千金 Michael Hui TVB Jade Cantonese 2006 Link
Flag of Hungary Hungary Áll az alku Gábor Gundel Takács TV2 Magyar 2004 Link
Flag of India India Deal Ya No Deal Rajeev Khandelwal SET Hindi and English 2005 Link
Flag of Israel Israel דיל או לא דיל Moran Atias 10 Hebrew Unknown Link
Flag of Italy Italy Affari Tuoi Flavio Insinna Rai Uno Italian 2003 Link
Flag of Japan Japan Za diiru/The Deal Shinsuke Shimada TBS Japanese 2006
(One-time special)
Unknown
Flag of Malaysia Malaysia Deal or No Deal Malaysia Unknown ntv7 English 2007 Link
一擲千金 Deal or No Deal Goh Wee Pin ntv7 Chinese 2007 Link
Flag of Mexico Mexico Vas o No Vas Héctor Sandarti Televisa Spanish 2005 Link
Flag of Netherlands Netherlands Miljoenenjacht
(original version)
Linda de Mol TROS, Tien Dutch 2001 Link
Deal or No Deal
(direct version)
Beau van Erven Dorens Tien Dutch 2006 Link
Flag of New Zealand New Zealand Prime airs the Australia version; TV3 are in pre-production for a New Zealand version
Flag of Norway Norway Deal or No Deal Sturla Berg-Johansen TV2 Norwegian 2006 Link
Flag of League of Arab States Pan-Arab States Deal or No Deal Michel Sanan LBC Arabic 2005 Link
Flag of Philippines Philippines Kapamilya, Deal or No Deal Kris Aquino ABS-CBN Filipino and English 2006 Link
Flag of Poland Poland Grasz czy nie grasz Zygmunt Chajzer Polsat Polish 2005 Link
Flag of Romania Romania Da sau nu Mihai Dobrovolschi Prima TV Romanian Unknown Unknown
Flag of Russia Russia Sdelka Alexei Veselkin REN TV Russian 2006 Link
Flag of Serbia Serbia Uzmi ili ostavi (Serbian) Milorad Mandic Manda B92 Serbian spring 2007 Link
Flag of Singapore Singapore Deal or No Deal "Unknown" Channel 5 English May 13 2007 Link.
Flag of Slovakia Slovakia Ruku na to Scheduled to premiere on STV in 2007.
Flag of Slovenia Slovenia Vzemi ali pusti Leopold Kazimir-Poldi POP TV Slovenian Unknown Link
Flag of South Africa South Africa Deal or No Deal Ed Jordan M-Net English 2007 Link
Flag of South Korea South Korea Yes or no Shin Dong-Yeob tvN Korean 2006 Link
Flag of Spain Spain ¡Allá tú! Jesús Vázquez Telecinco Spanish 2004 Link
Flag of Sweden Sweden Deal or No Deal Martin Timell TV4 Swedish 2006 Link
Flag of Switzerland Switzerland Deal or No Deal - Das Risiko Roman Kilchsperger SF 1 German Unknown Link
Flag of Thailand Thailand เอาหรือไม่เอา Unknown ThaiTV 3 Thai Unknown Link
Flag of Tunisia Tunisia Deal or No Deal Unknown Tunis 7 French Unknown Unknown
Flag of Turkey Turkey Büyük Teklif Halit Ergenç Kanal D Turkish 2005 Link
Flag of United Kingdom United Kingdom Deal or No Deal Noel Edmonds Channel 4 English 2005 Channel 4
Endemol
Flag of United States United States Deal or No Deal Howie Mandel NBC English 2005 Link
Vas o No Vas Héctor Sandarti Telemundo Spanish 2006 Link
     Countries which have their own versions of the show     Countries which, as a group, have their own version of the show     Countries which have announced their own versions of the show
     Countries which have their own versions of the show     Countries which, as a group, have their own version of the show     Countries which have announced their own versions of the show

[edit] Game strategy

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Deal or No Deal and its deceptively simple format have attracted attention from mathematicians, statisticians, and economists as a study of decision making under pressure. A team of economists have analyzed the decisions of people appearing in European and US episodes of Deal or No Deal and found, among other things, that contestants are less risk averse or even risk seeking when they have seen their expected winnings tumble.[1] The study received a great deal of media attention, appearing on the front page of The Wall Street Journal on January 12, 2006 as well as being featured on National Public Radio in the United States on March 3, 2006.

[edit] Antecedents

  • The New Treasure Hunt, a 1970s and 1980s Chuck Barris game show similar in concept to Deal or No Deal
  • Let's Make a Deal, a long-running game show involving contestants deciding whether or not take offers based on what may or may not be behind a curtain/box.
  • The Bong Game, invented by the London-based radio station Capital FM in the 1980s, also tested contestants by offering them increasing returns in tandem with increasing risk.

[edit] Trivia

  • Véronique Landry is the only model to appear on more than 1 version of the show, on both the French and English Canadian versions.
  • Howie Mandel, Héctor Sandarti, and Linda de Mol are the only 3 people to host (or at one time hosted) more than 1 version of the show: Mandel with The English American and English Canadian versions, Sandarti with both the American and Latin American Spanish versions, and de Mol with both the Netherlands Dutch and German (in 2004) versions of the show.

[edit] Online Versions

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