Deal or No Deal is the name of several closely related television game shows, the first of which (launching the format) was produced by Dutch producer Endemol.
Deal or no deal | |
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Format | Game Show |
No. of episodes | 204 |
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Running time | approx. 44 minutes (per episode) |
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Original channel | NBC |
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Official website |
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The general gameplay of Deal or No Deal involves a contestant, a host/presenter, a banker, and a set of numbered briefcases (or boxes), each containing a different value. The values themselves are known at the start of the game, but which case contains what value is unknown. At the start of the game, the contestant picks a case for themselves that they hope is one of the most valuable. The contestant then begins choosing the other cases one at a time for rejection and removal from play. The amount inside each selection is immediately revealed; by process of elimination, the amount revealed cannot be inside the player's chosen case. Throughout the game, after a preset number of cases have been opened, the banker offers the contestant an amount of money and/or prizes to quit the game, the offer based roughly on the amounts remaining in play and the contestant's demeanor. The player then answers the titular question:
The process of removing cases (or boxes) and receiving offers continues until the player accepts an offer to quit, or until all offers have been rejected and all unselected cases revealed, the player then winning the value inside the case initially selected. If a player takes a deal, the game is typically continued to see how much the player could have won if they had remained in the game.
The values of each of the cases is indicated by a label or card located inside it. Various versions of the show have between 20 and 26 values; some versions have only cash values, others include prizes such as a car or booby prizes. For instance, there are 26 cases in the U.S. version, containing cash values from 1 cent to $1,000,000. Alternately, the Australian version has 26 values from 50 cents to $200,000, but includes a car as one of its more valuable prizes.
Since the range of possible values is known at the start of each game, how much the banker offers at any given point changes based on what values have been eliminated. To promote suspense and lengthen games, the banker's offer is usually less than the expected value dictated by probability theory, particularly early in the game.[1] Generally, the offers early in the game are very low relative to the values still in play, and approach (or even exceed) the average of the remaining values near the end of the game.
Only a few people have ever won the top prize on any version of the show (see table below). For a contestant to win the top prize, they would have to select the case containing the top prize, and reject every offer the banker makes during the game. While the chances of a player selecting the top prize are reasonable (4-5% depending on how many amounts are in the game), the chances that a player will be able to turn down a number of inevitably large offers to win that top prize are much smaller.
Worldwide, the largest active-play offer made (after adjusting for exchange rates) is €1,495,000 on Dutch version Miljoenenjacht, offered on November 13, 2005. The offer was accepted, and stands as the biggest win in the history of the format, despite many versions (either occasionally or permanently) having higher top prizes.
Deal or No Deal has attracted attention from mathematicians, statisticians, and economists as a natural decision-making experiment. A team of economists has 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.[2] In their follow-up article they find that contestants behave similarly in ten different versions of the show, despite large differences in the amounts at stake; amounts appear to be evaluated in relative terms, for example in proportion to the initial average, and not in terms of their absolute monetary value.[3] The research project 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.[4]
The show has many versions that air around the world:
Country | Name | Host | Station | Language | First Year Aired | Website |
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Kutia | Enkel Demi | TV Klan | Albanian | 2004 | Link |
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Trato Hecho | Julian Weich | Telefé | Spanish | 2004 | Link |
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Դիլ կամ Նո Դիլ Dil kam No Dil | Unknown | Armenia TV | Armenian | Unknown | Link at the Internet Archive |
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Deal or No Deal | Andrew O'Keefe | Channel Seven | English | 2003 | Link |
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Deal or No Deal (Austria) | Rainhard Fendrich | ORF1 | German | 2005 | |
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Miljoenenjacht | Walter Grootaers | VTM | Dutch | 2004 | Link |
Te Nemen of Te Laten | Felice | VijfTV | Dutch | 2007 | Link | |
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Deal or No Deal- Uzmi ili Ostavi | Jusuf Višnji | OBN | Bosnian | 2008 | |
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Topa ou Não Topa | Silvio Santos | SBT | Portuguese | 2006 | Link |
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Сделка или не | Rumen Lukanov | Nova Television | Bulgarian | 2005 | Link |
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Deal or No Deal | Ith Sitha | CTN | Khmer | 2008 | |
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Deal or No Deal Canada | Howie Mandel | Global | English | 2007 | Link |
Le Banquier | Julie Snyder | TVA | French | 2007 | Link | |
E! Canada (formerly CH) regularly airs first-run episodes of the U.S. English-language version, though episodes have also aired on Global. Episodes are repeated on TVtropolis. | ||||||
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Trato Hecho | Don Francisco | TVN | Spanish | 2004 | |
¡Allá Tú! | Julián Elfenbein | Chilevision | Spanish | 2007 | Link | |
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¡Hay Trato! | Carlos Calero | Canal Caracol | Spanish | 2005 | |
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Uzmi ili ostavi | Željko Pervan Mirko Fodor Mario Petreković |
Croatian Radiotelevision | Croatian | 2006 | Link |
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Ber nebo neber | Pavel Zuna | TV Prima | Czech | 2007 | Link |
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Deal No Deal | Casper Christensen | TV 2 | Danish | 2006 | Link |
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Trato Hecho con Nestle | Frank Perozo | Antena Latina | Spanish | 2008 | |
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Trato Hecho (Ecuador) | Roberto Angelelli | Teleamazonas | Spanish | 2006 | |
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Võta või jäta | Alari Kivisaar | TV3 | Estonian | 2007 | Link |
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Ota tai jätä | Pauli Aalto-Setälä | Nelonen | Finnish | 2007 | Link |
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À prendre ou à laisser | Arthur | TF1 | French | 2004 | Link |
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Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
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Der Millionen-Deal (first season) |
Linda de Mol | Tele 5 | German | 2004 | |
Deal or No Deal - Die Show der Glücksspirale (from season two onward) |
Guido Cantz | Sat.1 | German | 2005 | Link | |
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Deal (weekdays) | Christos Ferendinos | ANT1 | Greek | 2006 | Deal |
Super Deal (weekends) | Super Deal | |||||
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Deal or No Deal/一擲千金 | Michael Hui (Season 1) | TVB Jade and TVB Pearl | Cantonese(Jade) English(Pearl) | 2006 | Link |
Alfred Cheung (Season 2) | 2007 | |||||
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Áll az alku | Gábor Gundel Takács | TV2 | Hungarian | 2004 | Link |
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Deal Ya No Deal | Rajeev Khandelwal | SET | Hindi and English | 2005 | Link at the Internet Archive |
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Deal Or No Deal Indonesia | Tantowi Yahya | RCTI | Indonesian | 2007 | RCTI |
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דיל או לא דיל | Moran Atias | 10 | Hebrew | Unknown | Link |
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Affari Tuoi | Max Giusti | Rai Uno | Italian | 2003 | Link |
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Za diiru/The Deal | Shinsuke Shimada | Fuji Television | Japanese | 2006 | Link |
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Deal or No Deal | Michel Sanan | LBC | Arabic | 2005 | Link |
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Taip arba Ne | Marijonas Mikutavičius | TV3 Lithuania | Lithuanian | 2007 | Link |
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Deal or No Deal Malaysia | Aanont Wathanasin | NTV7 | English | 3 November 2007 | Link at the Internet Archive |
一擲千金 Deal or No Deal | Goh Wee Ping (Season 1), Owen Yap, (Season 2) | NTV7 | Chinese | 2007 | ||
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Deal or No Deal (Maltese Game Show) | Pablo Micallef | TVM | Maltese | 2007 | Link |
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To Pran to pas Pran? | Hassen Rojoa | MBC D6 | French | 2007 | Link |
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Vas o No Vas | Héctor Sandarti | Once TV | Spanish | 2005 | Link |
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Raffle le fric et braque la banque | Pierre Van Klaveren | M1 | French | 2006 | Link |
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Tu prendres ou tu ne prendres pas? | Mohammed El Jabber | 2M TV | French and Arabic. | 2007 | |
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Miljoenenjacht (original version) and season |
Linda de Mol | TROS, Tien, RTL4 | Dutch | 2000 | Link at the Internet Archive |
Deal or No Deal (direct version) small program |
Beau van Erven Dorens | Tien, RTL5 | Dutch | 2006 | Link | |
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Deal or No Deal | Jeremy Corbett | TV3 | English | 2007 | Link at the Internet Archive |
The Australian version of Deal or No Deal also airs in New Zealand on Prime TV. | ||||||
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Deal or No Deal Nigeria | John Fashanu | M-Net Africa | English | 2007 | Link |
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Deal or No Deal | Sturla Berg-Johansen | TV2 | Norwegian | 2006 | Link |
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El Familion Nestle | Nelson Bustamante | Telemetro Panamá | Spanish | unknown | Link |
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Trato Hecho | Adolfo Aguilar | ATV | Spanish | 2005 | |
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Kapamilya, Deal or No Deal | Kris Aquino | ABS-CBN | Filipino and English | 2006-2008 2008-present | Link |
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Grasz czy nie grasz | Zygmunt Chajzer | Polsat | Polish | 2005 | Link |
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Pegar ou Largar | Rui Unas | SIC Network | Portuguese | 2006 | Link at the Internet Archive |
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Da sau nu | Mihai Dobrovolschi | Prima TV | Romanian | 2005 | Unknown |
Accepţi sau nu | Gabriel Coveşanu | Kanal D | Romanian | 2008 | Link | |
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Пан или пропал | Nikolay Fomenko | Channel One | Russian | 2004 | Link |
Сделка (or Transaction) | Alexei Veselkin | REN TV | Russian | 2006 | Link | |
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Uzmi ili ostavi | Milorad Mandić Manda | B92 | Serbian | 2007 | Link |
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Deal or No Deal | Adrian Pang | Channel 5 | English | 2007 | Link. |
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Ruku na to | Unknown | Slovakian | 2007 | ||
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Vzemi ali pusti | Bojan Emeršič | POP TV | Slovenian | Unknown | Link at the Internet Archive |
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Deal or No Deal | Ed Jordan | M-Net | English | 2007 | Link |
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Yes or No | Shin Dong-Yeob | tvN | Korean | 2006 | Link |
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¡Allá tú! | Jesús Vázquez Silvia Jato |
Telecinco | Spanish | 2004 | Link |
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Deal or No Deal | Martin Timell | TV4 | Swedish | 2006 | Link at the Internet Archive |
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Deal or No Deal - Das Risiko | Roman Kilchsperger | SF 1 | German | 2004 | Link |
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Deal or No Deal - เอาหรือไม่เอา | Dom Hetrakul | ThaiTV 3 | Thai | 2004 | Link |
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Deal or No Deal - Dlilek Mlek | Sami El Fihri | Tunis 7 | Arabic | 2004 | |
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Trilyon Avı | Zafer Ergin | aTV | Turkish | 2003 | |
Büyük Teklif | Halit Ergenç | Kanal D | Turkish | 2006 | ||
Var mısın? Yok musun? | Acun Ilıcalı | Show TV | Turkish | 2007 | Link | |
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Deal or No Deal | Noel Edmonds | Channel 4 Ladbrokes | English | 2005 and Premiered on Ladbrokes.com in 2006 | Channel 4 Endemol |
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Deal or No Deal (NBC Primetime) | Howie Mandel | NBC | English | 2005 | Link |
Deal or No Deal (NBC Universal Television Distribution daytime version) | Howie Mandel | Syndicated by NBC Universal Television Distribution |
English | 2008 | Link | |
Vas o No Vas | Héctor Sandarti | Telemundo (NBC Universal) |
Spanish | 2006 | Link | |
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Đi tìm ẩn số | HTV | Vietnamese | 2005 | Link | |
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Saka Kana Aa Saka | Tande Newton and Isaac Smith | TVZim01, ZBC, TeleZim | Shona, Ndebele, English | 2007 | Link Link Link |
Véronique Landry is the only model to appear on more than one version of the show, on both the French and English Canadian versions. Howie Mandel, Héctor Sandarti, and Linda de Mol each have hosted multiple versions of the show: Mandel, with the American English and English Canadian versions, Sandarti with both the American Spanish and Mexican Spanish versions, and de Mol with both the Netherlands Dutch and German (in 2004) versions of the show. In the UK version Deal or no Deal helped relaunch Noel Edmonds career.
Other countries that have their own versions of the show include Albania, Armenia, Austria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Portugal (SIC network), Puerto Rico, and Vietnam, according to the UK version's website.
All amounts below the prizes are their equivalents in United States dollars, and those in USD at the time of their big win.
Country | Name(s) | Amount won | Previous offer | Other amount |
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Dean Cartechini (June 17, 2004) |
A$200,000 ($178,659, back then $136,986) |
A$102,500 ($91,563, back then $74,818) |
A$5 ($4.47, back then $3.65) |
Anh Do (celebrity) (September 19, 2007) |
A$200,000 | A$125,000 ($111,662) |
A$75,000 ($66,997) |
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Paulo (April, 2007) |
R$1,000,000 ($557,678, back then $492,611) |
R$444,000 ($247,609, back then $218,719) |
R$100 ($55.77 back then $49.26) |
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Veneta Raykova (celebrity) (February, 2006) |
75,000 BGN ($54,819) |
unknown | unknown |
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Mauricio Hermosilla (May 4, 2007) |
CL$10,000,000 ($19,938) |
CL$6,500,000 ($12,960) |
CL$5,000,000 ($9,969) |
Farándula (August 29, 2007) |
CL$10,000,000 | Change Box | CL$50,000 ($99.69) |
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Sabrina (November 29, 2005) |
€500,000 ($714,750, back then $588,235) |
€350,000 ($500,325, back then $411,764) (the banker also offered €200,000 and €300,000, which is rare for a contestant to have more than one offer after one single round) |
€75,000 ($107,213, back then $88,235) |
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Gogo | €200,000 ($285,900) |
€80,000 ($114,360) |
€1,000 ($1,430) |
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Danilo (Umbria) (September 20, 2008) |
€500,000 ($714,750, back then $714,286) |
€170,000 ($267,477, back then $242,857) |
€30,000 ($47,215, back then $42,857) |
Francesca (October 22, 2008) |
€500,000 | €185,000 ($230,408) |
€30,000 | |
Clarissa Meneghini (December 19, 2007) |
€500,000 | €170,000 | €30,000 | |
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Maria (Doris) Abela (October 17, 2008 |
€25,000 ($31,149) |
€19,500 ($24,296) |
€15,000 ($18,689) |
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Paty (June 3, 2006) |
$1,000,000 ($92,379) (weekday) |
$550,000 ($51,500) |
$100,000 ($9,238) |
Laura (March 2, 2006) |
$1,000,000 (weekday) | $700,000 ($64,665) |
$400,000 ($36,952) |
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Luis (December 6, 2005) |
$1,000,000 (weekday) | unknown | unknown | |
Elena (June 11, 2005) |
$5,000,000 ($461,894) (Saturday) |
unknown | unknown | |
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Timothy Shim (March 2, 2008) |
RM100,000 ($31,250) |
RM 50,800 ($15,875) |
RM 250 ($71.83) |
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Arno Woesthoff (September 2, [[2001]; Reference needed]) |
Fl10,000,000 ($6,600,000) |
unknown | unknown |
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Terry Lim Cua (December 29, 2006) |
P2,000,000 ($47,790, back then $40,800) |
P1,400,000 ($33,453, back then $28,560) |
P1,000,000 ($23,895, back then $20,400) |
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Vidoje (October 19, 2007) |
RSD1,500,000 ($24,475) |
RSD615,000 ($10,035) |
RSD500,000 ($8,158) |
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Gilbert de Tarragona (June, 2007) |
€600,000 ($857,700, back then $800,000) |
€240,000 ($343,080, back then $320,000) |
€1,500 ($2,144, back then $2,000) |
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(Unknown) (October 22, 2007) |
TND1,000,000 ($797,130) |
unknown | TND500,000 ($398,565) |
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Laura Pearce (January 7, 2007) |
£250,000 ($512,826, back then $480,769) |
£45,000 ($92,309, back then $86,538) |
£3,000 ($6,154, back then $5,769) |
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Jessica Robinson (September 1, 2008) |
$1,000,000 | $561,000 | $200,000 |
Tomorrow Rodriguez (October 29,2008) |
$1,000,000 | $677,000 | $300 and 3x $1,000,000 |
A variation of "Deal or No Deal" was embedded in a variety show called Idol World. Super Junior-T played the game and there were only 10 cases, the prize goes from ₩10 (about 1¢ US and ¥1, less than €0.01, 1p, and 1¢ AU) to ₩1,000,000 (about US$1,073, €723, £521, AU$965, and ¥116,000). See Yes or No.
Taiwan Television Enterprise (TTV) has a variation of "Deal or No Deal" embedded within its Saturday night weekly variety show hosted by popular TV host and one time recording artist Jacky Wu. The portion involved 16 boxes wherein celebrity contestants will play for NT$1.5 million top prize (about US$46,000, €32,000, £22,000, AU$49,000 and ¥5,280,000), in denominations starting from NT$1.00 (about 3¢ US, €0.02, 1p, 3¢ AU and ¥3). In this game though, Wu the TV host, also acted as a banker. He would randomly come up with an amount when the choice of boxes become fewer. Contestants however have to win a talent portion of the show before playing this game.
Even when they don't make $100,000,000, the lucky ones usually get a $200,000 grant for making a record on the show.
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