Affari Tuoi (Your Business) is an Italian game show on which the internationally-popular game show, Deal or No Deal is based upon. It is broadcast on public broadcaster Rai Uno, though it can also be seen occasionally on RAI International, RAI's international television service.
The show is currently hosted by Max Giusti (since September 2008); previous hosts in chronological order include Paolo Bonolis (for the first two seasons), Pupo, Antonella Clerici, and Flavio Insinna.
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In the Italian version, there are 20 boxes; each person holding a box is a representative of one of the 20 regions of Italy.
The highest prize is €500,000, but on some occasions, there's a special €1,000,000 or €2,000,000 prize. In addition to small money prizes, like €0.50, there are three gag prizes -- usually items like salami, a year's supply of soap, or stuffed animals like hippos and weasels (from season 2006 - 2007 a hippo prize took place instead of the €500 one).
The box named Pacco X (meaning mystery package) may contain anything from €0.02 to €200,000.
Neither the manager ("Il Dottore",the doctor), nor the player know the content of the boxes. During the game, the manager attempts to escape from instant average risk/average prize by offering a smaller money amount, in order to lower the risk for the manager, compared with natural average prize=risk. In order to give himself further chances, the manager decides to play "step by step" "Di pacco in pacco" when high prizes are still active.
In Affari Tuoi, to refuse an offer, instead of saying, "No Deal!", you say, "Rifiuto l'offerta e vado avanti," meaning "I refuse the offer, and go on". To accept, you say, "Accetto l'offerta." There is no button to push. (Actually, most international versions of Deal don't use a button and cover)
The Spanish version of "Deal or no Deal", ¡Allá tú!, aired by Mediaset's Telecinco is exactly the same format as the Italian version (but there's a box for 20 province of Spain); the British version uses boxes like the Italian one; The French version, À prendre ou à laisser, is different in format, but uses a "box for each region" concept; and the US version uses 22 like the British version, but uses cases and is somewhat different in format.
The highest win in the history of the programme occurred on April 2006, when a woman won €1,000,000.
In the Fall of 2006, Codacons, an Italian consumers organisation, pointed out how high prize boxes ("pacchi") seemed to survive up to the end of the game in much more cases than would be statistically expected.
NOTE: Some small values will be replaced with joke prizes.
| €0.01 |
| €0.20 |
| €0.50 |
| €1 |
| PACCO X |
| €10 |
| €50 |
| €100 |
| €250 |
| PACCO MATTO |
| €15,000 |
| €20,000 |
| €25,000 |
| €30,000 |
| PACCO Y |
| €50,000 |
| €75,000 |
| €100,000 |
| €250,000 |
| €500,000 |
Both Pacco X and Pacco Y are unknown content boxes (the mystery packages). At a certain point of the game, the contestant is asked to take two of the twenty envelopes contained into a poll and containing a prize from 0.20 € to 200,000 €. Then he must declare (with a stamp) which he wants to become the X-prize and the Y-prize.
| €0.01 |
| €0.50 |
| €1 |
| €5 |
| PACCO X |
| €20 |
| €50 |
| €100 |
| €250 |
| €500 |
| €50,000 |
| €75,000 |
| €100,000 |
| €150,000 |
| PACCO Y |
| €250,000 |
| €300,000 |
| €400,000 |
| €600,000 |
| €1,000,000 |
| €0.02 |
| €0.10 |
| €1.50 |
| €2.50 |
| €3 |
| €15 |
| €25 |
| €30 |
| €70 |
| €150 |
| €300 |
| €1,000 |
| €5,000 |
| €8,000 |
| €22,000 |
| €32,000 |
| €40,000 |
| €60,000 |
| €110,000 |
| €200,000 |
On February 5, 2007, Flavio appeared with his models on the US version of "Deal or No Deal" via satellite, to wish a contestant from Sicily luck. The Sicilian, who appeared on the US show with his extended family, was also an avid viewer of Affari Tuoi.
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