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Deal or No Deal

Deal or No Deal is the name of several closely related television game shows, the first of which was the Dutch Miljoenenjacht produced by Dutch producer Endemol. It is played with up to 26 cases with certain sums of money...

 article.

Deal or No Deal

Deal or No Deal

Deal or No Deal is the name of several closely related television game shows, the first of which was the Dutch Miljoenenjacht produced by Dutch producer Endemol. It is played with up to 26 cases with certain sums of money...

in New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 is the New Zealand version of the international game show

Game show

A game show is a type of radio or television program in which members of the public, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles usually for money and/or prizes...

 format. After Prime TV

Prime Television New Zealand

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's success airing the Australian version

Deal or No Deal (Australian game show)

Deal or No Deal is an Australian game show airing on the Seven Network and in New Zealand on Prime . It was the first international version of the game show, after the original Dutch version. It was the first of the versions to use the Deal or No Deal name...

 of Deal or No Deal in New Zealand, a New Zealand produced version launched on TV3

TV3 (New Zealand)

TV3 is a New Zealand commercial television network, owned by MediaWorks New Zealand. Launched on 26 November 1989, the first private television network in New Zealand...

 on 6 June 2007. The show is hosted by radio comedian Jeremy Corbett

Jeremy Corbett

Jeremy Corbett is a radio and television host and comedian from New Zealand.Corbett has been breakfast co-host for More FM's Auckland broadcast since the mid-1990s. On television he appeared in Pulp Comedy and hosted the New Zealand edition of Deal or No Deal. He currently hosts 7 Days...

 and each show airs for one hour, on a Wednesday night, from 7:30pm to 8:30pm. The 26 cases range in value from 10¢ to $200,000.

Gameplay

Before the game, a third party randomly places the possible winnings in the cases, which are distributed to 26 identically-dressed models who reveal the contents during the game. No one involved in the show's production, including the host, models, or even the executive producers, knows which amounts are in the cases. Unlike many international versions of the show, the briefcases in the New Zealand gallery are not distributed to audience members, similar to the US version, the Philippine version and other versions of the show. This is unlike the Australian version which airs on the Prime TV

Prime Television New Zealand

Prime is the seventh national free-to-air television station in New Zealand. The station airs a mixed group of programmes, largely imported from Australia, the UK and the United States, as well as free-to-air rugby union, cricket and rugby league matches....

 network.

After picking one of the cases, the contestant then selects 6 of the remaining 25 cases, revealed one at a time. Each figure appears in only one case, so any values revealed in this way are not in the contestant's case. This is followed by a "phone call" by "The Banker", a mysterious figure shown only in silhouette now revealed to be William J. Conway. He purportedly sits in a skybox (situated between the two audience sections) and makes an offer, via telephone, to Corbett (his voice is never heard, except by Corbett himself) to buy the contestant's case based primarily on the mean

Arithmetic mean

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 of the cash amounts still in play, but also on the stage of the game (early offers tend to be far lower than the mean, perhaps to goad the contestant into continuing play) as well as the player's psychology. The question "Deal or No Deal" is now asked by Corbett to the contestant.
If the contestant accepts the "Deal" (by pushing a stylized red button enclosed in a glass case), the game ends, and the value of the case that he or she chose at the beginning of the game is then revealed along with the whereabouts of the remaining prizes. Should the contestant refuse the offer (by stating "No deal" and/or closing the glass case), they must choose five of the remaining cases to eliminate from consideration. The Banker makes another offer, and play continues as before. The Banker's offer may be higher or lower than the previous offer (if a top prize is eliminated, generally the offer decreases; conversely, if only lower amounts are eliminated the offer increases significantly).

Subsequent rounds have the contestant withdrawing four, three, then two cases from play. If the contestant says No Deal, then gameplay continues. The list below explains how many cases must be opened for each round:

• Round 1: 6 cases to open
• Round 2: 5 cases to open
• Round 3: 4 cases to open
• Round 4: 3 cases to open
• Round 5: 2 cases to open
• Round 6-10: 1 case to open

Should the contestant continue to decline the Banker's offer after this point, they then eliminate one case each time (with an intervening offer from the Banker) until two cases are left. If the player rejects the final offer, the player wins whatever is in his or her chosen case. Unlike other international versions of the show, the contestant is not offered the opportunity to switch cases.

Each contestant has several supporters (usually three), who sit in a special section just off stage during the game. As the field of cases dwindles, one or more of the supporters are asked to consult with the contestant and help him/her make a decision.

After the contestant has selected a "Deal", the game continues and the contestant chooses cases as normal, to see if the decision made was correct. "No deal" instead of "Deal" is assumed , until the end of the game. This is done to determine if the decision made was correct.

The official rules as set by TV3

TV3 (New Zealand)

TV3 is a New Zealand commercial television network, owned by MediaWorks New Zealand. Launched on 26 November 1989, the first private television network in New Zealand...

 on their website:
"The rules for Deal or No Deal are simple. Choose a briefcase. Then as each round progresses, you must either stay with your original briefcase choice or make a 'deal' with the bank to accept its cash offer in exchange for whatever dollar amount is in your chosen case. Once you decide to accept or decline the bank's offer, the decision is final. Contestants are encouraged to ask friends or family on the podium for advice; however, only the contestant's answer will be considered binding and final." The show had two fill-in hosts if Jeremy was away but weren't used. The show only had one season.

Supercase

On 4 July, the 5th episode of Deal or No Deal, filmed after the pilot episodes, the "Supercase" game was introduced. This game consists of the contestant gambling his/her winnings in order to receive the opportunity to play the Supercase. If the contestant agrees to this, he/she will walk away with whatever amount the Supercase contains. If he/she doesn't accept this offer, he/she will walk away with the amount they have already won.

Double or Nothing

Recently, there is a feature where if the contestant wanted to risk their winnings, two small suitcases (labeled I and II) were shown; one had the word "Double" inside, the other had "Nothing". On one occasion, after the contestant (a fan of the New Zealand National Rugby Team

All Blacks

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) won the lowest prize on the board (10c), DoN was offered, but instead of doubling ten cents to twenty cents, choosing the "Double" case won a trip to the World Cup in Paris

2007 Rugby World Cup

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. She gambled, and won the trip.

Board

10c	$1,000
$1	$2,000
$2	$3,000
$5	$4,000
$10	$5,000
$20	$7,500
$50	$10,000
$100	$15,000
$150	$20,000
$200	CAR
$250	$50,000
$500	$100,000
$750	$200,000

• (CAR (Suzuki SX4
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  ) valued at $30,000)