Deal or No Deal (USA)/Episode 203

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Episode 203 is the third episode of the second season of Deal or No Deal, and the forty-second episode overall.

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Gameplay

Jeff Huerta continued his game, immediately taking out most of the middling prizes. With only $2.5 million and $5 million among the "Super Seven" after three rounds, the banker delivered his usual (during this series) low-skewed offer: $113,000. Two small amounts fell out of play, but the $5 million case was then revealed, leaving the $2,500,000 alone. After two further rounds, Jeff saw no alternative but to take the offered deal of $177,000 (at 34.4% of the mean, arguably the worst statistical deal in history). Quite ironic, then, that the landmine would have followed immediately. Jeff's case contained only $50.

Michelle Falco was the final contestant of the Big Money Week, and the two top prizes (from the last board) were raised to $3 million, and a DonD high of $6 million! Michelle's strategy of 1 through 6 bore fruit, and the offer of $39,000, while high then, would be almost unheard of today with the same board (the banker has steadily reduced the low skewing of his early offers). Of course, any strategy must eventually be discarded, but it was clearly done at the wrong time: The arbitrary pick of 17 turned up the second prize. The same thing proceeded to happen to Michelle as it did to Jeff: after a very low-skewed third offer, the top prize disappeared in the fourth round. (Up until the Big Money Week, Marisa Petroro's case 18 had never contained any grand-prize amounts; in the first five games, it held two seven-figure amounts, and it had its first top prize amount in this game.) Unlike Jeff, however, Michelle had a $750,000 amount backing up the $1 million third prize still remaining in play. When faced with the approximate same deal as Jeff ($153,000 this time), at the same time, time ran out before Michelle could decide.