Welcome to donduk. A refuge for those who enjoy Deal or No Deal, the hit Channel 4 gameshow hosted by Noel Edmonds. The award winning gameshow Deal or No Deal has become a big hit for Channel 4 and marks a sensational return to our screens of Noel Edmonds.

Deal or No Deal is enjoyed my millions of viewers daily, where the contestants battle with The Banker to try and win a jackpot of £250,000. Here at donduk you will find full daily reports of each show, as well Deal or No Deal news and specials. Deal or No Deal although initially appearing very simple in format of just opening a few boxes for the chance to win some big money prizes, actually has some potentially complex decisions to be made at points throughout the show, the contestants occasionally try complex or simple gameplay in an attempt to give them an edge in beating the Banker.

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Top articles in this blog

Here are links to the most popular posts in this blog so far (excluding game reports). Please let me know if any of the links fail - blogger has this nasty habit of changing the file names from time to time. (Go here for a list of all previous game reports)

1. Behind the scenes at DOND, hits on this page have gone off the scale, RandomThoughts has done it again finding Tan's pictures of his time with the show. We obtained Tan's permission before adding this post and the insight is fascinating.

2. See if you can beat the Banker, a very popular online version of the game posted by RandomThoughts

3. A downward spiral? Adie was just asking a question and suggesting the odd change here and there, there was no need for the death threats...

4. Please make it live, I just know its not going to happen, not least from the comments to this post and Adie's above, but I am going to really enjoy saying to Endemol 'I told you so', when the chickens come home to roost.

5. A letter to Endemol, Maxine upset a lot of people..including me.

6. Deal ya no deal Bal's first post looks at the differences between DOND in the UK and India.

7. Sacked for appearing on DOND, how does RandomThoughts find this stuff?

8. A Weak Week, Adie's angle on the previous seven days.

9. Room 101, another excellent missive from Adie, how does he think of this stuff?

10. A letter to Noel, can you seriously imagine anyone else presenting this programme?

11. A new life form? What makes someone who has never seen £10,000 in a lump sum before, say 'No deal' to £27,000, and keep playing until they end up with 1p?

12. Play the game, RandomThoughts regularly reports on the media's views about DOND, and this time he has found an online game version.

13. Student Speaks III - The best game ever, Chris continues reporting from the dark side.

14. When the unexpected happens, its not how you fall over, its how you get up afterwards.

15. Student Speaks II - The Wrong Stuff Chris gives the students' view on DOND and bemoans the lack of backbone among some players.

16. Making you an offer you can't refuse straight in at number one is Adie's excellent article on Banker strategies.

17. Risk behaviour a la DOND apparently the reason so many people like this post has nothing to do with main topic, but my rant about the BBC at the end.

18. There is no middle ground Love It or Don't Love It.

19.Student Speaks II - The Wrong Stuff and you thought students were hairy, drunken, sex-crazed layabouts.

20.Recognition at Last, just as its says on the tin.

21.Positively Noel, a brief look at the power of positivity thinking.

22.The Student Speaks: The Right Stuff, Chris is the newest member of our reporting community and this, his first post, got a lot of attention.

23.DOND around the world and From our own correspondent - France are getting a lot of attention. There is tremendous interest in what is happening elsewhere wrt DOND. However we need all you good people out there who have seen DOND outside the UK to write in and tells us what goes on.

24.Twice as nice Please tell me this isn't true!!

25.Beating the Banker or The House Always Wins Adie's regular look at the stats.

26.What is a life changing amount? Its all in the title.

27.Art Of War As It Applies To DOND, the most popular entry so far, look out for future titles such as Zen or No Zen, Buddism and the Banker, Schroedinger's Red Box, or perhaps So Long and Thanks for All The Red Boxes.

28.Its how you play the game, Lucy lost and I was reminded of a trip to Las Vegas in 1985.

29.Don't deal too early, DOND as it applies to real life (whatever that is).

30.Separated by a common language - Part 2, love 'em or hate 'em, you can't ignore them (because they will invade your country)

31.Take the money or open the box, some fascinating insights from Adie the StatsMan.

32.DOND should now be a live show, Endemol, are you reading this?

33.DOND and Logan's Run, seems that I'm not the only one to remember this cult film

34.Do you feel lucky, half empty or half full?

35.An Ode To Deal Or No Deal, now what rhymes with banker?

36.£3m TV Deal for Noel, cheap at twice the price, Edmonds is on a roll.

37.£3m TV Deal for Noel, I get the impression he is not in it for the money, but eventually even Noel had to say Deal.

38.Separated by a common language, trailers and clips from the US version of this show

39.Sibling Rivalry, why this is a true family show

40.Models for real life, DOND has become the subject of university study, the latest in a long list of models for problem solving

41.Kinda spooky don't you think?, chicken or egg, Noel or DOND?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I have often thought that schools should run a simulation agme for students as a career guide. The lowest level could be "On the Dole" and the highest could be "Consultant Paediatrician". Then after each round the computer could offeer each student "a career option" and the teacher could ask, "Would you be happy ending up with the career you have just been shown?" It would make the students think.