[SuperSajuuk]

It wouldn't have been commissioned at the payout rate that C4 had - and £6k on average is still above what Tipping Point, Lingo and Tenable pay out and might even be above The Chase average too.

It's not so much the lower jackpot that kills the game but the lower reds - having only 5 boxes of £10k and over compared to 8 previously. If they had just swapped out the £250k with £2000 then it might have played out better with more double figure boxes in play, though it raises the average value of the boxes by about £1500.

I do think you're right here. I don't think ITV would commission Deal with a payout rate similar to the original run any time soon, but I could see the odd episode here and there being the higher payout, maybe not next series [if another one is made] but in future series when the economic situation is better for all sides.

I did feel the really low reds harmed the offers long-term and discouraged players from trying to risk anything. The bankers' first offer was hardly ever over £2000, which was never the case in the original, where an all-blue round (or a blue round with one really low red) would always be £7k or higher (unless the Banker wanted to play games with stupidly low offers for the sake of it). That could be due to the lower "jackpot" though, but I think the money tree could use a bit of a boost on the money side, maybe removing £2k and £4k and replacing it with £15k and £20k, with the £25k restored to £35k.

The only substantial prize money offers have been the players' Power Five, and while some of the low reds were respectable amounts considering the economics currently, the sheer amount of low payout values on the board dragged down all the offers until the end game when the Banker was just throwing out silly amounts of money. In the Noel era, even £10k was a respectable sum of money, despite being the fourth-lowest red.