Deal or No Deal is a very popular game show on NBC. The premise is a fairly simple one although playing the actual game can be stressful for the contestants since there is a pot of one million dollars at stake.
For each game there is only one contestant, the host (who happens to be Howie Mandel in the United States version of Deal or No Deal), a banker, and 26 attach cases filled with various cash amounts.
Each game starts with the contestant selecting one case from the 26. The host places this case next to the contestant and this particular case is not opened until the end of the game. The contestant then proceeds to randomly select and open the rest of the cases. After a few cases are opened, it is time to get an offer from the banker. The banker will consider how many attach cases are left to open and if the big dollar amounts have been revealed, or if they are still in play. He then makes a cash offer to the contestant to stop playing the game. If the contestant accepts the cash offer, the game ends. If the contestant does not accept it, the game proceeds as before until all cases have been opened except for one from the remaining 26 and the original one the...