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$200,000 win on Deal Or No Deal

In only the fourth time in Deal Or No Deal's history, the $200,000 major prize has gone off.

In only the fourth time in Deal Or No Deal‘s history, the $200,000 major prize has gone off.

Yesterday Chris Doyle, a 34-year-old Jetstar pilot from the Melbourne, cruised through the first round, keeping all the big-ticket green cases intact. He turned down offers of $13,000, $21,000, $29,900, $38,500 and $47,700.

The final three cases held $50, $100,000 and $200,000 –with his final bank offer being a rejected $130,000.

His case, number 9, held the all-important $200,000 grand prize, more than enough to take off on his dream of an African safari holiday, and a trip to the South Pole.

And presumably even further with a company discount…?

“This win is an exhilarating and life changing moment, and I cannot wait to share in it with all my family and friends”, he said.

Ironically, the money is more than the winners of The Block or MasterChef Australia. And nowhere near the time required.

11 Responses

  1. Nice to see those who need it most win the dollars.All they really have to do now is find someone else to host the show.Andrew O’Keefe is one of many reasons on my day off when I am at the gym doing my workouts I find myself watching the ABC kids Girls in Love or whatever else they show at that hour these days in 2011.

  2. Well done Chris! May you spend your winnings wisely. I missed this episode and would please like to know if any footage of it will be on the Deal or no Deal page?

  3. @Alastair & Allie Life isn’t fair, get over it. Jezza said it perfectly, these people were smart enough to take a shot and won. Good on them for giving it a go and winning.

  4. It has only happened 4 times so far, so it’s not like they’re always giving away huge sums of money. Most people leave with around 10k or way less.

    This situation happened last week too, 2 greens at the very end but he ended up with 100k, still great!

  5. The smart people take their chances on a game show for 20 minutes and win a few 1,000s, the dumb people slog their guts out on an extended game show for many months and get nothing. Makes perfect sense to me.

  6. @AS –

    True. However, I personally would rather never to be heard from again, and run away to bathe in my 200k. Use it wisely, and who’d need or want constant media attention? 😉

    So while those on these high profile shows slog their guts out and get little in return, but have the chance to launch a media profile from it can do so and get returns in the long run. Those that go on Deal or No Deal type shows, though… I think they’d just want the money, and don’t go into it or need a long term media profile. 😉

    Different shows, different outcomes, different contestant needs.

    One genre lends itself to a long-term outcome, while the other is about the short-term (gimme the money!) outcome.

    It does serve to highlight, however, the initial prize money for these “high profile” shows is pitiful. Though they do have the chance to make it up eventually… what they have to go through doesn’t equal what they end up with as a “win”.

  7. @Allie and David – I agree with your comments but you have to keep in mind that this guy isn’t going to have anywhere the opportunities that some of the contestants on The Block and MC get afterwards.

    The Block contestants are all appearing on commercials all over the place and you only have to look at Poh and Justine Schofield who have their own shows now…… and they didn’t even win.

    This bloke will probably have an interview on Sunrise this morning and his photo in the newspaper and then noone will ever hear of him again.

    I feel sorry for Katrina and Amie for not making any money for their efforts but I’ve got no doubt the show will open plenty of doors for them in the not too distant future.

  8. Yeah, it amazes me that someone through sheer, dumb luck can win 200K in 22 minutes, yet others who slave their guts out on reality shows for months only get half that. Something is wrong here.

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