Deal or no deal live: 16 briefcases, four offers, and a blank return

The page we opened is the Spanish studio page at games.evolution.com for this show. The age line on that page is 18 plus. We did not play a round, and we did not open an account.

The page calls the product the live version of the television show, available 24 hours, and the first live game show played around the clock. Those are the page's claims. A press release from 4 February 2019 uses the same 24-hour claim and says the title was shown at ICE 2019.

The release, written by Evolution, says the studio was the most complex the company had built to that date. It names a presenter, an offer from the banker, a recognisable set, and a mix of RNG elements. It does not print a return percent.

Two copyright lines, left as printed

The studio page prints "Deal or No Deal TM & © 2002, 2023 Endemol Shine IP B.V." The 2019 release prints a 2003 programme credit and a 2017 project credit for Endemol Shine IP B.V. This note does not merge those lines into one year.

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Qualification is a wheel. You spin so that golden segments line up in the upper sector. The page says you can lock golden panels by changing the difficulty.

Normal is a standard bet. Easy locks one ring. Very Easy locks two rings.

Instant qualifies you at once. The page says the difficulty levels have different costs, and it prints only one of those costs.

Instant increases the bet amount by 18 times. The Easy multiple and the Very Easy multiple are not published.

Each spin sets the money in the biggest-prize briefcase from 75x to 500x the bet. You pick which numbered briefcase you think holds that top prize. Cases are numbered 1 to 16.

If the golden sector fills, you have a place in the show, but you wait until the previous show ends. The page then moves you to the top-up stage. The count of golden segments on the wheel is not printed.

A streamed table with a presenter is the wider category. It does not price this wheel.

After you qualify, the page lets you raise the blue and red briefcases at the sides of the screen while a timer runs. You pick a numbered case and spin a wheel whose amounts are proportional to the bet. A larger bet raises the amounts that wheel offers.

You may top up as many cases as you want until the timer ends. Those cases go into the show. The page does not print a cap on how far a top-up can climb, so a single max win is not published.

The floor the presenter stands on

The presenter is center stage, with 16 briefcases behind. One briefcase sits in the foreground, on a table beside the presenter. The page calls that the final and most significant case.

Background cases open in batches. Each opened case shows a number that matches one of your numbered cases, and that case leaves the side of your screen. After each batch the banker offers a sum, and you can take it.

There are four offers. When two cases remain, you may switch them before the last ones open. If you never take a deal, the final case is the amount you keep.

The page does not print the banker's formula. The joker-card deal is a different studio game. The dome-and-wand count is a different one again.

A return percent is not on the studio page, and it is not on the 2019 release. This file will not borrow a percent from an operator PDF we did not use as the source.

The 75x to 500x band is what one qualifying spin writes into the biggest briefcase. It is not labeled as the most the whole board can pay. Top-up can change other cases, and no lid on that step is printed.

What a keep is called is the general idea once a return is actually on a page. These two pages are not that page. The single-zero wheel has its own price, and that price is not a briefcase.

A minimum bet is not printed as one number. The selected bet is whatever the screen is set to, and Instant multiplies that amount by 18.

Payout speed is not printed. Nothing on the page is a provably fair seed for this site to recompute.

The show prices a qualification and a later choice against a board the page does not fully number. A house can install another maths set. This site's wheel has a fee in the rules here.

Do not paste a 75x line onto the wheel. That band belongs to the qualifying spin on the studio page.

How PvP compares: the show asks you to qualify, then to take or leave a banker's sum. Roulette asks which pocket a 33-slot wheel hits, with 16 Purple, 16 Silver, and 1 Green.

Purple and Silver pay 2x, then 5 percent comes off that winning payout, so a hit keeps 1.90 times the stake. Sixteen divided by 33, times 1.90, minus 1, is about −0.0788.

That is the 7.88 percent edge on those two pockets. Green pays 14x. This page does not quote a Green edge.

A settled round can be checked on the fairness page. The check matches this site's commit. It does not audit a game-show board.

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None of these is a round we played. The first two use figures the studio page prints. The third uses a fee from this site.

Example 1 — one qualifying spin at $2. The biggest briefcase is set between 75x and 500x, so between $150 and $1,000.

That range is the setting for that spin's top case. It is not a max win for the board, and it is not a likely result.

Example 2 — Instant on a $1 bet. The page says Instant increases the bet amount by 18 times, which is $18 for that qualification.

The Easy and Very Easy multiples are not in this picture, because the page does not print them.

Example 3 — Purple payout. A $20 Purple stake that wins pays 2x, which is $40. Five percent of that payout is $2, so the player receives $38.

One win does not reveal the 7.88 percent edge. Most Purple stakes lose.

A familiar case graphic does not prove the Spanish studio page. Read the rules on the cabinet you opened.

• [ ] Confirm you are 18, or older if the site sets a higher age.
• [ ] Count 16 briefcases only if that board prints 16.
• [ ] Treat 75x to 500x as the top case on a qualifying spin, not as a max win.
• [ ] Accept the 18-times Instant cost only if the rules print it.
• [ ] Leave the Easy and Very Easy multiples unpublished when they are missing.
• [ ] Leave the return percent unpublished. This page did not find one.
• [ ] Leave a single max-win figure unpublished.
• [ ] Expect four offers only if the rules you opened say four.
• [ ] The switch, when two cases remain, is a choice, not an edge.
• [ ] Set a loss stop before the first qualifying spin.
• [ ] If the offers become a chase, call 1-800-GAMBLER.
• [ ] Recompute a round on this site's fairness page, and do not ask it to audit the show.

A qualifying spin can miss, and a banker offer can be the last money the round pays. The page does not print a return percent, so there is no long-run figure here to lean on. The 75x to 500x band is a setting, not a plan.

Do not play if you are under 18, or under a higher age on the site you opened. Do not play where the game is illegal. Do not stake rent, savings, or money with a due date.

Do not play to get even. A run of missed qualifications is not a debt the next spin owes you. Why a cold run is not a credit is the general point.

This page is an editorial note, not a statute, and not a coupon. This site does not host the show.

If play stops being a bounded spend, call 1-800-GAMBLER and open responsible gambling.