Play Deal or No Deal Game
Click the 'Deal' button to
play the free Deal or no Deal flash online game.
Instructions are also in the online game.
Instructions for the real Deal or No Deal Game
Deal or No Deal involves a contestant, a host/presenter (Howie
Mandel in the NBC United States version of the game), a banker,
a group of female models or other contestants (in the original
version), and a number of briefcases, each containing a
different and unknown value. The game begins with the contestant
picking a case which he or she believes will have the highest
value. During the rest of the game, the contestant selects the
rest of the cases one at a time for rejection, the value of each
case being revealed after it is selected. Each time after a
specified number of cases have been opened, the banker offers
the contestant a certain amount of money. If the contestant
accepts one of these offers, the game ends and the player wins
the offered amount; if the contestant refuses all the offers
made, they eventually end up with the money from the first case
(unless they decide to switch their case with the last one in
the gallery).
Scientific Research on Deal or No Deal
Deal or No Deal has attracted attention from
mathematicians, statisticians, and economists as a natural
decision-making experiment. A team of economists have analyzed
the decisions of people appearing in European and US episodes of
Deal or No Deal and found, among other things, that contestants
are less risk averse or even risk seeking when they have seen
their expected winnings tumble. In their follow-up article they
find that contestants behave similarly in ten different versions
of the show, despite large differences in the amounts at stake;
amounts appear to be evaluated in relative terms, for example in
proportion to the initial average, and not in terms of their
absolute monetary value. The research project received a great
deal of media attention, appearing on the front page of The Wall
Street Journal on January 12, 2006 as well as being featured on
National Public Radio in the United States on March 3, 2006.
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