Deal or No Deal (UK game show) not known to anyone except the adjudicator. At the start of each game one of the 22 contestants, each standing behind one of the red boxes, is selected to be the contestant for that episode. The contestants themselves do not know who is to take the seat until it is revealed at the beginning of the show. Usually, contestants will appear on around 15–25 shows before they are selected to play. The contestant then takes their box and walks to the centre of the set, taking their place at the "pound table", in what Edmonds refers to as the "crazy
Deal or No Deal (UK game show) £250,000 top prize. When a contestant wins £250,000, confetti is released in the studio. All winners of the top £250,000 prize (as well as certain non-top prize winners) are allowed to keep their box. The UK version of "Deal" has its own glossary of slang terminology used by Edmonds over the show's run: "Deal or No Deal" was produced by Endemol and supported by BBC Studios and Post Production, a commercial subsidiary of the BBC. The original studio set for the show was converted from an old paintworks factory and its associated warehouses in Bristol. Channel 4 initially commissioned a