Pick Your Prize — known on the night as Take It Or Leave It — takes its inspiration from Deal or No Deal. Fourteen boxes, cash prizes, and a banker offer that may or may not be worth taking. Because everyone in the room can see what’s in every box except the one that matters, the whole crowd gets to shout their advice.
How to play
- 14 boxes on stage, each containing a cash value from £1 up to the jackpot
- We randomly pick a player from the room to play
- The player chooses their “Home Box” and sets it aside
- We then open the remaining boxes one by one to reveal their values
- After each round of eliminations, the banker makes an offer — take it, or leave it and keep playing
- At any point the player can swap their Home Box for the last remaining box
- Whatever’s in their final box (or the banker’s offer they accepted) is their prize
This is a fully PC-based game with real props — the boxes, the banker calls, the whole experience is live and interactive. However, the tension isn’t just for show: economists have actually studied contestant decisions on the real Deal or No Deal, because the format is such a clean test of how people weigh risk against a guaranteed payout. According to research covered by Phys.org, players generally kept taking risks even at very high stakes, and men tended to take more risks than women. So when your player is agonising over the banker’s offer, they’re working through exactly the same dilemma that’s been the subject of serious academic study. The audience decides the strategy. The player decides their fate.
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