And the award for most annoying contestant goes to...

PAUL!

She was a complete airhead. "Brooklyn is a borough in which American city?" "Pass".😏

It wasn't great.

"Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs of which US city?"

(Pause.) "Pass."

Even if you didn't know it you could at least guess a big US city like New York or Los Angeles or Chicago.

You wonder why people with such demonstrably bad quizzing ability apply to go on these shows.

"A statue of which iconic singer stood outside Fulham football club?"

When did the word iconic replace the word famous?

Iconic must be one of the most overused words in the English language.

Gareth deserves to go through as he's more knowledgeable. He's having terrible luck with the counters.

This board is fixed. That counter just dropped as he was about to play. Yeh right.

He's enjoying himself a bit to much

I was on tenterhooks on what she was going to say for the Spelling (Bee) question. What is wrong with these people!!

How do these people get decent jobs or function in life with the amount of stupidity they display on national TV?

How is it fixed? Did somebody hiding behind the machine give it a dunt to knock a few over so he couldn't get them?

And what would be the point anyway?

I think the possibility that the board is "fixed" as you put it, is approximately zero per cent.

I'm not so sure. The shelves look tilted plus they probably know where to drop the counters so they land in the same place.

I'm sure Paul has been on deal or no deal before?

He won £32,000, I'm certain of it

I will never understand and they seem so proud of being thick!

Even if they are, which I don't think they are, I still don't see how that makes it "fixed".

if you're going to claim that the game is bent you should surely give some reason why the production company (and ITV) would risk exposure by the press, an investigation by Ofcom and consequently terrible publicity, not to mention the programme probably taken off the air, just to try and save a few hundred quid.

Wow, 21 counters was not enough to get the Jackpot counter to drop!

Go figure.

So today was one of the days when they'd decided that nobody was going to win the jackpot, was it? So they fixed it so he couldn't have won it no matter how many counters he put in? Is that what you're saying?

I repeat my question to you, why would they risk exposure in the press, an Ofcom investigation and a fine, possibly even criminal charges, and terrible publicity, just to save a few quid?

And if it is bent, how has the Independent Adjudicator on set managed to miss it all this time? Is he in on the scam as well?

You seem less than keen to give any answer to these questions.

They are hardly going to allow everyone win. And if you believe there is an independent adjudicator there everytime you'd believe anything.

No, not everyone wins. Some people don't get enough questions right. And sometimes the counters don't fall in the right place. That doesn't mean it's bent.

Yes, I do believe there is an independent adjudicator on set all the time. The IA has even been seen on screen briefly during Deal or No Deal, when there was a problem with one of the boxes. Or was that just a production company stooge pretending to be the IA, to keep Ofcom happy?

Why would a production company come up with an endgame concept that is too easy to win, so that they have to fix it every now and then to make sure it's not won too often?

It's just very suspicious the way the counters fall in the exact same place a lot of times. The odds of that happening must be extremely high. And the way the counters just stick together like that on the bottom shelf is also very suspicious. The weight and gravity would make them fall immediately. Plus that guy today getting 21 attempts at dropping the Jackpot counter and not winning is highly suspicious. You can clearly see the gap at the back of the top shelf widens when it moves back which indicates it isn't level.

And I am sure you believe the moon landings were staged on some back lot in Hollywood.

You're being ridiculous here.

Even if the machine was completely random you could still get them falling in the same place a lot of times. The machine is not I fear completely random and it has biases but that is very different to it being fixed, sometimes the bias works for the contestant and sometimes against them.

How do you suggest they are making the counters "stick" at the bottom? Do you think someone is rushing out there with super glue between shots? I've seen nothing to suggest that counters hanging over the edge are not obeying the laws of physics.

There is. Usually it's a she and she's a lawyer. And they're not in the direct employ of production.

On shows like this the biggest production panic is when there haven't been enough wins because people like wins and it keeps people interested. And the payouts for contestants are inconsequential when compared to the cost of production. Calls of fix make the people involved momentarily angry, laugh but mostly roll their eyes.

He may well have won 21 counters in total but quite a number of them were riders thanks to him dropping them far too late. He had no one to blame but himself.

These people who go on Tipping Point must have seen the show on TV beforehand, if they are too stupid to work out the best time to release the counter so that it has the best chance to drop flat then they deserve what they get.

Another £800 won with one drop in the first round thanks to the double counter. The round ended with that contestant almost £1000 more than the next one. Game over!

Q: "On a graph, the vertical axis is named after which letter?"

A: "N"

Why go on a quiz show if you lack BASIC maths knowledge?!