Shanice:- she doesn't know much except that she doesn't know much, so she went low and will be scrounging off the winnings of the first two.

She may be a help in the final but I doubt it.

Not much impressed.

Bernard up next representing the oldies.

Did she say that she's got a law degree?

One question right and a lot of multiple choice lucky guesses. Yep, they really need you to get back, Shanice.

I think he may a bit slow. So a small cash builder.

Hearing aid playing up?

Very good.

£100 is the correct play if you're not going to go for the high offer. There is hardly any difference between going low and going middle. The middle offer is clearly the worst option of the three.

They had £13,000 in the pot already, I'm surprised the low offer wasn't a minus. Given how poor she was in the Cashbuilder, she was very lucky not to get a minus.

It's not so much that as wondering how she got it.

crap score

Shanice is the "pass" player.

Not a great Final Chase by the team, Paul should win this easily

"I think we'll need some pushbacks". Funniest thing, Bradley's said all day.

what a boring end

Team: poor.

Paul wins with a minute to spare.

Pedant alert:

"Which series of books feature the character the Fat Controller?"

"Thomas the Tank Engine."

"Correct."

This is wrong. The books are called The Railway Series. It was the TV series, which came much later, that was called Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends.

The question should have been worded, "Which TV series...", if they were looking for the answer Thomas the Tank Engine.

I think they should change the rules so that if you win, you only win however much you put in the pot. Not share the total. It winds me up big time when people take the low offer.

That won't work because if someone's only going to be playing for, say £100, they might try to sabotage the team by not contributing or saying "Pass" all the time. Not like tonight, where they all got equal shares and remained united as a team.
I'll get me coat.

That would never work. The whole point is that they're a team and have to try to work together to win the money. Sometimes this means players should take the low offer. If they all kept what they'd put in themselves they're no longer really a team.

For a start, if it was divided as you suggest, they would have to get rid of minus offers, otherwise if they won, anybody taking a minus wouldn't win anything - in fact they would theoretically owe the other players money.

But even if they didn't have minuses, you'd still get situations like this:

Player 1 gets knocked out.

Player 2 goes for a high offer of £30K and gets it. So now he's happy, he knows he's going to win £30K if they win. He now wants the other two back and doesn't care if they take the low offer, in fact he would prefer if they did, because there's more chance they'll get back, therefore a higher chance of them all winning - and him winning his £30K. He won't be bothered if they only bring back peanuts because it doesn't affect his share.

Player 3 gets knocked out.

Player 4 gets £3,000 in the cashbuilder. The high offer is £40,000, the low offer £500. What should player 4 do? Going for the low offer is pointless - they're only going to win £500 if the team wins, while the other bloke will trouser a massive £30K. They really have to go middle or high, which means more chance of getting knocked out.

The net result of all this is that hardly anybody would go for the low offer, it would effectively become redundant. Thus a key part of the show would be lost. More players would go for the high offer (because they'll get all of it if they win). Thus more players would get knocked out, there would often be only one or two players in the Final Chase, and the teams would win much less often. They only win about one in four times as it is.

I would love to see a player 1 who does well being offered a negative amount as the low offer...

How would that even be possible?

If player 2, 3 or 4 win cash money than the minus is taken off straight away which would make people think more about taking lower offers later on because they could end up playing for a very low amount.

They all take minus offers, they win the final chase and they end up having to pay ITV!

Actually, even if the first player scores zero, there isn't a minus offer. There is no lower amount, just the choice of the zero or higher amount.

And today it's . . . eeny meeny miney mo..... Shaun???

Their ears are wagging.