Did he throw it or didn't he?
I don't care. Joyce is off to Perth!!

Thanks for this. I thought he should have lost it as the 1 second did not go down. It seemed a mess to me

Best edge of the seat Chase ever

I think it was just the sheer pressure at the end that made him choke. If it was an earlier question he probably would have got that.

Chuffed for Joyce!

They are only easy if you know the answers.

mark really is a beast. had enough time to pass the last question and still catch 25. phew

What an episode! Never thought I'd get emotional watching The Chase, but Joyce left a tear in my eye tonight

Just my thought, no way were they going to let Joyce go home with nothing.

So happy for Joyce. Hope she enjoys Australia!

Aww. You big softie, Nick.
(Mine too!)

Very pleased for Joyce, the amount of times she said Thank You even though it was her that helped them win the jackpot. Bless her.

No, that wouldn't have worked. He knew he had to get it. if he'd passed it they'd almost certainly have got the pushback (the only footballer that really fits actor/ tattoo of FA Cup is Vinnie Jones). Then he'd have needed to get three right in about eight seconds, next to impossible.

Very pleased for them all today

Absolutely incredible. Amazing performance by the team, unbelievably good performance by Mark despite being defeated. And above all, I'm so happy that Joyce can go and see her son. Happy ending!! Best episode of the year so far!

Yes, I've never seen anybody react like that before.

Tonight was a good example of what sort of score can be achieved by a team with a strong quizzer and two others that provide decent support. I wonder if he gave the other two a pep talk beforehand and told them he'd do the majority of the work and only to buzz in if they knew it.

I'm not really sure what you mean by that.

So, are you saying Mark threw it?

I didn't want them to win. The old dear annoyed me. All the old people on this show are treated with kid gloves.

I raised an eyebrow at Mark stumbling on his last question too. The phrase "footballer turned actor" immediately makes me think of Vinnie Jones, regardless of the FA Cup clue.

Brilliant chase. That has to be the best chase ever. Marks Crusty the Clown answer should have been disallowed.

Brilliant chase tonight. Tom was great. Very pleased for Joyce who will be flying to Oz to hug her son.
Love happy endings.

Not really, Hershel Krustofski is simply Krusty's real name. Perfectly valid answer as it's still technically correct - it would be pretty much like answering the question "JARVIS is the robotic sidekick of which superhero?" with Tony Stark instead of Iron Man.

He explained that. He knew the answer, it wasn't a difficult question. He just couldn't think of the name. it happens to everyone. You know you know something, but just can't dredge it out of your mind in time.

It would seem odd if you were trying to throw it (and I do not for one moment think that he was) to take on a nearly impossible target of 25 steps, be very close to getting it, then suddenly remember that you're supposed to lose, so you have to mess up the last question. I mean in the middle of it he was going so fast he was shouting out the answers in the middle of Bradley reading out the questions. Why would he go to all that effort and try so hard to get so close if he's not trying to win? Just get a respectable score and lose by four or so steps, that would be a lot easier and less stressful.

I don't think there was anything remotely fishy about today's show.

it was a brilliant Final Chase.

Ooh, shame you weren't there for the last question.

(Good thing he was there for the other 24 though, eh? )

Brilliant Chase today, makes a change from taking low offers and losing out

Indeed - that's because he understands the mathematics. Mark acknowledged the advice as the best strategy. In fact, I wouldn't have been shocked if Tom had encouraged her to have a go at the £20000 instead.

£3000 is by far the worst choice mathematically, as she's moving one step closer to the Chaser for a likely potential gain of £500-£1000 max. However, some people aren't interested in the mathematics just don't want to consider the lower offer for non-mathematical reasons, such as moral reasons or fear of embarrassment.

She earned the right to make her own choice on her own terms for her own reasons.

She was caught two short eventually, so she ended up taking home 0% of 42000, instead of 25% of 43000 [*] ... if she'd got one more question right or had got the cubit right or had happened to know anything about women's skiing or had got the car question right. TBF, I did think she was unlucky with her guess on the car question, as she was right that Chris Evans is famously a car fanatic.

[*] so, effectively, she gambled £10750 to win an extra £500 - which is clearly total lunacy. Now she wasn't to know the pot built by the others would be quite so big, but even if it was only £16000, that would have still been gambling £4000 to win an extra £500. Conversely, you could say that without a little help from Vinnie Jones, she nearly cost the rest of the team £10750 each (her extra step for being there was very nearly all the difference between winning and losing.