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  • NBC ups the stakes on game show ‘Deal Or No Deal’

    NBC ups the stakes on game show ‘Deal Or No Deal’

    MUMBAI: US broadcaster NBC has announced that it has upped the ante by raising the top prize money, along with contestants’ blood pressure, by half a million dollars each night when the game show Deal or No Deal returns on 27 February for its week-long mid-season premiere

    Contestants will be surprised when the new stakes are revealed. The top prize will be $1.5 million, and as the week progresses, the top prize will escalate each night by an additional one-half million dollars, concluding on 3 March with a $3-million-dollar prize.

    The contestants will need nerves of steel to decide whether to put their trust in themselves or their support group as they are confronted with life-altering financial decisions in a highly pressured environment.

    Also returning to the show will be the “Lucky Case Game,” a live interactive element where viewers in each of the three time zones in the US have a chance to win $10,000 by texting on their cell phones or by logging onto the Deal or No Deal website at www.nbc.com.

    At various points in the show, viewers will be alerted on how to play and all of the viewers who correctly selected the lucky case will be pooled together with the winner chosen at random. The lucky case will be revealed and the winner will be announced live at the end of the each show.

  • NBC viewers can win $10,000 on ‘Deal Or No Deal’

    NBC viewers can win $10,000 on ‘Deal Or No Deal’

    UMBAI: Viewers of US broadcaster NBC’s game show Deal or No Deal will have the opportunity to win $10,000 by playing the live interactive Lucky Case Game each night during the series’ week-long run till 23 December 2005.

    In India the local version Deal Ya No Deal airs on Sony.

    Bringing a live interactive element to the game show, viewers will be able to play the Lucky Case Game on their cell phones or by logging onto the Deal or No Deal website at www.nbc.com/DOND. At various points in the show viewers will be alerted how to play and will have no limit on the number of times they can participate.

    Viewers playing by cell phone will be asked to text message their case choice to the short code 59595. For viewers playing on NBC.com, they will also be asked to pick a case number. All of the viewers who correctly select the lucky case will be pooled together and the winner will be chosen at random. The lucky case will be revealed and the winner will be announced live at the end of the show

    There will be three winners each night, one for each of the three times zones across the US.

    Viewers playing on NBC.com will be able to play for free, and viewers playing on their cell phones will be charged a fee of 49 cents in addition to their wireless carrier’s standard text messaging rates.