How does the banker calculate his offer on Deal or No Deal?

Answer 1

From watching the show the banker seems to figure the odds and offer less than half what those odds are until the portion of the show where they tell you what the offer would have been. For instance if you have 10 cases worth a total of a 900,000 dollars the banker will normally offer less than half the true odds of 90,000. However when Howie says let's see what the banker would have offered it would be closer to the true odds. For the most part take only the cases on the left and add them up and divide them by twice the number of cases and it will be a little higher than the banker's offer. From a gamblers point of view the odds to continue playing are always better than a coin flip, until you realize they what you are winning is only the difference between the two offers and that you are betting the amount that you turn down. As the number of cases decreases the offers start to come closer to, but still less than the true odds. true odds -55% The answer is quite simple first he adds the sum of the money for example if there are 3 prices left like 50, 25 and 100 then you add them and divide by 3(3 because there are three prices left) Then he adds 10,100, or 1,000 dollars depends what the deal is. basically he just finds the mean and adds 10, 100, or 1,000 dollars