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Want something a bit different? Deal Or No Deal can provide – with special editions cropping up across the globe. In the US there’s been charity and campaign editions, France has had regional shows, while both the US and Argentina have shown special sporting editions. But it’s in Australia that DOND loves a themed show the most. As well as its twice-annual Dancing With The Deals edition – featuring famous faces from Dancing With The Stars -- there’s been an Unluckiest Players’ second chance edition, a Conflict Of The Couples edition and even a Test Of The Psychics show (a version of which also occurred in Bulgaria, with similar results). In this show, 26 clairvoyants, mediums, psychic, telepaths, healers and astrologers lined up to ‘sense’ which suitcase contained a cool $2million. Reiki healer Jacquline Frazer went through, but neither her crystals nor Reiki powers could bag her the jackpot, and she settled for a reasonable $31,150. Not surprisingly, the psychics weren’t fazed. “We could never use our powers to take a test for money,” they explained. “It’s a misuse of our abilities that are only there to help others.” Wonder if they knew that before they took part?
Véronique Landry is the only model to appear on more than one version of the show, on both the French and English Canadian versions. Howie Mandel, Héctor Sandarti, and Linda de Mol each have hosted multiple versions of the show: Mandel, with the American English and English Canadian versions, Sandarti with both the American Spanish and Mexican Spanish versions, and de Mol with both the Netherlands Dutch and German (in 2004) versions of the show.
Other countries that have their own versions of the show include Albania, Armenia, Austria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Portugal (SIC network), Puerto Rico, and Vietnam, according to the UK version's website.
Variations
Taiwan Television Enterprise (TTV) has a variation of "Deal or No Deal" embedded within its Saturday night weekly variety show hosted by popular TV host and one time recording artist Jacky Wu. The portion involved 16 boxes wherein celebrity contestants will play for NT$1.5 million top prize in denominations starting from NT$1.00. In this game though, Jacky Wu the TV host, also acted as a banker. He would randomly come up with an amount when the choice of boxes become fewer. Contestants however should successfully win a talent portion of the show before playing this game.
