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New Jersey 2006

Deal or No Deal

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Photos and Articles by Matt Lurrie

You may recognize this image from the hit NBC show, Deal or No Deal.  But here at Campus Kids, this popular game show takes on a new perspective.

Led by Jeremy and Amanda, the prizes were somewhat different than those on the show.  Instead of big prizes like one million dollars, bunk groups had the chance to win pizza parties, Munchkins, movie nights, and board games.  However, the pink cards represented prizes that aren't so pleasant, such as getting wet, eating spam, singing at breakfast, cleaning the quad . . .

         
 . . . and the one everyone feared the most, "Ryan's Choice of Very Bad Things".

As the groups filed up one by one to meet their fate, they would chose one card from a numbered board to save to the very end.  They  then eliminated all others except one, hoping that they would have the one they wanted.  There was one catch, however.

 Ryan, the smooth talking banker, offered each group a tempting deal in order to quit.  Sometimes it would be candy, sometimes beloved childhood books, sometimes cute stuffed animals.

But despite unfavorable outlooks at crucial points in the game, not one deal was struck.  It seemed as if campers were in it more for the thrill than the prize.

The audience often rooted for the team on the spot to make a deal with the banker, but nevertheless, cookies, board games, and olives stayed with the banker himself.

Some outcomes were not quite as favorable as might have been expected.

Sam M.'s group won a blade of grass.

Villani's group won an autographed picture of a Campus Kids celebrity, office manager Sara.

But one group ended up with a pink card reading the solemn word "Underwear".  Their obligation was to wear underwear on their heads the next day to breakfast...

Which they took in their stride.

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