Deal or No Deal (Netherlands)
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Deal or No Deal is a Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 version of Deal or No Deal
Deal or No Deal
Deal or No Deal is the name of several closely related television game shows, the first of which was the Dutch Miljoenenjacht produced by Dutch producer Endemol. It is played with up to 26 cases with certain sums of money...

. The show is similar to Miljoenenjacht
Miljoenenjacht (Netherlands)
Miljoenenjacht , officially Postcode Loterij Miljoenenjacht, is a Dutch game show, sponsored by the country's postcode lottery, where a contestant and at-home viewer could win up to €5,000,000 or as little as €0.01. The show is broadcast at various times, spanning across six episodes for each set...

, the original version of Deal or No Deal, however it does not have any of the extra quiz rounds that Miljoenenjacht has, so this direct version contains the familiar format first used in the Australian version
Deal or No Deal (Australian game show)
Deal or No Deal is an Australian game show airing on the Seven Network and in New Zealand on Prime . It was the first international version of the game show, after the original Dutch version. It was the first of the versions to use the Deal or No Deal name...

 and then around the world. Deal or No Deal is sponsored by the Dutch National Postcode Lottery
National Postcode Lottery
The National Postcode Lottery may refer to serval lottery systems:* UK Postcode Lottery* Dutch National Postcode Lottery...

 and is shown on RTL 5
RTL 5
RTL 5 is the 2nd channel of the RTL Group in the Netherlands. The channel mainly broadcasts American films and hit series but also local productions including Jensen! and Holland's Next Top Model, a Dutch version of America's Next Top Model. RTL 5 recently started airing the Dutch version of...

. (Both versions were shown on Tien before its termination.)

There are three main differences between the direct and parent versions. One is the top prize is much smaller, which is €250,000, of the €5,000,000 prize in Miljoenenjacht. Also, the counterpart of Linda de Mol
Linda de Mol
Linda Margaretha de Mol , known as Linda de Mol, is a Dutch actress and television presenter in the Netherlands and in Germany. She is the sister of Endemol founder John de Mol...

, the host of Miljoenenjacht, in this version is Beau van Erven Dorens. Furthermore, instead of 26 briefcases, the game uses 20 boxes, each representing a region of the Netherlands. This box variation is also used in some versions of the franchise, such as the UK version
Deal or No Deal (UK game show)
Deal or No Deal is the United Kingdom version of the Endemol game show format Deal or No Deal, hosted by Noel Edmonds. 1,758 shows have been aired...

. In round 1 the contestant opens 6 boxes, and 3 in all other rounds. The box values, in euro
Euro
The euro is the official currency of the eurozone: 17 of the 27 member states of the European Union. It is also the currency used by the Institutions of the European Union. The eurozone consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,...

s, are as follows (the euro sign
Euro sign
The euro sign is the currency sign used for the euro, the official currency of the Eurozone in the European Union . The design was presented to the public by the European Commission on 12 December 1996. The international three-letter code for the euro is EUR...

is not used in the values board):


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