# Deal or No Deal Island

Deal or No Deal Island is an American reality competition series that premiered on NBC on February 26, 2024. Hosted by Joe Manganiello, it is a spin-off of the game show Deal or No Deal, featuring contestants competing in physical challenges in an island setting to retrieve briefcases containing cash values. The winner of the challenge selects a contestant to play the "Banker's Challenge"—a game of Deal or No Deal where they must aim to make a "good" offer on their chosen briefcase to avoid elimination. The last contestant remaining plays a high-stakes game of Deal or No Deal, with the largest prize being a jackpot formed from the total value of the offers received throughout the season.

## Format

Deal or No Deal Island is a reality competition in which a group of contestants compete in excursions to collect briefcases hidden across the Banker's private island, an undisclosed island in the Panama islands.

### Excursions

Each episode, the contestants compete in Excursions and must undertake physical challenges to retrieve briefcases with varying cash values. Certain challenges may include "red cases," which either permit a contestant to seize another player's briefcase or contain a minimal cash amount. Contestants securing the lowest-valued briefcases are deemed at risk and may be selected to face the Banker's Challenge. The contestant or team gathering the highest combined case value gains immunity for that evening and determines which lower-ranking contestant will confront the Banker.

### Banker's Challenge

The Banker's Challenge is a conventional high-stakes game of Deal or No Deal between the Banker and the player chosen to compete by the winner of the Excursion. In each round, the player must open one or more cases, revealing their values and eliminating them from play. At the end of the round, the Banker presents the player with an offer. If the player accepts an offer higher than the value in their chosen case, or if they play through every round and their case is higher than the Banker's final offer, they remain in the game and must eliminate one of the other players. Otherwise, the player is eliminated. Regardless of the outcome, the amount of the accepted offer (or the final case, if the game is played to its conclusion) is added to the value of the highest case at stake in the season finale. The Banker may, at his discretion, offer a cash bonus that the player can keep regardless of the outcome of the Banker's Challenge or the overall competition. In some cases, if the player accepts this bonus, they must leave the game immediately.

### Final game

In the end, the final few contestants compete in a series of challenges to determine the winner who earns the right to play a conventional game of Deal or No Deal to determine their prize. However, this game is played with the Banker present in person (in the first season, the banker was revealed to be Howie Mandel, the original host of Deal or No Deal. In the currently airing second season, a new banker is yet to be revealed, and the banker is addressed with feminine pronouns). While the bottom half of the board has values less than $1,000, the top half of the board consists entirely of cases containing $1 million or more, including the largest cases found during each Excursion. The highest valued case was the total of the amounts won in all Banker's Challenges of the season, which in season 1 resulted in a top case valued at nearly $14 million.

## Production

On May 12, 2023, NBC ordered the series. On September 27, 2023, it was announced that Joe Manganiello would host the show. On November 20, 2023, it was announced that the series would premiere on February 26, 2024. On January 8, 2024, the contestants were announced. On May 7, 2024, the series was renewed for a second season. The second season premiered on January 7, 2025.
In the first season finale, Howie Mandel appeared as the Banker. He did not return for the second season as the banker was advertised to be a woman and new to the role.

## Season 1
### Contestants

The cast of 13 contestants includes familiar faces such as reality TV personality and former Deal or No Deal case model Claudia Jordan and former five-time Survivor contestant and two-time The Amazing Race contestant Rob Mariano.
| Full Name | Age | Current City | Result | Result |
| Jordan Fowler | 29 | Nashville, Tennessee | Winner | Episode 12 |
| Amy McCoy | 42 | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | Eliminated by competition | Episode 12 |
| Stephanie Mitchell | 41 | Gainesville, Alabama | Eliminated by competition | Episode 12 |
| Rob Mariano | 47 | Perdido Key, Florida | Eliminated by competition | Episode 12 |
| Aron Barbell | 26 | Champaign, Illinois | Eliminated by Bad Deal | Episode 10 |
| Nick Grasso | 29 | Brooklyn, New York | Eliminated by Bad Deal | Episode 9 |
| Dawson Addis | 25 | Muskego, Wisconsin | Bribed Out of Game | Episode 8 |
| Alyssa Klinzing | 26 | Kansas City, Missouri | Eliminated by Stephanie | Episode 7 |
| Miranda Harrison | 30 | Fort Myers, Florida | Eliminated by Bad Deal | Episode 5 |
| Kim Mattina | 63 | Anthem, Arizona | Eliminated by Rob | Episode 4 |
| Claudia Jordan | 50 | Dallas, Texas | Eliminated by Bad Deal | Episode 3 |
| Jamil Sipes | 47 | Grand Prairie, Texas | Eliminated by Kim | Episode 2 |
| Brantzen Wong | 31 | Tustin, California | Eliminated by Aron | Episode 1 |
* ↑ In the Banker's game, Dawson accepted an offer of $1,399,000 for the final case in addition to a $100,000 personal offer as a bribe to immediately leave the game. Even if the personal offer had not been made, Dawson would have been eliminated regardless, as the Banker's offer was ultimately a bad deal.

### Episodes

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original release date | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) | Rating (18–49) |
| 1 | 1 | "Are You a Gambler?" | February 26, 2024 (2024-2-26) | 101 | 3.10 | 0.4 |
| 2 | 2 | "Are You Calculating?" | March 4, 2024 (2024-3-4) | 102 | 2.52 | 0.3 |
| 3 | 3 | "Are You Fearless?" | March 11, 2024 (2024-3-11) | 103 | 2.87 | 0.3 |
| 4 | 4 | "Are You Intuitive?" | March 18, 2024 (2024-3-18) | 104 | 2.88 | 0.3 |
| 5 | 5 | "Are You Trustworthy?" | March 25, 2024 (2024-3-25) | 105 | 2.58 | 0.3 |
| 6 | 6 | "Are You Intentional?" | April 1, 2024 (2024-4-1) | 106 | 2.40 | 0.3 |
| 7 | 7 | "Are You Decisive?" | April 8, 2024 (2024-4-8) | 107 | 2.42 | 0.3 |
| 8 | 8 | "Are You Meticulous?" | April 15, 2024 (2024-4-15) | 108 | 2.69 | 0.3 |
| 9 | 9 | "Are You Ruthless?" | April 22, 2024 (2024-4-22) | 109 | 2.64 | 0.3 |
| 10 | 10 | "Are You Powerful?" | April 29, 2024 (2024-4-29) | 110 | 2.52 | 0.3 |
| 11 | 11 | "Are You Tenacious?" | May 6, 2024 (2024-5-6) | 111 | 3.03 | 0.3 |
| 12 | 12 | "Can You Beat the Banker?" | May 13, 2024 (2024-5-13) | 112 | 3.14 | 0.3 |

### Elimination chart

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Elimination History (Season 1) :
| Contestant | Ep 1 | Ep 2 | Ep 3 | Ep 4 | Ep 5 | Ep 6 | Ep 7 | Ep 8 | Ep 9 | Ep 10 | Ep 11 | Ep 12 |
| Banked | $600,000 | $225,000 | $180,000 | $49,000 | $937,000 | $850,000 | $251,000 | $1,399,000 | $4,417,000 | $1,199,000 | None | $3,750,000 |
| Final Case | $600,000 | $825,000 | $1,005,000 | $1,054,000 | $1,991,000 | $2,841,000 | $3,092,000 | $4,491,000 | $8,908,000 | $10,107,000 | $10,107,000 | $13,857,000 |
| Jordan | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | WINNER |
| Amy | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | DEAL | RISK | RISK | WIN | WIN | SAFE | ELIM |
| Stephanie | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | RISK | SAFE | WIN | DEAL | SAFE | RISK | SAFE | ELIM | |
| Rob | SAFE | WIN | WIN | DEAL | SAFE | WIN | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | ELIM | |
| Aron | DEAL | WIN | RISK | SAFE | WIN | RISK | SAFE | RISK | SAFE | OUT | | |
| Nick | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | RISK | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | WIN | OUT | | | |
| Dawson | RISK | SAFE | SAFE | RISK | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | | | | |
| Alyssa | SAFE | RISK | SAFE | SAFE | RISK | SAFE | ELIM | | | | | |
| Miranda | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | | | | | | | |
| Kim | WIN | DEAL | SAFE | ELIM | | | | | | | | |
| Claudia | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | | | | | | | | | |
| Jamil | SAFE | ELIM | | | | | | | | | | |
| Brantzen | ELIM | | | | | | | | | | | |