Egyptian Mystery Jackpot is a variety gambling entertainment with a Egyptian theme.
Try your luck in finding the $1,000,000 case and beat the Pharaoh.
GAME PLAY
The game revolves around the opening of a set of numbered briefcases, each of which contains a different prize. The contents (i.e., the values) of all of the cases are known at the start of the game, but the specific location of any prize is unknown. The contestant claims (or is assigned) a case to begin the game. The cases value is not revealed until the conclusion of the game.
The contestant then begins choosing cases that are to be removed from play. The amount inside each chosen case is immediately revealed; by process of elimination, the amount revealed cannot be inside the case the contestant initially claimed (or was assigned). Throughout the game, after a predetermined number of cases have been opened, the Pharaoh offers the contestant an amount of money and/or prizes to quit the game, the offer based roughly on the amounts remaining in play and the contestants demeanor, the Pharaoh tries to buy the contestants case for a lower price than whats inside the case. The player then answers the titular question, choosing:
"Deal", accepting the offer presented and ending the game, or
"No Deal", rejecting the offer and continuing the game.
This process of removing cases and receiving offers continues, until either the player accepts an offer to deal, or all offers have been rejected and the values of all unselected cases are revealed. Should a player end the game by taking a deal, a pseudo-game is continued from that point to see how much the player could have won by remaining in the game. Depending on subsequent choices and offers, it is determined whether or not the contestant made a "good deal", i.e. won more than if the game were allowed to continue.
Since the range of possible values is known at the start of each game, how much the Pharaoh offers at any given point changes based on what values have been eliminated. To promote suspense and lengthen games, the bankers offer is usually less than the expected value dictated by probability theory, particularly early in the game.Generally, the offers early in the game are very low relative to the values still in play, but near the end of the game approach (or even exceed) the average of the remaining values.