[The once and future king]

You on the other hand are not clever enough to understand a game show on TV.

The contestant chooses a Box intialy. There is a check in the box for anything from 1p to 250,000. There are several other boxes each of which will contain a sum of 1p to 250,000£ also. There is only one instance of each sum.

The contest can open several other boxes to determine the sum or worth of his box, e.g. If he opens a box and it contains 250K he knows his box isnt worth that amount.

After he has opened x amount of boxes he will have a better Idea of the sums left in play.

He will then be offered the chance to sell or deal his box to a "banker" or remove more boxes.
So for example if he has removed the box with the 1p in it the banker will give him a better deal for his box knowing it is worth more than 1p. The ultimate conudrum is reached with only 2 boxes remaining, 1 for 1p and 1 for 250K. The player will be offered around 10K for his box by the banker. He can either accept that or remove the last box and find out if his box is worth 1p or 250k winning said ammount. Hence the name of the show Deal or No deal.