Graham Bany
September 22, 2026
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5 min read
A free Deal or No Deal game for the classroom. Twenty-six briefcases, one Banker, and a team on stage that has to answer a review question before it gets to open a case. Every wrong answer costs them, because the Banker docks the next offer. After each round the phone rings, the offer counts up, and the team has to decide: deal, or no deal.
It runs in the browser from a single file. There is no account to make, nothing to install, and no logins for students. Want to see it before you build anything? Hit Load the demo questions on the setup screen and then Open the cases.
The rounds follow the show. With 26 cases the team opens six, then five, then four, then three, then two, then one at a time, with an offer after each round.
This is the part that makes it a review game and not just a luck game. The Banker’s offer is based on what is still on the board, and it climbs as the game goes on. Every wrong answer in a round knocks 10% off the next offer, up to half. The offer card shows the cut, so a team that bluffed its way through a round can watch the money disappear. A team that answers clean gets the full offer.
If you would rather skip the questions entirely, flip the Questions toggle off on the setup screen and it plays straight. There is also a Banker’s whisper button that shows what the offer would be right now, which is a good way to talk about averages and expected value with a math class.
The template is a CSV with two required columns, question and answer, one row per question. There is an optional third column, options, for multiple choice. Put the choices in one cell separated by a pipe, like Ethos|Logos|Pathos|Kairos, and the game lays them out as A, B, C, D. Leave it blank for an open-answer question.
Questions are shuffled by default. Turn Shuffle off on the setup screen if you want them in the order you wrote them. If a game needs more questions than you loaded, it starts back at the top.
Open the template in Excel or Google Sheets to edit it, then save as CSV before you upload. The game only reads CSV. If you drop an .xlsx on it, it will tell you to convert it first.
Grab the CSV, swap in your own questions, and load it back into the game. No account, no sign-up. Download the classroom Deal or No Deal template (.csv).
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