* The British episode known as "Mary's Mistake". An elderly woman [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc5gXqikKDE accidentally said No Deal]], got a chance to recant the decision, said No Deal ''anyway'', and proceeded to win the largest amount left in the game (£75,000) after doing a perfect round.
* Pretty much any other time someone manages to go home with one of the Power Five after a bad start.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hydFph4mYE Suzanne Mulholland]], whose final four boxes were ''all'' from the Power Five. She then proceeded to knock out the two smallest amounts (£35,000 and £50,000) in order, leaving her with the "Dream Finish" of £100,000 and £250,000 — the first time someone managed to do this in the UK version — and a new record set for the highest offered Banker deal (£165,000). And then she swapped boxes (something no one else with the £250,000 in one of the final two boxes had done before) and ''won the quarter million!''
* December 2009, again in Britain: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRVqUaIXAeo Neil's game]], in which he, despite having the top four amounts still in play at 8-box, and having 6 red boxes at this point, deals for £35,000, explaining that the number selections that were guiding him through the game were no longer occurring to him. He then proceeded to knock out all four of the top amounts, ''in sequence'', with his next four picks, the highest possible amount of winnable money now being £20,000. After the end of the game, Noel told to the [[FanNickname pilgrims]] who thought dealing was a mistake to stand, and say "Sorry Neil".
* The "dream finish" was also accomplished earlier in the Australian version [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK_0D8cOU0Y with a contestant named Leanne Benbow]] who became the first female winner of that version.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCDxhaRFae0 first Australian win]] was pretty awesome, too, for different reasons: the contestant was left with no safety net after he got down to five suitcases with the two highest amounts left in play being $200,000 and $7,500, which made the audience (and the host) nervous enough to favor him dealing in a vote. He still said "no deal" and got down to two suitcases with $200,000 and ''$5'' in play and a very tempting bank offer of $102,500, and the remaining suitcase-holding contestant said herself that she would have dealt at this point. He said no deal, opened his suitcase, and the rest is history. The comments to this video all agree that he must have had ''huge'' balls to do what he did.
* What about Jessica Robinson becoming the first U.S. contestant to win [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfDaplU9zuw one MILLION dollars]]?
* Arno Woesthoff, who won 10 000 000 guilders back in 2001 on the Dutch version, equivalent to just over 4,5 million €. Add that to the 1 000 000 guilders he won on a previous episode, and he holds the record for the largest ever game show cash prize win anywhere in the world.
* This one crosses over with SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: On the American version, a contestant named Pyong was playing for the million. At one point, he mentioned that his parents, who were in the audience, immigrated to the United States from Korea with $750 in a suitcase. In one of the greatest cases of ThereAreNoCoincidences ever, his final three cases left when he accepted the Banker's offer were $75, $750, and $750,000. When it came time to reveal what his case was worth... [[https://youtu.be/xOH6EWhYB8o?si=T6sLZFgJ_mLE1cdx&t=2434 well, the reaction says it all.]]
* The third episode of the UK version had Anita left with only five boxes, two of which had the opposite sides of the Power Five (£35,000 and £250,000), and chose to deal at £33,000. She immediately proceeded to eliminate those two numbers, guaranteeing a banker loss, accompanied with a ThemeMusicPowerUp. By the end, Anita ended up leaving the banker taking £750 in exchange for the aforementioned £33,000.
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