Each round starts out with physical challenges, called Excursions, where teams compete to secure briefcases containing varying cash values that add to the prize pot. The social layer kicks in at the end of each Excursion, when a member of the team with the most accumulated value has to select who among the team with the least must play a classic game of Deal or No Deal and risk elimination, which pays off the relationships and dynamics fomenting between contestants.
Believe me, I'm just as surprised as anybody that this 30 Rock-induced fever dream of a spinoff is actually good, and it's not just because of Joe Manganiello's enthusiastic hosting or the array of tight-fitting tropical shirts being subjected to his voluminous upper body. Despite its mishmash design, the show is fun and finely tuned, and its structure of building each episode towards a classic game of Deal or No Deal is kind of ingenious.
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