I’ve watched the Channel 4 programme, Deal or No Deal a number of times, mostly when I’m waking up at 5pm on Saturday after a Friday night on the tiles. With the taste of cheap kebab still on my tonsils I watch the uber groomed, part TV presenter part toy bear, smoothly tone over his randomly knitted jumpers.

Don’t ask me what the game is about, but it is perfect for a hangover, it’s as if a Zen master had created the perfect vibrations for the brain by designing TV show to the specifications of Bhuddah himself.

Deal or no Deal makes no sense, but then that’s the point. If it did, you would have to think about it, to follow it, to laugh and cry with the contestents. But, because it exists on the shadows of conscious brain, it allows itself to waft over the sharp parts left over from an hangover and smooth them down.

The Flash Game is similar, there are no tactics, no strategy, it simply forces you not to think. Trying to influence the outcome would be like trying to balance one grain of sand on another.

It forces you to empty the mind, and as we learned from the Karate Kid, that can be a good thing.

One redeeming feature of the free Flash game, actually it’s two. Is that Noel Edmonds is not in it and the other is you can’t get Flash on the iPhone.

Has Steve Jobs even seen Deal or no Deal, makes you wonder.

Play the game, and I challenge you to have a single useful though whilst you do.

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