metacritic.com: Deal Or No Deal

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

48 / 100

100	New York Post Linda Stasi Maddening and exciting.
50	Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen "Deal or No Deal" may be the dumbest TV game show ever, or, quite possibly, it is brilliant in its simplicity. But it's certainly not a quiz show.
50	Variety Brian Lowry [The] first episode of this weeklong experiment does a creditable job building suspense, but it's hard to imagine the premise... possessing much staying power.
20	Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert It's only a few shades more adult than, say, playing with blocks.
20	Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron That it has been a hit in 35 nations... reveals that there are more international threats than terrorism and global warming.