Chance to be part of TV game show draws hundreds

Deal me in: One of roughly 200 model hopefuls opens a briefcase at an open casting call held yesterday in downtown Vancouver for the game show Deal Or No Deal. The women lined up at 6:30 a.m. wearing cocktail dresses outside the Hyatt Regency on Burrard Street for their chance to wow judges — only one was chosen.

Two hundred women wearing cocktail dresses lined up in the cold rain in downtown Vancouver yesterday morning for a chance to join Howie Mandel as a briefcase-toting model on special Canadian editions of Deal Or No Deal.