Fruit Machine Chat

The Saturday Night Takeaway game does only seem to offer one 'playable' go - lots of low question/high pick combinations and plenty of 200 point picks - every so often and isn't really worth playing other than on one of those occasions. I tend to play between one and four times in the hope that a go...

I know some of you Word Up gurus like to dabble in Sum Up, so a quick question - do you need to clear the entire board for a clearance or just the numbers i.e. if you are left with only the signs (+, -, x, ÷) does that still count as a clearance? I haven't actually cleared the board yet but last nig...

If you catch this one in a good mood (which is rare of course), it can actually pay out the Jackpot. When this happens you get lots of 200/250 points offered and it continues to offer more picks than questions e.g. 2 Questions 4 Picks. I've only got the £20 twice I think but that's twice more than o...

Hi, TKA. The questions did appear to be all new, including the Bonus round at the beginning. As for the switch to Version 41, I do find the IT Box frustratingly well managed in that regard i.e. that once one box is converted to a new suite of games, they all seem to done together (the frustration be...

I got my first sight of this at lunchtime - it's on the new ITBox 41 edition. The changes are: - completely new graphics and film of Chris Tarrant - you get 10 seconds for the Bonus round at the beginning, and get 50/50 and Phone a Friend if you only get two answers in the right order - you get 15 s...

Without wishing to second-guess, I believe that Montague Pyke is simply the 'posh' name for the Lloyds on the Charing Cross Road.

For a bonus point, which old music venue did Wetherspoons take over to create the pub originally?

Ah yes, VB probably thought you were 'A SPY' (from one of the machine companies perhaps) when you are probably just 'ASPY' which is short for ASPEL or something similar. Not Michael Aspel I presume!

In any case, welcome.

For any of you Word Up gurus based in London, the Famous 3 Kings by West Kensington tube has a machine fixed to the wall by the pool tables where last night the Word Up was set at 700 points for £1 and around 1000 points for £2. As I'm quite new to the forum, I haven't really worked out if this woul...

She does indeed, and oddly enough she has the same surname as the only other famous person ever to come from Rochdale (Gracie Fields - real name Gracie Stansfield) - cue hoards of complaints from proud residents of Rochdale... :D My personal "favourite" most ridiculous question was on I be...