Hi all,
Having a discussion with my mate earlier talking about quizzers and how there must only be a certain amount of questions on each category. Are there pros out there that make on quiz machines by simply having a record of all the categories and answers. Unlike fruit machines, if you get the answer right, it cannot stop you from winning.
I don't know much about this, but i would imagine different machines have different amounts of question banks, i pretty much had all the answers memorised for connect 4, so much so that i hardly ever read the question, i just looked at the answer before pressing, i'm sure on games of a few years back that people have memorised whole question banks, i'd imagine the problems start when it throws the spoiler question in, what star sign is Adolf Hitler etc.
Scott wrote:I don't know much about this, but i would imagine different machines have different amounts of question banks, i pretty much had all the answers memorised for connect 4, so much so that i hardly ever read the question, i just looked at the answer before pressing, i'm sure on games of a few years back that people have memorised whole question banks, i'd imagine the problems start when it throws the spoiler question in, what star sign is Adolf Hitler etc.
Yes but the majority of the questions in Connect 4 weren't exactly that difficult and the question bank was fairly small. So there were only a few that you really had to memorise. The last question for the line was just a case of guessing and what made the game good was the free move in that position. That game may just be a one off. What other games have a small question bank where you don't have to answer the last harder question because of a free move scenario? They haven't made that same mistake twice!
slightly off topic, but i was playing a quiz a couple of years ago and only had to answer 1 question to get the £20 jackpot.
The question (I shit you not)
How many twix bars were consumed in the UK in 1995?
Yeah, C4 was bob basic general knowledge, the times i got the spoiler wrong for £6, like you say free move was nice, even the ones that crashed on art a lit could be done with a bit of planning, an all time great empty!
I actually had a few of the spoiler questions repeat so I had a few answers for them. Just looking at the Connect 4 topic on VIP. I see where you mentioned about crashing. Had routes worked out avoiding art and lit. This was one of the best methods I have ever known.
And it also rather predicable how this thread supposedly about quiz machines has got bogged talking about C4 which wasn't really a quiz machine. The questions needed to get a win were so few and ridiculously easy. It was simply a faulty software program that anyone who knew the sequence could win on.
