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theoak
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If you were to have...

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...All the current answers for a quiz machine, in digital format, how much would this be worth?
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Probably nothing, unfortunately, as they are ever-changing, and not 'overly' useful, except, perhaps, for 'review'.

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I seeeee.
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And they're game/company specific, not machine.
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The problem is how to turn a long list of questions and answers into usable knowledge, i.e. how do you sit and learn a set of facts without any context? You may then consider storing the answers electronically but I don't know any way of accessing the required answer from e.g. a PDA in the short time allowed by most games, and even if you can surmount those hurdles, you still have 'spoilers' to contend with - many games now have a way of generating questions on the fly e.g. the number of years between Book X and Book Y being released. Assuming you can overcome all this, the games and/or question sets will then be changed and you are back to square one...

Like any 'get rich quick' idea, you would be much better working on a way to get rich slowly, which in this case (as in so much else in life) means hard work and practice!
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theoak wrote:...All the current answers for a quiz machine, in digital format, how much would this be worth?
Why have you got some to sell?
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Post by Andersen »

If sum1 gave me the answers then I could make them into a usuable program with a search that was quick enough
Also I could index them and U wud be able to cross-referemce them but no1 here works at companies that make the machines so its pointless even saying anyways
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Heh - we've debated this before, talking about the use of palmtops and mobiles etc to store a database on... It just wouldn't work though... :(

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