Why have Gamesnet machines got so bollocks?

[Istenem]

(I thought I was restrained to the nonsensical, arbitrary original word list instead of the admittedly-still-nonsensical-in-a-very-different-way-but-on-balance-infinitely-preferable Scrabble word list)

how can any right-minded person say that?

i've been playing a bit of scrabble on facebook and in any given game 30% of the words played are nonsense neologisms coined by feeble-minded losers who can't think of any elegant way to get rid of tougher letters.

[Cardinal Sin]

* WU post - you have been warned *

i've been playing a bit of scrabble on facebook and in any given game 30% of the words played are nonsense neologisms coined by feeble-minded losers who can't think of any elegant way to get rid of tougher letters.

But unlike Scrabble, the main reason for playing Word Up / Word soup is to make a few quid - this is a lot easier with the new dictionary - it wouldn't occur to most players to try playing ZUZZ or D9EX etc

I know you also play to achieve high scores and words - this is still possible with the new version! Granted, your 15+ words are gone, but how many people have ever achieved them? I managed a 10 letter word the other day and that took all my mental wherewithal.

Since you pretty much know the old dictionary, why not just play the new version but restrict yourself to words from the old dictionary?

[ggdr]

To think I even softened my original analysis of old Word Up in an attempt to appease you UnknownPseudonym... I don't think the Scrabble list is brilliant, but however much I get slightly nettled at the likes of 'vav' and 'gju' being allowed, it pales in comparison to the thunderous rage I feel when 'eft' and many other perfectly reasonable words aren't allowed. By the way, I imagine you'd like Worditz, if you've not already played it.

[fotherz]

The word "eft" is obsolete in every sense.

[ggdr]

Not in the Daily Telegraph crossword, where it was a staple from 1985-1997.

[Istenem]

i am a snob about language, it is my job and my hobby; i make no apology for that.

YE, at D9EX. in scrabble i do censor myself, i'd sooner be lumbered with miss Q than lose any dignity i had by playing QI, QAT, QAID and other drivel like that.
i censor myself on WUGM by hardly playing it although on that, if it comes to the endgame i have been known to use VAV etc for the purposes of financial return. this is, at best grasping and, at worst vulgar.
as i've mentioned before i cherish language above a few quid.

consider this: facebook scrabble recently rejected the words PLONKER and OREADES maybe they don't score highly enough on the rarity/points matrix to have been considered by whichever soulless clown developed SOWPODS.

an arbitrary wordlist can have absolutely no edifying value

i actually am getting worked up by this (sad, i know) and i should be working.

[cool]

Mr unknown is that a still of Richard E Grant from Withnail & I? It looks familiar. Please put me out of my misery!

[Istenem]

yes.

[grecian]

Played a GamesNet with a clutch of new product (none of it very inspiring) tonight.

Highlight was probably the "new" TOTP2, which NS has played on a test ItBox. I tentatively agree with NS that they have made it subtly more difficult - I didn't manage to take more than £4 after gambling on several attempts to get £6, whereas £6 is pretty standard territory for me on old TOTP2. Spoilers kick in a little sooner and there's lots more really modern stuff which is to the detriment of young fogeys such as I. There's also a pleasing scoreboard. Good to see this back, in conclusion.

There's a £1/50p DOND which is a bit different in presentation to classic DOND, but I didn't discern much difference gameplay wise.

Yet another version of Trivial Pursuit, this one more like Pub Quiz in style and a lot less good than the current Paragon version, on first play.

Give It A Whirl appears from the Fatbox: similar gameplay but no scoreboard, disappointingly.

New WWTBAM has appeared: did someone say GamesNet had lost the rights to this? If so, they appear to have got them back...

Take It Or Leave It has re-appeared in a new version. Still rubbish.

Monopoly (new version) makes GamesNet debut. Didn't have time to play it.

The monkey throwing game, which just seemed utterly farcical and impossible to me. I only managed one throw in about 15 attempts, although I am a total mal-co on anything at all skill-based.

Finally a game involving collecting playing cards and getting prizes for complete rows / columns. I played this very briefly and thought that maybe, just maybe, it had some potential - but jury's out for time being.

So to conclude, a very diverting hour's play because of all the new stuff, but ultimately not much long-term appeal from this lot, I suspect.

[Nil Satis]

Yet another version of Trivial Pursuit, this one more like Pub Quiz in style and a lot less good than the current Paragon version, on first play.

I saw this at the weekend and hoped that they had simply revamped the Paragon version, but in fact it is a brand new game and it looks a bit of a stinker unfortunately. It's basically Pub Quiz but with the AWP-like addition of a supposedly skill-based selection of your subjects which is trivial when you have all six to choose from but will be very tricky if you only have one left and will (I suspect) allow the game to prevent you accessing the £10 subject if it so wishes.

[ggdr]

I had a very bizarre experience playing the new type of Gamesnet that Grecian and Nil Satis describe above. I'd won about a fiver, but noticed when I went to play a different game that my credit was showing £11.00. I went to collect as an experiment to find that I could take the fiver which I'd won, but that £6 non-collectable credit was there to play with. It certainly hadn't been there when I first started playing. I then experimented on the new games (including Caesar's Palace, which I'd tentatively say looked promising), finding that I could collect any money I won using the credit. Finally, with £2 credit left, I exited Take It Or Leave It only to find the screen go blank, never to return...

[Tupak]

Has anyone seen any new games on the GamesNet machines. I haven't seen the new Bullseye Super Smashing Great on the gamesnet machines.