sorry bout that but as you can see from my high 80's/low 90's scores I've only taken a few quid from them.
Just out of interest I would imagine most people on here who've JP this would have had a pretty easy run of Q's which begs the question has anyone decided to feed this with money and waited for the 'easy' run in the manner you used to have to play machines in the old days.
If that doesn't make a lot of sense Nil or QM will perhaps put it more eloquently!
I know exactly what you mean, but I certainly haven't tried this myself - I've no sense of how many losing games this would take, and luckily there are a few more lucrative games out there at the moment, particularly on the Gamesnets which is the only machine where I would bother with FFQ, so I don't feel the need to try to 'force' this one.
1) Pinched a JP yesterday by virtue of goal difference (3 better than the red devils)
2) Played 3 today, 2 GNs, 1 Itbox. Found the question sets really cranked up, lots of stuff i hadn't seen before. Checked out the highscore list and all three were unINCAed with the highest before my effort being 82!! I scrambled a lucky £5 third go and left shell shocked. Anyone else encountered possibly 50% new stuff on a game of this?
I never really played this one on the ItBox and, apart from a brief period when it first arrived on the Gamesnets, have always found it much harder than seems to be the case elsewhere. On any one game I fully expect to see 10 or so questions that are both new and very difficult:
- How many points did Torquay get in 2006/07?
- Which of these teams didn't finish 13th in 2006/07?
Some of the machines I see have been INCA-ed and some not but the pattern is always the same. I now have a look at the top score and if there's anything above 90 I don't even bother wasting 50p - there are richer pickings elsewhere.
The savage difficulty is part of the beauty though NS - I've played this with pretty decent quizzing friends who were astonished at the difficulty level. There's no better sense of SWP achievement than a decent score on FFQ in its normal mode!
(I bagged my second ever FFQ JP the other day: a 103 on a GamesNet. The next day I got two consecutive 95s on another GamesNet, so I definitely think the GN version is easier. Not played it on an Open yet. I'd also agree that the question set on the average ItBox is really pretty hardcore nowadays - I blame INCA.)
It it just me or has a whole new load of questions been uploaded to FFQ in the last week (on the ItBox at least). I thought I discerned it at the tail end of last week and again last night (it's been a quiet week for me on the SWPs front) - lots of things I didn't recognise and my scores were 7 or 8 points down on usual. Thoughts of those who play this game more regularly / better than I do are welcome.
What is the highest score anyone has ever made/seen, i.e. how close to the perfect 114? I finally managed to bag my first JP on this yesterday with a 101 where I might have got the last question for a 104 total - it was a 'Place the Face' where the grid was completing obscuring the person's face. The questions had been quite kind throughout so I knew I was on for a big score but I wondered if a perfect 114 had ever been achieved.
Nil Satis wrote:What is the highest score anyone has ever made/seen, i.e. how close to the perfect 114? I finally managed to bag my first JP on this yesterday with a 101 where I might have got the last question for a 104 total - it was a 'Place the Face' where the grid was completing obscuring the person's face. The questions had been quite kind throughout so I knew I was on for a big score but I wondered if a perfect 114 had ever been achieved.
The highest I've ever seen is PIKE's 110, which he posted about on here, and which I can vouch for the authenticity of. Despite his predominance in London I've never seen that score matched by INCA - best I've seen by INCA is, I think, 108 or 109 - I'd be fascinated to know whether anyone has seen an INCA 110 or above on their travels - on a probability basis I'd assume INCA must have achieved a 114, but if so, I haven't seen it. My personal best is 104, achieved in company, which was only good enough for a fiver: my two JPs (a feeble tally) were with 100 and 103.
Interestingly he seems something of a specialist - of the five games I would always look at as potential payers on an ItBox, three had been done (by him I presume) but two had been left untouched. The machine in question has only been back in commission for a few days after being signed as "Out of Order" for ages but it's in a location where it would have been quite a trek for him to get to if he is London-based and where there's not a lot else within easy reach. I would certainly have not left the two games in question in that pristine state (and didn't last night ) but I suppose it's just another illustration of the Horses for Courses principle.
but as you can see from my high 80's/low 90's scores I've only taken a few quid from them.
