SWP player breaking cover
Can any one of u guys remember the name of a quizzer that they use to have in my pub?
Was a standalone unit.
Had multicolour squares highlighting the different category's and was 3 rows deep. U could tell if there was value in it by the size of the scaled down version of all the coloured squares that sat at the top of the screen. The shorter it was, the more ready it was? Was £10 jackpot I think. Must of had a very small bank of questions as even I mastered it and had numerous jackpots.
Anyone remember???? Think of the machine I'm on about?
Was a standalone unit.
Had multicolour squares highlighting the different category's and was 3 rows deep. U could tell if there was value in it by the size of the scaled down version of all the coloured squares that sat at the top of the screen. The shorter it was, the more ready it was? Was £10 jackpot I think. Must of had a very small bank of questions as even I mastered it and had numerous jackpots.
Anyone remember???? Think of the machine I'm on about?
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It isnt relevant really how many questions a game has anymore.What is pertinent is how the machine can protect itself from pro's either by offering reduced amounts after wins or using blocking questions that either to be fair but fiendishly hard or questions that are very hard to learn being extremely tedious/hard to research/innacurate or similar to many other questions so that it is easy to get confused between questions and the answers.The flaw with COM was the jackpot or at least small amounts that could accrue into a decent amount was always potentially available.The guy in question as far as I can ascertain by my contacts had very limited experience of quiz machines and therefore had one major advantage over the players like me namely he was not bored shitless by the speed of the game and the banality of the questions.He was very singleminded and did not play a broad spectrum of games.
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Agreed about the singleminded aspect, not about the bored shitless bit. I did talk to him for about an hour second time I bumped into him, and even on the first time where we didn't really get on very smoothly a certain level of dissatisfaction with the process did come across. I've done a lot of thinking over the last few days about what was said in our conversations and I think he does feel he should do something "better" with his life, that it's a waste of his brain, that there's no job satisfaction etc, all the things the naysayers would come out with. In practice whether it will be that easy for him to find something else which solves the above problems I don't know. If the media barrage is an perverse attempt to find something more stimulating (which I hope it is), then good luck to him, though I could live without what really isn't a particularly interesting or unique story being given airtime. If it's ego-driven, oh dear oh dear. I have a different attitude to what I perceive his to be - that the money and lifestyle I've accrued from machine playing has given me the opportunity to do things I probably couldn't do if I'd spent my life in a conventional work structure; thus the ability to do these things constitutes job satisfaction, and the boredom merely a means to an end. Oddly, both views might be right.cool wrote:The guy in question as far as I can ascertain by my contacts had very limited experience of quiz machines and therefore had one major advantage over the players like me namely he was not bored shitless by the speed of the game and the banality of the questions.He was very singleminded and did not play a broad spectrum of games.
I LOVED Every Second Counts! Oh my. To be transported back right now!!Topical2009 wrote:That sounds like Inquizitor, one of the early classics. I loved that game almost as much as I loved Every Second Counts (which was a lot)...62 seconds on the clock, 49 triangles to clear.
I hit my first Jackpot during a night out to celebrate my boyfriend's 22nd birthday! He, my husband now, turned 47 yesterday! I also remember the King's Cross fire later that week....
Enjoying the nostalgia here immensely. Cheers All.
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His disillusionment with his current vocation is similar to mine. He went after a BFG question bank which only really existed in quantity on COM, apart from the odd Wacky Races/QI rubbish but let's face it, if it's not on a Paragon you're screwed for locations so he had COM probably all to himself. Paragon's security systems are not locking him out because he is only taking the money that is available to win i.e £20 per machine because there is no competititon from the hardcore pros. This is why I latched onto Pub Quiz years ago, to avoid competition with guys who were chasing BTL, BAM, MOTD etc. Clever pros target the GW question bank but end up in a bigger pond, hence the recent game design changes to BAM etc. It's a clear indication that they know that you're there, otherwise why else change it?
He's a one bank guy. If GW pull that game, he's fucked and he knows it and he can't be arsed putting in the hours because he's met cp999, who is the absolute GW question bank king. Suri's a fucking amateur by comparison.
He's a one bank guy. If GW pull that game, he's fucked and he knows it and he can't be arsed putting in the hours because he's met cp999, who is the absolute GW question bank king. Suri's a fucking amateur by comparison.
Stupid punters. Telly all the week, screw the wife Saturday
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I don't know, there's still room for improvement. I know someone who was better at the original Super Gold Run bank than I am on GWs; superior format too.
Anyone want to own up? May or June 2011, pub on Edinburgh's Royal Mile. English player came in with a friend (driver?) who ordered a half and a coke. Player stood behind me, watched me fixedly on YHW (a much better game than BAM, incidentally - £20, 50p, lose trail) for about 2 mins whilst I went from 30 odd questions into the last 10, went back to his friend and said "we're leaving" or words to that effect. Whole scene didn't last more than 3 mins and it could not have been more obvious as to what was happening. I'm almost certain I've seen the guy in question before as well.
Anyone want to own up? May or June 2011, pub on Edinburgh's Royal Mile. English player came in with a friend (driver?) who ordered a half and a coke. Player stood behind me, watched me fixedly on YHW (a much better game than BAM, incidentally - £20, 50p, lose trail) for about 2 mins whilst I went from 30 odd questions into the last 10, went back to his friend and said "we're leaving" or words to that effect. Whole scene didn't last more than 3 mins and it could not have been more obvious as to what was happening. I'm almost certain I've seen the guy in question before as well.
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