Hex Maniac

cool · Post by **cool** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:21 pm

It was actually your mum.

Cf · Post by Cf » Wed Sep 30, 2009 4:20 pm

Istenem wrote:iirc you can find a WHIP in there too, as well as PMP's SECRET PORN STASH in the shed and hex appeal's CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO MAIN MENU in the chinese takeaway.

Sigh, and I thought I was sad for knowing these.

I do enjoy it though where in the first round you do bedroom and it gives you an empty 4 letter word. Being able to type in WHIP whilst giving the machine the finger always feels good

logopolis · Post by **logopolis** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 1:19 am

I had CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO MAIN MENU on the Chinese Takeaway category today. Straight away I knew what it was from reading on here. Could this be some kind of hint to unlock a cheat?

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 12:42 pm

Nope - from my very limited amount of insider knowledge I can confirm this was a human error, the technical term for which is I believe "a balls-up".

WaterGate · Post by **WaterGate** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:36 am

perhaps the answer is on twitter?

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 4:38 pm

LOL.

Hangmanfan · Post by **Hangmanfan** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:52 am

Well, I'm not a hardened quizzer, nor am I much cop, but along with a mate who is a fan of Stephen King and Terry Pratchett, we managed to play on Hex Maniac for a good hour last night on the same pound coin. £1 win, lose, £2 win, lose, lose, lose, £1 win, lose, £2 win... you get the idea.

Things In The Bedroom: BEDBUGS. I kid you not.

It appears to me that learning every Formula 1 team should be doable for little effort and time consumption. I was gubbed by several teams I'd never heard of before. Can't be that many?

dmac · Post by **dmac** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 2:46 pm

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 3:06 pm

Hangmanfan wrote:Well, I'm not a hardened quizzer, nor am I much cop, but along with a mate who is a fan of Stephen King and Terry Pratchett, we managed to play on Hex Maniac for a good hour last night on the same pound coin. £1 win, lose, £2 win, lose, lose, lose, £1 win, lose, £2 win... you get the idea.

Things In The Bedroom: BEDBUGS. I kid you not.

It appears to me that learning every Formula 1 team should be doable for little effort and time consumption. I was gubbed by several teams I'd never heard of before. Can't be that many?

I don't play Hex, but Formula One teams is a surprisingly large category. Particularly before the mid-1990s, there were a lot of very average teams competing, none of whom are easily memorable now - from memory in the late 80s there were something like 20 teams and some teams had to pre-qualify (i.e. qualify to get into qualifying). There's a question on Caesar's Palace about "which of these was a Formula One team" and they are in the main pretty tough. If you're interested in learning them, Wikipedia has very extensive stuff on Formula One, which may help.

fotherz · Post by **fotherz** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:16 pm

I looked into this once and there were lots of old team names made up of initials:

AFM
AGS
ATS
BAR
BRM
BRP
EMW
ENB
ERA
Fry
HWM
JBW
LDS
LEC
RAM

So yes, not very memorable.

(Also similar numbers of four- five- and six-letter answers.)

logopolis · Post by **logopolis** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:39 pm

Rial, Coloni, Wolf, Zakspeed, Osella, March, Leyton House, Toleman, Lola, Minardi, Tyrell, Pacific.

All these teams I have seen in the game.

The other day, I got £4 on £1 stake. Then played on 50p and the £1 was 3 away. Interesting!!

Mr McStreak · Post by **Mr McStreak** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 12:42 am

Things in the bathroom....Vagisil

Things in the bedroom...... KY jelly

Raised both a chuckle, and eyebrows.

explayer · Post by **explayer** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:18 pm

This game played like Bullseye for a while on £1 play i.e £1 in £2 out , repeat a few times until it blocks you , nothing exciting but £4 or £5 profit for not much work , however recently it has it's equivalent of a 701 or 801 target , nothing to gain in the way of a bonus or prize for 10 puzzles or more - its unusual to have a prize in sight now , thats for sure - the format means that it is possible to work out the answer even if you have never heard of it , although some of the answers are dodgy of course - for instance , hobbies = ' telling stories ' , ffs!

explayer · Post by **explayer** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:20 pm

In the rules it says " the more puzzles you solve the more you win " ! , hmmmm , haha

Hangmanfan · Post by **Hangmanfan** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:50 am

Thanks for the replies. I've stumbled upon the required list.

Current: BMW Sauber, Brawn GP, Ferrari, Force India, McLaren, Red Bull, Renault, Toro Rosso, Toyota, Williams.

Defunct ones: AFM (Alex von Falkenhausen Motorenbau)
AGS (Automobiles Gonfaronnaises Sportives)
Alfa Romeo
1979-1985
Alta
Amon
Andrea Moda
Apollon
Arrows a
Arzani-Volpini
Aston Butterworth
Aston Martin
ATS (Automobili Turismo e Sport)
ATS (Auto Technisches Spezialzubehör)
BAR (British American Racing) b
Behra-Porsche
Bellasi
Benetton c
Boro
Brabham
BRM (British Racing Motors)
BRP (British Racing Partnership)
Bugatti
Cisitalia
Coloni d
Connaught
Connew
Cooper
Dallara
Derrington-Francis
De Klerk
De Tomaso
Eagle (Anglo American Racers)
Eifelland
Emeryson
EMW (Eisenacher Motorenwerk)
ENB (Ecurie Nationale Belge)
Ensign
ERA (English Racing Automobiles)
EuroBrun
Ferguson
FIRST
Fittipaldi (Copersucar)
Fondmetal
Forti
Frank Williams Racing Cars e
Frazer-Nash
Fry
Gilby
Gordini
Greifzu
Hesketh
Hill
Honda
2006-2008
HWM (Hersham and Walton Motors)
Jaguar f
JBW
Jordan g
Kauhsen
Klenk
Kojima
Kurtis h
Lambo (Modena Team)
Lancia
Larrousse
LDS
LEC
Leyton House i
Life
Ligier j
Lola k
Lotus
Lyncar
Maki
March l
Martini
Maserati
Matra
McGuire
Mercedes-Benz
Merzario
Midland m
Milano
Minardi n
Monteverdi o
Onyx p
OSCA (Officine Specializate Costruzione Automobili)
Osella q
Pacific
Parnelli
Penske
Porsche
Prost r
RAM
RE
Rebaque
Rial
Sauber s
Scarab
Scirocco
Shadow
Shannon
Simca-Gordini
Simtek
Spirit
Spyker t
Stebro
Stewart u
Super Aguri
Surtees
Talbot-Lago
Tec-Mec
Tecno
Theodore
Token
Toleman v
Trojan
Tyrrell w
Vanwall
Venturi
Veritas
Wolf x
Zakspeed

Maybe not as easy as I'd hoped!