Questions - and answer lists??

[anewman]

A simpler way would would be to duel down the ages with immortal type beings (taking care not to get your head cut off) until you are the only who remains. The 'Prize' for this is the ability to know everything, thus saving you countless hours of revision and meaning you have waged a 600 year battle so you can win a £5 off Deal or No Deal.

That's what the game makers would like you to think - my idea isn't to become king of the game and win a fiver off it no matter what, it would just be an aid to increase your chances of winning. Not suggesting die hard revision all the time - just a read through a list if interested If you only read 200 questions and at a critical point one you have read comes up and you happen to remember the answer because you read it that increases your chances of a fiver (or 10p) on deal or no deal

Just a little effort to increase your chances of winning - maybe. You can't know everything but then again neither can the machine.

[JustAnotherClone]

I like the idea but i have to agree with cool about itbeing a hard thing to do.

How many questions do you think the database holds? Im having a complete guess but i would say it's 5 figures? Even if it was 1000 Q's thats still a hell of a lot of questions.

[JustAnotherClone]

And as for putting it on a palm thing, maybe you could type a word in and it would come up with all the questions that have that word?

[cool]

I am intrigued as in which context it was being used and to who it made to - the Cardinal Richlieu quote.(HOPEFULLY NOT ME!)

[Cardinal Sin]

http://fruitchat.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=4813

Cardinal Richelieu - championing the cause of you little people since 1585 (from my Parisian palace)

[microhead]

ITBox Soccer would be do-able. I've already seen loads of repititions on not so strong subjects.

'Watford Legends' always seems to elude me and crop up once you start doing well.

In fact, I might start writing down every answer.....

vidmeister: you're from glasgow aren't you?

As "dmac" I have high scores in itbox soccer in nearly all the machines in all the wetherspoons in Glasgow Fancy a challenge??

PS Under my old ID I posted all the answers to Football Crazy. Like to think I was responsible for it getting removed but I doubt it

[Vidmar]

ITBox Soccer would be do-able. I've already seen loads of repititions on not so strong subjects.

'Watford Legends' always seems to elude me and crop up once you start doing well.

In fact, I might start writing down every answer.....

vidmeister: you're from glasgow aren't you?

As "dmac" I have high scores in itbox soccer in nearly all the machines in all the wetherspoons in Glasgow Fancy a challenge??

PS Under my old ID I posted all the answers to Football Crazy. Like to think I was responsible for it getting removed but I doubt it

Aye I'm in Glasgow.

I avoid 'Spoons pubs like the plague. I've seen about £12 go into the Sauchiehall St one with zero return.

Check out ITBox Soccer scores in Mojama S-Hall St and in Yates West Regent (?) St. I'm 'Vid' or 'RFC'.

[microhead]

I avoid 'Spoons pubs like the plague. I've seen about £12 go into the Sauchiehall St one with zero return.

I came across a Spoons by accident in Coatbridge last week and the itbox screen was so skewed you had to touch the top of the screen if you wanted to select something at the bottom - same for right and left etc. I put a quid in before I realised. Bullseye was at 101 - 2 games on it and didn't get close. Bet no-one's won on it for weeks.

[microhead]

A more efficient method - and less dangerous than using a computer - that worked well for Football Crazy was to remember mnemonics associated with each category. I created a database of these.

For example: EUROPEAN CUP FINAL CITIES

Mnemonic: R-A-N-S-L-A

What this means is if you get this category you type in

:: R if it's a 4-letter clue (because it must be Rome or Bari)

:: A if it's a 5-letter clue (milan, paris but not berne)

:: N if it's a 6-letter clue (Athens, London, Munich, Vienna, Lisbon)

:: S for 7: glasgow, seville

:: L for 8: belgrade, brussels, istanbul, salonika etc.

This category works reasonably well but there are obviously exceptions where some answers don't share common letters.

Also the 4-point questions often gave you 50-100 points because the programmers liked to think they were really hard. However they were very small categories because 4-letter surnames are uncommon.

e.g. Rangers 4-letter players tend to have B or O in them: boyd, prso, mols, klos, boli, berg, ball etc.

Most clubs have only had about 10 4-letter players over the last decade.

So I think something similar is possible on shitbox soccer. The problem is that this game doesn't have a maximum target like FC (500) did, so they can now scam you if they want.

On the plus side Itbox Soccer answers tend to have first AND last names, so once you have an idea of common first names you are at an advantage.


On all the other games, I guess most of us have an above average general knowledge, so I reckon you just have to rely on that and on drunkards filling up the machines for you.

My own tactic on Bully, Nuts etc. is to play until I win some (any) kind of prize then quit, because it's usually downhill from there on.

[shray1]

And as for putting it on a palm thing, maybe you could type a word in and it would come up with all the questions that have that word?

i don't own one of those palm held jobbies but i can see there being a bit of a problem with trying to use one to obtain an answer from a database :-

1) like keys for fruits, legal as they may be, landlords will take an instant dislike if they catch you using it to make profits off their mc's.

2) by the time you've gone through x amount of categories to find the correct answer, the timer will have run down and you're more than likely looking at the menu screen again !

[ZAX]

Microhead

Just wanted to say thanks for the list you posted here under your other name a while back. Came in very handy

Noticed the new itbox world cup soccer quiz still has quite a few of your old categories eg Pele's top 100 etc. Have you been playing? how are you doing on it? Ive found it the same as most of them these days- either stupidly easy or stupidly difficult depending on who's gone before...

[Drpepper]

Surely though, if you're stood at a quiz machine in a pub with a palmtop getting all the answers, correct and raping the machine; it won't be long till you're ejected from the pub with the palmtop firmly implanted up your rear end.

[ZAX]

Dunno

I stood there with my mates and microheads lists to hand and nobody said a thing. Depends where the machine is situated I suppose.

[Hangmanfan]

http://www.an1.co.uk/qa/index.php/ITBox_Soccer

added some.

Because ITBox Soccer isn't questions and answers, it's easy to compile a list of correct "answers". Even if people just add a few that they remember it'll soon build up, and a good copy n paste job on Word with the writing small enough will (i'm fantasising..) leave you with a concise-but-comprehensive list that you can hold in front of you in the pub without arousing too much suspicion.....

The game's pretty easy anyway as long as you're a football fan; the list would help with that 1 in every 5 that you don't know.

[QuizMaster]

I see this project is going well.

Based on current numbers, We should have access to the Deal or No Deal question sets by the summer of 2050, if you'd like to mention that to your kids in your wills.

Millionaires likely to take until 22nd Century I'm afraid.