What games have/haven't been jackpotted?
ZAX
I have hand on heart never Jackpotted any of the games on your list (apart from Cluedo but that only on the old version not the new crap version), or indeed many other games that are around today. Nobody is winning big on these games, I feel sure of that, as they simply aren't programmed to offer any decent rewards.
Most of them are based around a principle of offering £1 relatively easily and relatively regularly, in order to attract the punters, but try for anything more than that and you are basically whistling in the wind 95% of the time. However as I've said on here many times I think this is a false principle as either winning say £5 or £10, or even just seeing someone else doing it, is what will keep punters playing a game. The original Millionaire was brilliant for this - obviously it was tight for some time after it had just been Jackpotted but most of the time it was in a state where there was a reasonable chance that a gang of mates could win £2 to £5 (depending on where the guaranteed prize was). This not only meant they carried on playing Millionaire, it also gave them money to explore the other games that were available, either on a multi-game cabinet or on other standalones.
One day the games companies will realise how stupid they have been but I'm not holding my breath. Anyone that can put Crazy Golf 2 or Take It Or Leave It on the market, to pick two recent examples, is beyond help as far as I'm concerned!
I have hand on heart never Jackpotted any of the games on your list (apart from Cluedo but that only on the old version not the new crap version), or indeed many other games that are around today. Nobody is winning big on these games, I feel sure of that, as they simply aren't programmed to offer any decent rewards.
Most of them are based around a principle of offering £1 relatively easily and relatively regularly, in order to attract the punters, but try for anything more than that and you are basically whistling in the wind 95% of the time. However as I've said on here many times I think this is a false principle as either winning say £5 or £10, or even just seeing someone else doing it, is what will keep punters playing a game. The original Millionaire was brilliant for this - obviously it was tight for some time after it had just been Jackpotted but most of the time it was in a state where there was a reasonable chance that a gang of mates could win £2 to £5 (depending on where the guaranteed prize was). This not only meant they carried on playing Millionaire, it also gave them money to explore the other games that were available, either on a multi-game cabinet or on other standalones.
One day the games companies will realise how stupid they have been but I'm not holding my breath. Anyone that can put Crazy Golf 2 or Take It Or Leave It on the market, to pick two recent examples, is beyond help as far as I'm concerned!
-
QuizMaster
- Senior Member
- Posts: 1254
- Joined: Sat Apr 30, 2005 12:40 pm
-
Cardinal Sin
- Senior Member
- Posts: 4166
- Joined: Wed Jul 20, 2005 3:33 pm
I've only played a few of the games on the list, but Mouse Trap is easily jackpottable if some dunce has filled it up (and dunces do, since the questions are usually quite easy and the skill games a doddle). Added to the fact it's only a £10 jackpot and it is progressive, then I can't believe that you're all still reading this and not making haste to your nearest ItBox and fleecing MouseTrap for jackpot after jackpot.
-
Ernest W. Quality
- Senior Member
- Posts: 540
- Joined: Wed Jun 29, 2005 4:08 pm
- Location: Leedsish
- Contact:
-
Northern Monkey
- Senior Member
- Posts: 1554
- Joined: Wed Nov 29, 2006 9:06 am
Welll I got my first £20 JP on cluedo reloaded on the way home last night. It made me work for it though- had collected four rooms, the second of which was the correct one . By the fourth I had got weapon and suspect so it was just a case of getting back round the board to the conservatory. On the way round I eschewed the opportunity to take additional rooms as the fifth would have taken me up to a £5 which I figured would probably have been it.
Then lo and behold it rolls me back to the conservatory where to my dismay it threw out a nasty spoiler. One try again left so a 2 in 3 chance.
Deep breath and guessed it first time.
Then lo and behold it rolls me back to the conservatory where to my dismay it threw out a nasty spoiler. One try again left so a 2 in 3 chance.
Deep breath and guessed it first time.
-
Northern Monkey
- Senior Member
- Posts: 1554
- Joined: Wed Nov 29, 2006 9:06 am
