Fury

lost in the north · Post by **lost in the north** » Thu May 24, 2007 1:00 pm

Was playing Tetris the other day when the following question came up.

"Which of the following is the odd one out?"

The question gave only two answer choices both with different meanings.

How is that a question????

Surely for odd one out you need more than two answers!

dangerous · Post by **dangerous** » Thu May 24, 2007 1:14 pm

don't call me shirley. yes that one one out malarkey is crap and pretty common it seems these days

Drpepper · Post by **Drpepper** » Thu May 24, 2007 2:07 pm

Hahahahaha. reminds me of when i played crazy money and there were just no answers or questions. Just pick a box, any box... not that one... or that one, game over.

JamieKiernan · Post by **JamieKiernan** » Thu May 24, 2007 4:00 pm

Cherrycoke. wrote:Hahahahaha. reminds me of when i played crazy money and there were just no answers or questions. Just pick a box, any box... not that one... or that one, game over.

And whats with 3 options, yet two of the answers are the same? You select 1 of those very options and it turns out to be the other one.

Wrong.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Thu May 24, 2007 4:08 pm

The first one's a programming flaw on games which can offer a variable number of wrong options for a question - Tetris is an example; others include Bullseye or modern Battleships. I suspect rather than writing one set of "one wrong answer" questions, one set of "two wrong answer" questions, and so on, the games have one big set of "three wrong answer" questions and merely get rid of one or more wrong answers when the game wishes to make things easier. That doesn't work on odd one out questions, which is something they've thus far failed to appreciate. You just have to hope you've seen the question previously with more wrong answers, and that you've managed to remember the answer from that previous occasion!

Generally when a machine gives two identical answers to a question, I find the third different answer is pretty often the right one i.e. you don't need to concern yourself about the identical answers. If it's a question I don't know, on that basis I'll always guess the third different answer.

theoak · Post by **theoak** » Thu May 24, 2007 4:16 pm

I think he was saying when one of the DUPLICATES is the right answer. EVen I have seen this before and play the quiz machines about twice a year! (unless its spot the difference!)

JamieKiernan · Post by **JamieKiernan** » Thu May 24, 2007 4:34 pm

theoak wrote:I think he was saying when one of the DUPLICATES is the right answer. EVen I have seen this before and play the quiz machines about twice a year! (unless its spot the difference!)

Spot on.

Apart from it wasn't on Spot the Difference,

2 duplicate answer, no spelling errors, yet the first one pressed is the wrong answer, select the other duplicate and away you go.

Plain wrong.

SWP · Post by **SWP** » Thu May 24, 2007 5:18 pm

Boycott the offending games.

Hand leafets out to players with snippets from the forum explaining the flaws and which games have them (or leave them next to machines).

Spread the word.

pokerpete · Post by **pokerpete** » Thu May 24, 2007 5:22 pm

or you could contact the game design house. It's clearly a fault missed in game testing and they can easily put it right.

they might even show their appreciation.

leaflet campagn

get a grip

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Thu May 24, 2007 5:25 pm

Lobby your MP.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Thu May 24, 2007 5:27 pm

i wrote to mcdonalds telling them that they had misspelled rashers as in bacon on all their literature once.

they sent me a voucher for a free big mac meal. yum-yum!

they are still spelling it wrong on their new literature.

SWP · Post by **SWP** » Thu May 24, 2007 5:37 pm

or you could contact the game design house. It's clearly a fault missed in game testing and they can easily put it right.

they might even show their appreciation.

We know 'they' check the forums so are aware of these issues but can't be bothered to do anything about it - never mind show appreciation.

leaflet campagn get a grip

I did get a grip and decided putting stickers on the machines was a bad idea.

Lobby your MP.

Good idea, write to yor local newspaper as well.

I'm sure the AWP boys wouldn't hang around if every now and then one of the reels didn't spin or hold when it was supposed to. These 'flaws' are just as bad.

cool · Post by **cool** » Fri May 25, 2007 9:16 am

age 11 I wrote to the Bartholomew map company that on their map they had wrongly designated The New Forest a National Park. I was annoying even then.

SWP · Post by **SWP** » Sat May 26, 2007 1:28 am

Can anyone list contact addresses for developers or question setters? If so I will take up the suggestion to contact and make them aware of the "flaws" mentioned in recent posts (not just this one).

Here's my starter for 10:
waynesmith@billyquiz.com http://www.billyquiz.com

pokerpete · Post by **pokerpete** » Sat May 26, 2007 2:28 pm

I would think you're better off going to developers.
they'll be able to edit them.

seriously, write to these companies and tell them what you do and don't like. it can't hurt