Quiz machine bugs

Vidmar · Post by **Vidmar** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:54 pm

On DOND:

"Generally, what does the abbreviation 'FTP' stand for?"

I couldn't see the correct answer...

rogerthymes · Post by **rogerthymes** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 11:29 pm

Nil Satis wrote:Another gem from Jiggy Bank - Sir Francis Drake set sail in 1577 in ... the Cutty Sark.

I've had that question so many times I just presumed it was true though I thought it a bit odd at first!
Gotta love the jiggy bank though - firstly for the occasional £24 (five times now I think) and secondly as people are always coming up to me and asking 'what game is that?!' as it squeaks away under my digitary manipulation...

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 2:11 pm

I had a particularly nasty one yesterday on Jiggy Bank which, for all its good points, does have an alarmingly large set of wrong answers. I had battled to one question away from a tricky target, with one Try Again left, and although I probably wouldn't have been on for two really worthwhile picks it would have at least felt more of an achievement than an easy 2000-ish target. The question to reach the target was:

Q. Which of these pop stars is the oldest?

A. Suzanne Vega
B. Sting
C. Simon Le Bon

I went for Sting which I thought must be the right answer, but that was wrong so went for Suzanne Vega and that was wrong as well. Although Suzanne Vega (born 1959) is in fact the youngest, apparently Simon Le Bon (born 195

is older than Sting (born 1951).

If ItBoxes had necks I would have happily wrung its little neck at that point...

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 2:25 pm

Is the Ostrich really the second fastest animal? I thought not which cost me £48 at lunchtime.

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 2:57 pm

Ouch!!! £48? Dare I ask on which game / terminal?

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 2:58 pm

Northern Monkey wrote:Is the Ostrich really the second fastest animal?

this was in the Times the other day (they have started doing top tens which are quite handy.) but it wasn't ostrich.

i'm fairly confident that after the cheetah is thompson's gazelle. iirc.

either way that is an inopportune time for misinformation, hard lines.

Properpro · Post by **Properpro** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:52 pm

Northern Monkey wrote:Is the Ostrich really the second fastest animal? I thought not which cost me £48 at lunchtime.

I'm bemused, what single game cost you that much money? (I want to play it!)

dmac · Post by **dmac** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 4:43 am

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:46 am

dmac wrote:trying to double up after winning £24 on the 50p jiggy?

if so i'm impressed

Was £1 jiggy - did I err in going for the double then (not withstanding the fact that I got the last Q 'wrong') ?

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 8:00 am

On the subject of another bug I am 75% sure that the double money bully double I played last night seemed to nick an extra £1 or two off me. Has this been 'over-chipped' to compensate for the original version so that it now robs you blind rather than gives you an extra bonus sum.

Can't remember the exact maths but it was something like I started with £4 in the bank, got £4 on the board; gambled for another £4 and ended up with £8? Surely should have been £10?

Anyone else seen this (it was a gameswarehouse which replaced an itbox in a slug) just yesterday afternoon- fortunately not the same itbox as the subject of my previous post which I had to leave 'buzzed up' to go to a meeting.

dmac · Post by **dmac** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 8:09 am

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 12:06 pm

Northern Monkey wrote:Was £1 jiggy - did I err in going for the double then (not withstanding the fact that I got the last Q 'wrong')?

Not really - it's a fair gamble in that the three questions aren't usually out and out stinkers (unlike say the 'Get Out Of Jail' True/Falses on Monopoly). It's always a personal choice of course but I would normally gamble unless the total offered was over say £30, which is a decent enough prize anyway.

Northern Monkey wrote:Anyone else seen this (it was a gameswarehouse which replaced an itbox in a slug)

If by gameswarehouse you mean a Paragon Pro then welcome to the wonderful world of Paragons:

- 80% is dross

- the 20% that are decent games are coded to play worse than on other cabinets (Caesar's Palace, Deal Or No Deal, Trivia for Dummies etc)

- a special bonus offer of bugs: (i) the 'collecting too quick meaning you lose it all' bug (ii) one or possibly two minor bugs on Deal Or No Deal (wins of less than £1 being lost, another separate one where I think it takes £1 off your winnings) (iii) a Bullseye bug which you may have uncovered

I tell you - if those things are the future we are all DOOMED...

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 12:18 pm

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It's always a personal choice of course but I would normally gamble unless the total offered was over say £30, which is a decent enough prize anyway.
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Aye and once you go over £25 the risk reward changes as no longer doubling up.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 12:25 pm

Precisely. I have had totals very close to both JPs (£25 and £50) and then it is a no-brainer to decide not to go for the gamble.

I have also just had one instance of the initial total actually being over the JP, i.e. £52 from three picks on the £1 game, when obviously I wasn't offered the gamble at all. It did technically do me out of that extra £2 I suppose but I didn't feel like complaining too hard!

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 1:02 pm

Have to admit I've (successfully) gambled a £32 to JP on the £1 Jiggy game, which was greedy of me.