Fruit Machine Chat

Was Word Soup still missing Grecian?

I still remember my first jackpot – Word Search for £40, probably in 2000. I was so excited I rang my dad.

And just to post three times in a row: 2338 is my new best, with QUIZZICALITIES (sorry Istenem) and QUADRATIC helping out. Gave me a princely £4, which might have been more but for a visiting member of these boards CALLOUSLY QUEERING MY PITCH (and leaving a few bons mot on the high scores). Venue wa...

INFLEXIBILITIES scored me 69x points at the weekend. Was chuffed.

New best for me at lunch: 2270 at the Hoop and Grapes, South Kensington. NECROTIZING was the not particularly impressive best word.

Istenem: the Paragon has a Nintendo DS-style microphone sensor embedded within the screen. So to make the train move you just need to blow on the wheels.

Don't be put off if it doesn't work immediately. Just blow harder.

Played this for the first time last night – and jackpotted it. I'm tempted to quit with a perfect record.

After the initial version of Winning Lines, which I had great success on, a new version came out where the target score was regularly around 3,600-4,000 points. My best in what was probably a thousand efforts was 3,300. Dishonourable mention to when Scrabble started putting a 20p in each corner of t...

Anything has to be better than the standard ItBox 67 line-up, mind you - that really is utterly awful! :shock: I don't mind Going For Gold, or whatever it's called. Obviously it's no Family Fortunes, but I've had a win of about £8 on it. It still has the ability to restrict the number of gold/silve...

...ought to make a pilgrimage to the ItBox in the bowling alley in Bishop's Stortford. The absolutely bizarre line-up includes Cryptic Clues, Word Wobble, Word Blox, Word Wall and Text Tiles. Also featured are that rubbish Donkey Derby game of a year or two back, a slightly rejigged version of Alien...

I'd never have known, but somebody else on this forum sang like a canary. Beware Grecians bearing gifs (yes, I'm sure his avatar is a jpg, but I'm still pleased with my nerd joke).

Well I have the motive, having recently found a GGDR SUX (shakes fist in Istenem's direction) in Angel, but it wasn't me. I suspect the dirty fingerprints of VBob/Fotherz. Incidentally, there is a sight on the Word Soup at Zetland Arms, South Kensington that, if created by a player and not programme...

Thor and Gillham and co vanquished my team (Sheffield) in the semi-finals of 2003 UC. Not having watched the show, I can't put faces to the names, but at least one of them was exceedingly cretinous.

I'm still to see a Gamesnet with Bookworm, whereabouts was this? Word is diverting enough. Simon Says is so far past my skill level it's embarrassing. I was playing the new Take It Or Leave It the other day in the vain hope of finding some profit. Unbelievably, it still features the spoiler from the...

A Games Warehouse I used yesterday was completely empty when I went to collect, which sullied my Word Soup jackpot somewhat. The girl at the bar was inches away from handing over the money, until the manager rang her back and said I'd have to put in a claim. Which I don't particularly expect to hear...