X Factor

Mattb · Post by **Mattb** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:08 pm

Anyone played this yet? Seemed very fair to me when i tried it last night!

Had 4 games and got £4 and £2. Basically ion round one you get asked to get a certain number of questions right (say 9/12). Get the right amount, and you get to the end game. All questions are a pick of three, and were fairly easy i thought. Only spoiler i got was one game asked for 11/12 to get to the end!

Final round asked for 5 more qs for a £1, then going up £1 for every right answer after. I thought it was ok, bar looking at simon cowell.

Thoughts?

ROSSKEEN · Post by **ROSSKEEN** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:29 pm

I thought this was ok at first, but its started to annoy me that sometimes its a battle to get to the end game (14/15 twice now) and even then you arent guarateed to win anything.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:13 pm

Something I spotted last night - it seems that you DO get to see the original questions again as your right and wrong answers are confirmed in the first part of the game. It probably goes too fast to be of much use in terms of learning wrong answers but the odd thing is that I'm sure that feature wasn't there when I played the game for the first time on Friday. Either I missed it or the game can be set up differently in each location. Can anyone confirm this?

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:24 pm

Nil Satis wrote:Something I spotted last night - it seems that you DO get to see the original questions again as your right and wrong answers are confirmed in the first part of the game. It probably goes too fast to be of much use in terms of learning wrong answers but the odd thing is that I'm sure that feature wasn't there when I played the game for the first time on Friday. Either I missed it or the game can be set up differently in each location. Can anyone confirm this?

In my experience it always runs through the right and wrong answers in showing your score, but without reminding you of the questions.

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:27 pm

It always shows you your right and wrong answers while cycling through the questions at the bottom. You have to be pretty quick, but you can work out which ones you got wrong.

ZAX · Post by **ZAX** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:28 pm

Played it now and hated it. Got to end game and mentalist spoilers ahoy. having said that I reckon itll be massive with the beered up punters, so I imagine its gonna go the way of DONDa

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:06 pm

QuizMaster wrote:It always shows you your right and wrong answers while cycling through the questions at the bottom. You have to be pretty quick, but you can work out which ones you got wrong.

What a muppet I am! All that whingeing about not being shown wrong answers and I totally missed the quickfire cycle! Anyway, I still don't like the game very much, and it seems to me to be a bit harder than it was last week i.e. it normally asks you less non-spoilers than the amount it requires to get through.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:44 pm

On my 'session' last night I think I qualified for the end game every time but equally every end game showed the same pattern - knowable questions right up to the £1 one and then spoilers all the way. I took a couple of £2s and gave up.

I just don't see how this one will become a decent payer given how it's set up - it's not just a case of 'learning' the spoilers (even given the amount you'd have to invest to do that anyway) - it is intrinsically much harder to learn questions like "In which year did some film you've never heard of get released?" with the answers being something like "1932, 1933 and 1934" every time.

Being shown the wrong answers on the first part doesn't really help either given how quickly it happens.

A final personal reason for disliking this one (or maybe it's not just me!) - I find the constantly changing pictures of Simon Cowell looking smug extremely annoying and almost have to ignore that part of the screen completely to be able to play the game.

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:53 pm

'It Happened One Night ' was released in 1934 if that's any help.....

rogerthymes · Post by **rogerthymes** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:41 am

Nil Satis wrote:
A final personal reason for disliking this one (or maybe it's not just me!) - I find the constantly changing pictures of Simon Cowell looking smug extremely annoying and almost have to ignore that part of the screen completely to be able to play the game.

I mentioned this before - Cowell smugly scorning you when you've 'only' got say 13 out of 15 when its unlikely such an ill-informed culture-killer as him would have got half that is a HUGE turn-off. I think normal punters won't go for it as its got nothing to do with the original program. DOND works cos its very similar to the tv prog.