Risk

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Thu May 08, 2008 11:54 am

Ah Risk and Aladdin. The only games which asked you endless spoilers and you could never get one wrong.

cp999 · Post by **cp999** » Thu May 08, 2008 12:15 pm

QuizMaster wrote:Ah Risk and Aladdin. The only games which asked you endless spoilers and you could never get one wrong.

I'm glad I never had to explain to any watching punter how it came to be that I was that good at mental arithmetic

(and if I'd explained it honestly, they wouldn't have believed me anyway.) Especially when the second stage letter spoiler questions (ie b-a>1, if you get my drift) took an answer which was wrong in any case, hehe.

wires74 · Post by **wires74** » Thu May 08, 2008 6:47 pm

risk and aladdins cave were very tasty but wasn't too keen on LONDON UNDERGROUND which followed shortly after !

Properpro · Post by **Properpro** » Thu May 08, 2008 9:01 pm

wires74 wrote:risk and aladdins cave were very tasty but wasn't too keen on LONDON UNDERGROUND which followed shortly after !

This game protected itself in a very interesting way. It was still good for a few bob though!!

K_Oranj · Post by **K_Oranj** » Thu May 08, 2008 9:46 pm

cp999 wrote:Especially when the second stage letter spoiler questions (ie b-a>1, if you get my drift) took an answer which was wrong in any case, hehe.

A similar 'wrong-but-recognised-as-right' malarkey on original Millionaire spoilers (one of the ESC variants iirc). A bit more tricky though as the database still had to be learnt. I wonder if this was deliberately mal-coded so as to have provided an advantage to a few insider coder-players? Would have been a pretty minimal advantage though (not to mention more than a bit naughty also), and with that I think I may have answered my own question, so to speak. More likely that it was just an incorrect answer ordination on this particular spoiler type.

Regarding London Underground: Is my recollection of this game saying stuff like "Who is this guy?" correct?

cp999 · Post by **cp999** » Thu May 08, 2008 11:50 pm

K_Oranj wrote:
cp999 wrote:Especially when the second stage letter spoiler questions (ie b-a>1, if you get my drift) took an answer which was wrong in any case, hehe.
A similar 'wrong-but-recognised-as-right' malarkey on original Millionaire spoilers (one of the ESC variants iirc). A bit more tricky though as the database still had to be learnt.

It didn't need to be learnt at all

and perhaps I should have been more exact and stated that the answer was arithmetically wrong..

cp999 · Post by **cp999** » Thu May 08, 2008 11:53 pm

Properpro wrote:
wires74 wrote:risk and aladdins cave were very tasty but wasn't too keen on LONDON UNDERGROUND which followed shortly after !
This game protected itself in a very interesting way. It was still good for a few bob though!!

There was an especially curious (and profitable) bug in the installation of Underground on GamesNet (which only occurred at the point where it was trying to protect itself).

K_Oranj · Post by **K_Oranj** » Fri May 09, 2008 1:27 am

cp999 wrote:It didn't need to be learnt at all and perhaps I should have been more exact and stated that the answer was arithmetically wrong..

Maybe crossed wires here regarding AC/Risk and Millionaire easter eggs. Agreed, the arithmetic answers, which on Millionaire concerned the number of years before/after box office earning actors/actresses, required no Db knowledge. But variants such as 'Who was top box office earner X years after so-and-so on' did (to some extent anyway). Please don't tell me it was always answer C !!

The malcoding was for the least recent ESC winner questions. Or perhaps it was a case of malwriting and they were meant to read 'second least recently'?! Hmm... fact up either way.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Fri May 09, 2008 9:55 am

If anyone's willing to explain any of these tricks to a youngster, I'd be fascinated! Started playing c. 1996 and played the Maygay stand-alones a lot - but sadly never trigged any of the strategies to which people seem to be alluding! (Someone's tried to explain the Risk trick to me before, but I was too dim to understand.)

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Fri May 09, 2008 12:28 pm

I'm with you on this one. If any proof were needed that I have no inside knowledge of the industry it is that I haven't got a clue what any of the things being referred to here are...

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donttellhimpike · Post by **donttellhimpike** » Thu May 15, 2008 7:53 pm

Risk does seem to be making a comeback on recent IND:E configurations and yes, i had another chance at a £40 yesterday!!

At least this time it was a long way in the distance when i went belly up!!

Pikeletssssssss

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Fri May 16, 2008 3:24 pm

yep i have seen risk and previously wouldnt have bothered but on a pleasant foray "up west" at the start of the week found it quite generous. However isnt the advertised JP only £20?? (Although not sure about this)

Also found an unmolested scrabble in Mayfair together with a virgin Helles Belles and unplayed double money Bully

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Fri May 16, 2008 3:36 pm

Some strange old 'tut' turning up lately, as siralan would say. Big fan of new Risk and old alike. Gotta love the finite games, even if they look like a mountain, they are the fairest to player.