ATTENTION INDUSTRY PEOPLE! Stop the cheats..

harry2 · Post by **harry2** » Thu Apr 25, 2013 12:25 am

£400,000 for a turnip is a fair price !

BFK · Post by **BFK** » Thu Apr 25, 2013 5:46 am

Is that Will?

paragoon · Post by **paragoon** » Thu Apr 25, 2013 9:52 am

I love the idea of people 'rinsing' JPs from a quiz machine nowadays LOL.
I 'rinsed' a machine yesterday for 4 quid and HOPPER ERROR appeared on the screen.

logopolis · Post by **logopolis** » Thu Apr 25, 2013 2:12 pm

Well done on revealing good little long lasting earners!

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 1:28 am

Just to provoke a bit:

Some phones use auto complete in google to the extent that it runs a search during you typing the query..

So you might not need to type and wait as long as you would have thought to get a result..

David Healy · Post by **David Healy** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 2:53 am

On 1 v 100 tonight, I got asked something along the lines of......

"With the average mortgage rate in 1994 of 7.75% how much interest would you pay on a loan of £60,000?"

Good luck with a Google search for that one...............

In fact, I don't think the question stated how long the loan was for, so there is no correct answer without making an assumption.

Shortly afterwards I was playing Eggheads sudden death for £15. I knew the answer to the question was Angola - the three answers were Angola, Rwanda and Angola. Needless to say, I picked the wrong one, but Daphne did not. Grrrrrr.

David Healy · Post by **David Healy** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 2:56 am

David Healy wrote:On 1 v 100 tonight, I got asked something along the lines of......

"With the average mortgage rate in 1994 of 7.75% how much interest would you pay on a loan of £60,000?"

Good luck with a Google search for that one...............

In fact, I don't think the question stated how long the loan was for, so there is no correct answer without making an assumption.

I think it might have said 25 years, now I've thought about it again.

cp999 · Post by **cp999** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 9:56 am

David Healy wrote:
Shortly afterwards I was playing Eggheads sudden death for £15. I knew the answer to the question was Angola - the three answers were Angola, Rwanda and Angola. Needless to say, I picked the wrong one, but Daphne did not. Grrrrrr.

The MPLA question, I assume?
Can't believe you found an Eggheads with £15 pot!

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 10:00 am

I've come across the situation where you get two answers the same before... Also when they are jibberish random letters...
I'm shite at quizzes though....

It doesn't happen all the time, so some games would be a bit easier with google...

harry2 · Post by **harry2** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 10:11 am

Million Pound Drop can easily be JP'd by Joe Public. Especially after about fiftylosing games. It becomes quite generous.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 5:33 pm

There's been at least one game in the past five years or so where the design of the game was such that use of a mobile to search for answers at key moments was possible. You had to pick your moment, though. Never a cert, though - many questions don't yield that easily to searching, and reception can break down if there's no Wifi.

paragoon · Post by **paragoon** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 9:35 pm

I saw two blokes in a boozer looking like they were setting up for a bit mobile fun. The game they chose was Eggheads. I never play that so no idea if it'd be worth it.

cp999 · Post by **cp999** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 11:06 pm

paragoon wrote:I saw two blokes in a boozer looking like they were setting up for a bit mobile fun. The game they chose was Eggheads. I never play that so no idea if it'd be worth it.

Lol. Either the pot's high, in which case you win it, or it's not. In which case, you play one game and maybe win it. Unless it's on £1, in which case you time out on q1.

@David Healy: if you were on the sudden death segment, doubly unlucky as you might have been approaching the green bit (experienced players will understand - though they can randomly go away).