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grecian · Post by **grecian** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 10:42 pm

Looks like there's been a bit of variety on what's made it onto the new version ItBoxes.

Are the questions on the new Fantasy Football Quiz football questions or GK?

foxy · Post by **foxy** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:55 am

keeping it concise, half and half.
read elsewhere for payout possibility!!

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:25 pm

dmac07 wrote:I thought Word Up on the Itbox always used the bigger dictionary? I've only been playing it properly for a month but any time I've played on a non-Itbox I haven't a hope in hell of making clearance. (Spent ages making QUANTILES on a Paragon? only for it to be rejected - what sort of dictionary is that?)

It also appeared to me that Word Soup does not inherit the scoreboard from Word Up.... it was an ANGIE pub in Glasgow so was surprised not to see any of his scores on it

There are far more knowledgeable people on here re Word (So)Up but as far I as understand it the larger dictionary was introduced for the Word Up Grand Masters tournament and this has been retained for the rebrand. The main difference is that you can go for words that you are pretty sure aren't valid only for them to be accepted.

I didn't mention this earlier but the main downside with Word Soup seems to be that it has been installed in 'empty' mode i.e. a new installation is set at circa 1600 for £1 with the theory presumably being that lots of play by amateurs will bring the targets down. Fat chance!

grecian wrote:Are the questions on the new Fantasy Football Quiz football questions or GK?

I believe that the 'home' questions are Football and the 'away' ones General Knowledge. The other variation from the norm is that you get 3 points for a right answer first time and 1 point for getting it right on your second attempt.

dangerous · Post by **dangerous** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:03 pm

As a shameless user of scrabble-esque 3 letter words I can report the Word Soup dictionary is slightly different to the Word Up GM dictionary. I know because it won't let me have QIS in Word Soup

dm · Post by dm » Tue Aug 28, 2007 3:39 pm

dangerous wrote:As a shameless user of scrabble-esque 3 letter words I can report the Word Soup dictionary is slightly different to the Word Up GM dictionary. I know because it won't let me have QIS in Word Soup

played again today and noticed while QAT is acceptable QATS is not.... I'm sure this wasn't the case in Grandmasters though I could be wrong

dm · Post by dm » Tue Aug 28, 2007 3:42 pm

Nil Satis wrote:

grecian wrote:Are the questions on the new Fantasy Football Quiz football questions or GK?
I believe that the 'home' questions are Football and the 'away' ones General Knowledge. The other variation from the norm is that you get 3 points for a right answer first time and 1 point for getting it right on your second attempt.

Had my first shot of this as well. Nice to see a bit of imagination going into games. I only managed 16 "games" before getting relegated, but I'm pretty average at Q&A games. The only other score on the scoreboard was from a guy who got through 36 games, which must have got him very close to the JP.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 4:34 pm

I answered all 38 questions on my first go and won ... £1. I didn't answer them all correctly but that was the point I was making - given how many points I was behind Man United (:roll

in first place I reckon I would have needed to get all but one or possibly two wrong and there were lots of stinkers in there to make this all but impossible. On subsequent goes I didn't manage to complete the season, at which point I recognised the game as the 374th waste of time to have come out in the last few years!

roberto la vigna · Post by **roberto la vigna** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:00 pm

dmac07 wrote: played again today and noticed while QAT is acceptable QATS is not.... I'm sure this wasn't the case in Grandmasters though I could be wrong

You're probably right - QATS is certainly good in Scrabble.

Haven't managed to see whether it takes 16 letter words yet.

fotherz · Post by **fotherz** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 6:13 pm

So Word Soup has ANOTHER new dictionary? How pointless.

Still, 1600 is very low so I guess that means we're in good times.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 7:28 pm

A local near work lacks Fantasy Football as well, and just has No Questions DOND, Celebrity Snap and Word Soup as "new" additions. At risk of sounding like Nil Satis ;-) , what absolute rubbish: one would have though ItBox could rustle up at least one quiz game on a new issue. As it is we have one gambling game (do they not need some sort of licence for trotting out this gambling cr*p in pubs?), one poor skill game and one rehash of an old game which will no doubt please Word Up fans as they garner a fresh £20 from every pub out there but is of no use to anyone else. The other odd thing is Every Loser Wins makes a dual appearance on front and back screen! Anyone got any theories on whether it's on there twice with separate prize pots? I couldn't tell.

roberto la vigna · Post by **roberto la vigna** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 10:05 pm

fotherz wrote:So Word Soup has ANOTHER new dictionary? How pointless.

Tis good idea - some Q-not-U words have gone, making clearing a little more difficult than on the last edition.

I'm guessing that both the name of the game and its dictionary has been changed to avoid copyright problems (and maybe to include 15+ words too).

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:46 am

as i'm sure is the case with Mr Bob, my clearing %age on WMUG was >80% whenever i played it. have only played soUP a couple of times but it seems very much to me like a crying shame that the wordlist (not dictionary) has been tweaked so minimally that deadheads are still allowed QAT

even if the plural has been struck from our language. any other non-words been culled? ZEX? AIA? an so on and so forth.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:57 am

[quote="grecian"]At risk of sounding like Nil Satis ]

Ahem ... surely this place has only room enough for one Grumpy Old Man!

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 1:14 pm

Much as I like to slag off Gamesnet, I think it's only fair to point out that these games are on itBox and not Gamesnet.

Gamesnet haven't been able to rustle up a decent quiz for over a year now.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:23 pm

QuizMaster wrote:Much as I like to slag off Gamesnet, I think it's only fair to point out that these games are on itBox and not Gamesnet.

Gamesnet haven't been able to rustle up a decent quiz for over a year now.

Cheers QM. I'm afraid slagging off GamesNet is so second nature that I referred to it rather than ItBox quite automatically. I've now edited the offending post.