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UP. Put the words up and I'll guess the songs.
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sue denim wrote:anyway never mind about my pseudonyms, what is that song?

That "Old Black Magic" is also in there.
I think that completes the suite of sounds.....
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Sounds regardless, there still seems to be money in this, but I have noticed of late that it needs a bit more expertise than was previously required. The first couple of weeks annoyed the fuck out of me because to be honest it seemed all you had to do was turn up to win. Lately I've noticed a distinct advantage for people who are basically me.

Harcore players and long term posters on here will understand why.

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QuizMaster wrote: Lately I've noticed a distinct advantage for people who are basically me.

I think I'm in love!!!!!
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QuizMaster wrote:Sounds regardless, there still seems to be money in this, but I have noticed of late that it needs a bit more expertise than was previously required. The first couple of weeks annoyed the fuck out of me because to be honest it seemed all you had to do was turn up to win. Lately I've noticed a distinct advantage for people who are basically me.

Harcore players and long term posters on here will understand why.

QM
I should have trusted you lot in the first place. Now I've finally learnt about the wind and how to hit the darn thing the money has fell in my lap. No doubt they'll bin it for the Xmas edition though...
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Post by wires74 »

definitrly been tightened up in my opinion
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Post by cool »

not tightened up people winning!
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cool wrote:not tightened up people winning!
This game has provided a real 'bun fight' but I suspect it has all been about finding 'virgin' machines.
Bumped into some local pros who were trying to go back over their routes for a second time and reported slim pickings. I suggested they should widen their area of search, they sneered at me and indicated that "men of their ability would always get the money if it was there".
I said if that was their view they should get real and realise their limitations, learn the bank or just accept it all as a 'seven day wonder'.
Anybody have an opinion on this?
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I suspect a lot of 54 has been about finding virgin machines. I was going great guns early doors, and managed to do about half the city of London and good parts of north central London, but I've been too busy at work to build on that these last few weeks. I've tried the re-visiting strategy and it was very much nothing doing apart from getting three questions to a TIOLI jackpot on a 'no lives' play.

I'd say to make any kind of living at the machines one would surely have to have quite a large circuit of sites. I'd be disinclined to visit much more regularly than once every couple of months. As it is, though, through lack of time I visit the same old sites again and again. That doesn't pay much but it is great practice for when I occasionally get to visit a new site.
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6 months between pub visits. Going back any sooner can be sometimes beneficial but is generally fruitless in the long run.

It's no good winning all the money - you've got to let the munters have some too so they'll keep playing.




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QuizMaster wrote:6 months between pub visits. Going back any sooner can be sometimes beneficial but is generally fruitless in the long run.

It's no good winning all the money - you've got to let the munters have some too so they'll keep playing.




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Doesn't make sense if the issues are changing every three months, surely?
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No - always worth re-visiting the circuit on a new issue, especially when it's a bonanza like 54, I'd say.
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Well yes there are the odd 'bunfight' exceptions which are 7 day wonders. Regular updates are confined onto itbox though - others can go months between updates.

It all depends upon how big your runs are I suppose.
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To contribute rather belatedly, I'd agree that HB has been tightened. Managed to find a virgin (or near-virgin) 54 today - the HB prizes were still starting from an achievable 1600 or so, but I noted that it started throwing in kipper questions from about the £3 or £4 mark, whereas when the game came out it waited until £10 or sometimes even near £15 before doing that. I'm not entirely surprised, because the original HB definitely had the look of being "too easy". On the plus side, this HB let me take £3 and then a £4, so my total of £7 was probably only £3 less than the par I might have expected from a virgin 54 on its initial release.
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Post by cool »

could the phenomena of games getting harder be partly in the mind ? ive never seen anybody posting that a game had been reprogrammed to make it easier!
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