Quiz machine bugs

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Mon May 25, 2009 2:20 pm

DOND: Which of these is a British tennis player? Tim Hemnan...

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Mon May 25, 2009 5:10 pm

As mentioned previously, Caesar's Palace is riddled with the easy-to-check (e.g. in which country would you find Faro? Answer: Poryugal).

Not so bad except when they give you spelling questions.

K_Oranj · Post by **K_Oranj** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:15 am

One bug-proper replaces another.

AYSTA - round 2 ladder time and it crashes returning to menu. Annoying. Despite having pointed it out in January, four months pass by and still the same thing was happening. Of course, sometimes nothing gets done.

Then recently this particluar itbox with said UDG (uniquely defective game) gets replaced by another itbox with, erm, another UDG.

On first sight: Yay AYSTA, should be fine now, and it was.

Next up DOND, and I'm greeted with an FQM (first question monstrosity) of infinite undelight. I can't remember it exactly

but it looked something like:

fksfth`|iek |!puesrAgnikcufAtahw}tlrlzq {skm,,,m,adcelebrWdla |}'Dalsal`ydammikKytostsSmmf|vx {Vlppwadld

The options were equally gobbledycock.

Thinking it to be a one-off mangled question, the second, third and fourth questions proved otherwise (that's all I managed to guess up to, with Zsa`exe being my favourite cryptanswer). Blumminwonderfulinnit.

At least the replacement bug theoretically allows the chance of a win - now where did I put that decryption key?

. Or could it be a special edition for the Poles?

kevin bacon

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:08 am

That looks like it's pulled through the question from it's bank without decrypting it. Heh-heh. Dan Brown, or No Dan Brown...

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:15 pm

I saw that one on the first day of playing a version 65 ItBox but luckily I haven't seen it repeated anywhere else.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:48 pm

Nil Satis wrote:I saw that one on the first day of playing a version 65 ItBox but luckily I haven't seen it repeated anywhere else.

I saw something similar on a Monopoly, also on day one of ItBox 65 - perhaps they were having a bad day.

cool · Post by **cool** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 12:31 am

weird-----played a caesars palace and asked me the number of swords--it was definately 5 -but no i was wrong and the machine said 6! and it kept on doing it to me, sometimes I was right other times 1 sword out.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 6:38 pm

cool wrote:weird-----played a caesars palace and asked me the number of swords--it was definately 5 -but no i was wrong and the machine said 6! and it kept on doing it to me, sometimes I was right other times 1 sword out.

Most odd - the minimum number of swords has hitherto been six so something doesn't sound right. Let's hope they haven't fu**ed around with it on the Paragon new issue.

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 7:59 pm

Hope it wasn't a tedious 'cheat' and there was a sword 'directly' under another?

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:34 am

came across the previously mentioned DOND for the first time on Friday. The one where it just asks the same questipon over and over again until you get to the end game.

tonkarentino · Post by **tonkarentino** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:47 am

Northern Monkey wrote:came across the previously mentioned DOND for the first time on Friday. The one where it just asks the same questipon over and over again until you get to the end game.

First came across it about a year ago. It's why the DOND on that particular console is permanently requiring a score of 70,000 + to qualify certainly in the North East....

dmac · Post by **dmac** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 4:59 pm

tonkarentino · Post by **tonkarentino** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:29 pm

dmac wrote:
tonkarentino wrote:
Northern Monkey wrote:came across the previously mentioned DOND for the first time on Friday. The one where it just asks the same questipon over and over again until you get to the end game.
First came across it about a year ago. It's why the DOND on that particular console is permanently requiring a score of 70,000 + to qualify certainly in the North East....
I think this is lazy programming rather than a bug. i.e. when the %age paid out is too low it just forces a win.

I've never played one where you get to a certain point and it doesn't happen.

tonkarentino · Post by **tonkarentino** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:30 pm

fotherz wrote:Would you be able to solve S-A-ER ?

Rare to see a mistake on PMP.

I've seen a few. My particular favourite is LINCON GREEN on the Robin Hood category.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 10:08 pm

tonkarentino wrote:
fotherz wrote:Would you be able to solve S-A-ER ?

Rare to see a mistake on PMP.
I've seen a few. My particular favourite is LINCON GREEN on the Robin Hood category.

also MOLNIBENDIUM as an element, how many times can they spell one word wrongly?