Itbox cheats?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:12 am

unknownpseudonym wrote:take bets about how much money they'll make from brainteaser before the punters realise how unwinnable it is

Our scrabble expert is making £40/hr off brainteaser (when he manages to find machines).

I believe that games have separate banks too.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:33 am

vaginalbob wrote:
Our scrabble expert is making £40/hr off brainteaser (when he manages to find machines).

there are spoilers on brainteaser too.

I was on the cash pyramid the other day, only had 3 brain cells.

previous word was N I C E

- - - - E

so the answer could have been

W I N C E
M I N C E
S I N C E
etc.

Also had D - - - D earlier on

DREAD
DRIED
DICED
DATED ????
etc.

was DRUID as it happens but could have been anything.
When it wants to take money off you, it will.

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:11 am

VB wrote:Our scrabble expert is making £40/hr off brainteaser (when he manages to find machines).

Are you being serious? Up here, there is no shortage of Brainteasers about up here... the time is usually set to 60 seconds and not too difficult to attain. However, once you get to the final game, it flatly refuses to give you more than a pound win, no matter how many words you get. Even if you take the quid, the process is so laborious as to make it pointless.

Unless, of course, your friend has some specialist information!

fotherz · Post by **fotherz** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 10:56 am

calum wrote:there are spoilers on brainteaser too.

I was on the cash pyramid the other day, only had 3 brain cells.

previous word was N I C E

- - - - E

so the answer could have been

W I N C E
M I N C E
S I N C E
etc.

The answer was NIECE. NICE plus E.

If you dont understand how the game works, everything is a spoiler.

Mattb · Post by **Mattb** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 10:58 am

Yes, the trick with brainteaser is that you use the leters you already have, plus one new given letter to make a new word, as fotherz says.

It's actually an easy game to win off most of the time, but i've never got the damn cash to go past £1 :x This was getting up to 6 letters too, what a skank!

Matt

foxy · Post by **foxy** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 11:23 am

I'm very impressed that someone could be winning £40 an hour from this machine.Could someone tell me the prize increments after £2 because strangely enough I've never got past that amount.Doesn't the game put you on the prizeboard with,say,40secs and put the prizes so far apart that all the word skills in the world aren't going to be much help?
or am I just rather cynical?
as the cardinal says for that kind of money I would get a ryanair up to glasgow and make a fortune if I had that kind of ability.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:30 pm

foxy wrote:Could someone tell me the prize increments after £2 because strangely enough I've never got past that amount.Doesn't the game put you on the prizeboard with,say,40secs and put the prizes so far apart that all the word skills in the world aren't going to be much help?
or am I just rather cynical?

Neither the scrabble whiz nor I have got beyond £6 for an individual game. To get to this amount you usually have to motor through at least three pyramids.

His advantages are:
- very quick anagramming (of words jumbled up in a 'rack' type arrangement, rather than in a WU style). He will get 99% of anagrams within 3 seconds, however obscure or long they are (I'm not exaggerating). This means he can speed through multiple pyramids.
- nigh-on complete word knowledge. Brainteaser throws lots of abstruse 'Scrabble words' at you, especially if you're boning it, so knowing stuff like TYROSINE and EPACT helps (I've seen both on the game).

The thing about him is that his word knowledge and anagramming allows him to spank the game even if it has raised the difficulty level as, for him, 'difficult' words or anagrams are no trickier than 'easy' ones.

In conclusion, to be able to bust Brainteaser, you need to spend 10 years memorising the Scrabble dictionary and practising your anagrams until you can get stuff like STONIER+Y within 3 seconds.

Nokring · Post by **Nokring** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:21 pm

It box is just like AWP and has a set % to achive

if you win on one then the rest will suck.

the "bank" details and "%" details are all set per game but accounting records are stored for each game. this enables games with low income to be "dropped" and good games to stay on.

also a site can request any game they like on there Itbox
but they dont advertise the fact.

you should just take a look at an itbox HD to prove it one way or another.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 1:22 pm

Nokring wrote:It box is just like AWP and has a set % to achive

if you win on one then the rest will suck.

the "bank" details and "%" details are all set per game but accounting records are stored for each game. this enables games with low income to be "dropped" and good games to stay on.

also a site can request any game they like on there Itbox
but they dont advertise the fact.

you should just take a look at an itbox HD to prove it one way or another.

i'm not sure this is 100% accurate Nokring but you have a point.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 3:47 pm

Nokring wrote:It box is just like AWP and has a set % to achive

if you win on one then the rest will suck.

doubt it.

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 3:55 pm

fazzer wrote:
Nokring wrote:It box is just like AWP and has a set % to achive

if you win on one then the rest will suck.
doubt it.

Me too. Can't see the 20+ companies writing games for Itbox all cooperating over the same prize pot!

Nokring · Post by **Nokring** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:58 pm

trust in the voice of the enemy...........

Nokring · Post by **Nokring** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 8:05 pm

you are looking at it the wrong way around. you are thinking that game developers produce games for the ItBox and IBN host them on ItBox. This is not the case.

Most of the games were created BY the developer under instruction FROM ibn. the games are then purchased by IBN from the developer. stats are only used to decide which developers are used + game rotation

also they dont have to co-operate with each other over bank and % as games only call the information from a db. so all developers would just call the same db for % & pot information.

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 8:09 pm

Nokring wrote:you are looking at it the wrong way around. you are thinking that game developers produce games for the ItBox and IBN host them on ItBox. This is not the case.

You think? Fair enough, everyone is entitled to their guess! ]also they dont have to co-operate with each other over bank and % as games only call the information from a db. so all developers would just call the same db for % & pot information.[/quote]
Aaand how does this follow when the same games are found on Paragon, Ind:E, Gamesnet et al?

BigEd · Post by **BigEd** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:38 pm

Nokring wrote:stats are only used to decide which developers are used + game rotation

Game rotation? Sh*t Box? I don't think so.

Sh*t Box machines all have the same games on (obviously only if they are up to date). The same goes for Gamesnet machines.