Fruit Machine Chat

All change (for 2 games at least) on GamesNet machine in my local...

Take it or Leave it has now been renamed. Can't remember for the life of me what it's now called, but rest assured that the same impossible questions and the general feeling of being ripped off still remains.

However, step forward Take Your Pick, which has undergone a radical revamp... 10 true / false questions with 1 extra life.... slightly different approach... you get the question and you choose whether it's right or not, without seeing the other option. Not a bad idea really ... if you get the question right, you get to choose a pair of cash boxes, and pick the best one (again with only seeing one)... this all gets added to the final game CASHPOT! Just in case you're in danger of getting the spoilers right, you can also get shafted for turning down one box and getting a "BOOBY PRIZE" in the other.

Anyway, I battled thru to the end game with £6 odds in my box (there's also an option to play a SUPER £1 game WITH PRIZES DOUBLED). Up to this point I was feeling slightly conned and intrigued, but looking forwarding to a joust for my pot.

The end game is this: 6 boxes. 1 of which contains your prize. You are promised that if you get 5 t/f questions right in a row (chances = 1/32) you'll win the prize. Otherwise you can just eliminate boxes after getting each question right, in the hope of guessing the right box.

What a jest. Still, at least after getting the 2nd true/false question wrong, it SHOWED me which box would have held my big cash prize.

i'll sleep easy tonight.

I think you'll find that game is in fact called 'Take It Or Leave It' after the Challenge TV quiz show. It is quite fun although something of a bastard. Twice last week I had one question to go before the money and it served up a stinker. Result: no money.

I must say in the context of the junk we see these days that there is something deliciously pure about having to answer 15 questions to guarantee the money. It just needs to speed up the time between questions or at least allow the pro player to press the screen impatiently to bring up the next question, à la Pub Quiz and Millionaire.

The first ten questions are quite simple on a normal game and if you had access to t'Internet during play many of the answers are googlable. Perhaps next time I'll calculate how long the machine gives you to make up your mind to determine whether this is feasible.

QT