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saturday night takeaway NEW EDITION
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 6:30 pm
by cool
£50 JACPOT £1 PLAY or £25 £50P PLAY. available gamesnet. new innovation where you can shake the piggy bank round the screen for bonus pts. questions fair. points needed to get to second section where you win dosh hard. seems easier to get bonuses. appealing screen format & innovation.
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 8:57 pm
by Properpro
I've been told about this, but haven't found one, I assume it's only on test at the moment. It sounds interesting.
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:03 am
by Nil Satis
It's definitely on general release in certain areas (if that's not a contradiction in terms!) - I found three of these within a 1/2 mile radius at the weekend.
The headline news is obviously the £50 Jackpot, which is the first time we have seen that apart from a couple of Millionaire variations. I played this one quite intensively and the bad news is that you are going to see a lot of long games with little or no reward. The good news is that the £50 Jackpot is not a pipe dream. The way the money game works is that you get 2 prize picks for reaching the first points target, although you can keep going to try to get more picks for reaching subsequent targets. You are offered a Double or Nothing chance on the total of your prize picks by answering three additional True or False questions and yesterday my two picks on the £1 version (where prizes are doubled) came to £24.60. I declined the chance to double to £49.20 but it was certainly an exciting moment to see such a prize realistically available. The three True or False questions are pitched somewhere between the relatively easy ones on Take It Or Leave It and the impossible ones on the Jail game in Monopoly so it isn't a trivial option to double your prize but this is definitely a promising new game.
As with everything, there is always a dud to go with each gem and for that I have to nominate Frogger - another entry for the Hall of Shame!
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:16 am
by grecian
Good work NS, this certainly sounds very promising. What a pity GamesNets are so comparatively thin on the ground in central London.
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 3:17 pm
by Nil Satis
Some of them are worth a trip to play but others are getting more and more like the ItBoxes were a year or so ago, namely that Deal or No Deal will soon be the only game out of the 30 or so available that is worth playing - the amount of dross on there is increasing with each new set of games.