Nearest The Pin

barneybear · Post by **barneybear** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:53 am

First Play

First Shot

One Bounce

Straight In.

£40 please.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:57 pm

Good show. You do know it will never happen again, don't you, but always accept good fortune when it presents itself!

It does remind me though of an old topic - what in theory is the quickest JP possible? I can't think of many to compare to the original Cluedo, where you could in theory win the JP without answering a single question - start on e.g. Professor Plum, get the Study as your first move and guess the right Murderer and Weapon and then find that the Study was the Murder Room. All highly unlikely of course, although I certainly won a couple of JPs on the first room entered when the game was clearly dying to pay.

civ77 · Post by **civ77** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 2:47 pm

I had a JP on Pink Panther a couple of years ago without even being asked a question. Each spin landed me on a landmark giving one of the numbers for the safe combination. Certainly less than a minute for the JP.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:36 pm

Pink Panther -

eeurrgghh, I'd forgotten that one already!! Definitely a game for Room 101...

Thinking back to my original question, Deal or No Deal could in theory give you five boxes with no questions followed by an offer sufficient to get you into the end game and then offer you the JP. Not much more likely than the Cluedo scenario admittedly but it might have happened to someone I suppose!

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 4:03 pm

I think I've had as few as two or three questions to get me into a DOND endgame before, but never none at all.

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:12 pm

I've been a couple of questions into a Cluedo 50p before the mystery - 20 pound cash prize. Cheers!

It remains my only jackpot on that game.

foxy · Post by **foxy** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:32 am

My easiest money (possibly!) was from a treasure quest, i think that's the name, whereby you had to fill in a certain no. of symbols to win prizes from 1 to 5 pounds, again i think.Anyway the machine was set up one symbol off each of the prizes so no matter which arcane answer i went for i could not lose. Repeat about 8 times for about 20 quid that no-one could not have won no matter what they did.
Incidentally I'm talking about that insane game where your moves were determined by knowing such pearls of wisdom as whether 16xthe loire or 13x the volga were longer though just to confuse matters for those who don't know the machine and induce some wry smiling and shaking off heads for those that do, you weren't necessarily looking for which of these was actually the longest! (Someone else can explain!) It became apparent at some point that someone either 'cracked' this game or there was some serious skull-duggery going on as it virtually disappeared over night having become tight beyond belief. Anyone able to shed some light?

foxy · Post by **foxy** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:35 am

No scrap that, strike it rich looking for 7 (SEVEN-vidieprinter style) gems for £40 quid.

gambogaz1 · Post by **gambogaz1** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 10:39 am

Had the £20 JP on the old cluedo 3 times. Oddly enough it was the same way all 3 times. Via Secret passage for the right room.

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 10:46 am

no-one could not have won no matter what they did.

I think my quickest 'win' of all time, has been on a Bully. Started at 101, one piddly easy A-Z question, on to the standard board, Bully's Bonus, prize board, first dart, Bull!

Always a warm feeling when Bully starts at <301 and DOND is hovering around the <20k mark.

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 10:52 am

Ah Treasure Quest. That was a great summer. Punters went mad for it, they appeared all over the place, and then a few of us worked them out and cleaned up.

There were 4 answers and it was all about how wrong or right you were. If you wanted to move 4 you went for the correct answer, if you wanted to move 1 you went for the most wrong answer. Good idea but there was 1 almighty flaw in it.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 11:17 am

QuizMaster wrote: There were 4 answers and it was all about how wrong or right you were. If you wanted to move 4 you went for the correct answer, if you wanted to move 1 you went for the most wrong answer. Good idea but there was 1 almighty flaw in it.

Care to enlighten QM? I remember the game well - c. 1997 or 1998 wasn't it? I could take £6 relatively often but never got more! A game of strategy but I never spotted an "almighty flaw", sadly!

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:07 pm

Because it was a new style of game, it couldn't use a standard multi choice question bank so a new one was written from scratch.

Unfortunately, they only used one reference book to write all the questions out of. Which I had.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:15 pm

QuizMaster wrote:Because it was a new style of game, it couldn't use a standard multi choice question bank so a new one was written from scratch.

Unfortunately, they only used one reference book to write all the questions out of. Which I had.

Splendid. A lot of work on your part (a) to learn all the relevant parts of the book; and (b) hone your mental arithmetic to the point where you could instantly tell whether 8xLena or 10xAmur was the longer length though? Which book was it? (I don't know the location of any of these any more, honest! One was in a Cheltenham chinese takeaway until a few years ago, according to a mate, but it's gone now...)

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:38 pm

A DK publication. "The Top 10 of Everything". I'm pretty sure it was the 1997 version as that's the one with most scrawls in on my shelf.

There was a fait bit of mental arithmetic required. But practice made perfect.