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cops and robbers
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:27 am
by explayer
whats the highest win and / or the most amount of moves acheived on this? i had my best game by far on this last night scoring 156 ' moves ' for £5 but i have only been playing it for a few weeks as there are mostly itboxes round here - strange game , often almost impossible questions after 30 or 40 moves , yesterday included " who won the derby in 1808 ? "with 3 names only a letter or two apart from each other! or the population of a particular chinese province with numbers only 100's apart! , a few inspired guesses and some random obscure knowledge got me through last night though - sorry if this has been discussed before but i could'nt find it on search
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:35 am
by Matt Vinyl
I find the technique on this is, if as the question is 'unfolding', you are pretty certain it is something obscure, just tap an answer at random. If you are far enough away from the cop, you can afford it, but taking any sort of time reduces your moves significantly.
Have got up into the high 100s / early 200s before, without so much as £2 being offered! It gets very tedious after a while. I've had Millionaires' Row twice, getting a £5 one time and a tenner t'other (iirc).
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:37 am
by explayer
yes i certainly guess fast if i see " what star sign is... " or " what is the population of... " , and still anyone watching will say " how did you know that? " !! , erm well there were only 3 options

Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:43 am
by grecian
Matt is correct as to strategy on this.
Best scores have been posted about a fair few times - I rather foolishly wasted 45 minutes of my life about 18 months ago racking up a 479 score on it, for the princely sum of £1. No-one's ever claimed a bigger score on here and I've never seen one on a scoreboard. But it was, as wiser posters made clear to me, a waste of time - realistically it's only in the very rare "ultra pay" mode, where you get prize ups / multiple cash bags within the main game, that you might increase your prize after about 100. And in my experience, I've always had three MR keys (if I get them at all) before 100.
My biggest prize is £15, which I've had about four times now - three of those gave me a spoiler for £20, but the most recent one had a very gettable question about Penny Marshall films which I f**ked up. I fancy they've chipped MR slightly to make the questions easier - for a long while I found the spoilers started kicking in at £5/£7, and always by £10. All of those prizes were on MR - the most I've had off a maingame was £5 - and that was a long long time ago.
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:49 am
by explayer
this fits in with my limited experience of the game anyway , i have never got the 3 keys but won a fiver with 2 x cash bag sets , 1 x £1 picked up on the trail and 2 x £1 from the bonus ' safe cracker ' game , sounds as if i should have enjoyed it as it may never happen again !
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:50 am
by grecian
explayer wrote:this fits in with my limited experience of the game anyway , i have never got the 3 keys but won a fiver with 2 x cash bag sets , 1 x £1 picked up on the trail and 2 x £1 from the bonus ' safe cracker ' game , sounds as if i should have enjoyed it as it may never happen again !
Agreed!
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:51 am
by Matt Vinyl
I fancy they've chipped MR slightly to make the questions easier - for a long while I found the spoilers started kicking in at £5/£7.
It wouldn't be a terribly bad thing for them to do, as the amount of times it is possible to obtain the 3 keys is so low as to not make much of a difference!
I do think it's a bit unfair however, when this (and any game where there is a seemingly infinite points trail) prevents you from achieving the maximum prize by never actually offering it, regardless of how many ridiculous questions you answer (whether by knowledge or luck!) You should get something slightly more tangible than a pound for traversing their gamebreaker trail!
Re: cops and robbers
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:55 am
by Nil Satis
explayer wrote:156 ' moves ' for £5 ... impossible questions after 30 or 40 moves
I can't bear this game and you may be surprised to know that you actually caught the game in a very good mood and I can predict with great confidence that you will very rarely see the game in that mode again, unless you play in a pub where punters consistently pile huge amounts of cash into Cops and Robbers to the exclusion of everything else. In which case they all
deserve locking up...

Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 12:04 pm
by cp999
grecian wrote:Matt is correct as to strategy on this.
I fancy they've chipped MR slightly to make the questions easier - for a long while I found the spoilers started kicking in at £5/£7, and always by £10. All of those prizes were on MR - the most I've had off a maingame was £5 - and that was a long long time ago.
I'm not convinced that they have. However, there have definitely been a few different versions of the main program; you can tell by the way the trail correlates to what it is willing to give you in certain situations.
I'm pretty sure the swag prize is capped at £5 max, and you're never given anything useful after 150 moves on the rare occasions where it is offering >£1 via swags. MR is eminently jackpottable.