Itbox Issue 64

sir ratholer · Post by **sir ratholer** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:23 pm

Couple of these cropped up today, with the Ronnie O Sullivan snooker game, Play your cards right and interestingly a Brain Train game which seems to only be on the second page.

I'm pretty good at brain training games but didn't get near a quid, seems very controlled, best score was like 2400. 3100 for a quid on 50p play, about 17000-18000 for £20 jackpot.

Anyone else tried this yet???

kingzilla · Post by **kingzilla** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:03 am

You will find the most games do the same thing im afraid, as long as they hit there pecentage payout mark there happy.

cool · Post by **cool** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:18 am

new games today tend to be introduced at their hardest level,so they tend to get easier as they fill up. if you can get to the end game straight away ,normally means the game will never fill up.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 12:28 pm

The Brain Train game was first seen on the Gamesnets a few months back. At the time it seemed to me to be one of those terribly misjudged games in that it was extremely difficult to win and not particularly interesting to play and so I wasn't at all surprised when it was soon removed/moved to the back screen on the Gamesnets and it only being on the back screen on the ItBox is again not a surprise.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:38 pm

Is it the same Brain Training one Nil? I've not seen the one on ItBox 64 before although we get such late GamesNet issues down here that I may just not have seen the right issue - it's definitely not the same game as the rubbish Brainbox which was on GamesNets about nine months ago.

Too early to give definitive views, but the Play Your Cards Right endgame doesn't look like it has the potential for profit - I opted for lower on a King and got given an Ace - 50p prize! Rocket Ronnie certainly does load up the spoilers as soon as you approach the £1 level but ultimately it's a straight "answer loads of questions without making an error to reach jackpot" so it might appeal to some of the better players on here. I quite liked the Brainbox game and can see people like DMAC and VB doing nicely on that - I wasn't good enough to see how a score of c. 20k could be scored though! Family Guy I've only played very briefly - on a GamesNet - I thought it was a sack of wank then and I'm not sure my mind will change.

What have we lost? Every Loser Wins was gone at the cabinet I played at - pity.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:21 pm

I do mean Brain Train and not Brainbox, which really was a stinker! It's proper title might be something like Great British Brain Train but, whatever it's called, when you think you've done pretty well over several different games only to end up nowhere even £1, never mind a top prize, you tend to want to play something else pretty sharpish!

As I've already mentioned elsewhere Play Your Cards Right is fixed in exactly the way you identify, as well as the 'standard' way of reserving a different question set for the last qualifying round. The Rocket Ronnie game just seems to be set by default at far too difficult a level - the spoilers are wide ranging and really obscure. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it had another protection level built in as well, like the £1 JP setting on X Factor and Caveman Capers. The problem for me with this one is I can't imagine any punters being able to win even £1, which they will rapidly find disheartening, and any game like that has no longterm shelf-life.

As for Family Guy, I think you are being far too kind to that one!

ggdr · Post by **ggdr** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:59 pm

Managed a 77 break on Rocket Ronnie this lunchtime. Failed to collect any money though, due to reasons of cretinism. Some of the background music sounds eerily similar to that used in Crazy Golf.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 4:23 pm

I think I got a £1 on the brain training thing on my first play on it today, although maybe I got lucky.

Good work on the 77 break on Rocket Ronnie, ggdr. I suspect I may have been over-ambitious in going for the black consistently, as I only got to about 35 or so if memory serves.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 5:59 pm

It also gives you spoilers on the red ball questions. I actually don't think there's much difference, if any, between the question levels for the colours so you may as well go for it on the blacks. The one time I've found this game in anything like a friendly state I got to 90-something with red then black each time.

steveseagull · Post by **steveseagull** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 6:33 pm

Great 'break', 90+. I was well chuffed with my 81 (£4).
I totally agree with the spoilers on the reds, and also the fact that it doesnt seem to matter which colour you pick; if it wants to throw in a wrong 'un it will.
The only saving grace in my opinion is the weekly scoreboard. By this you can judge roughly if it has been played to any extent since your last win and so whether the win scores will be obtainable.

Depending on mood i will drop as far down as brown/blue for a bonus. I seem to remember it giving bonus points for one i had (? it may have been a different game altogether, . . . . . i wasn't 'top of my game' at the time

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Properpro · Post by **Properpro** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 7:17 pm

grecian wrote:What have we lost? Every Loser Wins was gone at the cabinet I played at - pity.

A pity? Absolute disaster!!!!!!!

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 7:20 pm

Properpro wrote:
grecian wrote:What have we lost? Every Loser Wins was gone at the cabinet I played at - pity.

A pity? Absolute disaster!!!!!!!

Hehe, not quite that bad for me, but it was a goodie. Maybe we'll get ELW2 back on an ItBox at some point.

wires74 · Post by **wires74** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 7:25 pm

got to agree with properpro losing ELW is an absolute sickener !!!!!

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 8:18 pm

I note Puzzler (or whatever that one with the linked-up scoreboard was called) has also gone. DMAC and VBOB will be gutted!

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:51 pm

quite like 147 quiz or whatever it is called. my TV/film/music knowledge is very poor so i played the brown on that and it was gettable. i'd have no chance on black. when i played black on subjects i like it was tricky but not unfair. i also approve of the different animation after a fouled-up try again. having said this i didn't win any money. but as a mug i like it and will play it again to see if i can get better (scoreboard; we love them).

family guy is crap. we are all agreed on that. didn't bother with brain training; not interested in games of speed masquerading as games of skill. so i lost on one game of each of the newbies and got £4 back from [let's never speak of this game in an inappropriate thread]. and £3.00 from a tortuous game of monopoly. nice to see a wag in the tail of itbox.