ItBox 65

fotherz · Post by **fotherz** » Fri May 22, 2009 12:29 am

QuizMaster wrote:Scratch & Match 2

Well, cash cows never last forever.

JG · Post by JG » Wed May 27, 2009 12:11 am

Also Bullseye is £1 play only, no 50p play option. Quick £2 win.

Crystal Maze I didn't even try as I thought it'd be more Matt B than Crosby.

Missed Cash Smash, will look out next time.

Eliminator needed Round 8 for £1 which seemed a bit steep. Started flailing on round 4 with selecting Ms Crabapple as a character from The Simpsons. Also struggled with biscuits, stabbing out at coffee digestives and other made up biscuity sounding red herrings, which I know is very poor. Not much hope for later rounds,6+7 when no doubt I'd have been asked to eliminate the Icelandic poets from the Icelandic quiz presenters.

I gave Treasure Quest a go for nostalgia value. They've changed it! No more six pearl things for £6 on £1/go, no more green things for £1, starting on 5/6 greens. It's gold bars for the advertised prize, 1,2 or 3 on each platform. My game wanted all bar 3 of the gold bars for a measly £1. Not once did I have to work out if 365 Astorias had greater capacity than Wembley Stadium.

Triple Towers and Monopoly I bypassed, but did play 50p DOND with new thumbnail attract that wanted 69,000 points. Got through to round 4 (50,000 and stupidly expecting an easy round for 19,000) and then it got nasty and spoilered me out on a lovely Q Q Q Q 250,000.

All in all, today I was about 50p down on Itboxes.

gambogaz1 · Post by **gambogaz1** » Wed May 27, 2009 7:57 am

Triple towers is a complete rip off, they've just doubled the stake but not done anything to the prize structure, maybe got rid of the free game that's it, but at £1 a go now it's just the same as winning £1 only you can't collect it. I reached 185,000 for a measly £1 then failed the continue as it wanted 280,000 .

Cash Smash I found quite enjoyable, a new take on skill games, eliminating the matching flags from from the grid against what's showing in a specific window. Cash values seem pretty poor for £1 Stake, £2 was on offer for completing 4 rounds, failed 1st attempt but managed it 2nd time round. Soon turns nasty when you reach a given level, I had a whole grid full of just single flags all with slight colour changes making it near impossible to clear.

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Wed May 27, 2009 8:35 am

Gambo not seen Triple Towers £1 on an Itbox but on the Inde the prize structure has definitely changed - think it goes free game, £1, £2, £4, £8.

Could be wrong on the exact amounts but was definitely enhanced as took well over £20 with a fairly modest cash pot.

I often play these out if the cashpot is high enough.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Fri May 29, 2009 1:54 pm

CrosbyRules wrote:pub quiz...1 pound play but no diferent prize structure....

Missed this post and only realised this today. Poor stuff I think - £10JP for £1 stake looks a distinctly bad ratio in the modern era and you'd have thought they could have doubled the prizes at each stage. Presumably it'll give prizes twice as often but having previously always invested a 50p in PQ at each new venue, I'll think twice in future.

Play Your Cards Right is £1 play only now, and doesn't advertise that at all clearly, which is a bit cheeky. I've heard some rumours that it might have become a bit easier, but the go I had didn't bear that out (kippers from the first question on round two!)

rogerthymes · Post by **rogerthymes** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 5:01 pm

Can't believe TPTP hasn't made it to itbox. Completely addictive, great logo and great fun.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 5:09 pm

rogerthymes wrote:Can't believe TPTP hasn't made it to itbox. Completely addictive, great logo and great fun.

Presumably ItBox got scared by the unlimited credits bug on earlier versions on the Paragon? Interested you like the game: I loathe it and find it impossibly difficult!

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 5:21 pm

I've played it a fair bit, but have no real idea what i was doing, just press, press, press, very boring but good money

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 6:02 pm

I might be out of date / touch here, but I see that the 50pee option on Bully has been 'deleted'. £1 only, or the other True/False etc. options. Has anyone actually tried any of the other style of games on this? I stick to the £1 a go 'Standard Quiz'...

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:54 am

Matt Vinyl wrote:I might be out of date / touch here, but I see that the 50pee option on Bully has been 'deleted'. £1 only, or the other True/False etc. options. Has anyone actually tried any of the other style of games on this? I stick to the £1 a go 'Standard Quiz'...

In moments of weakness I've occasionally invested in the football and pop music variants. They are brutally difficult, £1 a go, the JP is less than £20 IIRC, and all in all they are emphatically not worth playing. £1 a pop standard quiz is the way to go.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 3:30 pm

Has anyone noticed how long it takes £1 play Monopoly to be willing to pay anything? I came across an ItBox at lunchtime today that had 35 scores registered, not one of them above 4300. On the basis that I've never seen an endgame qualification at below 4500, then, unless one of those people got a cashpot, that means the machine had taken £35 without paying out a dime! Luckily I put a dent in that as on my second go it made me an offer of £11, which I quickly took, but I was a bit amazed that the game could go so long without paying anyone anything. This was quite a well-played central London location, to boot.

Barry Trotter · Post by **Barry Trotter** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 4:46 pm

Assuming 30% payout ... you've battered it for a whole 50p

£35 in, 30% payout = £10.50
You win £11 - now its on its arse...
Strange how you got an £11 offer with £10.50 to give!

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 4:51 pm

Barry Trotter wrote:Assuming 30% payout ... you've battered it for a whole 50p
£35 in, 30% payout = £10.50
You win £11 - now its on its arse...
Strange how you got an £11 offer with £10.50 to give!

Agreed, Barry - my surprise is it waits a whole 35 games before giving anyone a look-in - why not leave it just e.g. 9 games, and give a player £3? I guess the answer is that punters will play monopoly regardless of the game's difficulty, so leaving it a while pleases punters (who will play whatever) and decent players (who know there's a sniff of £10+).

BigEd · Post by **BigEd** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:56 pm

Barry Trotter wrote:Assuming 30% payout ... you've battered it for a whole 50p
£35 in, 30% payout = £10.50
You win £11 - now its on its arse...
Strange how you got an £11 offer with £10.50 to give!

Bit of a School-Boy error there Barry.

grecian wrote:Luckily I put a dent in that as on my second go it made me an offer of £11,

Actually that is

Barry Trotter wrote:Assuming 30% payout and 50 pence play ... you've battered it for a whole 20p
£36 in, 30% payout = £10.80
You win £11 - now its on its arse...
Strange how you got an £11 offer with £10.80 to give!

Did you do maths at School or not?

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:21 pm

Am I the only one prepared to stick up for Barry and point out that grecian made it clear he meant the £1 a go version, and that if he had meant the 50p version then:

(a) the 35 losing games would have meant only £17.50 being taken in by the machine

(b) he would never have got an £11 offer anyway - that 50p version is/was just rubbish in the prizes offered.

Things have been considerably improved in the prize department in the £1 a go version and I think grecian is spot on in his analysis of this - punters are still just as attracted by the 'bells and whistles' as on the 50p version, and they neither notice nor care that they are still no nearer to winning a prize than before, other than via the deus ex machina of the Cashpot.