Itbox 66

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 2:28 pm

...has appeared in my manor today. Hardly seems a few weeks since 65 came out. New titles including Family Fortunes (which I think has been discussed on here before), a Robin Hood game, and some sort of "either get them all right or get them all wrong" game called Choose to Lose, which reminded me a bit of that old one on early issue Opens where you had to get a load of T/F questions pretty much all right / all wrong.

Anyone else any thoughts on this yet? As to what has gone, I didn't take a careful check as it was only a flying visit. FFQ still there; I have a feeling WWTBAM may have bitten the dust, but I could be totally wrong.

dmac · Post by **dmac** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 7:00 pm

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:47 am

Choose to Lose: Excellent opportunity. Keep getting 19 out of 20 wrong but no spoilers.

Robin Hood: Monopoly with crap endgame

Whacky Faces: Fruitix clone - here today gone tomorrow but nice that they actually show you the solution.

Family Fortunes: How many move ons has Stand and Deliver got left in it?

Glad to see nobody talking about the elephant in the room. Long may it continue.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:46 pm

QuizMaster wrote:Choose to Lose: Excellent opportunity. Keep getting 19 out of 20 wrong but no spoilers.

Agreed, although it's a clever old game - I have had a string of 19/20 wrong but am yet to get through to 20/20. I would have thought this game would be tailor made for Suri and all "real boys" to be honest.

Not sure I care very much for the Robin Hood game - another game let down by a lame endgame although maybe this will improve as money goes through it.

ggdr · Post by **ggdr** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:12 pm

I'm not sure I care very much for the Family Fortunes Big Money skillstop being nothing of the sort. It just offers you the lowest amount each time. I still enjoy the basic gameplay though.

dmac · Post by **dmac** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:02 pm

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:26 pm

dmac wrote:
grecian wrote:
QuizMaster wrote:Choose to Lose: Excellent opportunity. Keep getting 19 out of 20 wrong but no spoilers.
Agreed, although it's a clever old game - I have had a string of 19/20 wrong but am yet to get through to 20/20. I would have thought this game would be tailor made for Suri and all "real boys" to be honest.
Has anyone won anything off this yet?

I gave up trying to get 20/20 (i never will, I suspect) and went for the tenner instead. If you do that, it just removes 2 wrong answers so you're left with 50/50s until you get one right.

losses can quickly mount up testing things on a pound a game...

I won £2 in a game where I was able to read from its responses that I'd got one right - I then tried to get precisely another four right, and managed to do that.

Twice I've got the first 19 wrong and buggered up the 20th - very frustrating. You're quite right; it is an expensive game to test.

dmac · Post by **dmac** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:42 pm

quizard · Post by **quizard** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 10:24 pm

I managed to land it on the mystery prize 10/20 after an attempt at 20 right had gone pear shaped before I got halfway. The mystery prize was a princely £4.

wires74 · Post by **wires74** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 10:37 pm

doesn't seem to be many mourning the loss of celebrity millionaire

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 9:22 pm

wires74 wrote:doesn't seem to be many mourning the loss of celebrity millionaire

I wouldn't say "mourning" but it's definitely disappointed me how quickly this one's gone. I suspect the photo round put off a lot of punter players, who no doubt thought it unfair. It's been a good game to me, this one, and I'll miss it.

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:44 am

Certainly one of the better £1 play games. Made a fair few quid out of this before everybody else steamed in.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:59 am

wires74 wrote:doesn't seem to be many mourning the loss of celebrity millionaire

I am! It's by no means my best payer but it's certainly in the top three and when virtually every new game is such dross then the loss of ANY decent game is always to be mourned.

Choose to Lose is an interesting one. It's well-written and a step above most of the other recent games but it protects itself very well - I got to 0/10 yesterday only to be faced with EIGHT consecutive 50/50s plus a quite ridiculous decrease in the time allowed, such as I don't think I've ever witnessed before. It finally got me on the 8th 50/50. At £1 a go and a realistic JP of £10 this would otherwise be an interesting if not fantastic proposition but when it Chooses when you Lose so blatantly, I'll be leaving it well alone.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 3:42 pm

played these new games yesterday. i like robin hood because it is dynamic and feels like you are doing something other than answering loads of questions.

i agree about the appeal of choosing to be a loser. the marking sheet stratagem is very pleasing and great replayability is achieved by it eliciting involuntary groans. very clever design on that. so bravo whoever made it. given that i'm normally enraptured by the bells and whistles, i should probably dislike it but for some reason it grips me.

family fortunes might have been a good game but it falls between the cracks of being too easy to be playable and being a fruitless waste of time.

i don't like anything about DOND (edmonds is still wearing the same pale blue floral shirt after all this time) but felt obliged to play one game of everything new. tartget easy enough, blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah 10p or £10 do you want to swap? no. it coughed a tenner at me.

and the skill blackjack games looks to be just that only relying on the player's greed to meet %age. there are other threads to go into this.

overall it is a pretty good release imo, certainly in terms of the playability of the games.

betchrider · Post by **betchrider** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 4:31 pm

Many 65s or less knockin about??

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