Quiz machine bugs

leonardo1 · Post by **leonardo1** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 5:29 am

Cardinal Richelieu wrote:A favourite of Bullseye is to give you a question like "What's the odd word out", where there are 3 wrong answers and 1 right one.

Unfortunately, on your first few questions, you only get a choice of 2, so you inevitably end up with questions like

Which city is the odd one out?

A: London
B: New York

Never seen that...

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 12:30 pm

This was common on some of the older games that had a 2-Ply/50-50 bonus, but they usually had the good manners to display the third answer 'greyed out' so that you could still answer Odd One Out-style questions. Deal or No Deal does something similar on the first five questions in each game, where you only have two answers not three.

The designers of Bullseye were obviously too busy working out how to make the end game fixed to think this one through...

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 1:34 pm

bullseye (original) was actually designed by one guy in his bedroom (andrew wood (?) i may be wrong)
anyway, for the most profitable game pre DOND that is a pretty good effort.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:05 pm

Presumably you mean profitable for the pubs and machine owners as opposed to the people who play the game?

I've no doubt it's a reasonably decent game, I just object to the 'skill' element at the end being so different from the same skill which is used to actually get to the end game in the first place, i.e. the way that £1 is transparently so much easier to hit than the larger prizes even though all the areas on the board are the same. Not all skill-based games are like this:

Caveman Capers - hitting the shots doesn't change in difficulty whether it's the first shot or the £20 shot
Crazy Golf (original version) - the end game was hard but fair - you could see what you had to do to win
Big Match - the skill games may get a bit quicker/more involved but fundamentally use the same skill each time

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:16 pm

Andrew Wood - I thought he was the 'original' creator of Bullseye the TV show? Again though, I may be wrong too!

I'm a bedroom 'game' coder! Would love to actually stick with something, finish it, and get it published...

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 10:06 am

Matt Vinyl wrote:Andrew Wood - I thought he was the 'original' creator of Bullseye the TV show?

yep you are right with that, my bad. here's some useless trivia: in early episodes of bullseye one of the category segments was the bible.

what happened to better letters?

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 10:54 am

Better Letters - Heh, still plugging away at that one, unfortunately with work, a missus and three kids (not biologically mine!) I don't experience terribly much 'dev-time'.

I've had a few PM's and e-mails from 'people' who have stated their interesting in utilising my work (if I ever finish it!). One chap was an official from one of the software houses that develops for the it-box...

I need to get focused methinks...

ZAX · Post by **ZAX** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:53 am

On ITBOX FOOTBALL QUIZ last night

LIVERPOOL SQUAD 2005-6 - 4,4,1

Put in an A

---- -A-- A

Now Im thinking it must be some far east reserve or robot, but no, it was me old mate

LUIS GARC A

I know I'd just won 4 quid but to scupper the next game like this.

Ernest W. Quality · Post by **Ernest W. Quality** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:58 am

Obviously they copied a player list that had the acute 'i' in García.

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:55 pm

Here's one from the files of Wankopoly:

Which of these is the 2nd planet from the sun?
Milky Way
Mars
Twix

Obviously the comedy (at best at a Timmy Mallett level) question presents no problem, but once again shows an abject failure to check what they've written.

Given Deal or No Deal and Bullseye's endless mistakes however, I am currently rating Monopoly/Channel 1 at 5th in my private 'all question writers are fuckwits' league

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:20 pm

Haven't had a memorable one for a while but here's one from the files of Battleshits:

Which bookmaker's odds are known as 'earhole'?

Could it be Rosemary, the switchboard operator at 3/1?

No....could it be Sarge at Evens?

Could it be Henry, the mild mannered janitor at 8/4? Could be.........

8/4. I fucking ask you.

(It's 6/4 by the way)

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:26 pm

I'm not deliberately trying to wind you up (honest, guv!) but I think you'll find it was Penry the mild-mannered janitor:

http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/h/hongkong.htm

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:00 pm

Unsurpassedly awful misspellings from Countdown on Saturday:

Which of the following men won...?

Steffi Graff

Andre Argassi

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:02 pm

vaginalbob wrote:Unsurpassedly awful misspellings from Countdown on Saturday:

Which of the following men won...?

Steffi Graff

Andre Argassi

pedant

Drpepper · Post by **Drpepper** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:08 pm

Was playing a strike it rich/lucky? on some aincent machine a few weeks ago.

One question had 2 answers that were the same, surprisingly managed to get the correct one

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