Cops & Robbers

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Cops & Robbers

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I expect someone can beat this, but I more than doubled my points record this lunchtime by making 479 moves in one game (IIRC). Before I'd not got more than about 225, but this time I had a few *really* lucky guess streaks and more questions than usual that I knew. Can anyone beat 479? (Venue was the Goose at Leather Lane, EC1, and I only one a measly quid, hence I registered the score as QUID WINNER).
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Yes I could beat this but I have absolutley no desire to
Stupid punters. Telly all the week, screw the wife Saturday
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grecian wrote:I more than doubled my points record this lunchtime by making 479 moves in one game ... I only won a measly quid
Hi grecian

I know you as someone who recognises a decent game so I have to ask - why waste your time on garbage like Cops and Robbers (or indeed virtually anything on a Paragon, assuming that's where it was)? You have shown yourself to be a top player to get that many moves so well done on the achievement but it probably took you something like 15-20 minutes to win 50p. The 16 year-old kid who works on a Saturday in McDonalds makes a damn sight more than that!

I realise that there is always a gamble inherent in playing the machines and that with some games you can actually lose money by going for a big prize and running out of time and/or coins but you really should avoid playing things where you know in advance that the payouts are going to be such complete rubbish. All we can do as 'consumers' is to ignore the dross and hope (forlornly) that it gets taken away. This does sometimes work - remember Take It or Leave It anyone?
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I play it on the off-chance I'll be awarded the three keys and access to the big money endgame, where in my experience it's possible to rack up a pretty large cash prize quickly. I'm in my early days of playing it at the moment so part of my job is trying to assess how often the three keys get awarded (it's not often, so I am getting steadily less interested in it, but I thought I'd check it today and got hooked as my score smashed my existing record). You are right to say that without the three keys payouts are poor; having said that, it's very difficult *not* to get £1 a game and from experience to date it's possible to get up to £5 in cash bags and prize ups in a game where the three keys are not awarded. I wonder if theoretically with infinite time it would be possible to drain a machine by winning £1 for each 50p on C&R, or whether it stops giving four cashbags after a long sequence of wins. Bl**dy boring though.

Having said all that, I may well come out where you are on this game i.e. considering it a complete waste of time. But at the moment I don't write it off entirely. (I'd also note that C&R has that oh-so-rare element of sustaining the interest which means it's quite fun even when you're not winning anything - I guess because of the somewhat novel format.)
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I take your point but I fully believe that someone at Games Warehouse HQ has it in for me as I have never got three keys on this one, even after several goes in the 200-300 range. One thing I can assure you - an infinity of monkeys playing an infinity of Paragons will STILL never win the Jackpot on Cops and Robbers...

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just as well i'm not infinity monkeys then.
i agree that the game is boring but i find most Q&A games boring; it is the old arts vs science debate.

Q: do you know the answer to this question?
a. yes thanks, i am a genius
b. no, but i could take a pretty good guess
c. don't be ridiculous, nobody knows the total land mass of nicaragua

some of the appeal is the scoreboard where you can beat HYENA with hilarious names like VEGGIE CON CARNE. also, as Grecian says, you have to be peabrained to not win £1 and it is normally pretty easy to tell if you have the chance of any more.
c.f. straight Q&A games like pub quiz. if you are a brainiac then you will play and win it, if you are not then you wont (and won't) hence there is never any money in pub quiz. with C&R, it appeals to mugs who fill it up and therefore superhuman quizzers like us can make a couple of bob.
nobody ever wins on those things.
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Re C&R, after a couple of easy £1 today, got the third key through collecting it on the safe bonus whilst still at a relatively low number of moves and then b*lloxed it by timing out (surely a cardinal sin) on the £3 question which was the very gettable:

"Where was the finish for the first ever University Boat Race?"

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Timing out is a real peril on C&R. The timing on the final round is very quick which is probably 50% of the challenge (the other being to guess the odd kipper questions that get asked). I was mortified the other day for timing out on "Which of these was not composed by Tchaikovsky? A. Swan Lake B. The Nutcracker Suite C. [Something Else]" I didn't spot the word "not", got all puzzled and before I knew it it was time out. I was gutted as it had given the three keys really early.
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