New game: Deals on Wheels

sanddancer · Post by **sanddancer** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:51 pm

Hello all,

Has anyone else tried a new game called 'Deals on Wheels'?

I'm not sure which machine it was on but I found it in a pub in Paddington train station yesterday.

Anyhow, I played my first game and reached the smaller prizes before losing them by continuing to play on. On playing my second game I was amazed to be given the exact same questions in the same order as in my previous game. In the next game I had a different set of questions but this too was repeated in a later game.

Basically, I'm wondering if this game normally behaves in this way or whether it does so selectively when it wants to pay out some money? Has anyone else tried it?

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:54 pm

I had this phenomenon last night as well. I suspect that the game will be withdrawn soon because of this.

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:57 pm

Might be worth pugging away at it whilst it's there then - could be a quick earner for you guys who can rack up questions quickly...

davejon · Post by **davejon** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:10 pm

we think its the same questions as long as you dont reach a prize. once you reach the prize, the questions will reset.

Dolan · Post by **Dolan** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:47 pm

What are you doing not reaching a prize? It is really easy.

cool · Post by **cool** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:39 am

a horrible horrible game the 1st 1980 swp's were more sophisticated. Less attractive than Jade Goody in a G-string. Could this be the shortest front page Itbox game ever?

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:45 am

Jade Goody in a G-string

A mouthful of cornflakes has just been 'ejaculated' over my keyboard!

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Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:39 pm

it seems to me that this must be deliberate. nobody is so bad at their job to make such a monumental gaffe as this.

however, it pulls the wool over the eyes of players who think they are getting one up on the machine. basically it is just a covert continue game for 50p. while casual punters won't acknowledge this, it doesn't actually help you any more than giving you an extra try again for 50p.

for the questions you have got right first time you (presumably) know the answers so you should get them right second time too. the question you get wrong you will then reappear and you should get it right giving you a new question to answer which you have not seen before and which you may or may not know.

i think it is clever psychology.

Max · Post by **Max** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:12 am

yes i played this with amate tongiht. was amazed whrn the same questions came up about 10 times in a row. surely there si something on this. if you get double jackpot as your bonus, then surely there is some money to be made, if you have enough time?!?!?!7

max

cool · Post by **cool** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:29 am

I suppose that there must be Leisure Link employees registered to this site, so that the discussion of the flaw will lead to the games removal, if it wasnt intentional. As the Itbox games are reviewed every six weeks , you havent got much time to clean it out. If an inordinate amount of money is coming out of it presumably it will go more quickly.

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:17 am

I reckon its intentional. I have had one crack at this and also got the same questions- took me 4 goes

ops: to get to the middle for £9 but what was noticeable was that the double JP bonus only appeared on the first go and not thereafter. Also the pot in the middle got smaller with each go I think

After the £9 it then kicked in to "spoilt" mode where given the wheeel set up you'd be mad to play no doubt how many repeat tries at it you got. The double JP bonus did however reappear.

As with all new games, they will be nice little earners on "virgin" machines but not thereafter IMO.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:59 am

On reflection I suspect this must be intentional too. Does it keep repeating the questions if you fail to take an offered prize? That is, if I get offered 20p, £1.20, £2.20 etc., as you do, and I reject them and carry on (eventually getting something wrong), will it repeat the questions even though I was offered prizes? On my one sober go so far (!) I assumed it wouldn't repeat and collected two lots of £2.20 (with different questions), but from what Hornby says I suspect if I'd not taken the cash I'd have got a full repeat of the questions until I went for the jackpot. I'm not really sure I can be bothered to go haring round all the ItBoxes I know playing this, but fair play to those with the time to make that effort. Of course, as Cool says, if this is a mistake no doubt the game will be withdrawn. Cool, I thought ItBox could withdraw games centrally at no notice from those majority of ItBoxes linked to the central system (i.e. the majority of them) - is this is not the case?

dangerous · Post by **dangerous** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:03 pm

This could be a new wave of swp's. Sounds a lot like forcing a fruit machine

cool · Post by **cool** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 12:29 am

yes LEISURE LINK as well as GAMESTEC adjust the majority of their machines centrally and instantaniously as far as I know.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:05 pm

Well, either Preston (Lancashire) has a hitherto unknown pro who cleans out ItBoxes but who happily for me leaves Gamesnets alone or the Deals on Wheels party has already ended - all the games on ItBoxes there at the weekend were tight as a gnat's proverbials.

Or ... the third possibility is that this is just an extremely ordinary game with 20 or so questions needed to get to your first 20p, of which 3 or 4 are likely to be spoilers. There may or may not have been a bug which repeated a set of questions - I witnessed this once in around 12 games - but it doesn't seem to be a general fault, or it has already been fixed, or it may even have been deliberate as has been suggested on here.

In any case either I am missing the point completely here or this is just another pointless here today, gone tomorrow effort from the ItBox.