Leicester Square though? Could you have picked a potentially worse place to play any form of machines? :P
You'll end up getting turned over like i did playing a Nuts game in Newmarket saturday.....firstly i had to find 4 names in the crossword.....then remember 8 familiar sports faces! Never seen anything that bad before!
"Sixty percent of the time, it works, every time!"
I will do my best to pitch up on the Sunday - it won't be at 12pm though, but we'll sort out how I'll find you nearer the time. I agree the West End is not going to be the easiest place to win, and I doubt there'd be much draining of machines, but at least there's pubs with machines every few hundred yards so we'll not have to waste time walking between pubs. I for one very much look forward to meeting Roberto and seeing him do his stuff on WU. If I can I might try to get Mr Brewis (of Big Match fame) along.
PS Hornby - funnily enough I got a record-low target of 12,000 on DOND in Covent Garden two nights ago. Only gave me 70p though. :-(
grecian wrote:
PS Hornby - funnily enough I got a record-low target of 12,000 on DOND in Covent Garden two nights ago. Only gave me 70p though. :-(
Yep I only got 50p but stuck with it for a £3, £4, £3 on the three consecutive games. I tend to find that it nearly always goes for a £10 once the target is readily ascertainable and even if it comes out piecemeal and the target goes up there will be less questions to answer and less spoilers.
I wonder if it was the same boozer as the other games had been pillaged and I noticed a tell tale score of yours on the C&R- first time Ive been in that one so will count myself unlucky if I went in the following lunchtime to you.
Just reading through the thread and it seems like Team England have agreed on this for them, and at the moment i'm not seeing any reason why Team Scotland cant do that date too.....
Rules etc to be set before (how much stake money, length of game, etc).
PS. Was in a pub last night in Edinburgh for the Scotland and England games - not going to mention names incase I get a kicking, mind you I doubt any of the inbreds in it could work a computer - but lets just say it was ROUGH.
Watched the game and spotted a gamesnet in the corner and said to my mate "I bet its full cos nobody in here could possibly take anything out of it".
£1 in DOND. 21,000 points - took a fiver.
28,000 points - crapped it and took £3.50
Transferred credit and played Sat Night Takeaway - £2 for 1000 points - no spoilers.
Two games of spot the difference £1 each time for the 5th picture.
After that it played crap. Still the best run I've ever had on a machine (ok so I only made about 7ish quid).
Is that an untapped market though? Quiz machines in rather rough estalishments?
ROSSKEEN wrote:
Is that an untapped market though? Quiz machines in rather rough estalishments?
At risk of going off-topic, I'd say it's always worth playing a quiz machine in any establishment where you wouldn't normally expect to find one, and that includes the rougher type of pub (most of which don't have a quiz machine in the first place). The reason is simply that it's less likely that a passing good player will have bothered looking in the pub for a machine on previous visits to the area (and perhaps less likely that a good player would make a visit in the first place). By the same token, play machines which are not easily spotted from the front door of a pub (machines upstairs or downstairs are particularly good for this). As an aside, it's funny that the pubs that don't have machines tend in my experience to be either the very roughest or the very poshest. Perhaps this indicates that machines really are aimed at Joe Average.
At risk of staying off topic I would say playing in any "average" high street that has a large throughput of punters and you would have a decent chance.
Having been previously sceptical about peoples ability to earn even a modest income out of these I have completely changed my mind- by way of example having treated myself to a one-off Saturday afternoon tour of Bromley my winnings were very respectable and a lot easier to come by than grinding out the odd £2 here and there in the pubs round the office (in the City). Basically if you watch the majority of chavvy punters gathered round say DOND (like during the footy last night) in the big chain pubs they havent got a clue and as I think QM previously pointed out anything but the lowest targets are unattainable- you only have to think how many reasonably hard Qs you have to nail to say get to the board when it is at 48k. (
I managed to gatecrash a wake at a pub in Slough today. As the assembled mourners remembered the deceased, I stood heroically at the quiz machine, valiantly playing on to the strains of Monkey Business.
'It's what they would have wanted.'
PS - thankfully, the sound was off
PPS - I agree with up's PM proviso - I snagged my jeans climbing out of the window in the ladies' lavs at High Wycombe Spoons today losing the blasted paps.
ROSSKEEN wrote:So overall are we talking 8th of July?
Just reading through the thread and it seems like Team England have agreed on this for them, and at the moment i'm not seeing any reason why Team Scotland cant do that date too.....
Rules etc to be set before (how much stake money, length of game, etc).
PS. Was in a pub last night in Edinburgh for the Scotland and England games - not going to mention names incase I get a kicking, mind you I doubt any of the inbreds in it could work a computer - but lets just say it was ROUGH.
Watched the game and spotted a gamesnet in the corner and said to my mate "I bet its full cos nobody in here could possibly take anything out of it".
£1 in DOND. 21,000 points - took a fiver.
28,000 points - crapped it and took £3.50
Transferred credit and played Sat Night Takeaway - £2 for 1000 points - no spoilers.
Two games of spot the difference £1 each time for the 5th picture.
After that it played crap. Still the best run I've ever had on a machine (ok so I only made about 7ish quid).
Is that an untapped market though? Quiz machines in rather rough estalishments?
don't see why not. there are a couple of (real) Irish pubs on Uxbridge Road with itboxes in them if you're up for it
Never seen anything that bad before!
