Quiz Master

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:41 pm

I believe him but you'd certainly have to learn a lot of new answers to make this one lucrative. These questions (the ones that appear after the £1 prize) are intrinsically harder than normal questions but you'd have to get to know some of them at least to get the decent prizes more regularly than just an occasional fluke.

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:10 pm

What would be the size of the question bank on this game?

rogerthymes · Post by **rogerthymes** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:16 pm

Nil Satis wrote:I believe him but you'd certainly have to learn a lot of new answers to make this one lucrative. These questions (the ones that appear after the £1 prize) are intrinsically harder than normal questions but you'd have to get to know some of them at least to get the decent prizes more regularly than just an occasional fluke.

That makes sense.
However it was this previous comment by QM that made me wonder:
"I must admit an extended look at this (as I do with all games issued) has revealed its sweeter nature to me.
Although there are a siginificant number of spoilers, it's definitely a potential earner ..." ....and that wasn't about XF!
:P

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:18 pm

that was about fantasy football iirc

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:19 pm

Well clearly.......not big enough.

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:24 pm

Fantasy Football good game for paying for the beer and a couple of quid stake on X Factor.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 3:24 pm

I imagine QM's nailing Give It A Whirl as well, to be honest. If it was on the ItBox I'd be a happy bunny. The GamesNet variant looks about as kind as the Fatbox variant. Lovely game.

dm · Post by dm » Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:00 pm

QuizMaster wrote: Once you're there it's probably the most lucrative game I've seen in the last 3 years, mainly because nobody else seems to be able to get anywhere near my standard.

yeah it appears to me that it doesn't matter how good you are at a game, it's how much better you are than everyone else...

QuizMaster wrote:
I was about £500 down before it started to turn around for me.

I do wonder how you can be 500 quid down on ANY game nowadays. Presumably a game without "added hee-haw" then (having never played X factor or Give us a whirl I'm not sure if those games have it or not)

Properpro · Post by **Properpro** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:54 pm

Selective memory here dmac07, I raised the issue of '£500 down', but my view is 'never say never'.

You said,
'X FACTOR finally made an appearance - what a load of shite. Purely Q&A trivia, you need to answer something like 12 out of 14 correct to even get onto the cash board (more Q&A trivia). If it doesn;t want you to get there it will force spoilers on you until you mess up.' (July 5th 2007)

Seems to me Quizmaster may well have put the work in, I've missed it, (lots of money elsewhere), you just didn't bother!

dm · Post by dm » Tue Oct 02, 2007 3:11 am

[quote="Properpro"]Selective memory here dmac07, I raised the issue of '£500 down', but my view is 'never say never'.

You said,
'X FACTOR finally made an appearance - what a load of shite. Purely Q&A trivia, you need to answer something like 12 out of 14 correct to even get onto the cash board (more Q&A trivia). If it doesn]

hmm a stalker, OK yeah I played it once on its opening weekend and never again.

But if it's a game in which you don't need to bank your winnings then it's virtually impossible to be £500 down. Is X Factor like that?

You're right too, I don't bother too much with Q&A boredom and all the tedious spoilers that go with. Fantasy football is a current exception, but I do have quite a good knowledge of soccer.

Properpro · Post by **Properpro** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:59 am

hmm a stalker, OK yeah I played it once on its opening weekend and never again.

No stalking here. like most people I remember a lot of stuff I hear or read, it helps in all sorts of ways!

But if it's a game in which you don't need to bank your winnings then it's virtually impossible to be £500 down. Is X Factor like that?

Yes you do have to bank your winnings, so if you want to see the crap that will make you a big winner you need to invest.

You're right too, I don't bother too much with Q&A boredom and all the tedious spoilers that go with. Fantasy football is a current exception, but I do have quite a good knowledge of soccer.

Fair enough, but you are only looking to defray beer expenses. If Quizmaster is through the 'boredom' then he is potentially making £20 every three minutes he can find a new machine. Ten to twenty a day?

Just a 'clash of cultures' here. We all have our own aims and I'm sure that is part of what this forum is about.

Money goes in, money comes out.

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:43 am

There's plenty of tedium involved. Let's face it, any job which involved repetition is going to get boring sometimes. One of the ways I find to relieve this is to bugger off to different parts of the country to see a bit of Britain whilst I'm working, hence the disappearances sometimes. Robbie Coltrane has got nothing on me!

dm · Post by dm » Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:49 pm

QuizMaster wrote:There's plenty of tedium involved. Let's face it, any job which involved repetition is going to get boring sometimes. One of the ways I find to relieve this is to bugger off to different parts of the country to see a bit of Britain whilst I'm working, hence the disappearances sometimes. Robbie Coltrane has got nothing on me!

Well that's true, but it's better to travel round the country when you're getting your flights, hotels and meals paid for... I guess the plus side to having no family ties is that I get to go on a lot of business trips to Edinburgh, Newcastle, Glasgow, Carlisle etc.

The quizzers have been a catalyst for me going out of my way to see areas in Britain that I never would have bothered visiting otherwise (from some of the shittiest to some of the nicest)

dm · Post by dm » Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:57 pm

Properpro wrote:
hmm a stalker, OK yeah I played it once on its opening weekend and never again.
No stalking here. like most people I remember a lot of stuff I hear or read, it helps in all sorts of ways!
But if it's a game in which you don't need to bank your winnings then it's virtually impossible to be £500 down. Is X Factor like that?
Yes you do have to bank your winnings, so if you want to see the crap that will make you a big winner you need to invest.
You're right too, I don't bother too much with Q&A boredom and all the tedious spoilers that go with. Fantasy football is a current exception, but I do have quite a good knowledge of soccer.
Fair enough, but you are only looking to defray beer expenses. If Quizmaster is through the 'boredom' then he is potentially making £20 every three minutes he can find a new machine. Ten to twenty a day?

Just a 'clash of cultures' here. We all have our own aims and I'm sure that is part of what this forum is about.

It's true, if I pay for my beer I'm pretty happy, although this week i've taken a fiver or more from five of the six machines I've played which can't be bad. (the exception being the itbox at Victoria station which didn't have my specialist game on it)

I know Glasgow well and if you were to play 10 or 20 machines in a day you'd get through the city centre by Wednesday afternoon. I like to leave a min. of 4 weeks between plays, preferably 6, (yes it's recorded in Excel) so I really don't know where you could live except London and expect to make a decent profit.

I do wonder if you and QM are the same person...

Sorry if you're not...

Properpro · Post by **Properpro** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:04 am

Dear dmac07, we must stop meeting like this!

Seriously, I do try to be helpful. I can assure you I'm not Quizmaster, and if he he is playing X Factor or anything else to the standard he claims, he isn't playing them anywhere I've been!!

As I'm told there are circa 10,000 It Boxes, 10,000 Paragon's, 5,000 Games Nets, 4,000 Indies, etc, etc, I suppose there is no reason he or I should have ever had met, or even 'crossed swords'.

I appreciate your comments about your 'circuit' of Glasgow, but there are over 200 British cities and towns with populations over 100,000 and lots of suitable pubs. Look on the Cloud, print a site map and then find extra machines as you go. That should see you through a year or two without worrying about returning too soon!

As I've indicated we are coming at this from different angles and for different reasons, but believe me Glasgow, or even London are only 'obvious' targets. There are machines in every nook and cranny and a lot of them present very easy targets.

The general view that nobody can make machines 'pay' is so in error, but in twenty years of playing I've yet to meet a single person that believes jackpots can be regularly won - until they see it happen.

Money goes in, money comes out.