Take it or leave it.....

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:03 am

grecian wrote:
Northern Monkey wrote: The CC however had fortunately somehow miraculously been refreshed to the 1400 mark (Grecian- I have not been in my work local for over a week but as I am sure had previously had the £20 can only assume someone absolutely caned it to get the prizes back down, landlord did say a lot of people had been playing the machine over last week which was substantiated by a huge number of scores on Pairz)
I've been focusing on the local 54 ItBoxes Hornby so haven't darkened the Dev over the past week or so. Good work on timing your visit right - did you manage to JP Capers again? (I think it must have you who 20ed it previously as the only one I've done in the City was Ryan's Bar.)

Alas no only the £10 as did not know the answer and would not have had time for another go had I guessed wrongly

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:38 am

Good work anyway Hornby - you do play a mean game of CC I must say.

I agree with Sue's remarks that Joe Public is probably not likely to persist much with TIOLI. The first time I saw it (on a GamesNet, IIRC) I wrote it off very quickly on account of excessive slowness and it was only when I saw it on a test ItBox site a month or so back that I thought it *might* have potential. If an experienced player can't quickly see the point of a game, it's probably unlikely Joe Public will (and in the case of TIOLI Joe would be right, as the game isn't designed for the likes of him).

foxy · Post by **foxy** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:18 am

fair points sue and grecian.
i had my most astonishing game today. 50p shot - no lives. 1st q correct.
first box - booby prize
second box - wait for it - booby prize. GAME OVER.
is this the worst quizzing experience ever? (obviously not)
still enjoying it generally though.

foxy · Post by **foxy** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:19 am

oh yeah had other game where i lost my life and the last 2 boxes were booby prizes. what do you think happened?

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:50 am

Can't believe I never persevered with this game before. First time I tried the £1 game, there were no spoilers and I walked off with a cool £18.60. I'll not bother playing that one for a while!

rogerthymes · Post by **rogerthymes** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:40 pm

foxy wrote:fair points sue and grecian.
i had my most astonishing game today. 50p shot - no lives. 1st q correct.
first box - booby prize
second box - wait for it - booby prize. GAME OVER.
is this the worst quizzing experience ever? (obviously not)
still enjoying it generally though.

At least you got a question! Last week I played a game called (I think) 'Spend It Like Beckham'. There was an animated dice - my counter moved to a square which was the wrong one to go on and GAME OVER came up straight away!

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Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:19 am

i'm probably the only one but i'm not ashamed of it; i have never won a penny from this game. it i not because i am active in an area overpopulated with terminators; it is because i am thick.

foxy · Post by **foxy** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:53 am

i would persevere sue de nom.
it's not easy to win at all but it is reasonably fair , unlike just about everything else.the cardinal may have struck early gold but i would guess he's now suffering the frustration of the agonizingly slow attempts to re-create his glory as i know i have frequently done.if this game went a bit quicker it would be amazing.

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:04 pm

True. I had a game on a different one the other day and without getting a question wrong, I still got skanked for being greedy.

Still, foxy's right. WHY do they make it so slow? Surely it's in nobody's interests?

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:36 pm

Probably to give the punters 'value' for money.

Everything seems to be getting longer lately, which is somewhat of an occupational hazard.

If I go into a pub and see somebody playing Take it or Leave It, Monopoly or Fantasy Football I leave. I haven't got time to be pissing around waiting.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:18 am

On my trip round the City last night pillaging 54s I noticed two or three IBs without Take It Or Leave It. Both IBs did have Hell's Bells, Won In Sixty Seconds and Crossword Quiz, but they had some frog-related rubbish in the square where TIOLI should be. Anyone else see much of this? I'd hate to think they were considering withdrawing TIOLI already. Also, they had a game called Word Cube which I didn't play but may please some of our logomaniacal regulars.

rogerthymes · Post by **rogerthymes** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 3:16 pm

grecian wrote:On my trip round the City last night pillaging 54s I noticed two or three IBs without Take It Or Leave It. Both IBs did have Hell's Bells, Won In Sixty Seconds and Crossword Quiz, but they had some frog-related rubbish in the square where TIOLI should be. Anyone else see much of this? I'd hate to think they were considering withdrawing TIOLI already. Also, they had a game called Word Cube which I didn't play but may please some of our logomaniacal regulars.

Is it not possible the manufacturers would have read this board - seen it to be a winnable game for the pros and pulled it off straight away?

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 3:19 pm

That's what I'm worried about Roger. I suspect the real reason was that unusually the pub in question had two test ItBoxes (the only other test ItBoxes I know are definitely TIOLI-less at the moment).

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 3:40 pm

rogerthymes wrote:
grecian wrote:On my trip round the City last night pillaging 54s I noticed two or three IBs without Take It Or Leave It. Both IBs did have Hell's Bells, Won In Sixty Seconds and Crossword Quiz, but they had some frog-related rubbish in the square where TIOLI should be. Anyone else see much of this? I'd hate to think they were considering withdrawing TIOLI already. Also, they had a game called Word Cube which I didn't play but may please some of our logomaniacal regulars.
Is it not possible the manufacturers would have read this board - seen it to be a winnable game for the pros and pulled it off straight away?

I've just emptied all the itboxes in Britain by playing Word Soup

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 5:11 pm

that is a bit niggardly for someone of your status QM