Bullseye.

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Bullseye.

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Whats up with this one the way when you win something decent you get added value on top of what the prize should have been.

Like yesterday i won £12 and it banked up 18 i think.

By the way this is on the current version on £1 a go double prize money. Strange.
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darren wrote:Whats up with this one the way when you win something decent you get added value on top of what the prize should have been.

Like yesterday i won £12 and it banked up 18 i think.

By the way this is on the current version on £1 a go double prize money. Strange.
Bug in the programme which has been fixed. You've probably been playing on a Paragon which hasn't been updated.
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Post by banditbreaker »

We have a crappy quiz machine in our local social club, looks very old, anyway when playing bullseye I was told by a friend to let the first 3 questions time out and I'd still get the points, eliminating my not so strong
subjects and it worked, does this work on the itbox versions ?
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have the rumours of free money filtered through to the hoi polloi?

they probably know about king.com too then
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You won't get the points for letting the questions time out, but you won't die either. If you're not sure of an answer it's easier to let it time out and it'll just give you another go at the board. Only works in the first 3 - after that it will kill you.

A word to the wise - if you can't get the first 3 questions right on Bullseye you really shouldn't be playing it.
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Dare I say it I never realised the time-out trick on the first three questions! D'oh (for the second time where Bully is concerned).

What is king.com?
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Post by Matt Vinyl »

Heh, that's a new one on me too. One thing I will say (in an OT way!) is that I find the 'jerky' ItBox version of this so much easier to get Bully's Star Prize on. The frame by frame movement of the aiming reticule makes it a sinch to bullseye out. The other 'smoother' versions pose a bit more of a problem...
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Played a game of £1 Bullseye this lunchtime and landed on the £10 straight off in the endgame! First time I've seen this happen on any of the various versions of Bully, I think. It had given a 201 point target and I had to answer no more than two or three questions - easiest tenner I've ever had off a machine, I think. The gamble was to £15, which I rejected as I thought it was a bit ungenerous.

How often does this happen? It is always with a low points target? What's the maximum that anyone's managed to win on it?
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assuming you're in London, a cheeky tenner like that is unheard-of. you must be a prince of serendip Grecian. i had the bullseye on old versions when it was £5 max but only segments since then.
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Istenem wrote:assuming you're in London, a cheeky tenner like that is unheard-of. you must be a prince of serendip Grecian.
Not only was I in London, but on a noted SWP battleground - the Old Bell at Ludgate Circus, discussed before on here. Went in for a swift 15 minute session after a haircut - took £7 on DOND followed by the £10 on Bullseye, which was nice.
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It's always worth a shot at the Bull on the prize board when it's in 201 or 301 mode. If it misses (it generally does) just go back to your normal method. I've hit it a few times now.

I would have taken that £15 gamble as well.
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Wow, congrats Grecian. I'd love to say I would have had the balls to play the star prize game but I'd have taken the money and run. Word Soup has one of my rare 2000+ scores in Old Bell.
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grecian wrote:Went in for a swift 15 minute session after a haircut - took £7 on DOND followed by the £10 on Bullseye, which was nice.
Which given the prices charged in that area would have paid for nearly a quarter of your haircut!

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In other news, Trivia for Dummies has definitely been fiddled on the new Paragons. Personally I won't mourn its loss, and I have always found Paragons to be the least promising machines anyway, but it is a worry that a game can simply be made impossible across the board like this.

One other thought re the Paragons - has any other game ever outstayed its welcome more than Pot the Lot?! That one seems to have been around for years and yet it has never been worth playing. I have never seen anyone else play it either, punter or otherwise.
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Actually, the £15 net profit from the machine exactly offset the cost of the haircut Nil Satis, which probably goes only to show that I have a very bad haircut.

Thanks for the 201/301 advice QM - I will do that in future. A spell of bad beats on the Bullseye gamble round has meant I've tightened my belt on it. AFAIK, the machine in question is unchipped as respect the double double, so had I successfully 101ed the £10 I think it would have paid a nice £20. But I'm not reliable enough to make that a done deal. The next game gave me a 501 at which I crapped out on £2 chasing for £4, so it was obviously, to use PP's parlance, "raving".
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