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I've had a few tickles at this, quite like it. Not so keen on the drag words into blank spaces round, it can be really fiendish when its not in the mood and you can't afford to lose time!
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I'm a bit of a dab hand at "Who's Got The Biggest Brain?" on Facebook (if I do say so myself) so I thought I might enjoy this one. But at 50p a pop for a very short amount of play, and when the game can so easily stop you winning a bean by giving you the "wrong games", I don't really like it. That said, I might keep playing it a bit to see whether I have misjudged it.
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1528 looks like a very good score to me, well done GGDR, do you remember which games you were given?

you have to welcome innovation like this into the menu, it is completely universal. it is not aimed at people who read this board so it doesn't matter whether we like it or not but at least it is cerebral in a different way. and the scoreboard should be popular too. it will get my fifty pee every time.

is it fixed? probably. are 90% of the games fixed in some way? yes.
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Post by Cardinal Sin »

This sounds very similar to an abomination which has recently appeared on Gamesent. I can't remember its name but it's something along the lines of brainteaser)

The games vary from the ridiculously easy (count out 1.50 worth of coins / count the blue squares etc), to the utter pish (get the paper in the bin - not very taxing on the mind and completely impossible to do it without losing points).

It seems to work the same way - it sets you a target which you nearly reach after 2 questions, then you plug away with the waste paper game until you run out of time and the will to live.


Apologies if it is the same game btw.
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It's not YE, that's Brainbox Challenge. It looks friendly and easy enough, but i was going at full whack with a mate on stnadby for colour games etc and still got game over really quickly! A shockingly poor game.
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Ah. Cheers Matt. That is indeed the atrocity - so it begs the question, which one is worse?
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Puzzler is miles better. But it is like saying that 'Neighbours' is better than 'Home and Away'
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Yes, Puzzler is a lot better. Brainbox is one of the worst games I've ever seen, I think - hopefully Puzzler will have scuppered its chances of moving to the ItBox. I agree with Isty that there probably is a market for properly implemented puzzle-based SWP games of this kind.
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Istenem wrote: Do you remember which games you were given?
Not precisely, though my favourites are basically any of the word games, so I imagine it was heavy with them.

Agreed that it could quite easily not let you win if it didn't want you to (with a difficult odd one out, a longwinded maze), but all the same it will be a game that gets plenty of my hard-earned GBP0.50s.
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QuizMaster wrote:Puzzler is miles better. But it is like saying that 'Neighbours' is better than 'Home and Away'
:D nice analogy.

So on which type of machine does this appear on?
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My opinion of this is:

In terms of earnings: wouldnt touch with a bargepole.

In terms of variety and entertainment: s'ok.
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Cardinal Richelieu wrote:
QuizMaster wrote:Puzzler is miles better. But it is like saying that 'Neighbours' is better than 'Home and Away'
:D nice analogy.

So on which type of machine does this appear on?
Puzzler is on ItBox, BrainBox on GamesNets.
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Got to be Home and Away
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Post by roberto la vigna »

1528 - dang; must redouble efforts.
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