Monopoly High Scores

[Istenem]

that's the place and not the goddamn year.

if i'd hit 3xxxx i'd be singing from the rooftops. quantifiable brilliance. bravo PP or mystery brummie.

[Northern Monkey]

properpro do you think that JP'd ?

My guess would be not - as previously discussed, once it flips into easy mode it doesnt really offer up any spoilers, you can get 3 or 4 passes and try agains and further once you have a few sets the scoreboard rattles up very quickly. Dont want to be dismissive as that is a great score and I only ever managed high teens ( but then again I have not played it in anger for over a year) and prize wise when in this form it would just mean that it coughed up say £4-£5 rather than the usual £2.

My point is that to my mind there is only a very weak correlation between the size of the score and the size of the prize.

[Nil Satis]

This score is very bizarre. If someone is good enough to get such a score, why waste that talent on a game where even if you had collected all 22 coloured properties it could still easily award you 50p as the prize at the end if it wished to? I realise that getting all or most of the 22 properties would mean that the scoring rate would increase exponentially due to the increased prizes for all the hotels, so that getting from the usual qualifying score of circa 6,000 to 30,000 might not take much longer than getting to that original 6,000, but even so...

Whoever this is needs to learn the ancient Principle of QuizMaster (the game not the Fruitchat regular).

[grecian]

I don't think it's that bizarre. I think there's a legitimate school of thought that Monopoly is worth playing at a new venue, in particular to see what level the cash bonus is at, and how it's playing generally (I got £14 off a game recently, in one of the most well-played pubs in town, on that basis). If I played the game on that basis and it was in easy mode and giving me loads of points, I'd want to continue to see what sort of score I could get; I imagine that is what our mystery man (let us call him "PP" ;-)) has done here. When I set my (comparatively feeble) PB of about 15k, it didn't take that long to get from 6k up to 15k, so I imagine the 30k game might have been quicker than one might immediately imagine, so even on a "time and motion" basis I don't find PP's achievement that bizarre.

[Istenem]

as a slightly spooky coincidence, i'm just back from breaking the world record for playing monopoly. norris mcwhirter is too dead to verify it but one of his guinness BOWR minions was there to hand out the certificates and stage-manage camp photos.

apparently it will be on london tonight tonight. anyway, it is not as impressive as 30k on the SWP but chalks me up to three world records. if that Addlington girl deserves Her Majesty's recognition, surely i am will be Sir Istenem soon .

[fotherz]

What is the new mark?

[Istenem]

in case my previous message was too abstruse. this is what i was on about:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7583756.stm