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Right on time is on my open.

Do u have to guesstimate when 15 secs have passed etc?

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whiteswan wrote:Right on time is on my open.

Do u have to guesstimate when 15 secs have passed etc?
I'm pretty sure that's the one. A thought struck me when I first saw this one - why would you need to estimate if you had something as simple as say ... a digital watch on your wrist or your mobile? Presumably the game designers have thought of that possibility?
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NS - I was thinking that too, and I can't think of how they could stop you 'using your common sense'... Having not played this one yet, I'm not certain as to how it works. I wonder how accurate you have to be, whether the margin of error tightens dependant on how it's feeling?
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presumably they have invented their own unit of time with indivisibility cf. seconds.
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:lol: And would you put it past 'em? ;)
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I've played it once (make of that what you will with regards to how I rate it).

The first couple of rounds did seem to be seconds counting down, along the lines of it started at 20 seconds counted down (showing seconds, tenths and hundredths of a second) the clock dissapeared around 15 seconds remaining and the challenge was to press in the final 2 seconds.

On a later round (still before cash was offered) it started with something like 300.00 and disapeared around 250.00 however it was certainly not counting down in seconds, it seemed to count down at an arbitrary speed but I suppose it could have been 10 ticks per second in which case the watch would still be a useful tool.

The real stinker however was the window of time that it required the stop to be in, from memory it was less than 1.00 which would be tricky but doable if it were counting down in seconds, but at the faster speed that equated to a 1/10 second accuracy required for the win.

I'm sure I missed some key factors (perhaps score is increased the closer to 00.00 you stop within the target, which with good play could allow the early rounds to boost you to prize levels), however I found it so dull that I was not inclined to investigate further.
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Sounds like it stretches the S in SWP about as far as it's possible to go. Honestly, what's wrong with questions?
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Grecian's post reminds me; there was another game on the menu.
how far can you stretch skill..?

well, how about that rigged pixel stacker game? yep the one they have in wacky warehouses is coming soon to a test itbox near you :roll:
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That one has also appeared on the Gamesnets called something like Tile Stacka. Maybe Gamesnets are now the test bed for junk games before they are released onto the unsuspecting ItBox public.

Never mind all that, I have to ask the much more important question of guessing your latest avatar - is it a young Jesse Birdsall?
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nope, it is the dog who said "sausages" on that's life.

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Pixel Stacker? Is that some incarnation of that ridiculously fixed stacker game whereby getting to a certain height awards you a 'toy' with a sellability ( :) ) value of about 0.01p and getting to the next row awards you a Sat Nav / iPod?

I saw something ramming coins through one of those the other day whilst I was having lunch in a pub. It was a pound a pop (the game, not my lunch) and I counted upwards of 30 before I left. He had a stack of keyrings with him, but no iPod. Why not just not spend the money in the machine and pop down to Currys? Far cheaper... ;)

OT: At the beach the other week and some woman was getting ream(ed. End your reading here if you like!) after ream of tickets from some fruit machine and they were piled in a heap on the floor. After a while I had to go and ask. She said she was going to get a Nintendo DS for her son which was 20,000 tickets! She said she'd put £100 in so far that day...

...to get 5,000! :roll: :lol: :o
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