QuizList

Yikes! Is this the way the year is going to go?  Have just spent a few minutes deleting from the listings pubs which have closed.   However, as I’ve said before, the grim economic times may well drive punters towards the prospect of some unearned money – a quiz win or jackpot, for example.  Expect a bigger concentration of people on the quizzes that remain extant.  Do not (I hope) expect Depression-style quiz marathons…

Anyway, to business. Congratulations to NC and PH for winning the first quiz of the year on 1 January.  I didn’t make it, being still in bed following the previous night.

The new year will bring a few additions to the site and one of them will be a section on quiz machine games.  I’ll be drawing together some of the things I’ve written about the games and also including a bit more information.  So, to complete my roundup of some of the more popular games, let’s conclude with ‘Deal or No Deal’.  ‘HAAA-LOOOO,’ says a virtual Noel Edmonds.  You’re given your target of points to reach (has ranged between 20000 and 72000)  pick your box, then you knock out a couple of others, then you answer questions and try to build up points.  At some stage you are offered a deal which will be well short of your target but you keep going.  Reach your target without crashing out and get through to the money board and win a few quid.  This is an okay game but it is a disaster if you knock out the £250,000 box – you are struggling from then on and probably better off starting from scratch.  There is also a version without questions and I cannot remember how that works.  Oh, and finally I remember a case where you are given supposedly ‘humorous’ alternatives from one of the other games – ‘Pub Quiz’ or ’1 versus 100′ – ‘Winston Churchill was renowned for having what in his mouth?  A. A big cigar  B. A baby’s dummy or C. A bloody great spliff.  Well, I warned you….