Broadcasting Magazine

[golden-road]

More questions:

Was there any bonus for a winning line including the star?

What prizes were won if the star was hit on the first turn; just the ones already revealed?

Could you clarify what "the used squares didn't go out of the shuffle" meant?

[JasonA1]

What prizes were won if the star was hit on the first turn; just the ones already revealed?

That's a good question, and I assume now that was part of the point of staking the game with headstart prizes (the other part being to speed up the game). I only saw portions of Banko, so I don't remember some of the finer details you're after. But your guesses make sense.

Could you clarify what "the used squares didn't go out of the shuffle" meant?

Whereas in the front game you couldn't hit a revealed square again, the bonus light traveled across all the squares - blank or not. Thus, the Thing To Avoid in this bonus game was a blank square.

One neat bit of strategy was the square that gave your opponent a free turn. You (as the spinner) chose when they took it. Ergo, if you had 3 spins left, and Banko wasn't possible with just 1 spin, it would be wise to let the opponent take their free turn before you finished your 3.

-Jason

[golden-road]

What prizes were won if the star was hit on the first turn; just the ones already revealed?

That's a good question, and I assume now that was part of the point of staking the game with headstart prizes (the other part being to speed up the game). I only saw portions of Banko, so I don't remember some of the finer details you're after. But your guesses make sense.

Could you clarify what "the used squares didn't go out of the shuffle" meant?

Whereas in the front game you couldn't hit a revealed square again, the bonus light traveled across all the squares - blank or not. Thus, the Thing To Avoid in this bonus game was a blank square.

One neat bit of strategy was the square that gave your opponent a free turn. You (as the spinner) chose when they took it. Ergo, if you had 3 spins left, and Banko wasn't possible with just 1 spin, it would be wise to let the opponent take their free turn before you finished your 3.

-Jason

One more question; do you remember what the endgame money goal was?

[Fan4Sure]

Hey, JasonA1. Will you explain the rules of "Bogus", please?

[JasonA1]

One more question; do you remember what the endgame money goal was?

No.

-Jason

[Matt Ottinger]

Hey, JasonA1. Will you explain the rules of "Bogus", please?

See, Jason?  This is how it starts.

[Steve Gavazzi]

I had a good laugh at Jason's reply before I realized he wasn't responding to Fan4Sure.

[clemon79]

Hey, JasonA1. Will you explain the rules of "Bogus", please?

See, Jason?  This is how it starts.

I gotta know, for every one of these you let through, how many do you reject?

[Matt Ottinger]

Hey, JasonA1. Will you explain the rules of "Bogus", please?

See, Jason?  This is how it starts.

I gotta know, for every one of these you let through, how many do you reject?

Three or four, probably.  He really doesn't stop.

[JasonA1]

Hey, JasonA1. Will you explain the rules of "Bogus", please?

See, Jason?  This is how it starts.

You mean Fan4Sure is a SENTIENT BEING!?!?

Point taken though.

-Jason

[Matt Ottinger]

You mean Fan4Sure is a SENTIENT BEING!?!?

Actually, I'm not sure.  I think a pretty simple subroutine could be written to create the questions he asks on our forum.  

Hey, <respondent>, <who hosted> and/or <what are the rules for> <unsold pilot>?

It's pretty predictable.  All he does is ask for oddly specific information, but whenever we ask him anything (like how he seems to know so much about unsold pilots in the first place), the subroutine appears to shut down.

[PYLdude]

I think a pretty simple subroutine could be written to create the questions he asks on our forum.  

Hey, <respondent>, <who hosted> and/or <what are the rules for> <unsold pilot>?

It's pretty predictable.  All he does is ask for oddly specific information, but whenever we ask him anything (like how he seems to know so much about unsold pilots in the first place), the subroutine appears to shut down.

And if you do it to him on his YouTube page, he gets really bent out of shape. (I'm sure he does here too, but we just never see it.)

The big thing with him for awhile was that he was asking "does anyone have this, Yet?" or something along those lines (and he still does that to certain degrees- right now he's been harping on the fourth episode of Caesars Challenge). A few people (myself included) kept needling him to post a video, if you remember. The funny thing is that when he finally did in September of last year, he uploaded a video of Password Plus that the audio was totally beyond out of sync with.

/so Mr. Matte' now needs to update the MGHS Hour of Fail vids with "now with 1 vid!" or something next time out
//if he hasn't done so already, of course

[Fan4Sure]

Will anybody know about "Double Up" hosted by Jamie Farr from "M*A*S*H"?

[JasonA1]

One more question; do you remember what the endgame money goal was?

Actually, it came back to me - the bonus was not to a money goal. The goal was to make "Banko" again. The problem was with getting credit for all duplicates of the amount you hit. It created a situation where the spaces that made five-in-a-row weren't readily apparent. There was no handy dandy "THIS SPACE IS A WIN" markings like Woolery Lingo had.

-Jason

[golden-road]

One more question; do you remember what the endgame money goal was?

Actually, it came back to me - the bonus was not to a money goal. The goal was to make "Banko" again. The problem was with getting credit for all duplicates of the amount you hit. It created a situation where the spaces that made five-in-a-row weren't readily apparent. There was no handy dandy "THIS SPACE IS A WIN" markings like Woolery Lingo had.

-Jason

So basically the goal was to get a line of squares in any direction... but it could be impossible to do so. Taking into account that this is B&E we're talking about, why does this seem familiar?