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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: GSNFAN3000 on February 12, 2008, 02:20:38 AM
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Here's the link....
Now you can play a single-player version of the game with online leaderboard!!!
http://www.crosswords.tv/games-downloads/download/ (http://\"http://www.crosswords.tv/games-downloads/download/\")
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"All the beat-the-clock, fast action game play that has made the TV show an international hit!"
Where? Germany? France? Sure as hell would explain the David Hasselhoff and Jerry Lewis things.
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Maybe they just mean that some Canadian stations air it. :P
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For $40 a year, you can do pretty much the same thing at the New York Times website, but with much better crosswords.
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I downloaded it and played a round...very interesting take on the game.
The "Buzzword" theme plays the entire time as background music.
How the spoiler system works: If you miss a clue in rounds 2 or 3, your money is taken away by some multiple of the clue value (looks like 3x the clue). I think. It wasn't all that clear.
I made the bonus, and had exactly *4* blanks, which was solved with two words. And I won a trip to London. Weeeee!
Crosswords Extras, unless I didn't do something right, only allow wagers of $50, half your score, or your entire score.
Decent game, but not to pay for it.
EDIT: There are getaways. You have to earn them after they are called, though.
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[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'177644\' date=\'Feb 12 2008, 08:36 AM\']
Crosswords Extras, unless I didn't do something right, only allow wagers of $50, half your score, or your entire score.
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Nope, you didn't do anything wrong. That's the way they have it set up.
Also, just for a reference, the Getaways and Grand Prize Trip are worth the exact same amount ($500). Just thought I'd relay.
Not a bad game...I might buy it when my trial's done, I don't know. Probably won't, but I did enjoy it.
EDIT 2: Upon further review, strike the previous statement. Also, the longer you play and more you play and win, the higher the level goes and the higher the stakes are (including in the bonus game and Getaway trips). There are three extras in all three rounds, too.
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Additions: You can turn off the complex spoiler system for the game and just play solo. Definitely a big help.
The bonus is a little more complex than what I thought...you can't call for your own clue...after you "pass", it automatically goes to another clue. I ran into a problem where it alternated between the two clues for the same letter for a good long while before it shot me over to another part of the board.
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BTW: What is the font used for "Merv Griffin's Crosswords" Crosswords Round, please?
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[quote name=\'GSNFAN3000\' post=\'177752\' date=\'Feb 13 2008, 01:30 AM\']
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BTW: What is the font used for "Merv Griffin's Crosswords" Crosswords Round, please?
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Rant mode coming...
Why do you want do know that?
Who knows that?
And if you do, why do you know that?
(Sorry...not in much of a minutia mood.)
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[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'177753\' date=\'Feb 12 2008, 10:42 PM\']
Why do you want do know that?[/quote]
I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say "because he does."
(It might well be for a stupid reason. But there are a lot of questions we've asked here for stupid reasons.)
Who knows that?
A friend of mine works in typesetting and is quite the font geek. There is a good chance he would know, since he's helped me with similar issues in the past.
And if you do, why do you know that?
Because he literally makes it his business to?
(Sorry, not in much of a minutia mood.)
Apparently.
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[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'177753\' date=\'Feb 13 2008, 01:42 AM\']
[quote name=\'GSNFAN3000\' post=\'177752\' date=\'Feb 13 2008, 01:30 AM\']
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BTW: What is the font used for "Merv Griffin's Crosswords" Crosswords Round, please?
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rant snipped[/quote]
Actually, I'm into fonts myself, so it's a curiously valid question.
GSNFAN, I haven't seen the game itself yet, just screenshots, so that looks like Arial. If the game uses the same font as the show, that would be Gotham.
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Well, at least the uninstall process was effortless. The program itself, though... eeesh. Just not much of anything there to make me want to play it again, much less purchase it.
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[quote name=\'Sodboy13\' post=\'177766\' date=\'Feb 13 2008, 05:30 AM\']
Well, at least the uninstall process was effortless.[/quote]
Yeah, say what you will about Oberon (and I have, and I will), but their installer is pretty solid, and is delightfully Vista-friendly...
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It's just okay to me. Pat Sajak's Lucky Letters is waaaay better.
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[quote name=\'rollercoaster87\' post=\'177797\' date=\'Feb 13 2008, 02:54 PM\']
It's just okay to me. Pat Sajak's Lucky Letters is waaaay better.
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Yes. I do like the Crosswords game, but with Lucky Letters you can tell that they put a lot more effort into it.
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[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'177799\' date=\'Feb 13 2008, 12:24 PM\']
Yes. I do like the Crosswords game, but with Lucky Letters you can tell that they put a lot more effort into it.
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Well, this is what happens when one game is an original concept and the other is a hastily-build capitalization on a license, right? Same reason console games of movie and TV licenses almost universally suck.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'177802\' date=\'Feb 13 2008, 03:34 PM\']
[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'177799\' date=\'Feb 13 2008, 12:24 PM\']
Yes. I do like the Crosswords game, but with Lucky Letters you can tell that they put a lot more effort into it.
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Well, this is what happens when one game is an original concept and the other is a hastily-build capitalization on a license, right? Same reason console games of movie and TV licenses almost universally suck.
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Key word, Chris...ALMOST. I do enjoy other PC and console versions of game show games, and from what I can tell about the ones that I do like nearly all of them at least had some effort put into making them (Crosswords, actually, is one of the few...the early NES Wheel games and the SNES Jeopardy are on that list too.)
No argument from me on the movie and other TV program license games...most of those blow chunks.
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[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'177804\' date=\'Feb 13 2008, 12:38 PM\']
Key word, Chris...ALMOST.[/quote]
Well, yes, that's why I used it. There is always possibility for any game not to suck, and I'd be a fool if I sat here and made a blanket statement like that.
(The possibility of a GS game not sucking is usually inversely proportional to the likelihood that it was produced by Destination Software, for example. :)
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'177802\' date=\'Feb 13 2008, 03:34 PM\']
Same reason console games of movie and TV licenses almost universally suck.
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Wasn't this known as "E.T.-on-the-Atari-2600 Syndrome" at one time?
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[quote name=\'dzinkin\' post=\'177810\' date=\'Feb 13 2008, 01:04 PM\']
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'177802\' date=\'Feb 13 2008, 03:34 PM\']
Same reason console games of movie and TV licenses almost universally suck.
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Wasn't this known as "E.T.-on-the-Atari-2600 Syndrome" at one time?
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It certainly started there. :)
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[quote name=\'davemackey\' post=\'177636\' date=\'Feb 12 2008, 04:35 AM\']
For $40 a year, you can do pretty much the same thing at the New York Times website, but with much better crosswords.
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or do one better. Buy the New York Times Crosswords Ninty DS game for $20, where you get 1,000 puzzles.
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I can add some more gameplay information to the PC game:
- You get new levels unlocked after winning certain amounts of money during the game. The new levels increase the difficulty of the puzzles as well as increase the dollar values of the clues.
- They say there's 53 puzzles in the first level, but repeat is high. I've played six games and got a repeat of one.
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[quote name=\'TravisP\' post=\'177941\' date=\'Feb 15 2008, 12:33 PM\']
or do one better. Buy the New York Times Crosswords Ninty DS game for $20, where you get 1,000 puzzles.
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Whether that's one better is debatable. There are MUCH more than 1,000 puzzles on the NYT deal, and Across Lite is a much better client than the interface on the DS game. (That said, the DS game is portable.)
They serve different markets. :)