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Old 22-01-2016, 16:57
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What a disaster, 4 out of 6 questions wrong in the final round. Why on earth would he have guessed "Final Will" in the last question? I think 99 out of 100 would have guessed the Notebook.
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Old 22-01-2016, 16:59
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What an absolutely APPALLING display of general knowledge that was by Gerry!
Melvin the Martian? Apple Photoshop? Alan Turing's final will?!

HOW DID HE WIN £3,100?!!
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Old 22-01-2016, 17:46
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What an absolutely APPALLING display of general knowledge that was by Gerry!
Melvin the Martian? Apple Photoshop? Alan Turing's final will?!

HOW DID HE WIN £3,100?!!
That damn x2 counter. That needs to be removed as it is so unfair.
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Old 22-01-2016, 17:59
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What a disaster, 4 out of 6 questions wrong in the final round. Why on earth would he have guessed "Final Will" in the last question? I think 99 out of 100 would have guessed the Notebook.
Sometimes they put an obvious one in there to trick you, not sure how many counters that was for though, if it was two I would have definitely thought notebook.
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Old 22-01-2016, 18:06
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Sometimes they put an obvious one in there to trick you, not sure how many counters that was for though, if it was two I would have definitely thought notebook.
It was for 3 counters. The guy was an idiot.
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Old 26-01-2016, 11:46
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What an absolutely APPALLING display of general knowledge that was by Gerry!
Melvin the Martian? Apple Photoshop? Alan Turing's final will?!

HOW DID HE WIN £3,100?!!
The Martian question was really tough so I can't call him out on that but generally he was very poor.

The best quizzer seldom wins on Tipping Point. The machine is set up such that the first few counters seldom pay out which means the contestants who don't answer the first questions go later and cash in on a stacked shelf - often that is enough for them to win the whole game in the first round.

The game would be much improved if they reset the score at each round - they could still take the total into the final round.
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Old 26-01-2016, 11:55
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However by answering the first couple of questions, you can play tactically and pass to another player, hoping they will waste a counter. If you don't answer, there is a chance that it will be passed to you, with the same consequence.

I don't see how resetting the score on each round would improve anything. Apart from anything it would reduce the final winnings.
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Old 26-01-2016, 12:18
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You should have seen the girl on the Chase on Tuesday. She was studying French and Italian and couldn't say more than bonjour and ciao. Her general knowledge was shocking. She didn't get one question right:

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz-t...rst-contestant
I watched that. She should hang her head in shame and embarrassment. I think it's got to the stage where we can no longer laugh at daft, stupid, air headed Americans giving out moronic answers in quiz shows because now we've got imbeciles that are equally as empty headed.
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Old 26-01-2016, 14:00
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I don't see how resetting the score on each round would improve anything. Apart from anything it would reduce the final winnings.
It would mean that a lucky drop in the first round wouldn't be sufficient to win the game. Frequently the person who gets a lucky drop then either wins directly from that or gets choice of goes in the 2nd and further increases their lead making the 3rd round irrelevant. Resetting the total means you can't win just from one lucky drop in round 1 you have to get through 3 rounds and the tension would last much longer, currently you could often just go straight through to the final round as we already know the winner.

No it wouldn't reduce the final winnings as the total would be restored for the final round. (Actually reducing the winnings wouldn't be a bad thing in my book but it isn't neccesary for this rule change).

However by answering the first couple of questions, you can play tactically and pass to another player, hoping they will waste a counter. If you don't answer, there is a chance that it will be passed to you, with the same consequence.
Yes you can do that but it doesn't always work. The problem with the first round is that it is designed to be largely random as to who wins it but at the same time the winner is already determined by the time the 2nd round happens just from one lucky drop.
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Old 26-01-2016, 16:21
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Deary me today. A total of four correct answers between the three of them in the second round.
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Old 26-01-2016, 16:21
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"St Patrick banished snakes from which European country?"

"Spain."


This show defies belief sometimes.
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Old 26-01-2016, 16:28
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"Manuel Valls is prime minister of which European country?"

Africa

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Old 26-01-2016, 16:30
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What a poor bunch today. Tracy keeps passing everything she can and non of them seem capable of answering the questions.

What's Roy doing there?
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Old 26-01-2016, 16:31
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Not as bad as the duffer who won yesterday who guessed a four parter was a trilogy.

He then failed to guess that sodium carbonate contains, err, carbon.

They inhabit a world of their own.

Old Roy on today's game did well to get his name right.
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Old 26-01-2016, 16:39
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Who's Tracy going to pass to in the final round?

Ben maybe?
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Old 26-01-2016, 16:53
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We have a greedy one!,lol
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Old 26-01-2016, 16:54
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She's not going to win.
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Old 26-01-2016, 16:54
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Oh look, the greed got the better of her, silly woman.
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Old 26-01-2016, 16:57
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No I idea why she went into drop zone two with the one counter or she didnt have a think about how many edges are on a cube. Oh well it was her money and she gambled it away.
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Old 26-01-2016, 16:59
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How to throw £3,100 away in one easy lesson. I don't think she had a chance unless she got all three bonus counters in the right place to get the Jackpot counter over the edge as there was no counters in the exact right place to do it with less, then she wasted one in drop zone 2. Perhaps £3,100 didn't mean much to her.
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Old 26-01-2016, 17:00
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How to throw £3,100 away in one easy lesson. I don't think she had a chance unless she got all three bonus counters in the right place to get the Jackpot counter over the edge as there was no counters in the exact right place to do it with less. Perhaps £3,100 didn't mean much to her.
She looked well dressed and had expensive jewellery so that amount would probably mean nothing to her.
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Old 26-01-2016, 17:00
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Daft bint, no way was the jackpot counter going to drop, should have kept the 3 grand.
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Old 26-01-2016, 17:01
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She was a bit scatty and indecisive all the way through the programme.
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Old 26-01-2016, 17:07
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Agree with you all. What a bunch of idiots

Tracey should not have got the question photogenic right (I think that is what she said) As Photo + Graphy does not make that answer

None of them knew when to drop the counter so it didn't ride.

I need to stop watching this for the sake of my blood pressure
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Old 26-01-2016, 17:08
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Not as bad as the duffer who won yesterday who guessed a four parter was a trilogy.

He then failed to guess that sodium carbonate contains, err, carbon.

They inhabit a world of their own.

Old Roy on today's game did well to get his name right.
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