E: 01/08 Lucozade £100,000 Challenge (Starts 12/05) Daily play

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jacquie3167

sldellar wrote: »

Does anyone else think it's highly suspicious that the top 30 or so people in the overall challenge have got scores of 8500 and above?
It seems pretty obvious to me that they are cheating on rather a grand scale!
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It's really beginning to get my goat - why are there always some people who have to cheat and take away the chance of a fair competition for the rest of us? It sucks the fun out of competing!

Hi sldellar,
Most of us taking part in this comp know that we are unlikely to win at the weekly and overall prize due to the cheating that is going on. We just hope that justice will see us winning a daily prize. Thankfully some of us have won in an honest style and to those people I applaud their wins :T:T

thingamaBob

sldellar wrote: »

Not worried, just having a morning rant at the unfairness of it all! :P Grrrrrr!

In fact, after I'd written that, I made up a fake registration persona to try and see if I could beat the system, and it seems that the scoring system is more complicated than in Thingamabob's post!

If you get all 5 questions correct you must get a bonus of more points, as for one round I got 993 points, and it took me much longer than 7 seconds to complete it! I didn't see how long it was, but it must have been around about a minute, so maybe you get 50 extra points?
For other rounds, where I got at least one question wrong, it did seem that the system was 200 points per question then minus the number of seconds it took.

But still, getting 5 out of 5 every week simply must take a little bit of cheating between friends!

I'm still stuck as to what the telephone dialling ones meant!

To be "cheating" you need to be breaking the rules.
As this competition allows multiple entries from one household, it is not actually cheating for one person to play the competition while other members of the family (or friends) are watching and noting the questions. They then simply have to work out the correct answers and enter as quickly as possible. Quite within the rules. Whether it is "fair" or not is another question.
As jacquie3167 says, most of us accepted fairly early on that we wouldn't win the weekly or overall prizes but hoped to win the daily draw.
You may be right that there is a bonus for getting all 5 right as this would explain some of the exceptionally high scores but I wasn't really looking at how scoring was working on the few occaisions that I managed all 5.

phill79

thingamaBob wrote: »

To be "cheating" you need to be breaking the rules.
As this competition allows multiple entries from one household, it is not actually cheating for one person to play the competition while other members of the family (or friends) are watching and noting the questions. They then simply have to work out the correct answers and enter as quickly as possible. Quite within the rules. Whether it is "fair" or not is another question.

Totally agree. I didn't hear many people complain when everyone was winning the Big Snap search multiple times and not allowing other people to win. Totally within the rules, just not really in the spirit of the game.

jacquie3167

phill79 wrote: »

Totally agree. I didn't hear many people complain when everyone was winning the Big Snap search multiple times and not allowing other people to win. Totally within the rules, just not really in the spirit of the game.

Personally I think the Big Snap was a totally different type of competition. I too conducted numerous searches for the duration of the competition but didn't win a thing. That didn't make me bitter towards those that won because it was a game of chance and those that did win numerous times put in as much effort if not more than those who didn't.
With this game only the Daily is a game of chance. But hey, it's not going to kill me if I don't win so I'm not bothered. Let's just enjoy the catchphrases!

rogart

Oooooooooooo, that's not nice for a Monday morning!
Thinking back to my long distance school days, I think it's 42, anyone agree?

toniq

Im not sure , wiki here is confusing, its too early xxx u r prob right rogart xxxx

rogart

Morning toni.

As I recall, frozen water expands, so 2lts of ice would be less than 2lts of water, so the answer would be 42.

Need my weetabix.:D

What happens to water when it's heated?

toniq

you have had too many weetabix to figure that out! well done!!!!!!!!!!!!
im going with ur 42 xxxxx

torianut

I agree with 42 - surely putting ice in hot water would mean a some evaporates too from the original 40 litres? therefore just less than 42 sound right - there can't be more surely??