In my continuing series looking at the various games available on the money hungry pub quiz machine that is sitting down at your local pub, Im going to be focusing on my favourite game at the moment....The Colour of Money.
I never did see the original game show of this but the pub quiz machine version works as such. You are given an amount of credit you need to earn...typically in the region of 40,000 credits. You are presented with twenty boxes. Each box has a value of between 1,000 and 20,000. If you get the questions right when selecting the box you get the chance to earn it. The counter starts ticking up.....1,000, 2,000 etc and you have to decide when to stop it. Whatever value you stop it at you win, but if you let it go too high and it goes over the actual value of the box you loose that box. sounds complicated but really isnt and it gets very competitive and is so much fun to play with mates! You will be shouting "you should have stopped it there" at the poor pub quiz machine all night long!
The questions are typical pub quiz machine fare. They start out too easy, spend very little time in the medium range and then rocket to hard questions and "stoppers". (These being pub quiz machine questions that are designed to make you loose by making you guess impossible things). You either get 1-4 questions and you get a few lives to allow for error.
If you do get the required credit the whole game changes to the money game and the credits become money going from 10-£20 although the maximum win is £20 so even getting every box spot on would only be a twenty pound win.
Now although this is the best value for money game in terms of length and provides the most fun its still incredibly fixed.
Nearing the target credit? Expect every box to be four tough questions inside
Get a low target for credit? Expect a rough ride
On the money game? The 10p-90p boxes will be the first ones out.
Its all fixed but I tend to have won more on this than others, although by "won" I mean recouped more of my losses.
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