Talk:Hit Me
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[edit] Can skill guarantee a win?
In the Clock Game, knowledge of binary search assures the player of victory. Here, knowledge of multiplication tables (especially 1 and 10) can guarantee the player a Blackjack without breaking a sweat.
- ...except that they can have more than one item that could conceivably be the 10. They can't really do anything comparable in Clock Game. -TPIRFanSteve 02:32, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
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- Messy Thinking 23:09, 10 December 2006 (UTC) ...except that the result then would be a 20. You definitely do not want to hit on a 20, and I haven't seen a playing that had two aces.
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- And that is not what I said. Read the statement again. -TPIRFanSteve 05:50, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
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- This is an old argument, but I thought I'd pipe in that the original premise is flawed. Knowledge of binary search assures a player nothing in Clock Game. It may ensure that you don't make any stupid guesses, but you must still execute the search fast enough to beat the clock. Just like knowledge of blackjack "ensures victory" in Hit Me because the contestant knows to get an ace and a ten... but they still have to actually execute it properly, or conversely, multiplication tables "ensure victory"... but only if the contestant executes properly by looking for the ace and the ten.
[edit] Its retirement status?
I went to Golden-road.net and its forums, and I heard that Hit Me is going to be retired. So I looked around, tried to find reviews of the game in "Active Games" forum, yet there's nothing. However, I heard the thread is in the "Retired Games" section, which is likely possible that this game met its end. I don't know if it's true or not and I did not care for this game very much, but the point is that it should not retire. --Gh87 23:53, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, Gh87, but Hit Me is headed for Pricing Game Heaven:
The game was becoming too confusing for some contestants.
Regarding this statement: Hit Me was the last pricing game to be retired during Barker's tenure as host. Isn't it actually Penny Ante?Raymondluxuryacht 18:45, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
- Depends how technical you want to get. Penny Ante's official retirement was announced after Hit Me's, but its last playing came four years and four months before Hit Me's. -TPIRFanSteve 02:02, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
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- I'll add a slight clarification to both games on this point TheHYPO 08:24, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Too Confusing?
Oh please. The game to me is simpler to understand than Check Game (I believe I could successfully explain the rules there if Barker challenged me). Basic math skills are all the game required. It probably had too high a win percentage and no ethical way for the producers to make it harder to win Dwp49423 16:44, 9 November 2006 (UTC).
- Basic math skills are also something that a large portion of the population doesn't possess. The game had a fine win percentage, but a lower percentage than you'd expect of wins via blackjacks. The game's actually been "on the chopping block," so to speak, for a couple of years because of the exact reason you've just stated you don't believe -- contestants didn't know how to play it properly, and it made for bad television. You can continue to think that it was retired because of its win-loss record if you want, but you're not going to get any less wrong. -TPIRFanSteve 02:08, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
