The new Summer Cards are out. I looked at things very briefly, and to be honest, things look very similar to the Spring Card set. I don't remember in detail each card from last season's batch, but I do recognize that Card 1 is identical for the Summer set as it was for the Spring set (April 1st and July 1st both were on a Friday, so that might have helped make things easier for Buzztime). There are a lot of similarities in Card 16 too. Anyone able to confirm similarities, or duplication, in the cards between the Spring and Summer sets?

It seems strange that they completely wiped out Nth Degree from all of the cards. Are they trying to tell us that the game is going away, or is it just getting disrepected the same as the sports games?

Doesn't bother me at all to see Nth Degree wiped out. Wouldn't bother me at all if they do the same with the Lunchtime game.

I think the cards should be more heavily weighed towards Countdown and Buzztime Trivia. Sure it would be easier for the fanatics to complete the set, but lots of people never get past the first card and with more emphasis on Buzztime and Countdown many of them might be drawn in to participate. Not everybody can go out five nights a week to play, but if you only had to go out to play three or four premium games once or twice a week it could interest a much larger group and they might even start playing an additional night per week regularly.

Dude, what don't you understand about the fact it's difficult to complete all the cards. It's supposed to be! Otherwise everybody could and would do it. If it's too difficult for you then simply don't do it.

Regardless, you play trivia for one reason only, to win the game. Period. Otherwise why keep score? And if that's the case, who gives a shit about completing silly cards? Those will take care of themselves.

BO

I do finish the cards rather quickly, but I enjoy complaining about the inconvenience of doing so. Still is the purpose of the cards to be a difficult challenge for some or to encourage overall increased play for the masses and introduce them to other games thay may like?

An example of the cards getting people out to the bars to play.

http://www.buzztime.com/players/bt_hof_ ... &sid=36876

Or not. What's it going to take for BT to do something about the mobile PM?

Funny thing is, I see games completed (BT or CD for example) by iHack monkeys on their card profile, but their score doesn't show up in their score profile, even with all games/game history selected.

BO

Very interesting. I looked at your example and found Cokoo to be on card six. Looking at his gameplay history he has never played SciFi, but it is marked off as a game he has played on his reward cards. A number of games marked off on his cards as played don't show up on his gameplay history.

Which happens when you phone it in and hit buttons without any right questions.

Back in the day, you didn't get P+ points unless you got at least one question correct. I don't know if that rule still applies today

So it would take phone users no more than 4-5 questions (on average) to get one question correct instead of answering just one question. But at least it would take a lil' more effort (again, albeit very lil').

Yeah that's is still the rule. Must answer one or more to complete your game on your card.



Unless they are at one bar and login to another and the lag between the bars gets the smartphone smarties the avantage.

From my experience all you need to do is answer 1 question. It does not matter if you get it right

Generally, if I played remotely, and answered one question incorrectly, I would get credit for a game played, but not always. There was one instance, a Saturday game this past winter, where I logged in, answered five questions for zero points and received no credit for the game. Many will say that's how it should be, and I won't disagree. But BT should at least be consistent.

-- RWM

I think as far as cards go, the only game where you have to get the answer right or wrong (you can't get a 0) is Speed Freaks.