That some of the blue playmakers need refurbishing or replacing, I won't argue.
But please don't take them away for the tablets!
I tend to play by touch. I place my finger on the little post on the box, then slide it down to the "2." Then I can easily move it to 1, 3, 4, or 5, all without looking.
On the tablets, there is no texture. In fact, the answers are so close to each other that there's little room for error, and lots of corrections of where the finger has touched the wrong answer, slowing me down.
I'll gladly take a playmaker over a tablet anytime I have that option.
(And that's without mentioning that I like to play Shark Attack between games! Why it's not available on the tablets is beyond me.)
--Rick Magnus
RickM, Blue Goose
BLZBUB wrote:
Another group deserving of a gift are all those locations that have been operating at least five years with the blue Playmakers. Special consideration should be given to the hinterlands of this great nation that see a tech service rep about as often as a solar eclipse. The blue boxes should either be rotated out with refurbished machines or, better yet, replaced with the new tablets. This would help reduce dead-battery frustration during the…