Winning Streak
Now this is a strange one.
The whole concept behind Winning Streak is that it's you buy some scratch cards, then send them in, to possibly get on the TV show & win lots of money on-air.
Now, this is the vexing thing -- this particular "game show" is terrible!
To start, the presenter introduces each of the 5 contestants, they give us a quick run-down of all the people they know & dragged along (cue quick shot to audience, complete with home-made "GO MICHAEL!!"-type posters) and then the game is on. And what a game it is!
...
I don't even know how to start. There's a round where the contestants are asked, one after the other, to pick a number from 1 to 5. That's it. And they win 1000's of Euro, or even a car!
Then, we have a series of "rounds" where each contestant comes up to a massive touchscreen (it looks to be made of 4 LCD panels) and -- does nothing harder than pick a "destination" in Ireland for a little robot-thing to travel to. Then, once the animation (crude, repeated and, most bizarrely, prone to slow-down!) is finished, they pick from 3-7 little icons & win a prize -- cash, a car, or a holiday. That's it -- no skill, no questions, just "I'll pick the diamond/bell/ugly-as-hell-cat" -- the only possible "challenge" occurs when there's the slim possibility that the contestant can get a better prize.
The show actually goes on for a quite a bit (with lots of whooping and whistling from the crowd), but to tell you the truth, I just couldn't take much more of this. There's no challenge here -- it's all just fluff to cover up some terrible animations, an excuse to use large touchscreens (which contestants have trouble operating), and a computer-generated (and, possibly, remote-controlled) random prize generator to make up for lack of any good game design. In other words, perfect for the National Lottery to make you gamble money.
(p.s.: I apologise in advance about the terrible writing style -- hopefully, I'll get better as the weeks go on!)
The whole concept behind Winning Streak is that it's you buy some scratch cards, then send them in, to possibly get on the TV show & win lots of money on-air.
Now, this is the vexing thing -- this particular "game show" is terrible!
To start, the presenter introduces each of the 5 contestants, they give us a quick run-down of all the people they know & dragged along (cue quick shot to audience, complete with home-made "GO MICHAEL!!"-type posters) and then the game is on. And what a game it is!
...
I don't even know how to start. There's a round where the contestants are asked, one after the other, to pick a number from 1 to 5. That's it. And they win 1000's of Euro, or even a car!
Then, we have a series of "rounds" where each contestant comes up to a massive touchscreen (it looks to be made of 4 LCD panels) and -- does nothing harder than pick a "destination" in Ireland for a little robot-thing to travel to. Then, once the animation (crude, repeated and, most bizarrely, prone to slow-down!) is finished, they pick from 3-7 little icons & win a prize -- cash, a car, or a holiday. That's it -- no skill, no questions, just "I'll pick the diamond/bell/ugly-as-hell-cat" -- the only possible "challenge" occurs when there's the slim possibility that the contestant can get a better prize.
The show actually goes on for a quite a bit (with lots of whooping and whistling from the crowd), but to tell you the truth, I just couldn't take much more of this. There's no challenge here -- it's all just fluff to cover up some terrible animations, an excuse to use large touchscreens (which contestants have trouble operating), and a computer-generated (and, possibly, remote-controlled) random prize generator to make up for lack of any good game design. In other words, perfect for the National Lottery to make you gamble money.
(p.s.: I apologise in advance about the terrible writing style -- hopefully, I'll get better as the weeks go on!)
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