{"id":4870,"date":"2011-12-02T15:48:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T15:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=4870"},"modified":"2011-12-02T16:44:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T16:44:09","slug":"the-bank-job-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=4870","title":{"rendered":"The Bank Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quickie, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/bankjob\"><strong>The Bank Job<\/strong> game is now online<\/a>, for your chance to go on the show in January.<\/p>\n<p>This is quite a fun game but at the same time extraordinarily frustrating:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two of you in a vault with 25 safety deposit boxes. Inside each one is either an amount of cash, a &#8216;steal&#8217; or nothing at all. The total cash equals \u00a3200,000.<\/li>\n<li>You both begin with 45 seconds on the clock. One of you is asked a multiple choice question. A right answer stops the clock and allows you to pick a box. A wrong answer means you get another question.<\/li>\n<li>The amount of money in the box is added to your case. You can then choose to either leave or play on. If you leave, you can&#8217;t accumulate any more cash, but i can&#8217;t be stolen either.<\/li>\n<li>Then your opponent gets to go.<\/li>\n<li>If you pick a &#8220;steal&#8221;, you automatically take the largest bundle of cash your opponent has.<\/li>\n<li>The winner is the person who escapes the vault with the most money. You can&#8217;t leave if your opponent has left and you&#8217;ve got less, and you lose if you run out of time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To qualify for the show you have to win two games during an alloted tournament slot.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fun, unless you keep getting relentlessly unlucky with the boxes (I hit three \u00a30s in the space of three questions, the next game against TV&#8217;s Daniel Peake I hit two large amounts of cash only to have them immediately stolen away, NNGH). Also there&#8217;s something correct yet *not quite right* about not being able to steal from people who have left, it means it&#8217;s quite difficult to catch up sometimes because the Steals become \u00a30s effectively. Maybe give them a chance to pick again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quickie, the The Bank Job game is now online, for your chance to go on the show in January. This is quite a fun game but at the same time extraordinarily frustrating: Two of you in a vault with 25 safety deposit boxes. Inside each one is either an amount of cash, a\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=4870\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-1gy","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}