#38651

[beckyl]

Electronic games buzzers for a quiz night. Not entirely ridiculous, but I suggested they investigate cheap doorbells instead.

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[venta]

I actually think that's the most sensible of the ones you've posted here!

You'd have to do a bit of fiddling about with cheap doorbells - proper sets of quiz buzzers are a bit more complicated than just push-button-make-bell-go, because only the first button-push makes the bell go.

I've never seen them for sale, though, I've only seen home-made varieties.

[beckyl]

One doorbell per player, with different chimes was my take on the idea. Poundland was my suggestion for acquiring these.

[bellinghman]

Yep - the different tones are important. Or something to quickly indicate which one was pressed.

The tricky bit though is that cut-out - when two tones hit near simultaneously (quite possibly within 0.1 seconds of each other in such a game), then the ear is going to have real difficulties telling which actually did go first.

I've got to admit, if I were looking for this sort of thing, I'd ask online. But then I'm an online sort of person. If I wasn't, then a games shop does strike me as a fairly logical place to try, though I'd not expect them to have one, I'd just hope they could order one.

[korenwolf]

Never did find out who took those away from the 1996 convention.

[venta]

Relevant to nothing in particular, an Australian friend of mine posted this link on a mailing list the other day:

http://www.criticalmiss.com/issue10/CampaignRealMonopoly1.html

... you're obviously getting famous :)

[beckyl]

Yeah, I knew about that one. It was written something like five years ago, but recently got found by someone and appears to have gone a bit viral. I doubt I can go back and persuade Mr Nexus to drop and eg plug into the middle of it, but it's interesting to see what can be made of good old content!