I have fond memories of hacking the quizzes on Teletext as a kid.
You had four choices, represented just by colored buttons that matched up with the remote's buttons. All the page 'urls' were just numbers, but you couldn't tell what the number was before you pressed a button. Once you had, it would show up at the top for a few seconds while the TV waited for that page to be received.
The trick was there was only one wrong answer page, so if you hit a button and recognized its number, you still had a few seconds to select a different answer and progress.
I also used 5 fingers as bookmarks in Choose Your Own Adventure so I could jump backwards when I made a bad choice. Too bad these techniques never worked in real life!
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I have fond memories of hacking the quizzes on Teletext as a kid.
You had four choices, represented just by colored buttons that matched up with the remote's buttons. All the page 'urls' were just numbers, but you couldn't tell what the number was before you pressed a button. Once you had, it would show up at the top for a few seconds while the TV waited for that page to be received.
The trick was there was only one wrong answer page, so if you hit a button and recognized its number, you still had a few seconds to select a different answer and progress.
I also used 5 fingers as bookmarks in Choose Your Own Adventure so I could jump backwards when I made a bad choice. Too bad these techniques never worked in real life!