I think I finally figured it out last night. It appears to happen immediately after the Bud Light questions. I had it occur again last night at a completely separate bar, and, again, was poker player names.

We had the exact same thing happen during Six as well. No one was playing poker at my place so I have no idea where the names came from. Mine new name was something like Dan_H. I've never seen anyone by that name at my bar, either playing trivia or poker. Anyway, hitting 'menu' then hitting 'Play Six' corrected the problem. Before we figured out what happened one of the guys I was sitting with assumed his box was on the same frequency as another box and made a mad dash to swap out boxes smack in the middle of the Marathon round. Fun times.

Our boxes continued to give credit to our real names on the trivia board, but said the wrong name on the box itself.

The only way to get your name back was to log off and back on again.

We experienced this at two locations last week. Call us lazy, but we didn't implement any 'fixes' at all. The names seem to just change back on their own, and the scores aren't affected. So, although this thing might portend trouble in the future, I don't see the problem in the here and now.

One thing, though...lewser's post here was about an entirely different problem, one we've experienced on rare occasions as well. All of a sudden your box will be under a fellow player's name, and apparently it stays that way all game. For purposes of team play it hasn't hurt us too bad, if at all, but it's a glitch as far as individuals are concerned, and quite the weird phenomenon. Has been rare, though, like I said.

Now, a far worse problem that we've been experiencing has been 'ghost boxes,' and this has happened probably in every location we've been. You log in, your box tells you after every question how many pts. you got for that q, but no total score or rank, and you or somebody else eventually notice that your name isn't up on the screen. You in fact don't exist. We've reached the tentative conclusion that it happens when you log in too close to the start of a game.

I've noticed the "ghost box" thing with the "legacy" games like Speed and Showdown that are still on the old system. It has happened to me when I logged in too close to the beginning of the game (as you said) or after the game has started. If you do a quick Menu/Play, it seems to fix the problem.

Thanks for the suggestion. Any chance you keep the points you'd accumulated up 'til then?

Nope. Gone into the ether.

Must only happen to two-channel sites, we haven't had any problems at our single-channel location.

(Bugz has a couple of boxes in for repair and we had an abundance of players and ran out, so I used my own E-bay box tonight and managed to program it for an in-service box number and caused a bit of confusion. In my own defense I asked everyone what their playmaker numbers were and programmed mine accordingly. Somebody lied! )

We experienced this at two locations last week. Call us lazy, but we didn't implement any 'fixes' at all. The names seem to just change back on their own, and the scores aren't affected. So, although this thing might portend trouble in the future, I don't see the problem in the here and now.

One thing, though...lewser's post here was about an entirely different problem, one we've experienced on rare occasions as well. All of a sudden your box will be under a fellow player's name, and apparently it stays that way all game. For purposes of team play it hasn't hurt us too bad, if at all, but it's a glitch as far as individuals are concerned, and quite the weird phenomenon. Has been rare, though, like I said.

Now, a far worse problem that we've been experiencing has been 'ghost boxes,' and this has happened probably in every location we've been. You log in, your box tells you after every question how many pts. you got for that q, but no total score or rank, and you or somebody else eventually notice that your name isn't up on the screen. You in fact don't exist. We've reached the tentative conclusion that it happens when you log in too close to the start of a game.

I'm not sure if we're on the same page on this one, but it's a problem that I have reported to BT several times. I've noticed that at several sites, once someone logs into a box, it isn't available until after the premium games are over. This is especially true on Tuesdays. It starts with Brainbuster and continues through Speed. Once someone logs into a certain box, that box doesn't record scores until after Speed is finished. Even though the player logs out, another player can pick up the box and play without getting his scores displayed or recorded. In fact, the player's name will not even be seen. In addition, the original player can log back in and play. That score will be accepted and the PM will function normally.

Now, a far worse problem that we've been experiencing has been 'ghost boxes,' and this has happened probably in every location we've been. You log in, your box tells you after every question how many pts. you got for that q, but no total score or rank, and you or somebody else eventually notice that your name isn't up on the screen. You in fact don't exist. We've reached the tentative conclusion that it happens when you log in too close to the start of a game.

I'm not sure if we're on the same page on this one, but it's a problem that I have reported to BT several times. I've noticed that at several sites, once someone logs into a box, it isn't available until after the premium games are over. This is especially true on Tuesdays. It starts with Brainbuster and continues through Speed. Once someone logs into a certain box, that box doesn't record scores until after Speed is finished. Even though the player logs out, another player can pick up the box and play without getting his scores displayed or recorded. In fact, the player's name will not even be seen. In addition, the original player can log back in and play. That score will be accepted and the PM will function normally.

Huh? You keep all of your points when this happens. Happened to me well over ten times tonight.

Oh, wow. So, I guess on Mr_Ale/Lewser/Your/My posts that's like 3 different messed up problems?

FWIW, I seem to remember having what you reported happen a few weeks ago on a Thursday. I thought I just had a bad box.