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- Mon Jan 19, 2015 3:22 pm
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: Are quiz machine winnings liable to tax?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6785
- Mon Jan 12, 2015 5:04 pm
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: Are quiz machine winnings liable to tax?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6785
Yes, but I presume you aren't giving away your winnings to charity at the end of each day? I had understood based on your previous posts that machining was your main or indeed only form of income, and if enough of the machines disappear, there must be a point where it is no longer practical to play ...
- Mon Jan 12, 2015 2:03 pm
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: Are quiz machine winnings liable to tax?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6785
Do you have a plan for what comes next, or does the machine loss rate have to get significantly worse for it to become a consideration? In the smaller towns near me - the ones where I can be pretty confident of knowing EVERY pub and machine, so can keep on top of all machine losses and pub closures ...
- Sun Jan 04, 2015 6:20 pm
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: Things that replace a quiz machine
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3002
I found five quiz machines gone yesterday that had all been there on my previous visit to the same medium-sized town six months ago. All had been replaced by either a fruit machine or nothing at all - just an empty space where the machine used to stand. At this rate it's going to become odd in years...
- Sun Dec 14, 2014 10:16 pm
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: Trivia Tube
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3119
It's frustrating. They have wasted whatever hours/days/weeks/months of development work it took to produce this one by making such a poor job of grading the questions. Unlike some games that are beyond help from the outset, this one at least had a chance at being a success but any of the regular pla...
- Mon Dec 01, 2014 11:32 am
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: Trivia Tube
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3119
I don't think the variable top prize (£5 or £10) is going to be much of a worry given how hard this game has been set from the very beginning - it's certainly hard enough to scare off the punters, and that is all that matters in the end. I suppose we should be grateful that there are clearly still a...
What is very noticeable for me these days is how unplayed most fruit machines are, most of the time. I play the quiz machines only, but this gives me a lot of time to observe how things are on 'the other side of the fence' and it is really common to see 6 or 7 machines in a pub and not one getting a...
- Wed Nov 05, 2014 8:49 pm
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: limited games on machines
- Replies: 32
- Views: 10437
- Wed Nov 05, 2014 1:54 pm
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: limited games on machines
- Replies: 32
- Views: 10437
I'm not prepared to risk running up significant sums] I do collect sectionally, as you say - I don't wait for a bank of £20 to build up and then start to collect smaller prizes, although sometimes of course a £20 win on a single game is still possible, e.g. on Battleships. Given that, I would assum...
- Tue Nov 04, 2014 4:15 pm
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: limited games on machines
- Replies: 32
- Views: 10437
- Tue Nov 04, 2014 1:19 pm
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: limited games on machines
- Replies: 32
- Views: 10437
Those are indeed the other issues that the industry as a whole seems completely unable to either care about or respond to: - faulty coin mechanisms are common, and it's not just the general issue that none of them have been updated to accept the newer design of 10ps and 5ps - payout failures - anywh...
- Mon Nov 03, 2014 10:27 am
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: limited games on machines
- Replies: 32
- Views: 10437
Seen one today that's lost Eliminator and Pointless amongst others. Think there were just 8 games available. I'm starting to see a few of these on my travels but they aren't widespread in my areas yet. What is much more of an issue is machines disappearing - I've just checked back and I have lost 2...
- Wed Jul 23, 2014 11:54 am
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: 6 pub day.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5529
Has it occurred to anyone that the machines are moved away from areas where pros play them all the time to geographical areas where they dont go to? I went to a provincial university student union last week and there were 5 machines there. There aren't any general areas where pros won't play, I can...
- Mon Jul 07, 2014 5:57 pm
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: 6 pub day.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5529
That might have been true in the past but it can't possibly be the case now. I've had a quick look at my records and I reckon that since about the start of 2012 I have lost around 70 machines in my immediate area (within about 30 minutes driving distance), and that is in an area with relatively few ...
- Thu Jun 19, 2014 12:25 pm
- Forum: Quiz Machines
- Topic: Pointless - Possible new update problem?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1028