Fruit Machine Chat

there must be some out-of-the-way pubs with the old, old version of WU ripe for picking, last i heard there were still 2 in glasgow uni.

are the length bonuses really that low? so my 20 letter word is only going to score me 8 measly bonus points? that is really mean.

good post EWQ. quote 2: as i see it there are several ways to play this game, as you say, playing for profit is not financially rewarding (used to be though, £200 in a day was easy). DAVEJON seem to play for kudos within their own boozer, their tactics may be poor by your own criteria but by theirs ...

ta. i'll pop in one day next week. i've not got anywhere near my 20 letters yet, 10 was my best today. SUREFOOTED.

cheers HH, your reply makes sense i'd been thinking too linearly. can anyone verify? VB?
will keep the board posted if i manage the 20. if the computer doesn't recognise the word i will be very, very pissed off.

is the ucl bar open to the public? i work near there occasionally. the too-many useless Qs is annoying but what gets on my dandruff is that there seem to be so many words the machine doesn't know: zinnia and zebu for example and jete and aquae and ixia and God knows how many more. i am getting close...

in my work life i send competition prizes through royal mail. about 10% of them don't ever arrive. either the posties are dishonest or my prizewinners (joe public) are dishonest. let me think... anyhow, i hope your tix arrive JAC, but why you want to go and see a couple of coke-headed vulgarians cat...

oh God, yes. indie is r-hubbish,
that said the £1 play does give you a relatively easy win on your first go. (even if it is only £2)

okay, the latest absurd question, this one courtesy of pot the lot:

which club won the 3rd division's groundsman of the year award in 1990/91?

fyi; it was Cambridge Utd's

sorry but i disagree with this thread. personally i feel very humbled when i see certain types of people gamble on machines. some people, really cannot afford to play, but do so in the vain hope of winning a few quid. it is really cathartic. eg1. old boy on pension, drinks 1/2 pint and probably can'...

fact: in England alone, Conservatives polled more votes than labour or lib dem.

not making any comment, just found this interesting in the backdrop from yesterday.

maybe i was a bit clumsy in my choice of words; what i meant was that although i won £8 i lost the will to live. personally i find wwtbam terrifically dull, and spidey and mousetrap (although relatively easy to win a few quid) take so bloody looooooooong. at the moment i have a decent income from el...

QM, a couple of the big boys you refer to are guys i know. one of them goes by the name of hyena (axe on 3 letter games) and plays all over southern england. but some of my scores on word up were enough to make a hyena cry. anyway, i won a bit on a sh;tbox yesterday but it is a pyrrhic victory to ge...

completely off-topic but Alan Lomax once said (of the 1920's in USA):

"They squoze and they squoze and they produced another generation of pedants just like the generation of pedants they wanted to replace. But without the beautiful manners."

we all know that less is more when it comes to win potential. imo the paragon cabinets (upright machines, nine games with pint rests beneath edges of screen) have a brilliant selection at the moment. and i have had the best %age profit for a long time as well as actually enjoying playing on a choice...