Fruit Machine Chat

Just been to the Two for One pub in Leicester for a meal. (Please dont hurt me Extreme Eddie! )

They had two machines, extreme manic muncher and mazooma Coronation Street. Was at the bar queing for a drink and there was a family of 5 in the queue behind me. There was boy that couldnt have been more than 10, maybe 11 years old. I heard his mum say to him "Did you win anything on the fruit machine?" to which he replied, "No i lost it all". His mum then went, "What, all £8?".

Of course, i didnt know which machine of the two they were talking about and i didnt particularly care as £8 isnt a great deal. I decided to go on Coronation street as this was my prefered choice anyway. Sure enough, as soon as i start playing the kid wanders over and says "I've just lost £8 in there". He was not a chav and was very polite and generally interested in watching me play the machine. I got offered a board from my first £1 and he looked really depresed and upset. The machine seemed dead anyway as i did the high low trick for a skill shuffle, only for it to shuffel some ? marks back in just 2 SPINS later. So i decided to make the kid feel a bit better and collected the £3 + repeat chance so he knew i would only make £2.

It only went and bloody repeated all the way up to £11 didnt it! Of course, i was happy but the kid looked really bothered about it! So i gave him a freebie and told him about the skill shuffel trick upon feature entry which seemed to cheer him up a bit.

Anyhoo, it was a good job he wandered off after this as i went on Manic Muncher. £4 in it offers a top for flat £25. The very next credit it offers a top again but for £15 only. I wasn't complaining with a £46 profit overall but was surprised to get a £15 top. I know Red machines can give £10 tops but i thought any other machine is guaranteed to be at least jackpot amount? Even reds dont give £15 tops do they?!?!? Is this normal for this machine?

I'm sure i've read somewhere that if it gives a top off the 3 cans it's not a guaranteed JP.

Oli wrote:Just been to the Two for One pub in Leicester for a meal. (Please dont hurt me Extreme Eddie! )

all yours mate, i don't bother with either m/c

that's really decent of you mate, if only there were more people like you out in the world. poor kid haha, what's the bet he'll end up losing 40 quid plus everyweekend like most of the others

What sort of pub lets 11 year olds play machines? What sort of MUM lets 11 year olds play pub machines! Any chance i could get a wee PM about the trick your talking about, would be much appreicated.

bowie wrote:What sort of pub lets 11 year olds play machines? What sort of MUM lets 11 year olds play pub machines! Any chance i could get a wee PM about the trick your talking about, would be much appreicated.

Probably a pub which is hoping to lose their alcohol/machine licence, or is after a warning.

Yeah what sort of mum would their their 11 yr old child play a pub machine?

bowie wrote:What sort of pub lets 11 year olds play machines? What sort of MUM lets 11 year olds play pub machines! Any chance i could get a wee PM about the trick your talking about, would be much appreicated.

Not really a trick, if it's what I think he's talking about. Just hi-lo the number when you get on the board. 99/100 times it will give it you, which awards a skill shuffle so you can get rid of any question marks.

On another note, how did £3 repeat to £11??

rocket wrote:

bowie wrote:What sort of pub lets 11 year olds play machines? What sort of MUM lets 11 year olds play pub machines! Any chance i could get a wee PM about the trick your talking about, would be much appreicated.

Not really a trick, if it's what I think he's talking about. Just hi-lo the number when you get on the board. 99/100 times it will give it you, which awards a skill shuffle so you can get rid of any question marks.

On another note, how did £3 repeat to £11??

Correct, all you have to do is high-low gamble (correctly) on the first square and it awards a skill shuffle (you need to hold cancel to slow it down) and you just use it to make sure there are no ? marks on the corner square. Thus resulting in the machine unable to kill you until it shuffles some ? marks back in. (Providng you dont high-low gamble of course )

Rocket, your forgetting that Mazooma's repeat chance coding allows a repeat of ANY amount, not the amount you collected. So i collected the £3 + repeat which credited me with £3 and then offered me a repeat chance. It gave me the repeat but awarded me with a £2.40 win. (Which bonused up to £3 to give £6 in total). It then repeated again and gave me £1 (£7 in total now) and then repeated again for a £4 win.

Oli wrote:

rocket wrote:

bowie wrote:What sort of pub lets 11 year olds play machines? What sort of MUM lets 11 year olds play pub machines! Any chance i could get a wee PM about the trick your talking about, would be much appreicated.

Not really a trick, if it's what I think he's talking about. Just hi-lo the number when you get on the board. 99/100 times it will give it you, which awards a skill shuffle so you can get rid of any question marks.

On another note, how did £3 repeat to £11??

Correct, all you have to do is high-low gamble (correctly) on the first square and it awards a skill shuffle (you need to hold cancel to slow it down) and you just use it to make sure there are no ? marks on the corner square. Thus resulting in the machine unable to kill you until it shuffles some ? marks back in. (Providng you dont high-low gamble of course )

Rocket, your forgetting that Mazooma's repeat chance coding allows a repeat of ANY amount, not the amount you collected. So i collected the £3 + repeat which credited me with £3 and then offered me a repeat chance. It gave me the repeat but awarded me with a £2.40 win. (Which bonused up to £3 to give £6 in total). It then repeated again and gave me £1 (£7 in total now) and then repeated again for a £4 win.

Bloody bonus chance rather than a straight repeat- mind ya, it worked in your favour.

Oh by the way, both tops were obtained by spinning into the cash box at the top from the blue trail, not from the cans.

Regarding the comment about the place losing its license, i dont think that is really the case at all. Where i'm from, 'underage fruit machine playing' is not enforced AT ALL. I have NEVER seen anyone be told to stop playing a machine because they are too young. I was playing machines at 12, and no one battered an eyelid. I remember when i was really young, a member of staff at a pub offered to put my money in the machine for me as i wasn't particulaly tall and was having difficulty reaching the coin slot.

I think that the kid playing the machine was generally a good idea. £8 isnt a great deal to me and you, but to the kid this was probably 80% of his weekly pocket money. If kids learn from a young age 'to dislike gambling' then i think thats a good thing. Its better that he loses £8 and has that feeling in his stomach which we all sometimes feel (usually after playing a misleading Red! ) than him growing up and learning the same lesson after losing £1000 on a roulette wheel.

Does this work on machines like bobby dazzler?

yup

Kool, il give it a go today thanks

I have had something similar to this happen after I seen some little kid about 9 in a haven camp get a red board on the mummy talks and I seen him collect £2 and then get on again with the remainder of his credits and I just said heres £8 il buy it off you.

Hes happy with £10 for a £1 and im happy paying for the streak only gave 5 pots so I made £15 odd.

I always sort people out if they leave it and I batter it if they look sad

anfield road wrote:I always sort people out if they leave it and I batter it if they look sad

why would you do that?