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Empire Games - Ant Rap - £1 play, £70 Jackpot

Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:56 pm
by Mystery_Plum
Played one of these the other day, fixed on £1 play - £70 Jackpot. Looks very much the same as Reel or no Reel, another Empire machine.

Despite being a 5-line game I was surprised to see no multistaking options on offer whatsoever, which makes any new game pretty unapproachable. Having no option other than £1 doesn't really entice you into spending quality time on the machine, trying to find out what some of the features are or get a hint of the profile.

After £8 in I got a line of cherries for £2, bashed the hi/lo gamble and exchanged for the feature, which is a bit of a GGG/CBW-type affair where you hi/lo around a lapper board, picking up cash and feature KO's and the like. All the features were red due to the price of play.

Lower than a 7 (no bonus number on start!) for a 3, got offered a feature whose name I cannot remember, felt I could lose at any time no matter what number I was on, went higher regardless for a 10, got offered another feature, took it, got £8.

Didn't fancy staying on it to learn of the hidden depths that surely awaited me had I got further in. Playing this game made me feel edgy because unless you're on a 1 or 12 you're never safe. Unless you have an extra life. Or no lose. At least on other games you can collect when you land on a mystery.

My question is this - who's gonna be up for eviction this week?

Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 3:32 am
by logopolis
Seen a £35 jackpot Ant Rap which was situated next to a Quiz Machine that had Connect 4. Sometimes I would try a board but it never seemed to offer anything higher than £3. Also it would quite often cost £6 - £10 for a feature.

One day as I was playing Connect 4, this bloke comes across from nowhere and starts shoving a few quid in the Ant Rap. He got a board fairly quickly but I didn't take much notice as I was concentrating on my machine. Next thing I know he's got jackpot! Never before had I seen a board offer more than £3 let alone the jackpot. He collected his money and left the machine straight away. All seemed to happen very quickly.

Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 8:47 am
by Matt Vinyl
If this is indeed anything like Reel or No Reel then it's time to find another pub to go in! This has to be the single most horrendous machine ever made...! :(

Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 9:31 am
by gambogaz1
It sure is a straight clone.

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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 9:52 am
by Thumper
lol. Thats just about as cloned as you get.