many years ago there were single game specialists who toured the country- one trick ponies but brilliant at their game paddy spooner (adders& ladders)/ skilltrek guy (came out to my friend in Poole and told about by landlord of high wycombe pub) / bizarrely the radio times or tv addicts cant remember which getting £5 jackpot every game for £1 stake and latterly the autistic std player from Abinger Hammer (Dorking) and the particularly irritating BMWC player(his wife doesnt count).
In Portsmouth there is a Millionaire 2.Mr Satis on one of his recent visits(not the latest a few days ago) jackpotted this,however since somebody has numerous unnamed jackpots on said machine since, in a short period of time and as the quality of machine in Portsmouth Pubs was average am I on the trail of a serial killer one machine jackpotter?
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All the jackpots being anonymous is suggestive of it being the same person. It would be interesting to know parameters like machine refill rate, time between jackpots etc. I assume this is the Millionaire with the 2 player option? I always thought this was quite easy to jackpot when not "done", so if it is in a high play location, it is quite possible it could get done every week. I would be quite surprised, however, if someone was able to do it on full "non-pay mode" as the questions then start subdividing at 8k, iirc (ie when you're on 8k your next question is for 4k, not 8k) and hence it is about 250 questions for the jackpot. (I'm sure you're aware of that anyway).
Incidentally (not that it's particularly relevant) there was a nice bug on 2 player mode whereby if you simultaneously got the jackpot on P1 and past 32k on P2 (or was it the other way round?) you were awarded two jackpots
Incidentally (not that it's particularly relevant) there was a nice bug on 2 player mode whereby if you simultaneously got the jackpot on P1 and past 32k on P2 (or was it the other way round?) you were awarded two jackpots
Interesting tale Cool - certainly sounds like the work of one player. Did Nil Satis post about his JP on here? Maybe a sleeper picked up on a reference and went down there and did it repeatedly?
(I think Mr BMWC is a little bit more than a one trick pony; he played a lot back in the day, and some recent games have tempted him out of a long period of relatively infrequent play.)
(I think Mr BMWC is a little bit more than a one trick pony; he played a lot back in the day, and some recent games have tempted him out of a long period of relatively infrequent play.)
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You can normally keep track of the cash input rate to these machines. If memory serves, on the ones which are 50p play the cashpot increases by 3p for each game played, up to a max of £40 (resetting to £20 when won). In the £1 play it is 6p for each game played up to a max of £100 (though there were some £1 play machines where the jackpot was static at £40). One other thing that I now recall about them was that when you won the jackpot, it did not always push it to "non-pay" mode, sometimes they would stay ok.
I miss these; I loved the £1 play/£100 jp ones (especially bearing in mind the mode of 1P and 2P were independent) - and it was rare to find one that wasn't in a doable mode.
I miss these; I loved the £1 play/£100 jp ones (especially bearing in mind the mode of 1P and 2P were independent) - and it was rare to find one that wasn't in a doable mode.
Ahem...
This is all a little confusing. I was indeed playing the said machine as recently as last Saturday and, to contradict what cool said, I battled my way through to a JP on the 1 Player option. It was at about £35.00, meaning that the game had taken in at least £250 if my maths is correct since my last winning visit a couple of months earlier - it goes up 3p per 50p credit so it takes £16.50 of losing games for the JP to go up by £1 and it resets at £20 after a JP. This assumes that it had only gone once round the 'cycle', i.e. no that no one had won a JP in between my two visits.
Because the top 10 scores table on the 1 Player option already has 10 existing 1,000,000 scores any subsequent JPs are not logged. Hence any JP now is 'anonymous'.
I have won the 2 Player option only once on my occasional forays down to the coast and that one fills up very slowly - although it increases the JP by 6p per £1 credit it is no doubt much less attractive to punters. The top 10 scores table on that option had only four (IIRC) 1,000,000 scores last week, with mine being the last.
If I understand you correctly then, cool, are you saying that someone has won 6+ repeat JPs on the 2 Player game since last Saturday? i.e. that six new 1,000,000 scores have appeared on the top scores table? It might have happened I guess but given that the JPs would get progressively harder to attain, and that I wouldn't have expected the machine to physically hold that amount of cash anyway, it does seem unlikely.
This is all a little confusing. I was indeed playing the said machine as recently as last Saturday and, to contradict what cool said, I battled my way through to a JP on the 1 Player option. It was at about £35.00, meaning that the game had taken in at least £250 if my maths is correct since my last winning visit a couple of months earlier - it goes up 3p per 50p credit so it takes £16.50 of losing games for the JP to go up by £1 and it resets at £20 after a JP. This assumes that it had only gone once round the 'cycle', i.e. no that no one had won a JP in between my two visits.
Because the top 10 scores table on the 1 Player option already has 10 existing 1,000,000 scores any subsequent JPs are not logged. Hence any JP now is 'anonymous'.
I have won the 2 Player option only once on my occasional forays down to the coast and that one fills up very slowly - although it increases the JP by 6p per £1 credit it is no doubt much less attractive to punters. The top 10 scores table on that option had only four (IIRC) 1,000,000 scores last week, with mine being the last.
If I understand you correctly then, cool, are you saying that someone has won 6+ repeat JPs on the 2 Player game since last Saturday? i.e. that six new 1,000,000 scores have appeared on the top scores table? It might have happened I guess but given that the JPs would get progressively harder to attain, and that I wouldn't have expected the machine to physically hold that amount of cash anyway, it does seem unlikely.