Fruit Machine Chat

what do you thing CJ, Trains Chris and the rest of the egghead, fatty off the chase and his crew... not to mention the guy behind the desk on pointless(he sets all the % control questions)...

on their days off they are not reading books, train spotting, eating themselves thin... all out on the quizzers, FACT

cool wrote:Its odd how some players have a condescending and sneering attitude to quiz machines, biting the hands that feeds them.

I agree. This "they're beneath me" type attitude completely misses the point. Quiz machines are a means to an end, nothing more, nothing less. There are far worse conventional ways to make money (typically, less of it) and with less personal freedom.

QuizMaster wrote:There are much better stories about pro quizzers out there than this one. It's quite pathetic actually.

What about the first guy to crack Millionaires? or the two guys who lived in the back of a camper van for about 5 years travelling around Britain's coast. The Albanian guy who ended up with his head on the train tracks? Derby Jack, Coventry John, The Black Fingernail, Mad John McInytyre and Alan Gilliver? Suri and the North London circuit? The Sheffield boy who won £27,000 in a week? Better, better stories all of them.

I should write a book. I probably will one day.

QM

Put me down for an advance copy

This guy is quiz machine professional - lite.

...A decent account is well in order!

Anyone prepared to discuss how the Sheffield guy won £27k in a week? That's £4k a day!

QuizMaster wrote:There are much better stories about pro quizzers out there than this one. It's quite pathetic actually.

What about the first guy to crack Millionaires?

Surely not as in do them when on 64k, which would equate to an empty? The subdivision started about 4k or 8k then. That's 250 questions. On 16k and 32k, yes believable, as I regularly won it on 16k and occasionally on 32.

Agreed there are better, and more amusing, stories out there. I know someone who went on the run (for a ridiculously, pardon the pun, trivial reason) and spent at least six months roaming all over the country living in b&bs doing Barquests, Inquizitors and Turnovers before finally facing up to the consequence of his actions. The comedy lies in the details, which out of discretion I won't reveal

QuizMaster wrote: The Sheffield boy who won £27,000 in a week?

A certain bug combination on a long-deceased machine? Not sure the earning rate would be quick enough even if you worked out how to set it up consistently (nor that there would be enough of them within ready distance - that's 400 hoppers on what I'm thinking of). PM if still sensitive.. lol.. Giant arcade with 800 Tetrises? Outside of original Super Gold Run it's the only conventional SWP game I can think of where you could hypothetically do £400 ph.

cp999 wrote:I agree. This "they're beneath me" type attitude completely misses the point. Quiz machines are a means to an end, nothing more, nothing less. There are far worse conventional ways to make money (typically, less of it) and with less personal freedom.

Almost literally beneath him if his radio interview was anything to go by - said being a quizzer was like 'doing porn'. If only!!

paragoon wrote:Almost literally beneath him if his radio interview was anything to go by - said being a quizzer was like 'doing porn'. If only!!

I did once jp a Millionaire whilst ... erm. I think I'll keep my mouth shut. Someone has to.

He used the actor doing porn line in one of the articles as well. Anyone remember the joystick on Option3? It was like something in Anne Summers! (sorry for the resolute attempt to lower the tone even further)

cp999 wrote:Surely not as in do them when on 64k, which would equate to an empty? The subdivision started about 4k or 8k then. That's 250 questions. On 16k and 32k, yes believable, as I regularly won it on 16k and occasionally on 32.

Agreed there are better, and more amusing, stories out there. I know someone who went on the run (for a ridiculously, pardon the pun, trivial reason) and spent at least six months roaming all over the country living in b&bs doing Barquests, Inquizitors and Turnovers before finally facing up to the consequence of his actions. The comedy lies in the details, which out of discretion I won't reveal



A certain bug combination on a long-deceased machine? Not sure the earning rate would be quick enough even if you worked out how to set it up consistently (nor that there would be enough of them within ready distance - that's 400 hoppers on what I'm thinking of). PM if still sensitive.. lol.. Giant arcade with 800 Tetrises? Outside of original Super Gold Run it's the only conventional SWP game I can think of where you could hypothetically do £400 ph.

By the first guy to crack Millionaires I meant a guy who was so good he was doing 50p in £20 out every time before it triggered the splits. He could cope with the 250,000 split but there was no point after that, since there were so many about.

The £27,000 in a week was on a little known tournament game that came on itBox in the early days, which had a £10,000 top prize. The guy took all 10 positions in the tournament and got paid by Leisurelink. They never ran it again, surprisingly.

I forgot to mention Leicester Greg, 'Tetris' Steve, Mick from Hull now sadly deceased, Coventry Gerry, Mr Lamont from Manchester and Treble Top John Baker, who was the best single machine game player I ever saw, but he was useless at every other game. All great, great memories from my past.

QuizMaster wrote:By the first guy to crack Millionaires I meant a guy who was so good he was doing 50p in £20 out every time before it triggered the splits. He could cope with the 250,000 split but there was no point after that, since there were so many about.

The £27,000 in a week was on a little known tournament game that came on itBox in the early days, which had a £10,000 top prize. The guy took all 10 positions in the tournament and got paid by Leisurelink. They never ran it again, surprisingly.

I forgot to mention Leicester Greg, 'Tetris' Steve, Mick from Hull now sadly deceased, Coventry Gerry, Mr Lamont from Manchester and Treble Top John Baker, who was the best single machine game player I ever saw, but he was useless at every other game. All great, great memories from my past.

Q.M. You have a P.M.

Some great names from the past there...
My favourite tale from the old days concerns a couple of well known players who had a landlord phone the Police and allege that they'd broken into his machine by ripping the back off. He took the number of their car and later that day as the two of them came out of a pub they were told to get down on the floor by a posse of armed Police who had a fit when they searched the car and found hundreds of pound coins. They were arrested and their homes searched and only released when they took the Police to a pub and let them watch the legal removal of all the cash in the unit. They gave them a letter to show to any other Police that stopped them.

alan lamont was the boy on question of sport didnt stay in the game very long after the demise of said game went to his flat once quiz machine parts all over the gaff.

QuizMaster wrote:By the first guy to crack Millionaires I meant a guy who was so good he was doing 50p in £20 out every time before it triggered the splits. He could cope with the 250,000 split but there was no point after that, since there were so many about.

The £27,000 in a week was on a little known tournament game that came on itBox in the early days, which had a £10,000 top prize. The guy took all 10 positions in the tournament and got paid by Leisurelink. They never ran it again, surprisingly.

I forgot to mention Leicester Greg, 'Tetris' Steve, Mick from Hull now sadly deceased, Coventry Gerry, Mr Lamont from Manchester and Treble Top John Baker, who was the best single machine game player I ever saw, but he was useless at every other game. All great, great memories from my past.

I remember the big £10k linked game on these, thought at the time how hard would it be to get paid.

I was tailed by Police and blocked in too due to a twat of a landlord and Tom Redpath ex-player was thrown out of a pub for allegedly having a secret device within the packet of cigarettes that he had perched on the top of the machine. The single most embarassing machine moment I had was when the stand alone cleudo had just come out.I was the first customer in a pub ordered a pint of diet coke put in on top of the machine not realising there were indentations on the top of the unit so that the pint someraulted off the front of the machine covering everything in its contents.I just walked straight out of the pub without looking around.Also so impressed two women that they offered me their beds for a night, hop poles hammersmith and cygnet spencers wood!

QuizMaster wrote:By the first guy to crack Millionaires I meant a guy who was so good he was doing 50p in £20 out every time before it triggered the splits. He could cope with the 250,000 split but there was no point after that, since there were so many about.

The £27,000 in a week was on a little known tournament game that came on itBox in the early days, which had a £10,000 top prize. The guy took all 10 positions in the tournament and got paid by Leisurelink. They never ran it again, surprisingly.

Cheers for the clarification. The 250k split was when it was on 8k for £1; I presume he could do it readily when it split on 125k also (16k/£1). I won a lot of 20s on it but wouldn't claim to have reached that level of every game efficiency. On 8k there was no excuse really for not getting it sooner rather than later.

cool wrote: hop poles hammersmith

Beat the Clock late 99 and Millionaire early 01 on a couple of my very occasional London visits. There used to be a machine in the Hammersmith Palais!