Fruit Machine Chat

Hello. I'm George a.k.a Streakpoos. I don't normally frequent this bit of the forums.

George a.k.a Jackpot George stepped gingerly into the room. The clientel were decidedly different. There was a greater air of wit prevelant in here than the main fruit machine bit.

Hello I'm going to talk about SWP fragments for some time. Please excuse me.

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Firstly 'TOTAL FILM'. It's on The Ind:e and Paragons (I think). Excuse my SWP knowledge. I may know my Genesis 3 from my Vogue, but with SWPs it's an Itbox or 'something else'.

Right. I'm not much of a quiz buff. I can tell you what 2+2 equals but I can't tell you the colour of the person's shoes who first asked 'what is 2+2?'. Sorry, I just can't. I'll guess black, but that's probably wrong. Yes it was. Wasn't for money anyway, obviously not paying out.

'TOTAL FILM' is a quiz about films. No really it is and what a heinous, filthy way to spend your evening down the pub. You know how it is, talking to people, mingling, then suddenly BAM! You're in the quiz machine sect.
Now don't get me wrong I'm a real quiz pleb and I love a quick game of Bullseye as much as the next clueless moron, but questions about films? Are you having a laugh? Are you having a laugh?

Q1: What was the budget for the 1983 Geoff Berry thriller "Camp Darkness"?

A1: $340,000
A2: $785,000
A3: $913,500


Now these quiz people come across as more knowledgable than me. To a considerable extent. It's quite scary in fact, even after six zillion pints of Kronenberg that they can hit the correct answers regarding insane film trivia.


The work you have to do. After four rounds of identifying links with film subjects AND answering brain blisteringly trivial questions - no SIGN of the quid. WHAT?!?!? Who on earth is hammerring these to make such a killing? These people were so inanely insanely bananely knowledgable on the subject of FILM that how they failed to empty the machine I do not know how they failed to do this. Sheeez. Tight game this one. Just like STD. Wowser! Stop the difference and Sexually Transmitted Diseases share the same acronymn. That's more my level. Complete skank. £8 in for £1 back.

Pimp my ride looks entertaining.

I've never got to the final stage of DOND, but then I've only tried one game.


Fragments, more fragments.


OK. There was an old Time Machine in Leicester Bus Station (St Margarets, not Haymarket) about four years ago. Check the old social clubs is my advice. The pubs is all Itboxes and stuff innit? I saw a Give us a Break on The Barbican in Plymouth about ten years ago, or maybe it was more like twenty. That's no good.

I never saw many JPM Scrabbles about. I wonder why.

I got to the cashgame on Bullseye. Jumped off a quid four times. Get a mate to whack it and he hits £4. Boomin' 'eck! I always go for a quid. On the logic that if it's going to give something it'll give £1.

How come the latest version of Millionaire on The Itbox used to start at £1 on 4000 or even 1000 now it's back to being stingy again?

OK how on earth do you spot the difference so quickly WITHOUT suffering from Asperger's form of autism? There must be some tips. Some tricks. Any tricks? Tips? Please?


I enjoyed that story about PSTs. Public School Tits or whatever. They can be most obnoxious. This sneering, self satisfied, smug, superiority complex. It can get right under your skin, good work Bob. Sarky twatting dicks (STDs). 'Scuse my Mandarin.


I liked that one (a word game) where you could collect/ continue - they took it off after a while. £4 in for £5 out. Something like word block, word tiles. I dunno. Mind you, TP allows you to continue. Dirty. Starts of in same mood you left it. Could pay £5 for ten VERY hard questions leading to nowhere. YIKES!


Most won on SWP = £13 from Coronation Street. £10 instant cash + £3 for complete phrase. Very little in way of skill or knowledge used. 50p credit.

Most lost = £23 one drunken night on a £1/play Millionaire.


I rarely do the quizzes now. Only for quick entertainment. Fruities rule! Fruities are the best. Down with quizzes! Boo hiiss! It's all rigged anyway. I love fruit. F R U I T.


The room fell silent and the gazes became steely. Jackpot George bounced out rather quickly.

Welcome to the posh bit of the Forum!

A few answers...

The work you have to do. After four rounds of identifying links with film subjects AND answering brain blisteringly trivial questions - no SIGN of the quid. WHAT?!?!? Who on earth is hammerring these to make such a killing?

Total Film Quiz (I think that's the name) is one of many, many games where no one makes a killing, partly because it is designed never to offer a decent prize and partly because no ordinary punters play it very much.

How come the latest version of Millionaire on The Itbox used to start at £1 on 4000 or even 1000 now it's back to being stingy again?

I rate classic Millionaire very highly and think the new version is poor in comparison. What I have found is that in general you get offered a better prize structure than on the old one but that the lower questions are significantly harder, particularly the several hundred questions on obscure comic characters which you can get as early as the 500 point question. If the machines you play are really stingy then someone may have taken £10 or £20 out of them. My belief is that it will then take a lot longer to fill the game up again due to punters finding it much harder than the old one and hence not playing it.

OK how on earth do you spot the difference so quickly WITHOUT suffering from Asperger's form of autism? There must be some tips. Some tricks. Any tricks? Tips? Please?

I don't play this myself but apparently there IS a trick a little like how you got those old 'Magic Eye' pictures to work. There's a discussion on an older post on here about this one.

OK how on earth do you spot the difference so quickly WITHOUT suffering from Asperger's form of autism? There must be some tips. Some tricks. Any tricks? Tips? Please?

I don't play this myself but apparently there IS a trick a little like how you got those old 'Magic Eye' pictures to work. There's a discussion on an older post on here about this one.[/quote]

Tried it. Got a migraine.

I am the self-proclaimed King of spot the difference. I have NEVER not been able to get teh top score on a machine. I wait for the day there is a spot the difference tournament edition.

Even I don't win big on this, and do levels in under five seconds, often under three! the psot the diff two, has a block after level 6, deluxe after level 7, meaning you can win anything before this. Spot the diff 1 was a VEERY good machine for me, no wonder it got changed so fast!

Are you the living legend from nr Dorking who took £125 from the staff at Camberley (staff nee) , then showed the pubgoers £10,000 winnings on your mobile phone?

I too have head of this legendary player with the mobile phone picture of him sitting on his bed of £1 coins.

There actually was a Spot the Difference tournament run a few years ago on Gamesnets so you may have missed out there. I'm sure a man such as yourself would have triumphed.

Hehe, yee of little faith! Seriously GUTTED I missed out on the tournament. You got any mroe info on it or this bender with his pound coins?

theoak wrote:Hehe, yee of little faith! Seriously GUTTED I missed out on the tournament. You got any mroe info on it or this bender with his pound coins?

There is a Spot the Difference thread on the second page, the guy with the £10k is discussed in length there, you should find that thread an interesting read.