Fruit Machine Chat

This game can be found on either ind:e or Paragon terminals. Assuming Walkabout use the same terminals nationwide you'll know which one I mean.

This is, for me, the best game to play with regards to both payout and enjoyment.

Basically you have to pair up objects from six given fields (flags, musical items, sporting items, and three others which escape my memory). The rounds become progressively harder as you expect, and payout can typically be achieved after/on round 5 or 200,000 points, although this obviously varies. Points earned translates into time given to touch golden tokens. Your points total is golden tokens minus silver tokens. A difference of 50 tokens earns you £1, 70 tokens £30, 80 tokens £5 etc.

I choose the Flags category purely because I like Geography, and find that saying the country name out loud helps me to remember the flag more than by memorising the colours/patterns!
For example, saying 'Burundi' helps you more than thinking about 'the unfamiliar one with red white and green bits'.

Also, when playing with friends who are not as keen as playing as me, I notice they tend to remember the flags of countries such as Britain, Brazil and France. I therefore try to remember Burundi's, Tanzania's and Antigua & Barbuda's flags. Those come after remembering the "reveal" flags and points bonus flags.

Keeping your fingers/thumbs over certain pairs while they're visible helps as well, but only in the early rounds I find.

I was wondering what techniques people here use on this game?

My highest score (with a friend) is 253,000, resulting in a £5 payout.
Highest I've seen is 286,000.

It's also my Fruitchat birthday tomorrow! Wahey....

Agree there is normally some easy money in this but I guess this is one of those ones where you actually benefit from additional 'helpers' on the team. This is rare however as I tend to find that synergies created by teaming up are far outweighed by the dilution in pay out.

One thing though what is the "megamatch bonus". On the terminal I play this from time to time, the flags category always has this (I also always play flags BTW). One of the other categories has a super match bonus but as far as I can see it makes no difference???

PS How's Carlisle- is the Board still there and does it have an SWP?

love the front game, hate the prize game.

I like flags aswell. greater contrast than other catagories

Hangmanfan wrote:My highest score (with a friend) is 253,000, resulting in a £5 payout.
Highest I've seen is 286,000.

It's also my Fruitchat birthday tomorrow! Wahey....

Highest score of 400,000 plus, but we were cheating.

Didn't mean that we won any more money though.

That's excellent scoring David Healy, even if you did cheat

The SWP was being loaded by two women before we got to it the night we won £5. The screen was almost fully gold: 98 gold, 18 silver.
Judging by your score the jackpot is probably unobtainable unless if you're a savant!

Northern Monkey.. Carlisle's still a stone-age city! It's only OK living here if you've got enough friends I think. By 'Board' I presume you mean the Boardroom.. It's still there, but I haven't been there for almost a year now. It had an Itbox near the gents' toilets, and I imagine it still has today

Hangmanfan wrote:That's excellent scoring David Healy, even if you did cheat

The SWP was being loaded by two women before we got to it the night we won £5. The screen was almost fully gold: 98 gold, 18 silver.
Judging by your score the jackpot is probably unobtainable unless if you're a savant!

Northern Monkey.. Carlisle's still a stone-age city! It's only OK living here if you've got enough friends I think. By 'Board' I presume you mean the Boardroom.. It's still there, but I haven't been there for almost a year now. It had an Itbox near the gents' toilets, and I imagine it still has today

I was born in Carlisle. I think it's great, it's probably more itboxes per head than anywhere else. Never been to the Boardroom though.

Don't get me wrong Pugwash, I like it here, but it's stone-age in that the first lap dancing club only opened a few months ago. Carlisle is also the only city in England without a Sainsbury's.
As for the Itbox fact you posted, you're maybe right, but I'd rather it was more SWPs per head rather than Itboxes per head!

Had a play around with this today, and really enjoyed it.

I found sport easiest, flags just ended up a mesh of colour in round 5 and was too hard to differentiate. Zodiac is a bit of a joke too, very hard in later levels. I liked sport the most.

Highest score i got to was 137,000ish points, and got £1 from 64 tokens. Seems fair when you play the endgame, but in your head you know its rigged to hell.

If you had 3/4 people you could do well on this one.

DOubt you could do v well more than once. Game is set up so relatively easy to win £1 in solo play but thereafter it simply a) restricts the number of gold tokens and b) makes it harder to separate them out from the silvers IMO.