Fruit Machine Chat

recently started playing this , a non playing mate thinks its great and wont play anything else when we have a go but i think its boring - its basically DOND without the decisions about taking the points , gaining try agains etc - having no try agains is a serious flaw , how many times can you narrow a question down to 2 answers and cant risk guessing unlike DOND , Hangman etc - also the ' double ' option is a con , never gives many , same goes for the ' dodge ' - i always seem to take the offers in the end game , is it like DOND at the end? anyone won £10 or £20? , basically really boring with not much in the way of winning prospects

explayer wrote:a non-playing mate thinks it's great and won't play anything else

really?

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really?

i once encountered two Dorises playing it (and losing for an hour). imo it doesn't qualify as a game. tooooooooo dull, little chance of a decent prize, no edification, no replayability. if i missed a trick then that is my loss and one which i'll gladly take on the chin.

maybe i'm not a bored housewife who watches shit TV all day and has the first inkling into what is going on. cf the catastrophes of goldenballs and that les dennis rubbish.

i could pick a better game out of my nose.

i think we agree

Personally I like it - offers a decent stab of £3 or £4 and therefore always worth playing when the pickings elsewhere are lean. I've only ever once had a £10, and never a £20, from probably several hundred endgames - I think they're pretty rare. That said, when I've reached the endgame, I've never had under £2 either.

slow & dull! 100-1 not Grecian.

There is much worse out there than 1 vs. 100, but hopefully you know to avoid those games anyway - I'm talking things like Toss the Monkey, The Great Escape, Monster Cash, Take It Or Leave It (the original version NOT the newer one), DOND Big Reds and quite possibly worst of all The Lyric Game (or whatever it's called) - this could well be the hardest game to win on I have ever seen!

As for 1 vs. 100, I'd agree with grecian - I normally find this one good for between one and three prizes per machine and each of those will be between £2 and £4 - I think I've had three £10 wins but can't remember ever having been awarded less than £2. You can normally tell once it's had enough when you get three or four really tricky questions while you still have 50-60 opponents left. As for whether to take an offer, you simply need to remember that you are to all intents and purposes guaranteed a minimum win of £2 so if say you are offered £3 and the £2 prize has already gone I would always refuse the offer in the confident expectation that £3 would be the lowest I was going to get anyway.

You are right about the Doubles mind you - they are rarely worthwhile. The Dodges are useful however, although more in terms of avoiding a couple of questions you don't know than knocking out a lot of 'free' opponents.

Must admit I've never bothered playing this after taking a prize - from what NS says, I ought to plug a couple more pounds through it.

This was my best earner on 54, and I nearly always find games that pay entertaining funnily enough... but cometh the update cometh the spoileroos, and when the going gets tough I get going. It's definitely been tightened up, and some of the old easier categories eg People have become hazardous. This is on itbox btw- don't know about paragons etc

And it is too slow as well. But then again so is/was TIOLI

I have had the £10 quite a number of times but never a £20 after hundreds of trys.

On a 'nomal' game you will always get at least £2. It only seems to pay out less than £2 when you have fielded a boat load of very difficult Q's and it has tried very hard to prevent you winning. So most players would never get to money game to enjoy the insult of one of the pence prizes when it is in that state anyway.

Not a great game but usually just extra money for the time it takes to play it.

grecian wrote:Must admit I've never bothered playing this after taking a prize - from what NS says, I ought to plug a couple more pounds through it.

I tried this on Sunday and NS is entirely right. I happened upon a seemingly-virgin Paragon in central London and claimed prizes of £5, £2 and £3 on consecutive games of 1vs100. I've probably missed out on quite a bit of free cash by not continuing to play this after previous wins. D'oh.

had a bizarre experience on this tonight , had one go on DOND first and acheived a 58000 target for £1.50 then first go on 1v100 got to the ' big money ' game , knocked the 5 smallest amounts out with the first 5 shots leaving the 20,10,7,5 and 4 , the offer came up and it was £2! , WTF , anyone ever seen anything like that before on any game? , what was the point in the offer? ( ended up with £4 of course )

explayer wrote:had a bizarre experience on this tonight , had one go on DOND first and acheived a 58000 target for £1.50 then first go on 1v100 got to the ' big money ' game , knocked the 5 smallest amounts out with the first 5 shots leaving the 20,10,7,5 and 4 , the offer came up and it was £2! , WTF , anyone ever seen anything like that before on any game? , what was the point in the offer? ( ended up with £4 of course )

There's no 7 amount so it would have been 20, 10, 5, 4, 3. Even so, the offer is still rubbish of course. I have seen this before and it's mildly annoying but no worse.

played 1 v100 the other day and ended up winnin a nice crisp £10 the was amazed to win £6 on dond the question one. Nice for 5 mins work

nice to see you are making d'oh.

grecian wrote:

grecian wrote:Must admit I've never bothered playing this after taking a prize - from what NS says, I ought to plug a couple more pounds through it.

I tried this on Sunday and NS is entirely right. I happened upon a seemingly-virgin Paragon in central London and claimed prizes of £5, £2 and £3 on consecutive games of 1vs100. I've probably missed out on quite a bit of free cash by not continuing to play this after previous wins. D'oh.

Thanks for the tip. First game tonight - £4. Would normally have moved on to something else, but as a sole result of the posting above I played another game. Successfully negotiated the 100 a second time, down to £2 and £10 in the end game and won ............. £10!!!!!

That will go nicely with the £100 profit I made on internet quiz games yesterday! (still inconsequential to you cool?)