Fruit Machine Chat

i realise that some people will be cagey about this but i nominate:

yates's leicester square (very obvious location but not an itbox so seems to be avoided by serious players)

edwards richmond (lots of rugby fans very little brains)

any bowling alley

wetherspoons charing cross road & the one by traffie square

cunty wunty!

Istenem wrote:yates's leicester square (very obvious location but not an itbox so seems to be avoided by serious players)

Last time I was in it had two Paragons so would therefore be avoided by *any* serious players but it has a more unusual feature, namely that the bouncers insist on everyone producing ID on certain evenings, without being able to offer any sensible explanation as to why. It's sadly more than a good few years since I needed to show ID to buy a drink anywhere, and I don't tend to carry my passport or driving licence when out and about, but has anyone encountered this anywhere else? If so, any idea what it is for??

As you say Istenem, not entirely sure I want to spill all here, but in the side category of "looks like Thicko Arms down to the last detail but plays like a git", Ryan's Bar near Fleet Street takes some beating.

ggdr wrote:As you say Istenem, not entirely sure I want to spill all here, but in the side category of "looks like Thicko Arms down to the last detail but plays like a git", Ryan's Bar near Fleet Street takes some beating.

I've never done too well in there either although TBH you've got to be the wrong end of ten pints to be in there in the first place. Great for a late night bit of Dexy's Midnight Runners if the queue for Reflex is too long

Anglia Ruskin SU bar - the itbox there was the easiest we had ever played on. We even creamed the trivia games, so things must have been bad!

Nil Satis wrote: Last time I was in it had two Paragons so would therefore be avoided by *any* serious players

suits me fine . now it has a paragon and an und:es. on my last foray it coughed out about £20 for barely workmanlike SWPing. that is good enough for me at lunchtime. and the publican came and had a chat about a certain game which people who read this hate but she loved.
most other places near there (itboxland) are rarely worth looking at (for me anyway).
but i wouldn't risk a beer near there.

any pub in Oxford. Horrible place full of Japanese tourists (cant play swp), beggars,local morons and thousands of students that are supposedly intelligent but it is below one to enter a hostelry and play an swp. Rich pickings if you can put up with the place.

cool wrote:any pub in Oxford. Horrible place full of Japanese tourists (cant play swp), beggars,local morons and thousands of students that are supposedly intelligent but it is below one to enter a hostelry and play an swp. Rich pickings if you can put up with the place.

That didn't used to be the case when I was there (c. 1996 to 1999 the place was tight as a gnat's whatsit), but I wonder whether things have changed. Took about £90 out of an ItBox in a very well-known Oxford hostelry in early January, which was my record ever from one cabinet (a record that I suspect will last a while).

I nominate the Swinger, in Bulwell, Nottingham.

If you can get past the gang of teenagers with dogs who hang around outside (making having a fag an extra dice with danger), and get through the boarded up entrance door you will find a pub that appears entirely occupied by members and extended members of one family. The Gamesnet machine is to your left.

You will be obviously be faced with the dilemma of on the one hand winning big, but on the other of how to get the winnings out. Fear not. there is a dodgy window in the mens

The Swinger. Hmmmmmmm.


£90 off one cabinet? Wowser! What did it do, flash for jackpot and start the streak?

My record is £13 off an old Coronation Street SWP.

My record is £5 off a bully. I cant even get a quid off the one were your ment to get the answers wrong?

JG wrote:£90 off one cabinet? Wowser! What did it do, flash for jackpot and start the streak?

Bear in mind there's lots of different games on the average ItBox! The prize (which now I think properly was actually more like £80 - sorry for misleading) comprised JPs on a number of different games, most of which have now been removed or sufficiently emasculated as to make a JP an impossibility. This was a really notable evening for me, far better than I'd ever done off one box. No doubt for some players, it's a regular occurrence.

JG wrote:£90 off one cabinet? Wowser! What did it do, flash for jackpot and start the streak?

The chances are that this was taken off several games rather than one, each of which would have been in 'payout' mode - each game varies its level of difficulty in terms of how much money has gone in and how much has come out. Some games never seem to be in payout mode (there's a list as long as your arm of these!) and most players will rapidly spot such games and either ignore them or just play them for entertainment value. Very occasionally a game will come along that a skilled player can ensure is virtually always in payout mode. These games are quite rare and the best you normally get nowadays are games where one big prize is available on each cabinet and then the game is basically killed for other players.

P.S. For those of you who stray into here from the fruit machine forums, it's worth reiterating that here 'skilled player' means just that - use of skill, knowledge, memory, tactics and so on. Quiz machines virtually never provide the opportunity for using the 'insider tricks' that the fruit machines apparently allow.

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