Fruit Machine Chat

Posted: **Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:00 pm**

Thought I might as well start a Word Blox gossip repository.

Got a 8200 today.

Also found out that if you take £4 out first time, it clams up, whereas if you take £3 you can repeat the performance.

Posted: **Sat Feb 23, 2008 10:50 am**

Posted: **Sun Feb 24, 2008 3:24 am**

8990!

The sound effects are great - quite male-orientated tho'.

Posted: **Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:13 am**

i haven't heard the sounds. maybe that will be a reason to play it. but don't tell me, it will be a nice surprise if i find a machine that talks.

Posted: **Sun Feb 24, 2008 3:16 pm**

how wonderful?

i have just been on a jolly jaunt to check out the noises. it is very pleasing to be rewarded for a bad swear with a matronly "i'm warning you". i didn't get any particularly long or elegant words but i'm looking forward to the machine saying "are you sue denim by any chance"

the game itself is a bit simplistic for my liking but the completely superfluous noises really cheer it up. pity so few pubs have sound.

i'll give it 6 for technical merit and 9 for artistic interpretation.

Posted: **Sun Feb 24, 2008 6:43 pm**

Posted: **Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:31 pm**

i'm probably being dim here but what do the lellow squares do?

has anyone worked out how the points work?

Posted: **Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:37 am**

Double word?

Posted: **Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:28 am**

Posted: **Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:12 am**

the rules page is not much help either. i'd thought that the words to the right was your tally but i may well be wrong.

Posted: **Sat Mar 01, 2008 7:39 pm**

dmac wrote:I think there's a list of words on the right of the screen as well - some seem to be lit up. Do you get a bonus if you hit all of them?

Are they not the words that you have been inputting? The lit up ones are the ones that involved a golden bonus (doubling) cube.

As far as I can tell, using two doubling cubes quadruples your word score. Using more than one face from a single doubling cube doesn't quadruple. The points scoring is straightfoward - just adding the letter values rather than WU multiplication.

I was wrong about the £4/£3 behaviour difference - you can still win after getting the £4.

Posted: **Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:38 am**

Posted: **Tue Mar 04, 2008 5:24 pm**

Posted: **Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:57 pm**

This one seems to cause RSI with me, but I enjoy the challenge and my scores have risen since I realised about the double double bonus. 77xx is what I'm up to. Haven't yet played it on a machine with audible sound effects so will have to reserve judgement.

Posted: **Fri Mar 14, 2008 7:58 pm**

9010 now

Would probably get higher if the screen was properly responsive (can the responsiveness be adjusted by individual games?)

I think my best single game win has been a fiver.