Fruit Machine Chat

after swimming through treacle with spoilers and negotiating obstructive blocks, does anything still make you punch the air?

personally i get huge satisfaction from a hitting 3x17 after a bounceout on japseye.

Beating the 5 seconds deadline for £10 on WWTBAM Celebrity on an old-style Paragon last night where the screen took its time in responding to my frantic fingering (oo-er) would take some beating!

very impressive NIL celeb millionaire is very difficult on that setting.

You just have to scan the four faces quickly and go for your first guess as to the correct order. Having the unresponsive screen is an added difficulty, one that seems unique to the old-style Paragons.

Managed to clinch my first JP on Paragon WWTBAM over the weekend, which was a case of "satisfaction" for me (I imagine I'm way behind the real boys on this). It was somewhat harder than a JP would be on the ItBox variant, and I did have to make an educated guess as to Collette's first names on the last question, but still pleasing. And it gave me ten seconds to do the pictures!

No disrespect GRECIAN but the key to the JP on the CELEB MILL. was the
fact that you had 10 seconds on the pics.Winning the TENNER on the 5 second setting is infinitely more difficult.

Fair enough Wires - I once took a JP on the ItBox with a 5 second limit - does that count? Probably not as the ItBox variant is easier...

Just to clarify, the satisfaction I derived from the win came from several factors:

- Paragons are harder to win on than other cabinets anyway on virtually every decent game
- the 50p game, which appears on all but the ItBox, being much harder than the £1 game
- the 5 second setting
- the dodgy screen

If you play this one a lot you'll know that there are other factors that go into making up the relative difficulty of each game:

- the closeness in age of the four celebrities
- how misleading the PAF/Ask the Audience bonuses are
- graduated time targets, e.g. 10 seconds for £1 to £4, 7 seconds for £5, 5 seconds for £10 and £20

It's quite a subtle mix and so I wouldn't want to enter into any debate as to what particular win was a harder achievement.

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Other than to say that for one brief shining moment last week I was King of the World!

i rarely play WWTBAM but it seems to me that if a game is 50p a pop rather than £1, it stands to reason that it should be more difficult to win equivalent prizes.

calm seas do not make skilled sailors.

Nil Satis wrote:If you play this one a lot you'll know that there are other factors that go into making up the relative difficulty of each game:

- the closeness in age of the four celebrities
- how misleading the PAF/Ask the Audience bonuses are
- graduated time targets, e.g. 10 seconds for £1 to £4, 7 seconds for £5, 5 seconds for £10 and £20

Agree with the misleading bonuses. I quite often take the switch over ask the audience now.

Regarding the time targets, do you actually mean that the time on the screen says 10, 7 or 5 seconds? I think I've always had 10 seconds on the screen whatever the prize level, although I find it hard to believe that it equates to 10 seconds real time.

Nil Satis wrote: It's quite a subtle mix and so I wouldn't want to enter into any debate as to what particular win was a harder achievement.

I quite agree - to be fair, neither of the achievements I mentioned was *that* difficult and yours does sound a good one...

David Healy wrote:Regarding the time targets, do you actually mean that the time on the screen says 10, 7 or 5 seconds? I think I've always had 10 seconds on the screen whatever the prize level, although I find it hard to believe that it equates to 10 seconds real time.

Absolutely, although you only get 5 or 7 seconds when the game is in harder mode. If you are only seeing 10 second targets everywhere then either you are just going for the £3 to £4 win each time or I want to move where you live! - 10 seconds (and I do believe that you actually get a real 10/7/5 seconds) doesn't guarantee you will win but it does give you a fair chance of assessing the age of each of the celebrities.