Games thought of being non-jackpotable

[cool]

went into the Penny Black Leatherhead to pick up a non p/o of £7.The manager told me that a few weeks ago somebody came in and ripped out £80+ from the machine-it must have happened as much didnt come out and he refunded the amount owing to the guy.When I asked him what did he win on,he accounted for £50 by winning the jackpot on the golf game!!!!!!!!,the remainder he didnt know.interesting,at least to me.

[shadmun]

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[ob]

what did you get the short pay on in there, got rubbish there at the mo, chipped ape or something and a bellfruit, had 2 bfms before that.

[ROSSKEEN]

I've only played the golf game once and that was enough for me.

But I have heard stories on here of guys getting a hole in one to take the £50 jackpot.

The main games I would say at the moment that are un jackpot-able would be:

Hex
Spot the Difference

Perhaps QM or PP know differently, but I'd guess that Hex would just give you an endless chain of 'questions' until you lost all your lives without giving the jackpot.

And I'm sure somebody on here posted clever pics run through computer software showing only 4 differences on the £20 round in Spot the Difference and even 3 of those differences were questionable.


Then there's the following games:

Monopoly
1 vs 100

I don't think I've ever heard of anyone taking £20 from these but I dont know if they fall into the term "unjackpot-able" in that in the endgame you at least have a CHANCE of taking £20. Unlikely, yes but minutely possible. Whereas the other two can make it physically impossible for jackpot to be taken.

[grecian]

A guy in a pub once told me he'd won the JP on his first go on Nearest the Pin; I've never played it (totally not my kind of thing) but I've no reason to doubt the guy.

I think someone on here has claimed a 1v100 JP before (can't remember who); I suspect it's in the "Jackpot extremely unlikely to be won" category (with DOND) rather than the "impossible jackpot" category. (I've never JPed either. £10's fairly rare on 1v100 although I've done that perhaps five or six times.)

I'd be surprised to hear if anyone had managed to JP Monopoly. I'd be impressed if anyone had got, say, £10 on the endgame (i.e. not from getting the four stations). My best is, I think, £6.50 or £7.50, although I once took £14 on a game which included a £10 bonus for the four stations.

I'd be surprised if Golden Balls had been JPed; I think someone on here claimed a £10 on that; my best is £8. That said it may be a DOND-style very rare JPer rather than impossible.

[dmac]

xyz

[Nil Satis]

The key question with the golf game (Nearest the Pin?) is not whether someone can win the JP once, it's whether they can win that or a similar prize regularly. If it is a true skill game (i.e. not rigged) and one extremely lucky shot for a hole in one does indeed pay out £50 then at least it's good to know that the game companies haven't given up the ghost completely but in the wider scheme of things it's happenstance - like the theoretical chance on the old JPM Cluedo of winning the JP without answering a single question, by getting the winning room on the first move and correctly picking the Murderer and Weapon.

If on the other hand it's a true skill game and someone has reached a level where they can win the JP or other decent prizes regularly than you simply have to applaud the skill and appreciate the dedication it would take to get to that level.

Other than that things are now are about as bleak as I can remember them since I started posting on here. Can Jiggy Bank really have been the last decent game they will ever release?

[grecian]

Other than that things are now are about as bleak as I can remember them since I started posting on here. Can Jiggy Bank really have been the last decent game they will ever release?

To be fair Nil it's a bl**dy sight better than it was at the time of e.g. ItBoxes 49-53 is it not? There are four or five playable games about at the moment (that said, I've not been playing much lately) and that's more than there have been at some points in the not-too-distant. All that said, the halcyon days of ItBox 54-55 and the Jiggy Bank era are getting to be a distant memory...

[Nil Satis]

Agreed, things are marginally better than that period but the main issue I am finding is that machines simply aren't being played - having them out of order so regularly and for so long can't help, as can the complete lack of decent new games, but I am finding it rare now to have to wait to get on a machine, particularly since the ItBoxes started to be replaced by Paragons, and I am finding machines that don't appear to have been played to any sort of level despite my visits being two or three months apart - there are no clues on any of the games where scoreboards actually mean something, like Fantasy Football Quiz and Word Up, to indicate anyone has been emptying them in the meantime.

Also the general downturn in the pub trade can't be helping - some of the pubs that have survived are like ghost towns in comparison to a year or two ago. I don't know if this applies to London but it is certainly the case in several of the main towns I know best.

[GaryChandler]

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What liam said lol

[kingzilla]

You wont see to many new games in the near future say they have a jackpot prize as this may draw attention to the machines with the GC
they will either say CASH PRIZE or WIN UP TO

[dmac]

xyz

[ggdr]

I loved Jiggy Bank, despite never managing to find a way of getting jiggy that didn't involve me looking like a cretin. Caesar's Palace is another game that is full of spelling mistakes and outright errors, but it's still one of my first picks.

[Mattb]

RE Nearest The Pin, you can tell how ready it is by what hole it offers you. If it offers one where you need a 3W/Driver to get to the green it's always virtually impossible to do. Ball rolls too much, greens are too small and usually have traps before them.

[Nil Satis]

NS, did you really think Jiggy Bank was a decent game? I thought it was horrible]

Virtually the only reason I play quiz machines is to win money. I would prefer to be entertained in some way at the same time, and do have a fondness for a game or two of Word Up which is unrelated to my ability to win anything more than about £3, but the ability to win decent money (£10+) is the only real criterion I use to judge a game. On that basis Jiggy Bank was a bloody brilliant game - how many other recent games have usually offered at least two top notch prizes per cabinet (one each on the 50p and £1 variants) without any (pardon the pun) jiggery-pokery involved? - if you could answer the questions and were prepared to take the hit of losing deliberately on a few games in a row then the top prizes were genuinely there.

To be honest I am mystified as to why anyone who plays quiz machines regularly would think otherwise, unless you play for entertainment not money, basically just for something to do to fill time. Personally if I came into a decent pot of money from somewhere else I could happily stop playing them right now, and the way things are going I might decide to do that anyway and seek other sources of 'top up' income.

sorry this is a bit random but i haven't played caesers palace much but today i got 6 keys for the first time. i only had 3 boxes left but ran out of bonii so question is would it have jackpotted? crucial info i believe - gamesnet reasonably old menu.

It might have done but on the whole 6 keys (for a £10 prize in the end game) is the de facto Jackpot on Caesar's Palace on both the Gamesnets and ItBoxes and you may indeed only get 5 keys in the whole pyramid - this is particularly true on the dreaded Paragons. What is good is that if you miss out once by gambling on going for the last few boxes and losing on a tricky question or bonus you should really get another go at the £10 within two or three more games.

Whatever you do don't gamble on the end game unless you want to see the £10 disappear in a pseudo-skill puff of smoke!