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What's the consensus on this one then?

I played one today and got to the end game for the first time in about 15 attempts - which says to be its a bit of a pig to get there. Was very light work today though, maybe i've been touching burnt ones. Anyway i got there with one killer. I then picked:

£8
£3
£4

3 balls gone and £15 in the pot. Killer still about somewhere, didn't think for one minute that was going to pay me £15. It didn't. Killer duly arrived, and told me it was shaving 90% of my pot! I'm now left with £1.50. Fucker. My last pick was £2.50 leaving me a £4 win. Still felt hard done by though with one killer and that board.

Anyone else had joy?
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I don't play it loads, but normally have a go or two on a new machine. I find it fun, and always enjoy reaching the endgame, but if money's been taken recently you can expect to see the spoiler set rolled out pretty sharpish. I'd definitely agree that it tends either to be fairly straightforward to get to an endgame, or you crash and burn and don't make it at all.

As I think Nil Satis has said before, the endgame is totally rigged and you will get hurt with killers, even if you only have one of them. It always shaves 90 per cent of the pot so you weren't especially hard done by. One point is that the game always ensures you win a round number of quid - so if you've got e.g. £2.50 and there's a £1.50 and a £10 in play (say), it's a dead cert you'll get the £1.50 to take you up to £4.

From my limited experience, £3 and £4 are the most common prize amounts (I suspect it would give lower to players skilful enough to force an endgame qualification by knowing spoilers). I took occasional £5s in the early days and my PB is a solitary £8 - that was outside London, mind you. Someone on here took a £10 - I'd be really surprised if anyone's had more than that to be honest.
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grecian wrote:As I think Nil Satis has said before, the endgame is totally rigged and you will get hurt with killers, even if you only have one of them. It always shaves 90 per cent of the pot so you weren't especially hard done by. One point is that the game always ensures you win a round number of quid - so if you've got e.g. £2.50 and there's a £1.50 and a £10 in play (say), it's a dead cert you'll get the £1.50 to take you up to £4.
Absolutely - all this is true. I even uncovered a nice little bug recently when I got through to the end game with no Killers for the first time and even though it would still have added one/two more Killers before the end game started the program obviously couldn't cope with the idea of going through with no Killers at all and promptly froze. :roll:

It's not a bad game but it's blatantly rigged at the end to ensure that the theoretical maximum payout won't ever be achieved.
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Nil Satis wrote: Absolutely - all this is true. I even uncovered a nice little bug recently when I got through to the end game with no Killers for the first time and even though it would still have added one/two more Killers before the end game started the program obviously couldn't cope with the idea of going through with no Killers at all and promptly froze. :roll:
Was this on a GamesNet Nil? I have it on good authority that the game is bugged on the GamesNet and always crashes if you reach the endgame, so it may be that your lack of killers was unrelated (think I've had no killers on the ItBox once or twice and it worked fine).
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always got 3 or 4 quid at endgame. Yesterday was left with the possibility of 3 squid or £28 - no surprises at the outcome!
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If you qualify when it really "doesn't want you to" ie many spoilers, it gives £2. Best I've had is £9. Most entertaining aspect of this game is trying to guess what prize you'll win on the final round after your first two balls. As Grecian said, it's rigged so that the final amount is always an integer number of £. Also, I agree that it crashes on qualification for the final round on GamesNet.
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Post by kingzilla »

grecian is right there was a problem where the game appears to crash or lock up in the prize round, but i have spoken to an engineer about it and he says this has been corrected because some numpty had released an earlier faulty version
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grecian wrote:Was this on a GamesNet Nil? I have it on good authority that the game is bugged on the GamesNet and always crashes if you reach the endgame, so it may be that your lack of killers was unrelated (think I've had no killers on the ItBox once or twice and it worked fine).
It's possible, and now you mention it I have certainly had the endgame crash on a Gamesnet like that - the same thing that 1 vs 100 used to do on one of the other cabinets (the Ind:e?).
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