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I’ve played Wild Heist once.  My 3 picks were 3 extra spins, +1 wild and another +1 wild.  No re-picks, and it still went for 140x.

Best starting set-up is probably 3 extra spins, +1 wild and the golden ticket.  Best golden ticket would be walking wilds because they stop the free spins like they do in Jack and the Beanstalk and it can then go on for ages.  If it re-picks, then the best pick would be a multiplier.

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To save from creating a new post – whenever the Bandit plays Novomatic slots e.g. Reel King, the sound lags behind the visuals.  Does anyone know what causes this?

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The Bandit wrote:

Haha all from 50p, good old Ernie smashing in the win!

 

Yeah i have got a fair few tales about fruit machines for example, when they say “add 5p to play” then actually winning the jackpot off that 5p lol The chances!

I had similar as well – I put £1 into a Power 5 (Deal or No Deal) fruity and I caught it in the middle of a streak!!  So someone before me must had zero credit, collected his £35 jackpot win and left, then the rest of the streak went for another £35 for me.

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Karter, I’m not sure how your link is relevant to this topic?  It links to another forum (off-site) with about 8 threads, all with zero replies.

I remember Mazoona being a fruit manu though.  One of them was called Monopoly Road to Riches, but they haven’t released any new machines in the last 10 years IIRC.

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Scratch cards is the one area of gambling that I’ve never done well on.  Biggest win on a £1 card is £9 and biggest win on a £2 card is £15.

I mainly stick with fruits and cat B3 slots 🙂

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I’ve been playing as a casual (no pro / player knowledge) since the early 90s, in my early teens.  I don’t remember the early titles, but I do remember that my gambling also included video blackjack.  Similar graphics to a BBC Micro or Ceefax / Teletext i.e. 8 colours.

My favourite era was £25 jackpot, where I thought that the manus stuck a good balance between jackpot size and gameplay.  Favourite machines were Fort Boyard, Austin Powers, and Madness (Italian Job clone).  I also liked the era when Barcrest made a series of games that had a blue board, then the blue segments turned red when you had a super board.  Examples were Vamp It Up, Supernova and All Fired Up.  I also like the ones where you started with a small inner board, then it would extend out.  Examples were High Flyer and Superstar.

After £25 jackpot, I quite liked the £35 and the early £70 (basically upgraded £35rs), then it went to the dogs in later £70.  £100 was truly game over for traditional fruit machines.

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Yes it’s the background image of DHV!!

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I quite like Cool Jewels.  It’s more akin to the older Bejewelled / Candy Crush games in that you have normal gems and power-up gems.  Also, if 2 power-ups appear next to each other, they combine in a similar fashion to Candy Crush (the mobile app).

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+1 on what Eejit said about being pre-determined.  The easiest way to explain this is on Reel King, as each game generates a unique game ID at the top left corner of the playing area.  That ID determines if it’s a win or not, and if it becomes a feature, the ID will determine how much the scroll(s) go for.  The ID also determines how the win is implemented.  Let’s say it’s a win and it’s £10.  In Reel King on £1 stake, a £10 win can be displayed as 5 kings on 1 payline or 3 queens on 5 paylines or it can be implemented as a 3 yellow sevens on the scroll feature.  Many many many permutations of displaying a £10 win.

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Ok guys, here is the next one: it is just the background of the slot.  The foreground i.e. the slot itself is missing 🙂

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Category B4 (club machines) – nudged in a £150 win (blue 7777) in the base game on Dungeons & Drag Queens on 25p stake for a sweet 600x 🙂

Category B3 (arcade machines) – I have jackpotted Thai Flower on £1 stake during the bonus round so that’s £500 / 500x.  2nd biggest win would be Icy Wilds, £416 roll-in in the base game on £1 for 416x.

Category B2 (roulette machines) – I don’t play these.  Too dangerous!

Category C (pub fruit machines) – the Crazy Chair £70 / 50p went invincible on me and did a win series that went for £155 which is 310x.

Category A (online gambling) – White Rabbit buy-out £50 / 50p stake that went for £180 which is 360x.

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… cashpoints that are too slow

… cashpoint hoggers who spend 5 minutes withdrawing £20

… cashpoints that ask you too many questions (Santander – that is YOU!)

… cashpoints that have no money left

… cashpoints that let you enter your PIN, only then to tell you that there is no money

… cashpoints that display the blue screen of death lol

… people who call cashpoints “ATMs”

… going balls deep in a cashpoint

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I don’t like the idea of playing “online” in an “offline” setting.  Kinda defeats the point.

I reckon that category B2 should be stripped from the FOBT software, but then to allow each shop to have 8 FOBTs.  So what you have will be 8 category B3 machines.  That should mitigate some of the losses.

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Hi RedBell…

I find it interesting that you wrote 45 years.  That would be starting early 1970s.  Do you know the roughly what historic jackpot amounts were?

I started playing pub fruits as a teenager in the early 90s.  Think they were £4.80 jackpots back then and 10p a go?  Then it became £6 or £6.40.  Then I became a regular (casual) player in the early 2000s, like 2001 and it was £15.  Then I saw it go to 25p / £25 which was my favourite era, and like what SportsBetPunk said – seems to be fairer play on the machines.  Then it was £35 which was “ok”, starting to go downhill but was still ok.

The earlier £70 (basically upgraded £35ers) were still ok for me but the later £70ers = gameover for me and I moved on to B3 machines and I get on better with those.

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