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Over the years, we've all heard about pressing sequences of buttons to empty a machine, do a reset or award free wins.
Aside from the genuine tricks, everybody knows somebody who has a great theory of winning money. They usually revolve around a way of guaranteeing repeats on the jackpot (like the infamous idea of leaving it timeout to repeat, which translates as a way of saying "I'm an idiot").
Of course, these "tricks" can never be replicated every time - or they would be genuine emptiers - but this never stops them from insisting it always works for them, when you're not looking of course!
Now these stories have moved with the times bringing in modern "tricks" such as using a mobile phone near a machine to drop a jackpot. Just like the over-hyped millennium bug, these problems always seem to cause things to pay out rather than just crash them (or do nothing at all).
On this page you can read quotes from people who have posted their "top tips" to me over the years - some of which are just too funny to keep out. I've taken away the names to protect their identity and their reputation!
Other stories will be experiences from other players on what has happened to them, perhaps when some idiot comes over and tries to give good advice when you're playing a machine.
If you have heard any more crazy stories that you simply have to share with the world, please Email them to us and they will be added for all to enjoy and laugh at!
Enjoy!
"I have noted that when playing a machine; mostly in arcades- that if my mobile phone rings I often have noted that the £15 jackpot soon drops in. Digital signals could interfere {possibly} with its brain" - Anonymous (Feb 2000)
"... I got a good tip of a friendly landlady today - If you hold cancel down as the Simpsons board starts, it can go red, which apparently, is jackpot. Needless to say, with this helpful advice and the fact she got a stool next to the machine, I didn't attempt to streak it!" - Mark Pyne (Feb 2000)
"Right, machines pay 75% of takings (for arguments sake).
25% is kept by them. So, the money that is backed into the drop box is the 25% since the money in the hopper will be paid out eventually. The machine cannot take anymore that 25% into the drop box without having a debt to be paid from the hopper. You follow so far?
So, the best time to play a machine is when its backing - what if you can make the machine back whenever you want? even if its only got say £50 in the hopper, and isn't anywhere near full, if you make it back, and it knows
its backing (not broken) then surely its gotta be thinking about paying out?! Right?
so, why not play with 50p coins all the time - they'll always be backed, and hence should get the machine in a good mood." - Anonymous (Feb 2000)
"When playing Barcrest's Arabian Nights when on £3 and you are going higher/lower usually it will end up on a 2. Go lower as 9 out of ten times a one will spin up. when you have a Jackpot repeat chance just leave the gambler until it will ALWAYS land on yes and you will win £30" - Anonymous (Dec 1999)
"G Force Rollercoaster; After a £5 win on the board press cancel and type in 1,2,3,3,2,1 five times for instant jackpot plus repeat chance!!!! (programming flaw)" - Anonymous (Nov 1999)
"Some guy once tried to convince me that you could keep re-entering the feature on Homers Meltdown once you died by pressing Exchange, Collect and Start one after the other!" - Anonymous (Feb 2000)
"On Lucky Strike Club, if you refuse a big win, say over £40 the machine thinks you have collected it and plays badly.." - Anonymous (March 2000)
"If you have a nudge and you bring down 2 of any kind and the fruit machine doesn't already read " LET EM SPIN " press start and the 2 fruits of a kind that you brought down should spin in along with the other identical fruit. Also if the machine that you are playing has a bonus on the 4th number of it' s trail and a no 2 spins in on it' s own with no other numbers , "HOLD ALL THREE " and you will get the bonus." - Top tipster!, March 2000 [btw, all of the above is true, but it's the fact that some idiot posted them as "top tips"]
"On London Underground, take one knockout
and hit mystery win. It pays out at least £5 and up to the jackpot of £15" - Top tipster no. 2, March 2000 [Incidentally, this only happens when streaking, otherwise you would empty the machine!]
"Last night I found that if you have 2 mobile phones and you phone the other one while you are spinning the reel it seams to give you more of a chance at getting money. Tried Near Beccles, in the Gillingham SwanSuffolk" - Stuart Hunt, May 2000
Here's a great one that Chris Smedley (CMA president) couldn't wait to tell me.. Upon winning £60 from a Jackpoteers, the landlord informed him of the "eccentric coil" that all machines are fitted with. This coil apparently "spins around and stops every few hours". If someone is playing the machine at the time, the machine goes mental and starts to pay out. So next time you're playing, be sure to take your time and wait for the disc to stop - you'll be sure to make a fortune!! (September 2000)
Chris also heard another good reason why someone won a lot of money on a machine the other day - he was playing too fast. Apparently if you press all the buttons too quick, holding reels and getting wins in quick succession, the machine "can't cope with the wins and loses count". Now you know why the professional player who can play virtually with his eyes shut wins so much. If it's not the eccentric disc spinning around, it's the fact that playing quickly messes up the game software. So now you know! (September 2000)
