Fruit machines

I hate thing things tbh. My uncle seems to like sitting at them as did a guy I went to college with. A preson I've gotten to know recently lost £240 in an hour and a half last week......wtf.
 
I live near Skeggy and have a son that does/did this. It's called surfing I think.
I bought him a machine to play at home to try to break the habit, we've had about 4 different machines all told but it never works long term he always goes back to the arcades.
Most places will ban you if they realise you're a local then it's a cat and mouse game with the floorwalkers trying to avoid getting ejected.
Yes he does come home with a couple of hundred quid sometimes but can never resist the urge to return and try again instead of doing something with the money. Eventually the cash always ends up back in the machine it came out of.
He's got a GF now and she's got a lot more of what it takes to convince him to pack it in ;)
 
ron3003 said:
Payout is around 70%ish in this country (adjustable by the operator of the machine)
Machines have 2 hoppers for the cash you put in. The top hopper holds the 'float' and this is where your winning come from. If the float is low following a payout the machine will keep taking your money until it's full again.
The bottom hopper is where all the excess cash goes.
If you dont hear your inserted coins fall right to the bottom of the machine then you aren't going to win anything.
Even then it's computer controlled when a payout occurs. You must understand you're playing a computer (with a motherboard and processor etc) not a mechanical machine.
You cant beat a computer, the only winner is always the machines operator.
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Pretty much right.

Only one hopper and a cash box (a hopper is a mechanism to pay out coins, the cash box is just a tin box) in the bottom, and the hopper doesn't have to be full before the machine will pay out, the machine knows how much is in and if it can afford to pay out, whether its full or not.
 
I remember the days of the ones that paid the £4.80 in tokens and did a run when they were ready, half cash, half money. The reels used to stick a little before they spun and that was the way you could tell it was ready for a payout.

Nowadays its a case of you win if your the lucky one. You will never see a poor fruit machine but you do see many, many poor gamblers.
 
I dont believe that if the money drops into the cash box instead of the hopper that it makes it more likely to pay out.

If the machines are emptied daily like most are then the hopper will always start the day full.

The machines have running totals so will pay out only when their margin is reached. I wouldnt pay too much attention to whether the hopper is full or not.
 
Got a Cops 'n Robbers machine here at home :cool: but it's only £5 jackpot. They're cult machines now and what's more they play the theme tune from 'The Great Escape' nice one :D
 
I remember reading about someone who managed to dump the program from one machine and run it in an emulator. He got to the point where you were doing a "hi-low" guess and took a memory dump, he then tried both high (lost) and then low (lost again) and thus proved that, for this machine at least, the computer has already decided if you will be a winner or loser and the chance element is a facade.
 
I never play them anymore but I used to love the one in my local pub, I always seemed to win on it :)
 
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