Does anyone have fruit machine tips?

[keontwin]

Hi! I've started gambling on fruit machine games some time ago, but it's hard to win anything. I play fruit machines in the online casino of Virgin and in various pubs.

Who has some good tips for me?

[berniecuddles]

gamblers anonymous google it

[ttfn]

Here is a tip - don't ask when the morning shift are still on

[ummmm]

Don't play them...that's the best tip..

[Mamyalynne]

Send me your money I will spend it wisely

[jackthehat]

Remember you will always be third in line for any payout on a pub machine.
First - Machine owner
Second - Premises owner
Third - Punter.

And if the Punter starts winning more than they 'should' the engineers will adjust the machine to ensure that the situation returns to normal.

[squarebear]

As the others have said, you will NEVER consistently win on a fruit machine. They are not random.

[ummmm]

I use to win quite a bit on ours. I had to spend my Saturdays watching people put money in it though...

[alexl]

"Don't play them...that's the best tip.. "
Seconded. You'll spend more money than you win. You win the jackpot and most people put it in another machine and lose it.

But here's some tips:
-Learn how to play a few popular machines (i.e. Deal or no Deal) to learn the features.
-Some people say if you put £3 in and get offered no wins or a board the machine is rigged (on £5,£10 Jackpot machines) not sure if that's true.
-Don't play Club Machines with £250+ jackpots unless you can afford to lose the money or have it with you (it'll probably cost £100 for jackpot on an average day if you can get it).
-Learn off people who are pros already.
-Jackpot/Jackpot repeat is not always the best feature, sometimes it's a streak or something else; only by knowing the machine you can find that out.

[jomifl]

You would be better off spending your money on course in elementary statistics and
probability theory, you won't win any more but you will know why you didn't..

[squarebear]

lol nice answer!

[woofgang]

the machines have a small computer inside them that "predicts" whether the randon feature will throw up a win or not. If it will throw up a win but the machine's payout percentage will be breached then it won't pay out. premium bonds are a better bet.

[woofgang]

useful info here....basically if the machine is ready to pay out it will, if not.....not!
http://www.clubmachines.co.uk/mech.htm

[lcg]

don't play them - most are programmed to take at least 15% of punters money. you're better off playing around at the bookies! x

[jomifl]

The only way you have a chance of winning at gambling is to only ever make one bet in your life, the more you bet the more the odds are stacked against you, it's that simple. You can send the cheque for the money you have saved by not having to go on the stats. course to a charity of you choice (but not william hill, or ladbrokes, or PMU why are there so many of them?)

[mike11111]

For a long time, many years ago, I could not pass a one-armed bandit without giving it my last coin (I'm going back to the days when you used to put 6d in the slot and pull the handle). It was only later when they became electronic and then computerised that I realised that there was nothing random about them. If it is ready to pay out then it will do so, regardless of how you play. I once had three triple bars on a four reel machine with the option of a hold for the fourth bar giving a £100 jackpot. In a show of bravado, and to the amazement of the onlookers, I declined the option of a hold and respun all four reels. Surely enough, as I had anticipated, all four triple bars clicked into the frame on the next spin and I duly collected. The machine was ready to drop the jackpot and would not be deterred by my unorthodox way of playing. Shortly afterwards, and for no explicable reason, I totally lost interest and now wouldn't give one a second glance. They can be addictive - if I could reclaim every penny I fed into a slot machine between 1965 and 1985 I would be a very rich man.

[ummmm]

An ad...what a surprise..!

[redcrx]

blimey keontwin!

call the papers! You seem to have invented a time machine!!

youve been back in time and posted that same site on a Q about fruit machines BEFORE the time that you wrote this question

http://www.theanswerb...s/Question656358.html


REPORTED!

[Booldawg]

I once read a story in the papers years ago about a guy who spent all his time on cross channel ferries playing fruit machines. He knew how all the machines functioned and made a healtly living out of it. As a result he was banned by various ferry companies. I guess this was before fruit machines got all digital.

What a great way to earn a few quid though! There was something romantic about it.