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jasonuk said:
I see the phrase "few hundred thousand spins" and I think back to the Starburst challenge... never did see that full screen in the end?
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I checked on this last night, I did 310,000 spins and it didn't top 340x.
 
So it seems you can teach an old dog new tricks!

Here I get my head around what is considered to be one of the trickier (if not the trickiest!) true skill features ever created for a UK compensated fruit machine. (I had some very good tuition from a chap over at Desert Island Fruits, I wouldn't have worked this out myself in a million years.)

 
Neither online slots or fruit machine emulation, but my other big recreational love is videogames, and I have a massive soft spot for retrogaming.

Here I cover the Taito arcade classic 'Chase HQ', which, if I do say so myself - (and I do) - I'm quite good at.

Played here using the MAME emulator, with controls courtesy of a wireless XBox 360 controller (still the best controller ever made).

 
Rewinding back to April 2021 for this video, when I decided to give Evolution's Crazy Time Live Spinny Wheel Extravaganza game a go, and almost immediately managed the standard issue Degsy spawn. Anyone would think it had been made by BTG....

 
The follow-on video I made for Crazy Time, looking at how betting strategies can affect RTP (choosing the highest RTP segments isn't the no-brainer it might sound like), and how the Pachinko bonus round in particular can be 'engineered' to be low or high paying.

For some reason this video did well on the old channel, getting many thousands of views, I'm still not sure why.

 
ChopleyIOM said:
The follow-on video I made for Crazy Time, looking at how betting strategies can affect RTP (choosing the highest RTP segments isn't the no-brainer it might sound like), and how the Pachinko bonus round in particular can be 'engineered' to be low or high paying.

For some reason this video did well on the old channel, getting many thousands of views, I'm still not sure why.

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Probably because there is a cult/loyal following for these games, with their extremely entertaining hosts.

Whenever Ladbrokes give me a gameshow bonus with a 1x turnover, I blow it all in one go to save what's left of my sanity ? :laugh:
 
mack341 said:
Probably because there is a cult/loyal following for these games, with their extremely entertaining hosts.

Whenever Ladbrokes give me a gameshow bonus with a 1x turnover, I blow it all in one go to save what's left of my sanity ? :laugh:
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If you watch these games for any amount of time (you can log in and watch the game in real money mode without placing any bets, I sometimes have one of them running off to the side whilst I'm playing a videogame), what you realise is they're incredibly low volatility and flat in the main, even what we'd consider 'medium pays' in slots terms are rare, and high pays are very rare.

If you want a load of playtime for not much money, they're not really a bad option in fairness, but unless you're betting big and hit something fairly unusual, you won't be making much in the way of cash outs :D

The 640x I hit on my video was a seriously, seriously spawny hit!
 
ChopleyIOM said:
The follow-on video I made for Crazy Time, looking at how betting strategies can affect RTP (choosing the highest RTP segments isn't the no-brainer it might sound like), and how the Pachinko bonus round in particular can be 'engineered' to be low or high paying.

For some reason this video did well on the old channel, getting many thousands of views, I'm still not sure why.

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There is no strategy on random 96-98% games. At best you can mitigate the variance.
 
dunover said:
There is no strategy on random 96-98% games. At best you can mitigate the variance.
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A strategy doesn't necessarily have to mean 'guaranteed to be winning' (which it's clearly impossible to do when every bet available on Crazy Time returns less than 100%). A player could have a strategy to 'maximise playtime at the expense of everything else', at which point simply placing 10p bets on the '1' segment would be a good strategy :)

With that strategy you could never win more than 50x, (the maximum multiplier that can be applied to any segment in the wheel), but it'd still be a splendid strategy for epic playtime.
 
ChopleyIOM said:
If you watch these games for any amount of time (you can log in and watch the game in real money mode without placing any bets, I sometimes have one of them running off to the side whilst I'm playing a videogame), what you realise is they're incredibly low volatility and flat in the main, even what we'd consider 'medium pays' in slots terms are rare, and high pays are very rare.
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It's curious to see how this has played out in the couple of years since the video was originally published. With people so obsessed by ultra-high variance slots, live casino providers seem to be pushing the "potential" (man, I hate that word now) angle to the limit... games that talk about mammoth pays that clearly are incapable of doing so in any reasonable timeframe.

For example, Playtech's offering of Jumanji The Bonus Level Live - they do a similar divide and conquer to Crazy Time's Cash Hunt, which splits players into 8 to 40 pots (by character, and by choices in bonus rounds).

They frequently talk about the win cap of 5000x, but the game is designed around 5-50x bonus rounds - so there's an inevitable disconnect where players are looking for the bigger wins. It sounds like there's been a 2800x win to date (and given how difficult it is to trigger, I would not be surprised if it's been once since launch) - which requires hitting either 1 in 43 top bonus, then getting both rare upgrades within the bonus, and having selected both the right character to double the win and getting a big award in The Next Level.

It's a quirky medium-variance game, decent technical design and in the current climate I'm not going to complain about a 97.63% top RTP (number 2, most of the bonuses are around 95%)… but the marketing is completely disconnected from the gameplay.
 
PMKFRUITPRO said:
The +EV strategy for bonanza is to get Dazzas log in details.

That’s the clue.
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lol...just had a @ChopleyIOM session (y'know when he got 4 features in 139 spins?) not quite that dramatic but 6 in about 850 spins.
 
PMKFRUITPRO said:
Oh I’m sorry hear to your feature frequency has dropped mate.
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Was doodling on WWTBAM feature-buy the other day, this is pro-rata worse than your 32-spin Bonanza filth:

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Yes funnily enough I’ve dabbled on that.

I felt a 150x buy for 20 spins was rather generous. Especially given the fact you can increase that number without risk.

Needless to say after a day of experimenting I was wrong.

Proves how hard it is to get a decent bonus and unless I was very unlucky it seemed to me the dead spins were even more prominent than the usual filth.

I mean think about it. You’re paying 150x for minimum 20 spins and often 30 and u still can’t win. Shows what garbage is served up 99% of the time even with a silly amount of spins.
 
Bit of a delve back into the archives for this one, to the year 2012, for a pub fruity session in my home town, when there were still just about enough traditional reel-based AWPs left for this to be a viable possibility, before the random £500ers completely took over.

 
More vintage (if 2012 counts as vintage....) fruit machine play, with a 2023 introduction, ruminating on the death of the fruit machine and its disappearance from ubiquity in the UK.

 
SHITBURST AHOY! This was originally uploaded, in four different parts, in late 2012 on an old YouTube channel of mine, and then released again, compiled into a single video, in April 2018. It is this single video compilation that I'm reuploading here.

PLEASE NOTE - I received a hard video copyright ban for the section from 10m53s to 13m26s due to YouTube really not liking 'Hits From The Bong' by Cypress Hill. As such I had to use the new YT beta feature which tries to remove the copyrighted music from the afflicted section without destroying the rest of the audio, and in fairness it's done a decent job but the audio during this section is still sub-optimal.

 
ChopleyIOM said:
SHITBURST AHOY! This was originally uploaded, in four different parts, in late 2012 on an old YouTube channel of mine, and then released again, compiled into a single video, in April 2018. It is this single video compilation that I'm reuploading here.

PLEASE NOTE - I received a hard video copyright ban for the section from 10m53s to 13m26s due to YouTube really not liking 'Hits From The Bong' by Cypress Hill. As such I had to use the new YT beta feature which tries to remove the copyrighted music from the afflicted section without destroying the rest of the audio, and in fairness it's done a decent job but the audio during this section is still sub-optimal.

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I remember doing the same nearly 500k spins and hitting 314x as best win IIRC. I was in the original thread when you did this. I just don't think it's possible to hit a full screen of bars as it's clearly set to have a win cap of 500x therefore you'd have normally won a certain amount BEFORE you had the final spin with 3 wild reels held, so it would at best spin in full bars one side and a single the other.
 
dunover said:
I remember doing the same nearly 500k spins and hitting 314x as best win IIRC. I was in the original thread when you did this. I just don't think it's possible to hit a full screen of bars as it's clearly set to have a win cap of 500x therefore you'd have normally won a certain amount BEFORE you had the final spin with 3 wild reels held, so it would at best spin in full bars one side and a single the other.
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So combined we did the better part of one million spins, and the best win between us was 314x! Of course this was back in the days when NetEnt slots had unlimited demo play without the constant nag screens so you could just kick them off for 1000 spins at a time. (And use Cheat Engine to speed them up, if you were so inclined.)

I don't know why they didn't just put the 500x win in there as a single spin with the three wilds and stacks of bars, it'd make for a good marquee win.

Either way it was quite an eye-opener for me to see such a low volatility game be completely unwilling to offer up even its modest top prize of 500x.
 
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ChopleyIOM said:
Either way it was quite an eye-opener for me to see such a low volatility game be completely unwilling to offer up even its modest top prize of 500x.
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I always thought - as with a lot of slots of that era - that they'd be quoting the best possible spin (so a full screen of bars) and it would be possible, however unlikely, to get beyond that. So it would be a little surprising if that wasn't the case... not that we're talking a vast amount of difference between 250x and 500x anyway.

It reminds me of the God of Storms Live slot launch, a surreal mix of "streamer" presentation style and a slot that makes Starburst look volatile...

Not surprisingly, they tried to talk up the big wins (of which there wouldn't be any, the theoretical limit was around 450x and that required a lot of things to fall into place) - but seeing the game take a week to hit the first 100x after launch (approx. 50,000 spins) and people ran a mile... it was axed a few months later.
 
TheAddict said:
Would make Vin Diesel blush that finish at 11:00 Chop. Watched that with a fat smile on me face. Ta.
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If you're not on fire when you cross the finishing line, you're not doing it right.
 
For anyone who's watched the above video, and was wondering about the 'mystery fruit machine' that can be seen in the back of a crappy old mobile phone video where me and Mrs Chopley are playing pool together (mobile phone video quality in 2004 was..... not good), rather amazingly, someone over at Desert Island Fruits was able to positively identify it. (I couldn't for the life of me identify it, hence asking the question in the video.)

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Turns out it's a £25 jackpot BFM machine from the time, and it's emulated, albeit only with a 'classic' layout.

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Playing the video alongside the machine running in the emulator, when combined with a flyer of the machine, shows that this is indeed the correct machine - quite the spot!

I do like it when these little mysteries are solved :)

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A mate of mines sister once had her picture taken at a venue and in the background was a coronation street cluedo clone.

After quizzing her where it was she couldn’t remember as she was rather intoxicated!! But she knew she’d been out in my home town on a works Xmas bash.

As these were fairly useful to a player back in the day if they weren’t being checked every hour by other players I set about trying to find it.

I knew it wasn’t in any of the town centre pubs/clubs or any of the outskirt places as I conducted a fresh check shortly after.

It was a mystery for a fair while despite my extensive searching!!

That was until I was out for a meal with family and friends in a hotel/restaurant which I knew didn’t have any machines in from previous checks.

As I wandered from the table to the toilets which were on a lower level I walked past a function room and there it was!!!! Switched off of course!!

Checked it periodically every now and again and never caught it turned on over the next few weeks until I thought fuck it next time I’ll sneak in and turn it on myself.

The following week I popped in for a pint, wandered down stairs only to be greeted by talking and music.

About fucking time I thought and was greeted by glowing lights in the corner!!

But unfortunately it was the glowing lights of a poxy quiz machine!!!

Good times!!!
 
PMKFRUITPRO said:
A mate of mines sister once had her picture taken at a venue and in the background was a coronation street cluedo clone.

After quizzing her where it was she couldn’t remember as she was rather intoxicated!! But she knew she’d been out in my home town on a works Xmas bash.

As these were fairly useful to a player back in the day if they weren’t being checked every hour by other players I set about trying to find it.

I knew it wasn’t in any of the town centre pubs/clubs or any of the outskirt places as I conducted a fresh check shortly after.

It was a mystery for a fair while despite my extensive searching!!

That was until I was out for a meal with family and friends in a hotel/restaurant which I knew didn’t have any machines in from previous checks.

As I wandered from the table to the toilets which were on a lower level I walked past a function room and there it was!!!! Switched off of course!!

Checked it periodically every now and again and never caught it turned on over the next few weeks until I thought fuck it next time I’ll sneak in and turn it on myself.

The following week I popped in for a pint, wandered down stairs only to be greeted by talking and music.

About fucking time I thought and was greeted by glowing lights in the corner!!

But unfortunately it was the glowing lights of a poxy quiz machine!!!

Good times!!!
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I used to routinely ask friends to send me pictures of any fruit machines they came across on a night out, for anything that might be worth a visit - it would yield decent results with surprising frequency for locations that were outside my usual scanning range.

When a mate came over to the IOM to visit me (probably around 2014 or so, at a guess), I told him to take pictures of the fruit machines on the ferry on his way over in case there were any cheats I could tell him for his return journey, turned out the ferry had two 'flickers' on it (video on the channel about those), I taught him the method whilst he was here and he made a decent wedge of cash out of them on his way home, covered his travel costs and most of his spends!
 
This is a sort of follow-on video to the previous video on my channel, where I have a deeper dive into the MYSTERY MACHINE that could be seen in the background of me and Mrs Chopley playing pool.

So I talk a bit about Hot Rod and its proper physical bagatelle game that was incorporated into the cabinet, and also take a look right back into the early 90s for a machine with a similar sort of gimmick made by Barcrest, called Gamball.



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Quite a nostalgic video from the archives, back to November 2012 for this one. Jackpot Party sent out a 100% match offer, up to £200, to all their customers, on 20xB WR. (To celebrate their second birthday.) We all remember nice things like that, right?

I took the full bonus so that gave me £400 to wager £4000. This video includes my epic 1689x win on Bruce Lee, which back in the gentler days of 2012, was considered a pretty major win!

I really miss Jackpot Party, great place to play, with live chat and hosts, a fine selection of WMS slots, and the splendid Jackpot Party Progressive round.

This was back in the day when I would routinely stay up playing to 1am or 2am in the morning, with a generous quantity of alcohol on board, excitedly waving my camcorder around.

 
Do you remember when online slots were good? Do you remember when an online casino could feel like a familiar and pleasant place to hang out, with reps and regular players whose names you got to know? Do you remember 'slippers pls Glinda' in the chat channel? Do you remember regular bonus offers with sensible wagering? Do you remember a happier, gentler time?

If so, you probably remember Jackpot Party. Back to 2012 for this one.

 
ChopleyIOM said:
Do you remember when online slots were good? Do you remember when an online casino could feel like a familiar and pleasant place to hang out, with reps and regular players whose names you got to know? Do you remember 'slippers pls Glinda' in the chat channel? Do you remember regular bonus offers with sensible wagering? Do you remember a happier, gentler time?

If so, you probably remember Jackpot Party. Back to 2012 for this one.

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LOL...I played at JPP for a while, great site. Never did get Brucie's 20 spins. The chat - I used to turn it off when saddos appeared sprinkling 'lucky dust' when someone boasted they'd landed a feature. For me gambling is mostly a solitary activity and requires concentration not distraction from stupid chat streams where the ultimate objective was to create a 'community' to encourage players to stay longer and lose more, kinda like those moronic joined-up Party Balloon sort of AWPs where 3 lemons would be lined up (not on the reels) and all stop playing when someone went 'up the top'. Fucking hell, I never played those but it was butt-clenchingly embarrassing and cringeworthy to walk past people sitting by them zoned out by the futile inane things.

That was about 18 years ago I don't know if they are still a thing nowadays but seeing your Party Balloon slot you played in the other JPP video reminded me of them. I agree though, the nostalgic days when a good honest bonus with reasonable wagering would be offered. Give me JPP, the Viper 32Red and a Wagerworks IGT Alderney casino and those three would do me for life, I'd never play Bonanza again....
 
dunover said:
LOL...I played at JPP for a while, great site. Never did get Brucie's 20 spins. The chat - I used to turn it off when saddos appeared sprinkling 'lucky dust' when someone boasted they'd landed a feature. For me gambling is mostly a solitary activity and requires concentration not distraction from stupid chat streams where the ultimate objective was to create a 'community' to encourage players to stay longer and lose more, kinda like those moronic joined-up Party Balloon sort of AWPs where 3 lemons would be lined up (not on the reels) and all stop playing when someone went 'up the top'. Fucking hell, I never played those but it was butt-clenchingly embarrassing and cringeworthy to walk past people sitting by them zoned out by the futile inane things.

That was about 18 years ago I don't know if they are still a thing nowadays but seeing your Party Balloon slot you played in the other JPP video reminded me of them. I agree though, the nostalgic days when a good honest bonus with reasonable wagering would be offered. Give me JPP, the Viper 32Red and a Wagerworks IGT Alderney casino and those three would do me for life, I'd never play Bonanza again....
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I quite like chat channels at online casinos, Tombola still has one and so does 3Dice, and of course Jackpot Party had one back in the day. Yes some of it can be a bit cringe but it's a sense of community in a way.

The Party Time multiplayer machines were highly amusing, with OAPs convinced they'd worked out some sort of 'secret' way to press the buttons to get the top game, because once their false teeth fell out at the same time as getting a win and it went up to the top.
 
ChopleyIOM said:
Sorry I haven't been around recently.

This is why.

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Sigh. (My brother has forwarded me this.)

My dad's house is still caught in legal limbo, we can't sell it, but we're responsible for it, so we're having to maintain the insurance on the property and apparently we're going to have to pay council tax this year as well (albeit at a discounted rate, which is very generous, lols.....).

And now we have a guest!

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ChopleyIOM said:
I quite like chat channels at online casinos, Tombola still has one and so does 3Dice, and of course Jackpot Party had one back in the day. Yes some of it can be a bit cringe but it's a sense of community in a way.

The Party Time multiplayer machines were highly amusing, with OAPs convinced they'd worked out some sort of 'secret' way to press the buttons to get the top game, because once their false teeth fell out at the same time as getting a win and it went up to the top.
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A few times I came home drunk and played on there and joined in with the chat. It felt like I needed to be drunk to be on their level.

I even done the whole "nooo, 3rd bubble flew away :(" and the grannies would reply "so sry hun maybe next time gl x"

I actually really enjoyed it and my deposit lasted the rest of the night as I was taking so long between spins lol, but I do think you need to be drunk.
 
First new video for a few weeks, covering an old Barcrest AWP that didn't cheat on Skill Cash so really good players could empty it. Obviously this wasn't allowed to continue, so Barcrest rechipped it to cheat the player.

 
One of my fruit machine emulation's 'most wanted', which up until now has only existed in classic layout form, now has a DX for it (DX layouts use real artwork/photos/flyer scans etc to look like the real machine).

Quite a nostalgic one for me this, which I covered in detail in my original video when the classic layout was released, also linked below.



And here's the original video I made about this machine.

 
Just a bit of fun with fruit machines turning up in the wrong time or place, the most recent example that finally pushed me into making this video being the series 'One Day' on Netflix.

Slightly amazingly this one got through the YouTube censor-o-tron without a copyright strike.

 
A look back at a family of hugely successful fruit machines that were produced from the early to mid 1990s, ACE's 'Hidden Treasures' machines - includes me catching one of the bonkers streaks these things could do (around £60 on a £6 jackpot) on camera.

 
Ace Emptiers were my first ever exploit and what a beauty it was. Not Play it Again but the later machines with the 'free' lines wins.

Downside was so many jammed token mechs, a lot of scrutiny from fellow pub go-ers and "Mug punters" and drinking and smoking away most of our profits.

We committed so many hours and drove here there and everywhere doing these, at one point, I had about 12 pint glasses on my window sill full to the top with £1 coins, along with bags of tokens which I made mental notes where they could be used. In the end could empty cash tubes without needing money, just the tokens we'd accrued.

If I'd been older and wiser and more restrained at the time, could have got rich from these as they were literally everywhere.

Even most pubs to start with were 'happy' to pay out a £50 IOU lol.
 

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