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I know this is not a good strategy of winning the jackpot on a fruit machine, but because I'm bored, I decided to see how many losing spins the machine can handle on max bet before it forces itself to pay the money. What I did here is basically the opposite of the common method of playing: not holding or nudging a winning combination or a feature combination, trying to not win anything from the feature (even when its on GATW), and doing the gamble until I get nothing or the jackpot. If the feature is GATW, I find a way to get out of it without winning anything (like losing the repeat space gamble or taking the feature that has a chance of not paying anything). These machines are played at the max stake. Notable results DOND The Crazy Chair/The Big Deal/CYBTB etc. (BFM) - After playing as much as 800 times in each machine and not winning anything (even on Go All The Ways), my next feature entries will always be GATW. On some machines like DOND Mega, it will respin to 3 bells (which pays the jackpot). It's Amazing (Barcrest) - After over 150 spins, the machine resets and gives a critical error message. Showtime (Reflex) - About 300 spins. When I tried escaping the GATW by losing on the repeat space gamble after getting the next number hint, it displayed that I won the gamble, even though the number landed would result in a game over. Pie Factory (Vivid) - About 40 pounds in the 15/0.30 version for it to start the "always GATW" mode. However, I can easily exit the feature by landing on Lose during the skill stop. It's uncommon for the machine to not give this opportunity. The Simpsons (Maygay) - About 20 pounds in the 15/0.30 version. I had to be lucky to land on the skill stop space where I can stop on the losing space when the feature round has invincibility. Reno Reels (BWB) - About 30 pounds in before the machines gives out nudges for every spin. That streak ended when I landed on 3 blue 7s for 4 quid. Getting a Bust in the feature spins takes forever too. Monopoly Road to Riches (Mazooma) - About 300 spins before it spun the jackpot and puts the jackpot amount in the Safe so that I am guaranteed to win that amount. Invincible (Red) - Literally takes forever.

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Never tried an emptier or method as I never got to know any but this one is interesting. It does indeed work. 123.6% and a -1175 drift. £3000 in, and £3696 out. Sure, a big profit of almost £700 but this took soooo many hours to reach PLUS I had the advantage of seeing what was in the DOND prize box so I could play to the advantage. So assuming in the wild, the DOND game was a game of chance, the player not knowing what is in the box. My best time playing was using the BANK IT, saving a single DOND, and busting and getting a single DOND game but with £70 in the box. 2 spins later and back on the feature board with a GO ALL THE WAY.... And the game was still buzzing... The ability to get the BANK IT does seem very difficult to achieve at times. What sort of time do people spend trying a method out? I guess simply not losing on a machine is pleasurable but to play the machine, gaining an edge has to be fantastic. Looking at how long it took me to get that £700, it seems like such a long time but putting it in perspective, it would work out at a gain of about £100 an hour. Good video Degsy. I quite enjoyed trying to replicate your method.

@niallquinn i feel for you bud, glad you've seen the light and quitting gambling its the right step forward, next up try to at least cut back on the booze it'll do you no good in the end. sometimes like you've stated drinking, drugs and gambling are all linked one way or another. Take another look at your dad and ask yourself is drinking loads healthy for you and him, would you want your father seeing you this way This Covid bullshit hasn't helped people like us, i'm lucky i was never furloughed, yes it would've been nice to have a four week holiday for free, but i can guarantee i'd be playing the slots more either online or land, purely out of boredom its about time Boris got his finger out of his arse and opened Everything back up, none of this fannying about get it done for everyone mental wellbeing i bet july 19th will also be pushed back if not wait till Autumn and its flu season starts, back to square one..

Another sad story that no doubt members can relate to in parts. But it's great to see you're on the right road now. There is always a reason behind gambling, boredom and stress being the two main culprits imo. But on the other hand it can be because it can be fun and even thrilling. The key really is to prevent the reason/s why someone turns to gambling and because it's not always possible to prevent these reasons from happening, to have an alternative to gambling, when it does.

Believe it or not, but the method you explained above is exactly how "professional" fruit machine players usually play machines. Barcrests are a prime example of machines that are worth forcing for jackpot. On some machines there will be a certain feature that pays jackpot which can be obtained before the machine is ready to give a GATW board. Your result on Barcrest It's Amazing is interesting. Usually the Barcrest critical error pops up when the machine has gone way over percentage or paid out too much. Never seen it error like this when it's been forced. If you force Psycho Cash Beast or Frenzy on the early program, you will find the bonus starts on taxi or skillstop on feature entry. On Pie Factory there is a high up feature called Upper Crust where you have to hit the flashing buttons. Just don't hit the right button and you can lose. On The Simpsons the "pros" method back in the day is collect £1 on the red board. It will still keep spinning in the feature which will be red, so keep collecting £1 until the feature spin in is normal. Then it goes on a £60 or £75 run. Monopoly Road To Riches was an interesting result. A lot of JPM machines will spin the jackpot straight in when they have been forced. JPMs are an example of a machine where it's best to collect wins though.

Just a quick update on this project. My new hopper arrived broke (base smashed in), and my note acceptor was only working when it felt like it (6 dry solder joints on LED inputs). I ended up having to fix both of them myself. Fortunately my JY-142 board arrived OK. I am now holding off on setting everything up until I get my reset counter. (This goes in between the acceptor and the JY board for book keeping) Cost - about a fiver. @davep180 Now an update on the key press, so that I can insert notes for credits. I found a really useful solution for this, that will literally only cost 3USD. GitHub - Juul/ict-bill-acceptor-as-usb-keyboard: Converting ICT bill acceptor pulse output to USB keyboard keypresses I have just ordered a leonardo thingy for about 4.5 squid and will report back in a few weeks.