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Great layout! Haven't played this in years. I'd be interested in the play method too - this is one of my all-time tightest MFME machine memories. As far as I can tell there is some success from forcing it until it drops 3/4 jackpots in succession, but I would never have done that in real life.

Thanks for the layout! I've just managed to get £90 from Lock and Load(!); the machine clammed up solid for about 30 quid beforehand, then started two feature boards in a row with a Lock 'n' Load shot immediately. First one was £60, then next credit the same thing for £30. So it is possible, it seems!

Thanks for the fantastic layout @vectra666! Brings back some memories. As someone who played one too many of these, a couple of potentially interesting notes: There's a couple of invincible modes - one is the really obvious Mega Streak & Logo flashing at the beginning of the feature, and there's a second which involves the logo doing a weird multi-coloured flash before the first gamble on the cash trail. The subsequent gamble will win and the feature will eventually hit Mega Streak assuming you don't go against gambles etc. The middle-reel Bonus will occasionally give Super Stop which does go to £100 the first time, much like many other Betcoms of the time. If the cashpot doesn't reset after the Mega Streak (which it often doesn't if it's only £100) then keep playing and you can probably get another decent win (usually about £50, maybe £100? I can't remember) before it resets. I think that once it's reset, there's no value left. Someone who knows a lot more than I did could probably correct me here. Also, it's possible to get stuck on the inner ring for ages when it's an invincible board which is quite tiresome when you're actually after the Super Shots. Oh, and sometimes the logo stays red while you're on the outer boards in the feature; during which time I think it's impossible to end up with a Game Over. It often switches back after hitting a question mark (which hasn't killed you), but at least you know when you're in danger.

That's definitely the first - and almost certainly the last - I've ever had a jackpot from Hi-Lo Jackpot on anything. Lovely DX!

Thanks very much for this - a fantastic layout of a machine I remember playing in the wild. I actually managed to get the Cashpot naturally on this on not one but two occasions - if I'd have realised how rare it was at the time, I'd have bought a lottery ticket. One of the category of Reflexes that isn't really forceable unless you're OK with losing potentially far more than you put in. Very obvious what the decent features are very quickly if playing on £1 stake (they're the ones you're never offered, of course).

I believe that this is exactly the same as Chops and Change, but this came first. Reflex had to reglass them all because BFM weren't too happy about the similarity to their Cops 'n' Robbers series of machines, I think. I'm sure I read it somewhere at the time.

Pretty enjoyable stuff. Did a Super Crazy Reels pretty much right from the off for around £40, repeating a couple of times. Wish that would ever have happened in the wild!

Very glad to see this one pop up - it was one of my rare encounters with a Club machine (i.e. our local club rarely changed their machines). I remember playing this on 5p/£75 (I think) which provided plenty of time for your money - largely due to the amount of dead spins - but it was just about as brutal as this seems to play on a different stake/prize ratio. That said, it was good entertainment value as the base reel game always made you feel like you were one nudge/spin away from greatness, until you actually bothered to gamble on a fruit win and the whole thing inevitably fell apart. I never saw anyone get to the 4-chips stage at any point that I knew the machine; instead the general strategy was to look for Hair Raising and take that, which could often give around £30 when offered. Looking back, and after a quick bash at this, it seems that it could have been a good one, as the feature seems blocked until the machine is reasonably buzzed anyway. Either way, it got me a few extra pints at the weekly quiz