$43m slot machine win a 'mistake' says Colorado casino

[Owl]

So come on then owl, as this was originally set up as a hacking forum, spill the beans will you how do we beat fruit machines? There must be a certain version knocking about that we can fiddle.

Ditto that

There may be very old fruits knocking about in seaside arcades that can be beat, but in a casino / bingo club / bookies you would be very hard pressed to beat the machines.

Although there was 1 machine you could force it into not paying by cancelling off all wins. Eventually the payout % would be so low it had to pay something out. It usually paid out £202 in the roll feature for a stake of 9 x 0.25p plays. 3 x £25 jackpots then 1 x £25, 1 x £15, 1 x £10, 1 x £2 then 3 x £25 jackpots

There was a spate a few years ago when the law changed to allow £500 jackpot for a £1 stake. There was design flaws in the PC software that allowed the machine to be manipulated.

Another favourite I have seen is prize the start button up and by using a kitchen gas lighter you could (not any more) short out the power causing the hopper to dump.

This was more used on motorway service stations where there is not constant coverage.

I have seen or heard of very little machine scams over the last 2 years other than just blatant theft.

Got money to lose & don't mind losing it play fruit machines. If not steer well clear as a £10 loss can quite quickly become a £100 loss in minutes & that's when the acusations of it's 'fixed' start.

[Freaky]

Another favourite I have seen is prize the start button up and by using a kitchen gas lighter you could (not any more) short out the power causing the hopper to dump.

i remember doing this with the electronic lighters on all the machines in the arcade years ago to give you hundreds of free credits, not fruit machines i mean the games ones, nearly every other machine was full of credits when you walked up to it coz every fucker was doing it, they stopped it in the end tho.

[cosmicma]

from what i remember of the lighter trick was to do with the horse racing machines where a spark on the metal work would glitch it to make all odds pay out
were talking over 10 years ago though
you could at one time force win fruit machines as owl's allready said but i think the software now recognises force wins and just spits out a small win to push back the payout percentage rates
i think the percentage rates are calculated over 10,000 spins where they pay back 70% ( or whatever they have been set to ) of takings but 10,000 spins is a lot

the only thing i can think of that would give any indication at all would be to listen ( if you can ) to where your pound coin drops to
if you hear it drop to the bottom of the cabinet it means the hopper is full so there's a chance it hasn't paid a jackpot recently
if you don't hear it drop to the bottom it means the coins gone straight to the hopper so it must of paid something to somebody

but... if the hopper is refilled daily you wouldn't know where it's at so it wouldn't help you

[evilsatan]

No-one has mentioned refill keys yet, this thread has quickly become like old memory lane. How about Crazy Fruits £5 jackpot paying out £300 when you went through a certain route of play and collected £3. There were loads of different manipulations for different machines, I swear that's why every machine you see now is just a clone of another, they only have to bulletproof test one software then they can keep releasing it knowing it is safe.

My uncle has a machine over his pub, Deal or No Deal - Deal Wheel. Over the net people say it is a shite machine but for some reason this one keeps paying jackpots. It must take marginally more than it pays but not by far. It is a quiet pub, shut during the day and my mates are the only heavy users, I check on it using my refill key just to monitor how much it is making. The other day it IOU'd on a £70 JP, after refilling it with the £60 odd it did pay it IOU'd again on another JP after £4ish was put in and played! Not sure if this is an older software version, there is no rhyme or reason to how or when it pays out. One constant I have noted is between £180-230 short of a full hopper it has paid JP at least 15 times over the past 2 months. I can't comment on the other JPs as I had not checked the hopper before and after.

[Over Carl]

I've manipulated a machine and made it jackpot before although I wasn't trying to

Around 10-15 years ago, I found most bt payphones would steal your change until you started kicking the things fairly firmly.

Anyway, was on one of those youth playscheme thingies to somewhere on the coast when I found myself in an arcade. Chucked a load of 20's in a machine, got bored, but it wouldn't refund. Rather than waste the operator's time, I tried my usual trick and got my stake (about 40p) back. However, I had damaged the machine and it could not stop spitting out 20p's, a few every second. I grabbed about a fivers worth and legged it, everyone else there did the same - by the time I left the bells were ringing but the tray was about 2-3 inches deep full of 20's. One kid couldn't stop grabbing money and was caught by the attendant who took all the money he could find off the kid - even the pocket money his parents had given him

[burner1]

Memory lane thread lol. I remember when I was a kid, on the way home from school, I'd go into each phone box and lift up the change flap, put my fingers up and dislodge the folded up piece of card that the 'big boys' had shoved up there to catch the change.. I recall you used to be able to stick your skinny arm up the old coke can vending machines and rip the cans out their holders as well

[4me2]

Only machines I ever managed to rip off were in the NAAFI in Detmold.

I always used to come back from town shitfaced and empty the one particular rotating shelf of Steak and Kidney growlers.

[burner1]

Only machines I ever managed to rip off were in the NAAFI in Detmold.

I always used to come back from town shitfaced and empty the one particular rotating shelf of Steak and Kidney growlers.

the coke machines I used to get drinks out of were in the Sargeants mess on camp... I remember me and my mates getting collared once by the RMP's... they took us to the guard house and asked our dad's name and rank, when I said my dad's RSM smith, they said 'ok, you can go'

[evilsatan]

Ask rap and Spence about ripping off those snack machines with curly metal to hold them in

At my last workplace (last year) when I was working lates I used to get a fork and stick it up inside the same type of machine, I could clear the first item from the bottom two shelves with ease Got my own back for the amount of things I had bought that got stuck on their way down and I could not get refunded.

[Swiss Tony]

do the following on a coke vending machine that has eight buttons on the right hand side below the coin slot....

*** (1)
*** (2)
*** (3)
*** (4)
*** (5)
*** (6)
*** (7)
*** (8)

Press drink selector buttons in order 4 - 2 - 3 - 1
This puts machine into test mode if it's not been configured properly, then select drink you want (it'll tell you how many of such drink has ever been dispensed. Once done hold buttons 6 & 8 at the same time... Your drink will drop (it's the test config) providing the dip switch has never been set. This only works once before m/c needs power cycling mind.