[Russ]

Originally posted by El Diablo
... or so you'd like to think!!! Whilst I'd agree that there are "ways to 'play' them", at the end of the day, if the machine don't want to pay, then it won't ... which was for me, the essence of the original article... It really doesn't matter what buttons you press, the machine only lets you get as far as it wants you to... There are certain 'cheats' but they can really only be classed as features of the game... if you chose to just slap the start button each time without giving any thought to any other part of the gameplay - cash would roll in eventually, but only if the machine says so

Not so.

All fruit machines have a 'logic chip' which assumes the way you will play, for example if you have 2 symbols in a row, with the third one in the next row up, it will often offer you a 'nudge'. It will assume you will use this nudge to bring the final symbol down. This is being processed by the 'logic chip'. But if you were to act 'illogically', the process is upset.

I don't wish to encourage anyone to gamble so I won't go in to any more detail other than my method relied on constantly confusing the logic chip, which paid great dividends