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antimonyarsenide wrote:

benjamin2 wrote:

Hello, I'm back on the Misc forum. I bet most of you have heard of the arcade machine named Stacker or Pile Up, where, with timing, you have to press a button to stack rows of blue bricks. I've won twice, but then found it is rigged, and you can no longer win. Do not play on this machine. Below is proof.

The machine's layout is this:

MAJOR PRIZE
[][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][]
MINOR PRIZE
[][][][][][][][][]<-----
[][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][]

Now have a look at the row with an arrow. This arrow isn't on the machine, but look at it. You start with 3 blocks. After row 3 you get 2. After row 7 you get 1. On the row with the arrow, the game will always skip the block, even if you hit it at the right time, so you can't win. Do not play this machine! It is a waste of 50p! I spent £5 on this.

Nice discovery. Although I've seen my friends win some stuff 

But I bet you haven't in the last few days. That's when it became a fix.

antimonyarsenide wrote:

benjamin2 wrote:

antimonyarsenide wrote:

Nice discovery. Although I've seen my friends win some stuff 

But I bet you haven't in the last few days. That's when it became a fix.

I see.

I used to win Keyring Pool Balls every time I played until this feature was implemented. I have a huge collection of loads of different numbers. Question, when your friends won Minor Prizes, did they just get one prize, or did the machine pay out one full row of prizes?

benjamin2 wrote:

Hello, I'm back on the Misc forum. I bet most of you have heard of the arcade machine named Stacker or Pile Up, where, with timing, you have to press a button to stack rows of blue bricks. I've won twice, but then found it is rigged, and you can no longer win. Do not play on this machine. Below is proof.

The machine's layout is this:

MAJOR PRIZE
[][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][]
MINOR PRIZE
[][][][][][][][][]<-----
[][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][]

Now have a look at the row with an arrow. This arrow isn't on the machine, but look at it. You start with 3 blocks. After row 3 you get 2. After row 7 you get 1. On the row with the arrow, the game will always skip the block, even if you hit it at the right time, so you can't win. Do not play this machine! It is a waste of 50p! I spent £5 on this.

I'm scared now. I was talking about this with my dad last night. This exact thing about how it is rigged!

Its true though.

m71134 wrote:

  You can't win this game? That was a huge goal of mine!

Well, there is about a chance that only comes like once a day when the machine actually thinks 'Right, I've collected money, it's time to give away a prize.' Then, the next person who plays is bound to win. But that happens very rarely.

antimonyarsenide wrote:

benjamin2 wrote:

antimonyarsenide wrote:

I see.

I used to win Keyring Pool Balls every time I played until this feature was implemented. I have a huge collection of loads of different numbers. Question, when your friends won Minor Prizes, did they just get one prize, or did the machine pay out one full row of prizes?

One prize. And I remember once someone got a major prize, and it was a DSi O_O

Hey, when I win, it gives me the full row!

I once got two 1 pool balls, a 3, a 4 and two 12's, and I once got a row of seven. There's a row with six I haven't got that would mean I would have almost all the numbers, and that's why I spent £3.50 today trying to win it until I played in slow motion recording on a camera and what I saw was:

The square was on the left. It moved three spaces. I hit the button. This would have been the correct time. The motion was so slow, so then I realised after I hit it the square moved another slot and fell. This happened three times. So you can't win unless you're really lucky and the machine thinks it's time to give away a prize, which is SO rare.

benjamin2 wrote:

SeptimusHeap wrote:

Is that legal? To make a game unbeatable?

No. Not that I know. Someone wins like once a week because the machine finally decides it's time somebody won. Until this rig started I was wining big and I had a huge collection of pool ball keyrings that came as Minor Prizes, all the kids watching thought I was amazing. And now nobody can win anymore because of this.

That' unfortunate. 

JeanTheFox wrote:

That's the gaming world in a nutshell.

True.

Did you by chance miss your 1100th post? 

antimonyarsenide wrote:

Did you by chance miss your 1100th post? 

I don't really care anyway 

antimonyarsenide wrote:

JeanTheFox wrote:

antimonyarsenide wrote:

Did you by chance miss your 1100th post? 

I don't really care anyway 

Failure's excuse.

But whatever 

"Go ahead and pass me back. I have something else to do."
Touché.

JeanTheFox wrote:

antimonyarsenide wrote:

JeanTheFox wrote:

I don't really care anyway 

Failure's excuse.

But whatever 

"Go ahead and pass me back. I have something else to do."
Touché.

Actually, the verbatim quote is:

antimonyarsenide wrote:

JeanTheFox wrote:

1100!

I missed it, but it still counts 

Fine.

You can go ahead and pass me back. I have to work on something now 

m71134 wrote:

  You can't win this game? That was a huge goal of mine!

Just kidding, but I really wanted to win someday.

Then I guess I have saved you many pounds/dollars.

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