--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "nenapapa2001" <nenapapa@...> wrote:
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> Mickey,
> I see the indians walking around the casino and checking the machines. When they find one they like, they sit down to play it. I am not up on some of the machines, but the ones they seem to go to are the ones that have little yellow cars. Do you know anything about these machines? Alot of this machines have bonus rounds.
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I think you are probably describing Super 8 Race. The game is a copy of Super 8 Liner, but with a different configuration. Both are IGT video line games. There are 9 squares on each game where the symbols land. There is a progressive meter on both games for catching "all fruit." The meter runs at 2.777777% You can bet up to 40 nickels on each game, but you only have to bet 8 nickels to qualify for the progressive.
There is another feature on both games called the "fever round." In Super 8 Liner you have to catch 5 Bells in a diamond pattern to enter fever mode. I put the frequency of occurence at 1500. In Super 8 Race you have to catch 4 Cars in a diamond pattern to enter fever mode. I put that frequency at 240.
Since I had no inside information on the games I had to do my own empirical study. In Super 8 Liner I put the frequency for a fruit symbol to land in any one square at 2.5. Which put the chances of catching "all fruit" at 3900.
In Super 8 Race I put the frequency of catching "all fruit" at 3.3333. Which put the chances of catching "all fruit" at 19,900.
So you can see there is a major difference between the two games. The fever mode frequency in Super 8 Liner(1500)put some big variance in the game but I had put the cost of spinning a play off at about $150. So I would generally play with 4400 coins or more in the meter. Catching all fruit happens fast if you put the machine speed on turbo and continually tap the start button. About and hour and a half a play. So it was a $70 earn plus about a $40 meter win. I would go with lower numbers in this game if I could count on getting several plays a week, but that's not the way it happened. Plays were infrequennt.
Super 8 Race is a long term play because of the frequency of catching all fruit. I don't remember where I put the cost, probably somewhere in the mid $200's. The game had a smaller drop and lower variance than Super 8 Liner, but much longer odds of catching all fruit. I played the game at about 8000 coins in the meter, but only if I didn't have anything else to do. Also, the meter caps at 10,000 coins.
