Excerpt from a Midwest Casino Guide article I wrote last year:
"As I'm walking around the casino, I spied a 25 cent Piggy Bank
machine with 56 coins in the bank. Although there's not a lot of
money involved, it's always fun to try to get the bank anyway.
The way to do it is to only bet one coin at a time until you line
up the three Piggy Bank symbols which, I hope, will take less than 56
coins. Also, if you can get three pigs on the line, you will get into
the bonus round which could give you a lot of extra credits to play
with.
I pop in a 20 dollar bill and start playing with the 80 credits. I
play the first 20 coins or so without getting a single credit. If I
was playing three coins at a time I would already be over 60 coins
down with nothing to show for it except that mocking, squealing pig
dancing around on the screen. Man, this machine is tight.
I continue playing coins without getting the bank until my 80 coins
are gone. This irritates me so much that I put in another $20 and
start again. "This is stupid," I say to myself, and myself answers me
back, "Yea, but it ain't the first time you've done stupid things in
a casino, and it probably won't be the last," so I continue to bet
coins.
Finally after a lot of coins played, I get the three Piggy Bank
symbols lined up and only lose about 45 coins. The oinker got me this
time, but it still was fun, I think."
"Of all the bankroll-killing-games found in a casino, the cold-
blooded, steely-eyed slot machine is the most insidious."
--VP Pappy
