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Carinival Cruise Gambling/Flip-It

#1

In a message dated 6/26/06 6:33:27 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
eecounter@hotmail.com writes:

Other: Those strange mechanical things with the push rods where you
shoot quarters into the machine and the push rods shove the quarters
toward the front of the machine. Every now and then some quarters fall
off the front edge of the machine and into the coin tray.

That game is called Flip-It and seems to have vanished from Nevada. The last
ones in Laughlin disappeared a couple years ago from the Regency. It comes
in dollars and quarter versions. I do believe The Wizard of Odds gave it a
study.

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#2

<<Every now and then some quarters fall

off the front edge of the machine and into the coin tray.>>

We have played this game on a cruise ship when the waters were rough and ship was tipping back and forth pretty good - if I remember correctly the EV of the game skyrocketed during that time!!!!

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#3

Jean Scott wrote:

We have played this game on a cruise ship when the waters were rough
and ship was tipping back and forth pretty good - if I remember
correctly the EV of the game skyrocketed during that time!!!!

And, I expect, so did your lunch ...

- H.