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Cheating The Slot Machines

By: James Whitehead

This is for information only. I strongly advise against the use of any of these methods.

The most common violation of laws regarding slot play is called ‘claiming’ and can occur in a variety of situations in which the players falsely claim that the slot machine has malfunctioned. The most obvious ploy is stating that they have more money coming because the machine didn’t pay them at all or that it only paid part of what they should have won. In other words, the customers falsely state that they have received no pay or short pay.

Another kind of claiming has to do with customers who insist that a slot machine they were not playing owes them money. It works like this: These dishonest players will find a machine on which someone else previously won, took the money and walked away without playing of f the jackpot. Then, pointing to the winning symbols the previous player had lined up on the pay line, these customers will now claim they were playing that machine but “no money came out.” Even though the machine will show that the real winner was paid out, these players will insist that they were playing the machine and thus have money coming. If you try this approach a few times, don’t be surprised if big trouble and unfriendly faces show up!

Next comes the more overt and obvious attempt to play a slot machine for free by inserting foreign coins or slugs, better known as ‘slugging.’ The amateur cheat’s most popular practise is using foreign coins of a size similar to British coins. The serious cheat will use non-magnetic washers or most commonly will make or acquire lead slugs the size of British coins and tokens.. The rally hard core “slugger” will counterfeit actual arcade tokens, a few of which look almost like the real thing.

Another method sometimes used by slot cheats is called ‘stringing.’ This involves taping, tying, gluing or otherwise affixing a string or fine wire to a coin and then inserting and retracting it from the machine in order to get free plays.

Finally, there’s ‘silver mining’ which may not be exactly a form of cheating but might qualify as the next thing to it. Silver mining is the activity of looking for stray coins inadvertently left in the tray of the slot machines or dropped on the floor by other customers.

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