Whittie
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Not sure if people are familiar with the "IT.Boxes" in pubs and clubs, but its the shitty machine you play games on like who wants to be a millionare, deal or no deal, spot the difference etc for 50p....
Well i basically I sit at a desk and fix the machines, and fix "The Cloud's (internet service probider) wifi" for a living...
A problem that came up not so long back was the following
Some guy down south kept going into all the local pubs, playing spot the difference and winning the jackpot of each pub, and this guy would do about 9-10 pubs a day. Spot the difference game's jackpot was £150 , and for the jackpot you've got to spot the differences super quick, and theres about 30 levels. This guy was doing this from one pub to another, slowly on the map it started to spread out, so naturally we thought that somebody has found a cheat, and has told a mate, whos told a mate etc, but no. This guy had been going round the country emptying these Itboxes, so much so the police were called by some pubs and asking if it was fraud. The police looked into it and finally tracked the man down. He didn't work for us, so he couldnt rig the machines, and he wasn't cheating...
He was crosseyed  , and his type of crosseye meant the differences leapt out at him, and he was just doing these levels VERY quickly. He's made £10K from it. Unfortuantely you can't win on that game anymore, but fairplay to him, he milked it 
[Edited on 04-10-2007 by Whittie]
[Edited on 04-10-2007 by Whittie]
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Joe
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That serious? Also can you help me win on Itbox's please?
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andy1868
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so really he hasn't done anything wrong?
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Doug
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Ace 
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Kurt
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i used to hate spot the difference! was well hard at later levels lol, supose it gave me something to do when i had no customers, can you find out if the machine is still at the rose and crown arclid? its been closed for a year
[Edited on 04-10-2007 by Kurt]
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Whittie
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quote:
Originally posted by andy1868
so really he hasn't done anything wrong?
No, nothing
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andy1868
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good on him!
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Whittie
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quote:
Originally posted by Kurt
i used to hate spot the difference! was well hard at later levels lol, supose it gave me something to do when i had no customers, can you find out if the machine is still at the rose and crown arclid?
Yup, i can see if someone put a 2p in and it got rejected Everything is logged on the machines
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JonnyJ
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Re-post 
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Whittie
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quote:
Originally posted by JonnyJ
Re-post
No jonny, i told you on the phone, there for its not a re-post
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Hamish
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he could spent that 10k to sort his eyes out now 
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Whittie
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Well at least he found his true talent in life
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JonnyJ
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quote:
Originally posted by Whittie
quote:
Originally posted by JonnyJ
Re-post
No jonny, i told you on the phone, there for its not a re-post
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Kurt
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quote:
Originally posted by Whittie
quote:
Originally posted by Kurt
i used to hate spot the difference! was well hard at later levels lol, supose it gave me something to do when i had no customers, can you find out if the machine is still at the rose and crown arclid?
Yup, i can see if someone put a 2p in and it got rejected Everything is logged on the machines
including how many times i kicked it? 
[Edited on 04-10-2007 by Kurt]
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Cosmo
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TBH I dont think this is true.
Ive been on that game and for starters I dont think the jackpot is so high, and the number of levels is less than 30 (you'd know this if you worked for them).
I also dont think being crosseyed would help you in any way to spot differences.
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Haimsey
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Whittie
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quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
TBH I dont think this is true.
Ive been on that game and for starters I dont think the jackpot is so high, and the number of levels is less than 30 (you'd know this if you worked for them).
I also dont think being crosseyed would help you in any way to spot differences.
Believe me, its deadly true Maybe there isn't 30 levels, but theres definately 25.
And if the "hopper" is full (£150) then he can carry on emptying the machine.
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Cosmo
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Whittie you talk rubbish 
(and if not, please send me a U2U with some secrets of those machines as have put welllllllll too much money into them in the past without winning more than a quid or so!)
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Kurt
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theres ten levels iirc with a £20 max prize, well there was a year ago
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Cosmo
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quote:
Originally posted by Kurt
theres ten levels iirc with a £20 max prize, well there was a year ago
tbh thats what I thought. 10 levels and a max of £20 to be won.
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Whittie
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Im not talking rubbish
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Haimsey
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quote:
Originally posted by Kurt
theres ten levels iirc with a £20 max prize, well there was a year ago
If this is the case, he wins the jackpot > travles to a pub with the winnings > wins again > travels further out his way > and so on....
 therefore not making any profit other than a few quid
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Cosmo
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quote:
Originally posted by Whittie
Im not talking rubbish
wubbish
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Whittie
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quote:
Originally posted by Kurt
theres ten levels iirc with a £20 max prize, well there was a year ago
Its 25 levels now, with no prize
Its now in "Fun" game
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Whittie
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quote:
Originally posted by Haimsey
quote:
Originally posted by Kurt
theres ten levels iirc with a £20 max prize, well there was a year ago
If this is the case, he wins the jackpot > travles to a pub with the winnings > wins again > travels further out his way > and so on....
therefore not making any profit other than a few quid
Nope, he could carry on winning jackpot on the same machine untill its empty.
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