Question about some chinese gambling pinball machine...

Dont know if any of you have come across it somewhere...

The thing has chinese letters or what looks like chinese letters...

Its basically a machine where you get 5 balls and shoot them up like a pinball machine and try to get them to land in these little holes. Each hole represents a couple signs *like apples or oranges*... If you get 4 of a kind, you win money, according to the odds set up on the machine...

The balls kinda reacts funny so Im thinking its probably fixed but would like to read a little about these things, what they're called or if youve ever come across any.....

Thanks, slim.

Pachinko? (or something like that)

TTinCO said:

Pachinko? (or something like that)

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that game I have no idea on if I would win or lose...id just be buying ball bearings :smoker2:

hmmmm cool, I believe thats what it is....we have a couple outside the office....

Kinda enjoy playing them, I think Im getting good at it LOL.....

I have the idea the little ******* thing has some sort of magnet or something that makes the balls act funny.....

Pachinko is a mixture between slot machine and pinball. The player is quite passive while playing pachinko. He or she is only controlling the speed with which many small steel balls are thrown into the pachinko machine.

Most of the balls just fall down the machine and disappear, but a few find their way into special holes. This activates a kind of slot machine. As in the slot machine, you win if the same three pictures appear. This occurs quite rarely in pachinko, but if it happens, you win countless new balls. When just playing for 500 or 1000 Yen, you may likely just lose all your balls within a few minutes.

Pachinko machines can be found in pachinko parlors which are spread over the whole country. Many parlors also offer a corner with slot machines. One can recognize parlors easily because they are bright and colorful. Inside a parlor it is loud and smoky. Women and men are playing pachinko and it is said that there are even a few pachinko professionals. If you win balls, you can exchange them into goods that are available in the parlor's gift shop. But you can also bypass the law that prohibits gambling in Japan by exchanging the balls first into some special goods and then exchange them for cash at a small window just outside the parlor.

to some people in the East, playing pachinko is a form of meditation.

It was very popular in Japan and Taiwan, not sure if it still is. It is also considered by some to be a form of gambling. I have heard stories of people going broke playing.

AC