Pachislo ?

When people talks about pachinko, it can mean two things :
- Pachinko (パチンコ)
- Pachislo (パシスロ) (also called slot(スロット))

This it the two different type of machines you can find.
Pachislo is really similar from what we have in our countries, while pachinko is really specific to Japan.

ひぐらしのなく頃に祭
(higurashii no naku goro ni matsuri)

Let's talk first about pachislo.
In pachislo, you have to put coins (medals), to start playing, and getting more and more medals.
The "normal" value of one medal is 20 yen.
But if you don't want to play a lot of money, or want to play without risks, you can easily find places where you can play for medals of 10 yen or 5 yens.
Of course, with less risk, even if you win, you're not going to get a lot of money at the end.

In pachislo, the objective is to align three "7", and so you can get a bonus.
It varies following which machine you're playing, but usually, they're is two types of bonus :
- big bonus
- regular bonus

Again, it depends on the machine, but with a big bonus, you will receive around 250 medals, and with a regular bonus, around 50 medals.

Of course, you're not really happy when you get "just" a regular bonus, because it's almost nothing.

But as you can see, even if you get a big bonus, you're not going to receive a lot of medals.
You're never gonna find any machine which is going to give you 10 000 medals when you get a big bonus.
So what's the point ?

Medals(メダル)

That's the trick.
It's actually possible to receive 10 000 medals, but it's a loooong way to go.
How is it working ?
The machine is just going to "chain" the bonuses for you.
So once the bonus is over, you'll have to pray that another bonus is going to follow quickly after this one.
That's the hard part. If it's not coming just directly after it, what should you do ?
Stop here ? Continue to gamble a little more to see if it's coming ?
It's really hard to know when to stop.
There is no rule about it. You're the only judge.

But how to judge you are going to tell me ?

There is only two things to help you here, in your war against the machine :
- The statistics of the machine
- Understand the setup of the machine