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Strangest thing you've seen at a prize counter
saint:
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--- Quote from: bluevolume on September 14, 2007, 12:16:00 pm --- The machine wasn't malfunctioning, it was simply spitting out all of the tickets that it had queued up while it was empty.
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Or, uh, it was empty because it was malfunctioning?
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That's my thought. They don't keep a "queue" of backlogged tickets. When they keep spitting out tickets it's because there is something wrong with the dispenser control circuit.
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Well actually I've seen a machine do exactly that - spit out a queue of backlogged tickets. Was some hit-the-rubber-thumper-and-it-bounces-the-ball-into-a-variety-of-different-scored-nets thing.
ChadTower:
Hrm. Maybe some do then, some don't. The ones I've played around with did not.
SirPeale:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on September 14, 2007, 01:09:25 pm ---That's my thought. They don't keep a "queue" of backlogged tickets. When they keep spitting out tickets it's because there is something wrong with the dispenser control circuit.
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I haven't read any posts in front of this, but someone may have said it already. Yeah, they do keep a queue. If a machine runs out of tickets the 'out of tickets' sensor is tripped and it queues the remainder.
Unlikely that it queued up an entire book, though.
DrFrag:
That happened to me too, but after they replaced the roll I only got about 80 tickets. I was never quite sure if there had been a backlog or I'd just been really skillful. :)
bluevolume:
I really wish I had the clip from "The Jerk" where Steve Martin is the weight guesser. It would be perfect for this discussion.