How many tokens/balls per each pachi?

[Tony Junior]

I'm curious. How many tokens or balls do y'all recommend for each machine in your collection?

I'm thinking at least 2000 per machine, but I'm new at this. Probably more to not have to open the machines and rob tokens/balls to continue playing.

[RKnarr01]

ihave about 2500 balls per machine

[slotter]

To comfortably play I use 2000 balls in each Pachinko and 1500 tokens in each slot (the Harley needs 2000 tokens).

[monaghj]

I run my machines with about 2000 tokens for the Pashilos and about 3000 in my vegas units. A big payout is between 450 and 750 tokens for the Pashilos and you don't want to fill it back up after each bonus round. The Vegas ones can hit up to a 5000 coin pay out (hasn't happened to me yet) but there is a setting that limits the machine payout to 1000 coins. You can set it to anything you want but the belly glass reads. Max payout 1000 all others paid by attendant so that is what I have it set at.

I think the answer may however lie in what % payout you set your machines for. I run mine on a '2'. This is about an 86% payout and mirrors what my vegas units operate at. The vegas machines are chip driven so its not as easy to change the odds as the pashilos.

At the end of each month I scoop out about a 16oz cup from each and run these through my rolling machine. I usually have a float of 60-100 rolls of tokens (2400 to 4000 tokens) ready to go. You just never know when a slot party is going to creep up on you.

I think if I moved to a '4' 98% then the machines would sort of pay out what you put in and you would never need to empty or fill except on an annual basis. On the other hand if you leave them set at a '6' you are going to need to fill them a lot more often.

Hope this helps.

[arbycoffee]

3,000 to 4,000 for either machine, always need more, more of them little buggers.

[luckydog]

i had 1,500 balls for each pachinko

and about 1,000 tokens per pachislo.

[snake1111]

i use 2000 for my pachinko and 2500 for my slot

[scooby_doo_m2002]

I have my pachi set on 6. put 1000 in the hopper and kept 500 for myself to play with. I played the machine for a total of about 10 hours yesterday, got 5 bb and 3rb and a bunch of some other kind of bonus that I kept having to play over and over and over before it would finish the bonus. hopper got down to about 30 or 40 tokens then that darn machine took every single one of my tokens back!!!!!!!!!!!!!! well, except for 2 but can't play on 2 tokens. so I turned it off and went to bed. LOL played one machine for about 10hrs. hmmmm, what would I do if I had 2 or 3????????/ guess I would never get any sleep huh......

[luckydog]

i have a lot of machines and play 50 to 100 tokens and move to the next, i usually hit at least one bonus round doing this.

i very seldom play all of them the same day.

[Tulsa]

Snake that is one freaky looking combo avatar you have going there!

[luckydog]

Thats the new Thunderbirds pachinko,

you turn the shooter knob to shoot tokens into the machine.

[snake1111]

i tried to put my (hope next) three machines into one avatar ;-)
perhaps i try an other combination next time....

...and i would like to see a combination of some of you with 20 or more machines...could be fun to guess :-))

[Tony Junior]

Thanks to everyone that answered!

As a n00b (I guess I'm still one) I was close.

I gotta get more tokens and Pachinko balls!

[dattia]

Hey Tony, let me ask you this? Which is more fun, a Pachislo or a Pachinko? Having never played a Pachinko, I'm just curious and since you have both, I thought I'd ask.

[monaghj]

I think it depends on what you define as fun.....

I like the Pashilos as I can eat nachos and dip, down some crown royal, hold a conversation, follow along with a game of pool 4ft away and casually play the box. Even the bonus rounds are not on a timer.

Pachinko requires great concetration and undivided attention during the feaver rounds. Much more intense game but man is it fun. You need to snack between rounds. Get that sugar level up.

Actually thinking out loud it comes down to if you are a grazer or nibbler.....

[Tony Junior]

Dattia, monaghi pretty much said it for me. I've only been into Pachinkos for about a month and I love 'em just as much as a Pachislo! They are much more intense, especially in a fever round, which I've only had one so far. I never paid any attention to Pachinkos until I joined PT. I hear so many glowing things about them that when Arby offered several here I decided to try one.

Now I want a Thunderzone. Ask Tulsa about that one, it sounds like a real blast!!

They are, perhaps a little more difficult for me to play because of the 'grounding' behind the shooter. What I fiind fun is how far to turn the shooter knob to try to get a ball in a particular spot where hopefully it will eventually drop into a tulip.

Hope you try one someday!

[slotter]

Dattia, once you get a Pachinko, there's just ain't no turning back. You will love the darn thing. I consider them more entertaining than the Pachislos.

[johntofva]

:biggthump PACHINKO

[dattia]

Actually thinking out loud it comes down to if you are a grazer or nibbler.....

J

Well thanks Jay...I'm thinking I take grazing to the next level....better stick to Pachislo for now:smirk: Thanks Tony

[at-slots]

Tony....get All Those Round Looking Coin Things U Can Get Your Hands On !!!!!.....when U Get Around 500 Machines Your Gonna Need About A Millon Of Them........now On The Ball Machines I Dont Have A Clue