thomas Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 I'll occasionally stick a couple of quid in from my loose change, fuck sticking any kind of notes into them though. I did once walk into a snooker hall with my mate who put a pound in and got the jackpot, if memory serves me right it was £100 he got. He did pay for the afternoons snooker which was decent of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bernardblack Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 I am very much a 21st century man with a very classy palate and an overall wonderful gentleman. However when playing a puggy, I turn into a mink who presses the hold/nudge buttons when they aren't lit up.....just in case the light is broken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
54_and_counting Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 only when drinking, although years ago when the puggys had smaller jackpots they seemed better to play because they paid out jackpots more frequently, i know the bar staff at my local quite well and they say hardly anyone takes the 100 jackpot out the new machines compared to the regular 50 or 70 quid jackpots there used to be dont know how cunts can feed these things fortunes, well i can its the addiction, feel bad for them at times tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Puggies are shit. I remember the days when the jackpot was paid out in tokens rather than coins. Quiz machines are a good laugh though. Battleships is probably my favourite quiz . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin_Nevis Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 I can't be arsed with them now tbh. Years ago I'd sling the shrapnel from my round in. There used to be certain tricks that worked on certain machines but that was back in the days of 7 quid jackpots. One of my pals was terrible on them. One week he stuck his entire YT wage into machines in Dundee's Reform Street Arcade. Realising his bird was going to go absolutely fucking spare he asked my and my other pal to punch him, so he'd claim he was mugged. This was obviously ridiculous, so instead he rubbed his cheek on the harling of the cinema next to his bird's flat, creating a nice wee graze, before telling the aforementioned female his harrowing tale, with me and my pal trying not to laugh in the background. He didn't however expect her to call the cops, who duly arrived a couple of hours later and he had to tell them the same bullshit story, which was that he'd been jumped outside a particularly nefarious pool Hall beside the equally nefarious Forum Shopping Centre. We then had to say we'd missed it as we'd still been inside finishing a game. Imagine his surprise when the Courier's front page the following morning reported a spate of muggings and knife crime that night, with the headline being a 17 year old youth being assaulted and robbed outside the Forum Centre. He went back the next payday and doubled his wages in winnings. She went even more mental.[emoji38] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleslie99 Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 My mate is the classic definition of a puggy addict. Out for a night out and he will spend the entire night pumping money into them! It's amazing how often he 'wins' never comes back to the table having lost money!!A few times that sum up his addiction spring to mind! Once he was playing the puggy in the snooker club we go to. He had been to the bar for change of £20 notes so often they had ran out of change! He left a pound in the machine and went over the road to the shop for more change! While he was away we, as a laugh, played his quid in the machine, we won £3! We have him it when he came back and he proper flipped out, was wanting to square go us all, yep his good mates, apparently you don't play a puggy if someone has left money in it lolAnother time, in the same snooker club, he pumped an obscene amount into the machine and eventually dropped the £200 jackpot, we knew he was only up £50 max but allowed him to gloat, before we left the club less than an hour later he had asked to tap £20 from me to cover his next round! Yep he had pumped the whole lot back in plus another £30! It's a mugs game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Raccoon Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 Puggies are for absolute mugs. I much prefer not moving from the bar and doing my gambling online, betting £20 a time on corners in a Venezuelan Under 20s game. Much more convenient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kincardine Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 The last time I played a puggy was in 1978 at The Bay Horse in Hamilton when I was on day release at Bell College and had to walk all the way back to Muirhouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dindeleux Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 My mate is the classic definition of a puggy addict. Out for a night out and he will spend the entire night pumping money into them! It's amazing how often he 'wins' never comes back to the table having lost money!!A few times that sum up his addiction spring to mind! Once he was playing the puggy in the snooker club we go to. He had been to the bar for change of £20 notes so often they had ran out of change! He left a pound in the machine and went over the road to the shop for more change! While he was away we, as a laugh, played his quid in the machine, we won £3! We have him it when he came back and he proper flipped out, was wanting to square go us all, yep his good mates, apparently you don't play a puggy if someone has left money in it lolAnother time, in the same snooker club, he pumped an obscene amount into the machine and eventually dropped the £200 jackpot, we knew he was only up £50 max but allowed him to gloat, before we left the club less than an hour later he had asked to tap £20 from me to cover his next round! Yep he had pumped the whole lot back in plus another £30! It's a mugs game! Your mate could probably do with speaking to someone about that to be honest.A boy on a school trip to France 98 rattled all his money in them on the ferry over and had to borrow money from a teacher to see him through the rest of the week.In another related school trip story, this time I think to EURO 2000 but maybe it was to France, the school had been keeping the money that had been getting paid in by pupils (parents) in cash in the organising teachers classroom. A boy got wind of this and hit the fire alarm one day and stole all the money whilst we were all out of the school. An evil genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrmad Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 Always found that I came out in front when I made tapers or had my specially hardened and tempered screwdriver with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philpy Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 Never played one in over 7 years, and never will again. The wife used to call herself the "puggy widow", as I would always sneak off to play them on the way back from the toilet at the pubs, or go and buy crisps at the bar just to break a note just to get change to play. I seldom won any jackpots, but if I did i would cash the coins in for notes straight away rather than fire it all back in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just me 2 Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 The best piggies were the 5p spins and £8 jackpot, you got them everywhere from the chip shop to the paper shop. The best ones I remember were casino crazy and Indiana jones. Don't really play them in the pubs but that might be because I've never really noticed them lately. I am going up to the club today so I'm going to put a couple of quid in, if I can remember right they're £250 jackpot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambomo Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 A previous boyfriend used to be really addicted to the puggys. Going on a night out was a nightmare as I'd either be sitting on my own or watching him play the machines. Kind of puts you off playing them yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locheedfcno1 Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 Much prefer quiz machines, especially one's with Hex and pub quiz. Hex is a class game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 I won't lie, I wouldn't have a clue where to start with a puggy other than putting the coins in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deanburn Dave Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 Mu uncle used to deliver and maintain these machines in the early 80's. He said the % of money paid out is adjusted as the club/pub see fit. Said it was a mugs game and a total waste of money. Stayed off them ever since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamaldo Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 Genuinely had no idea they were called puggies until this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLANCY2KTID Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 The roulette machines in the bookies seem to attract the absolute dregs of society imo. More than once I've watch people win upwards of £400 on these, only to proceed by gambling it all away again and actually end up £100 or so down. There was a story about a guy in a bookies in Kilmarnock winning £3500 early in the day and one of the staff had to nip to Clydesdale bank to get some more cash to pay his chitty, by the time he returned, the £3500 was sitting back down about £240. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locheedfcno1 Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 Guy who goes in birkhill inn in dundee batters money in both the machines. 2 pints then away home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dindeleux Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 He said the % of money paid out is adjusted as the club/pub see fit. Startling revelation thank god for us all that you chose to supply us with this information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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