Does playing with different coins affect the payout?
Most modern fruit machines will pay out just pound coins. Some will also pay 20p’s too (including old machines and modern machines with 5 jackpots that don’t round up to the nearest pound). It goes without saying that a machine that pays out only pound coins will need to have a sufficient amount of coins inside to actually pay you when you win. If you play with different coins, such as 5p, 10p, 50p and 2, you will still be giving the machine money and the payout percentage will still adjust as normal. The game software is only looking at the monetary value, not the coins being used – so it will not help you win money, nor will it make you lose money. It is therefore technically possible to get the machine to pay empty (i.e. you empty it of all the pound coins) if you haven’t been using pound coins yourself and they’ve all run out. Nearly all machines hold at least 125 in pound coins when full, so the chances of this happening are rather slim. There is no benefit to doing this either. I
