This is the third of the seven games available to you in The Casino. Each play of this three-wheeled slot machine costs 10 Meat and 1 Adventure.
Each wheel can display a jumbo olive, a lime, a lemon, an orange, or a cherry. If all three fruits are different, you get nothing; if two fruits are the same, you get one of that fruit; if all three fruits are the same, you get three of that fruit. The exception is in Bad Moon, where any roll can randomly yield a big rock.
Analysis of the simplest slot machine. Let’s go back to the past and assume that the machine only has 3 reels and there is an apple, an orange, a lemon, a banana, a melon and a joker symbol on each.
What are the odds? Surprisingly good, but it depends on how much you value an adventure. Ignoring the Bad Moon rocks, of the 125 combinations, only 60 leave you with nothing. Of the remainder, 60 give you a fruit, and five give you three fruits. This means that if you spend 10,000 Meat and 1000 adventures on this game, you would typically expect to obtain 120 of each fruit (600 fruits total). This works out to just under 17 Meat and 1.7 adventures per fruit. Granted, two of the fruits are obtainable from The Hippy Store, but for 70 Meat each, and the other three are hard to come by.
Farming the Lemon Party Slot is a low-risk, low-reward scenario. For example, if you sell the limes and cherries for 1000 meat each in the mall, and the jumbo olives for 2300 meat each, your expected profit over 1000 adventures is approximately 500000 meat, or 500 meat per adventure. However, a significant increase in the supply of these items will generally cause the price to decrease.
When The Gray Plague hit the Kingdom, this slot machine began malfunctioning occasionally, dispensing one of the ingredients for Doc's Miracle Cure:
You acquire an item: plastic passion fruit |
With a ten-leaf clover, you always get a big rock, no matter what the wheels show:
You acquire an item: big rock |