GUIDE

THE ITALIAN JOB
You will usually lose on your second spin, but watch out for rolling an eight for a skill shot up and down two of the feature board lanes. Hold cancel and try to build up your cash. Landing on the skill shot corners is a good sign the machine is ready to offer a jackpot so stick with it, but do not collect anything and do not be tempted to collect wins above ?5 as this will put the jackpot back a long way.
Most of the features are a maximum of ?5, even the win series and big money games.
All three machines have an invincible mode where the logos will turn red. If invincible the jackpot will never repeat. But if you have the money and time you can collect ?1 from the cash trial, when the feature is red. This will most likely make the next feature red.
Carry on collecting ?1 until you are offered a normal feature, then keep gambling until you fill the cash pot to super jackpot. This will usually repeat, but even if it does not, several jackpots will become available. This is a fun way to play the games but you must not give in half way through and collect a super jackpot through invincible mode as this will mess it up. It will become obvious when you play.

The bar codes will offer on average ?5. Take the smallest bar if the number is good, as this can be gambled and exchanged for feature where you will get at least one press. Collect ?5 unless it is offering more or you are trying out the above cheat. The big bar will also be ?5, so take it if the number is to risky to gamble on. The middle bar is a Follow Me feature which is the trickiest ?5 out of the three.

PRO METHOD:
All professional players should know of this one but there are two methods to it. The first part is the same for both methods, which is simple enough, just force everything until it offers a red feature. Once this feature is available collect ?1 instead of the jackpot. More often then not the next feature will be red, if not the following two or three will be so do the same as before and collect ?1. Keep doing this until you get a normal yellow feature. Once you have this, play for a full jackpot and nothing else. This will take some time but do not be tempted to collect a jackpot off nudges or a feature as this will ruin the feature we are playing for which is the jackpot plus repeat chance. Once you have a full cash pot you will get a repeat. Now this is where the two methods split up. The quick way is the machine will repeat four times giving you ?50, very nice. But this does not happen on all versions of the machine. What it will do is not repeat at all and instead go red on the next feature. If it does not repeat but you have been forcing the red wins then method two will work. If it did not repeat on the yellow feature and you are offered another red, once again collect ?1 and keep forcing for another jackpot repeat off the yellow. Once again the yellow will not repeat but you will get more jackpots from following features.
At this point you can collect a jackpot from a red feature as this will no longer effect the game play and you can be sure of another jackpot in the following feature whether this is red or yellow. Playing this method should win you ?50. Play a couple of features after ?40 to see if it is still playing.
The bad part about this method is you are not 100% sure when the machine has had enough and when to walk away, but on average you should get five jackpots in a row providing that none of them have repeated, although ?60 is my highest it has only occurred once, it has been ?50 every other time.

Important notes about the above guide:
The methods described above only work on the ?10 jackpot machines. The ?15 version of The Great Escape will not play to any method described above, however its clone Homers Meltdown does play to some extent the same way.


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