1/31/2018 - Day trip to Las Vegas . . you guessed it . .Silver Strikes

Decided to make a normal "day trip" to QQQQ for Silver Strikes, I will spend about $500-$600 (or less, depending) and see what I get . . . my friend already picked up my $300 strike this past weekend.

A quick down and back trip.

Wish me luck! Reds and blues (and yellows, cuz they added a $40 strike)

 

Good luck and happy hunting!!

 

Good luck and look forward to seeing the collection!

 

Stupid question I know but how does getting these work? I'd never heard of a Silver Strike till I joined this board.

 

Good luck!

 

Good luck and have fun!

 

I did a quick search on YouTube and answered my own question!! Good luck on the Silver Strikes!! I'm definitely going to see if I can get one while I'm in town.

 

Have a great trip. Hope you get a box full of strikes!

 

Have fun and be lucky! Looking forward to seeing how you get on.

 

Well, I'm home. Another whirlwind day.

Got to QQQQ about 11AM. Looked for the $40 strike machine, and they put it near the front of the casino, by the "Win a Car" slot machines. The machine was being used, so I went to the bank of 6.

The machines were really out of sync, and it took me 23 clear cap strikes before I got my first colored cap strike. At 12:15PM, I had put in $600 and hadn't completed a set of red/blues. This cycle there were:

$300 - my friend picked up mine the previous Saturday
(1) $40 - this was new. More on this later.
(2) red caps
(2) blue caps

Didn't hit anything in the way of payouts, the best I did were a couple of 40 coin payouts. Tough and tight . . . . .

So, I took a break to cash in some football playoff tickets and make some superbowl bets for me and my BFF.

I wandered down to the $40 strike machine. Unlike the other Strike Machines, this one is a Red, Whte and Blue 7's machine, with two jackpot symbols on the third reel. Still $0.25, with a 3 coin max (needed to qualify for the Silver Strikes.

It has 5 columns of $10 clear caps, and one column of yellow (Gold maybe?) $40 strikes. The $40 strikes are 1.5 ozt. (troy ounces .999 silver)

There are "horror stories" about this machine, and some people spending $500 to get the gold cap, but then again, they probably got several clear caps as well, offsetting the $500.

So, I put a $50 ticket that was left over from the previous session and added a $100 bill.

Played through about $40, including my highest hit of the day three triple bars, which paid 80 (or was it 160, hmmmm, can't quite recall.

Anyway,at about the $50 mark,



Hooray!!! Gold cap strike!! Played down to $100 and decided not to press my luck, I still had one more red cap to make to finish my set.

Went back to the bank of 6 and played a single machine. After 3 clear caps, bingo!!! a red cap. Cashed out immediately. Earned $10.00 in comps for my play.

Here's the final haul



42 clear, 1 gold, two reds, two blues









Now, the only "problem" was that the reds and blues were a matched pair, but, I have already put out a message on the Silver Striker board for anyone who wants to swap, and I already have one of the blues swapped out.

Took Uber back to the airport and ate at Pei Wei diner

Mandarin beef over egg noodles



California roll (ended up taking this home for dinner)



Total expenditure was (net) -$400 plus travel expenses. Funny, the Uber to and From the airport was as much as one flight leg.

Anyway, mission accomplished. I'll publish pictures of the missing strikes when I get them.

 

Congratulations on a successful trip. Thanks for posting pictures of the new Silver strikes...

 

Good stuff! Hope the strikes are a little less costly next time!

 

Well, looking at last years day trip, It kind of evens out.

2017
The total cash outlay was (just for slot machines)
$470, and I got 53 silver strikes, forty eight clear, two red and three blue
Nominally, that adds up to $650 in silver strikes.
Total travel costs were about $150.
All the Silver Strike machines are three reel Double Diamond machines
I hit a DD - DD - 7, and a DD - DD - 3bar, which kept me playing.

So, it all evens out.

 

I never heard about these until I saw it on this board. I went to QQQQ's and got 3 clear ones. I am happy that I got them, and will keep trying for colored ones, even though I don't know what to do with them. They do make nice souvenirs though.

 

Nice job. Looks like you got a nice haul indeed. Looking forward to the pics.

 

Oh in my head you weren't keeping all those clears, I figured you were selling back duplicates at least. If you kept all those, then you did well on $400!

 

Clears are "worthless", except as souvenirs or in exchange for the $300 strike four times a year. I am now set for the next four $300 distributions.

In fact, while I am there, if there are people that win them and don't want to keep them, I offer them $12.00 for them vs. the cage, which only pays $10. It's helps me through the "rough spots". Less I have to play to get 'em.

 

Nice report. Are the $40 Gold tokens always there or just at certain times?

Mark

 

Good for you, Dai Lun!

 

So do they ask for only 25 clears in exchange for a $300 token? Is that why you offer $12 for a clear?