The RTP (Return to Play) for pachinko is 85%. This means that if you continue to play pachinko normally, you will continue to lose 15% of your money. However, I have a friend who lives off of pachinko. He taught me how to win, so I will write about that. His pachinko strategy is called “Hyena”. Let me explain about “Hyena”.
How to do “Hyena”
In pachinko and pachislot, there is something called “Tenjo”. Tenjo means that a long period of time passes without a jackpot. After a certain period of time, it becomes a jackpot. In other words, it is a service to models that have not hit the jackpot for a long time. The image below shows a meter installed in a pachinko/pachislot machine.
It varies from store to store, but usually, red is the number of jackpots per day and green is the number of games counts. It is best to choose the one with the big green number. Because the higher the number, the fewer games it takes to enter tenjo.
The target is the machine with the big green numbers on it.
Expected value
I’ll skip the explanation of the expected value here. You need to find a pachinko/pachislot machine with a high expected value. However, this is quite difficult. Because the timing to enter tenjo changes depending on the pachinko/pachislot machine. At the moment, I haven’t found an English site that gives information on this. In Japanese, the site is as follows.
Basically, if you search for the model name in Japanese, you can get information about the expected value. In this article, as an example, I will introduce the expected values of new pachinko machines in the popular Evangelion series (エヴァンゲリオン決戦真紅).
This time, I will test it on a pachinko machine that costs 4 yen per ball.
The expected values are as follows.
| Remaining games until tenjo |
Number of games per 1,000 yen | ||||||
| 13G | 14G | 15G | 16G | 17G | 18G | 19G | |
| 959G | -7380yen | -5710yen | -4264yen | -2998yen | -1881yen | -888yen | 1yen |
| 900G | -7058yen | -5406yen | -3975yen | -2722yen | -1617yen | -634yen | 245yen |
| 850G | -6734yen | -5100yen | -3684yen | -2445yen | -1352yen | -380yen | 490yen |
| 800G | -6356yen | -4743yen | -3344yen | -2121yen | -1042yen | -82yen | 776yen |
| 750G | -5913yen | -4324yen | -2947yen | -1742yen | -679yen | 266yen | 1112yen |
| 700G | -5396yen | -3835yen | -2483yen | -1299yen | -255yen | 673yen | 1504yen |
| 650G | -4790yen | -3263yen | -1939yen | -781yen | 241yen | 1149yen | 1962yen |
| 600G | -4082yen | -2593yen | -1303yen | -175yen | 821yen | 1706yen | 2499yen |
| 550G | -3254yen | -1811yen | -560yen | 534yen | 1500yen | 2358yen | 3126yen |
| 500G | -2285yen | -895yen | 309yen | 1363yen | 2293yen | 3120yen | 3859yen |
| 450G | -1152yen | 176yen | 1326yen | 2516yen | 3221yen | 4011yen | 4718yen |
| 400G | 173yen | 1428yen | 2516yen | 3907yen | 4307yen | 5053yen | 5721yen |
| 350G | 1723yen | 2893yen | 3907yen | 5534yen | 5577yen | 6272yen | 6895yen |
| 300G | 3536yen | 4606yen | 5534yen | 7437yen | 7061yen | 7698yen | 8268yen |
| 250G | 5656yen | 6610yen | 7437yen | 9662yen | 8798yen | 9366yen | 9873yen |
| 200G | 8136yen | 8953yen | 9662yen | 12265yen | 10830yen | 11316yen | 11751yen |
| 150G | 11036yen | 11694yen | 12265yen | 15310yen | 13205yen | 13597yen | 13948yen |
| 100G | 14428yen | 14900yen | 15310yen | 18870yen | 15984yen | 16265yen | 16516yen |
| 50G | 18395yen | 18650yen | 18870yen | 23035yen | 19234yen | 19385yen | 19521yen |
| 0G | 23035yen | 23035yen | 23035yen | 23035yen | 23035yen | 23035yen | 23035yen |
What is important here is the number of games per 1,000 yen. It varies depending on the model, but is usually located in the center at the bottom of the screen.
The target is a pachinko machine that can play more than 17~19 games per 1,000 yen. If you are playing on a pachinko machine that costs 1 yen per ball, your target is a pachinko machine that allows you to play at least 68 to 76 games per 1,000 yen. However, the expected value of 1 yen pachinko is reduced to a quarter, so you will make less money. The advantage is that it reduces the risk.
If you can’t calculate the expected value, so the best way is to determine the game counts and the number of games per 1000 yen for pachinko. In the case of pachislot, the best way to decide is by the number of games.
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