Onsen Shooting Gallery

How it works

• 6 medals a play, for 6 corks, fired one at a time.
• The sight sways from over a figure’s top down to its foot and back, 1.15 s each way, through five bands as long each: over the top, the top edge, the upper half, the centre and the base. FIRE shoots at the band the sight is on.
• Each figure has its chances for each band, by where it stands (the tables below), out of 64: it falls off the shelf, slides back a step and stays up, rocks and stays where it was, or the cork misses. Over the top always misses.
• Only a figure off the shelf counts. The manjū box can slide back once and the cat twice; each step back stands it nearer the shelf’s back edge, where a hit topples it more easily. Nothing else slides.
• When the 6th cork has been fired, every figure off the shelf pays its tag. Six corks can knock off six figures at most, and 41 medals is the most a play can pay.
• Where each cork goes is drawn when the medals go in; the figure and band you fire at only choose what the slot drawn for it does. Nothing is drawn as you fire.
• Skip only fast-forwards: it can be pressed once the last cork has been fired.
• While the Odds tab is open the machine waits: the sight and the cork stop, and go on from the same point when you come back.
• Leaving the page (or reloading it) in the middle of a play finishes it at once: the corks already fired keep your aim, and every cork still to come is fired blind, at a figure and band drawn when the medals went in.

How many figures come off the shelf

Each figure’s chances

Out of 64, for a cork at each band: falls off the shelf, slides back a step, rocks and stays, or misses. Over the top always misses.

A check by play

20,000 plays for each hand, drawn at random as the machine draws them, beside the exact figures.