Fruit machines are the kind of slot machines that are used in the United Kingdom. They are uniquely British in character and don’t appear outside of the United Kingdom. Some true online fruit machines are available at Cryptologic software UK casinos. Many slot machines that are billed as fruit machines are not true fruit machines in the British use of the term.

The true fruit machines that are in English pubs have nudges, holds and bonus features. They are three reel machines with symbols of numbers made of fruits, bar, and sevens. A player wins when he has three of a kind of the payline. When the player wins, he has the choice of collecting his winnings or he can play for larger stakes. This is called moving up the cash ladder. The player indicates his decision by pushing the Hi/Lo button when he wants to climb. If the player climbs and does not win, he is back on the lowest level.

There are seven rungs on the cash ladder that the player can climb. There is also a features screen which affects the player’s fate giving and taking away rungs, and giving free spins and nudges. The Hold feature allows the players to prevent one or two of the reels from spinning and is used when the player has a good two symbols and is trying to get the third. The Nudge feature allows the player to move a reel one symbol position per nudge, trying to hit a winning combination. The Nudge and Hold features can be used together.