In Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water’s Edge, Nancy finds a pachinko booth card in the baskets in the Ryokan bath. You can use this at the Pachinko parlor at the Kure station.
There are three pachinko arcade games you step up to. Use your card on the machine to play. Left-mouse click and hold the large yellow knob, then release at anytime. A metal ball will shoot out and fall down through the steel pegs. The balls will bounce off of these barriers and also ricochet off other balls.
The goal is to simply earn as many balls as you want, in order to spend at the prize box. Starting out with 50 balls each card round, shoot the balls out at the intensity you want them to be launched. Try to judge where the ball will start to drop. If your ball falls all the way to the bottom of the screen, it will dump into the gutter where you receive no reward.
If the ball drops into any of holes to the left and the right, you earn that ball.
If you get a ball into the very center of the “catcher”, then the slots will spin one round. The slots are randomized by what pictures show up. Your score is based on getting matches and/or stars. A jackpot is getting all three slots to be stars. The score is different if you get 1 star with two random pictures, or 1 star with a 2 of a kind pictures, or 2 stars.
Ball payouts for the slot machine are below: Add +1 for EVERY hole you make it in.
| 3 stars | 3 of a kind | 2 stars | 1 star | 2 of a kind | 2 of a kind & 1 star | ||
| Balls earned | 175 | 90 | 70 | 35 | 25 | 40 |
- 2 of a kind = 25 balls + 1
- 2 of a kind and 1 star = 40 balls + 1
- 1 star only = 35 balls +1
- 2 stars = 70 balls +1
- 3 of a kind = 90 balls + 1
- Jackpot (3 stars) = 175 balls +1
The reward count is the same for both Jr and Sr. The odds of the slot results are highest with the machine on the right.
