Quoted from LTG:Kind of. On an EM one of the reels advances the match unit for each advance click of the reel. So if you were keeping count. You know what the match number would be.
Of course hard to keep track of that number and also end on it.
Too much work to keep count, but...
Occasionally an EM game would get stuck matching on the same two numbers. When this happened, if you were having a crummy game, on ball 5 you would get the last two digits to the matching number, then tilt or let it drain. Because EM's often had a few 10 point switches, it wasn't hard. If you had a good game going, you'd go for the three replays available by score, then try to match too.
We cashed in coke bottles for pinball money back then, so we really pinched every quarter we had. Not our fault the tech didn't notice the match number wasn't changing.
