Tokeneer - If you really think the Reno airport Blues should cost $30 I do belive you should make a trip to the airport and try playing for a set or sets and when you are done I would buy all the blues from you at your $30 figure, I really dought you can pull it off, I have tried and have seen a few others try with no luck of coming even close to the $30 price per strike. Its like Jeff stated in his post with the machine being a 12 1/2 to 14 percent machine you arent going to average $30 for the blues even if you cash out all the common ones you win along the way, also remember the machine counts all pays (blanks, bars etc) in the percentage so if the random generator keeps blanks or mixed bars coming up its going to take alot more play to get the strikes, hence alot more money. I know there are people who will say they put 75 cents in the machine and got a double and a triple bar payout and 4 were blues and all I can say is they were there at the right time, if that same person keep playing they also would put a ton of cash out to win another full set. Full set being the key to the airport blues, I won 4 and they were 2 R's 1 N, and 1 O.
Walt