Winchester
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This article is about the NPC. For the gun, see Winchester. |
Winchester is an NPC who appears in Enter the Gungeon, Exit the Gungeon, and Enter the Gungeon: House of the Gundead. He is one of the very few NPCs who appear in all three mainline games.
Function
Enter the Gungeon ETG
Winchester occasionally appears at random throughout the Gungeon if the player has more than 90 minutes of playtime on the current save file, and the Gungeon Proper has been reached at least 3 times. He appears in a special room which contains a shooting gallery. The player can pay Winchester an amount of 
to play his shooting gallery game. During the game, the player is given the Prize Pistol and four shots to hit all four moving targets in the shooting gallery, which usually involves careful timing and bouncing bullets off of walls and moving blockers.
After expending all four shots of the prize pistol, Winchester will give a Chest as a reward. The quality of the chest depends on how many targets the player hit, and the current chamber.
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| Current Chamber | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 1/2/O/A | No Reward | 
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| 3/4/5 | No Reward |
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The reward chest has a chance to spawn as a mimic; however, it is not affected by Mimic Tooth Necklace.
While initially cold towards the player when met at the breach, Winchester seemingly warms up more with each shooting gallery aced. Acing three of his minigames unlocks the Seven-Leaf Clover.
Notes
See the page of the Prize Pistol for a list of items that specifically modify the way the gun functions.
- Items that grant flight, such as Wax Wings, Cat Bullet King Throne, or Jetpack, allow the player to fly over the pit and into the shooting gallery, allowing them to cheese the game by hitting all targets at close range. There is no penalty for doing this, and Winchester does not react to it.
- Using a gun that is not the Prize Pistol, or leaving the room mid game causes the game to end prematurely, with no reward.
- Projectiles created by items such as Gunboots, Ring of Triggers, or Heart of Ice can destroy Winchesters targets, but do not count as cheating and do not use up ammo from the Prize Pistol.
- If playing in co-op, dead players can block moving bricks using their body in the minigame, stopping them, and potentially making the game easier for the other player.
- Chests spawned by Winchester have a miniscule chance to be glitched or rainbow chests, similarly to regular room drops.
Layouts
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WinchesterRoom_003
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WinchesterRoom_Joe_003
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Quotes
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Entering a minigame room:
Accepting his challenge:
Completing his game:
In the Breach: (Available after acing his game once)
In the Breach: (Before acing his game)
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Trivia
- Winchester's name is a reference to the Winchester Repeating Arms Company.
- Winchester is also a pun on the NPC's role, allowing the player to win a chest.
- If the player steals something from a shop, then enters Winchester's room, instead of saying the character's nickname, he will call them "thief". This is likely a reference to the Town Tool Shopkeeper from "The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening". Unlike the Shopkeeper, Winchester doesn't care enough to kill the player and they will still be allowed to play the game.
- Winchester has a special track for rooms he is in, but it is not part of the official soundtrack.
- One of Winchester's dialogues, "There's one born every minute", is a likely reference to the well-known phrase "There's a sucker born every minute".
- There is a small chance for Winchester to spawn in a secret room.
Exit the Gungeon
Winchester makes a reappearance in Exit the Gungeon as the host of a minigame, Winchester's Original Game. He can be encountered randomly inside of rooms branching off of the shop.
Winchester also appears in the Underbreach, offering a wager to the player. He will ask for 15 
and will pay you back 30 if you successfully Exit the Gungeon on the very next attempt after taking the wager.
Winchester's Original Game
See Winchesters Original Game for details.
Dialogue
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Entering Minigame room:
Offering His Game:
When his game is turned down:
When his game is accepted:
When shot at:
Offering his game after it has already been turned down:
Leaving the minigame room:
Winning the Minigame:
Speaking post-game:
Speaking for a second time post-game:
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See also
| NPCs | |
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| In the Breach | Bowler · Daisuke · Doug · Drunkard · Frifle and the Grey Mauser · Gunknights · Hattori · Ledge Goblin · Ox and Cadence· Route Switcher · Ser Manuel · Snails · Tailor · Tonic |
| In the Gungeon | Bello · Blacksmith · Blockner · Brother Albern · Cursula · Dragunfire Cultists · Flynt · Gunsling King and Manservantes · Lost Adventurer · Old Man · Old Red · Patches and Mendy · Professor Goopton · Resourceful Rat · Save Button · Sell Creep · Sorceress · Synergrace · Trorc · Union Mimic · Vampire · Winchester · Witches |
| Elsewhere | EMP-R0R |