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Japanese legend tells of a band of masterless samurai who roamed the countryside as bodyguards and mercenaries for over six centuries. These mysterious warriors, shamed by their masterless existence became lost in winds of myth and legend over the years. But now the Ronin, and their secret treasures, have returned. Ride out to find the lost Ronin and their hidden treasures and find your own riches along the way. Each Ronin you discover pays handsomely, either as a scattered winning icon, a wild icon, or as a key to free spins or even free games. Koku, the coin, appears only on reel 3 and substitutes for all symbols except Ronin. The prize is doubled if Koku substitutes in a winning combination. Ronin is a wild/scatter symbol and substitutes for all symbols except Koku.
Ramdom Jackpot
At any time any player playing any denomination may win the jackpot.
Bonus Feature
one of the following bonus games is randomly triggered when the Koku is hit on reel 3 with 2 or more scattered Ronins.
3 to 10 free spin games - reel 3 is held with Koku on all positions while the other reels spin. The number of free spins is also awarded ramdonly.
5 free spin games - Wins are multiplied 1X on the first ree-spin, 2X on the second, and so on. Any retrigger wins 5 extra free spins (only once and multiplier continues to accrue.
25 free spin games - All wins are tripled, and any retrigger awards 25 extra free spins.
¢ $1 and $5. High Rollers slot is RealTime
Gaming’s first three-reel machine with five pay lines. To
play, put money in the machine by clicking on the chips in the
lower right corner and press “Play 5 Credits.” This
will play the maximum bet (5 paylines and 5 coins), giving you
the maximum chance to win and automatically spins the reels.
If you’d like to play fewer lines, just select the lines
you want by using the “Bet One” button. When you have
the bet amount you’d like, just press “Spin Reel,”
and wait for a win. A new addition to RealTime Gaming’s
slot machines is random animations. The High Rollers slot machine
uses two random animations. The first is a ladybug that tip toes
across the slot machine. The second is a flower that spins. Watch
for them! The peace sign symbol is wild matches any symbol on
a paid pay line. If a peace sign is used to create a three “VW
Bus” win, the peace sign icons change into the “VW
Bus” icon. High Rollers slots may also be configured as
a local progressive game, where a 3-coin bet (max bet) hitting
three VW Buses on the fith payline wins you the progressive jackpot,
the current jackpot is located just above the reels.
In a modern slot machine,
the odds of hitting a particular symbol or combination of symbols
depends on how the virtual reel is set up. As we saw in the last
section, each stop on the actual reel may correspond to more than one
stop on the virtual reel. Simply put, the odds of hitting a particular
image on the actual reel depend on how many virtual stops correspond to
the actual stop.
In a typical weighted slot machine, the top jackpot stop (the one with
the highest-paying jackpot image) for each reel corresponds to only one
virtual stop. This means that the chance of hitting the jackpot image on
one reel is 1 in 64. If all of the reels are set up the same way, the
chances of hitting the jackpot image on all three reels is 1 in 643, or
262,144. For machines with a bigger jackpot, the virtual reel may have
many more stops. This decreases the odds of winning that jackpot
considerably.
The losing blank stops above
and below the jackpot image may correspond to more virtual stops than
other images. Consequently, a player is most likely to hit the blank
stops right next to the winning stop. This creates the impression that
they "just missed" the jackpot, which encourages them to keep gambling,
even though the proximity of the actual stops is inconsequential.
A machine's program is
carefully designed and tested to achieve a certain payback percentage.
The payback percentage is the percentage of the money that is put in
that is eventually paid out to the player. With a payback percentage of
90, for example, the casino would take about 10 percent of all money put
into the slot machine and give away the other 90 percent. With any
payback percentage under a 100 (and they're all under 100), the casino
wins over time.
In most gambling
jurisdictions, the law requires that payback percentages be above a
certain level (usually somewhere around 75 percent). The payback
percentage in most casino machines is much higher than the minimum --
often in the 90- to 97-percent range. Casinos don't want their machines
to be a lot tighter than their competitors' machines or the players will
take their business elsewhere.
The odds for a particular
slot machine are built into the program on the machine's computer chip.
In most cases, the casino cannot change the odds on a machine without
replacing this chip. Despite popular opinion, there is no way for the
casino to instantly "tighten up" a machine.
Machines don't loosen up on
their own either. That is, they aren't more likely to pay the longer you
play. Since the computer always pulls up new random numbers, you have
exactly the same chance of hitting the jackpot every single time you
pull the handle. The idea that a machine can be "ready to pay" is all in
the player's head, at least in the standard system.
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