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A single Fortune Cookie symbol on the payline completes
the winning combination of a single Cherry symbol.
With 2 coins bet, a single Cherry symbol combination
pays out 4 coins. However, a Fortune Cookie symbol
is displayed, so the payout is 4 x 2 = 8 coins.
Two Fortune Cookie symbols and a 3-Bar symbol on
the payline, combine to produce a three 3-Bar symbols
combination. With 2 coins bet, a three 3-Bar symbols
combination pays out 100 coins. However, two Fortune
Cookie symbols are showing, so the payout is 100 x
4 = 400 coins.
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Highway Kings slot is a 5-Reel Multi line Video Slot Machine with wilds and scatters. Symbols pay from left to right and right to left. (for example: two steering wheels counted from the left and three tires counted from the right), you are paid for both combinations. If you have five symbols in a row, you are only paid once. The symbols have to lie consecutively, starting from the leftmost or rightmost reel, to qualify as hits. The red truck symbol with “Wild” written on it is a wild symbol – meaning it stands for any other symbol, like a joker in card games. Also, the wild symbol doubles any win in the combination it is in, but not cumulatively (that is, two wild symbols still multiply the win by 2 and not by 4). The exhaust pipe with “Scatter” written on it is a scatter symbol – when you get 2 to 5 of these symbols on the screen, you are paid according to the table shown on the winnings table (scatter win is calculated by multiplying the number on the respective row of the scatter pay table with your TOTAL bet, not just the line bet). The symbols have to lie consecutively, starting from the leftmost or rightmost reel. They don't have to follow any pay line. Scatter wins are added to pay line wins (if you don't have any pay line wins, you are only paid the scatter win).
The
feature game is triggered when the Lady Bug symbol appears
anywhere on reel 1 and the Love Bug symbol appears anywhere on
reel 5. The bugs catch Credit Prizes that fall from 4 bridges
as they float along a Venice Canal. If a "Diamond Ring" is
caught, all prizes during the feature are tripled. If a
"Necklace" is caught, 15 free games are also awarded. The
feature cannot be retriggered during the free games. Bonus
round and free games wins are added to payline and scatter
wins.
Liberty Bell.The Beginning of the Slot Machine.
German Immigrant, Charles Fey, credited with inventing slot machine.
In California, (especially San Francisco), in the 1890's, gambling was a popular type of entertainment. Many forms of slot machines existed at that time.
Charles Fey aimed at competing with these
existing slot machines with his "Liberty Bell". The "Liberty Bell" had many unique features that soon distinguished his machines.
Players liked the Liberty Bell, and any good establishment
gives the players what they like. The Liberty Bell was a big hit, and Charles Fey was given credit for inventing a "new"
standard in slot machines, that to this day has some
influence.
In the 1890's, slot machines can best be described
as semi-legal. By paying the players, slot machines were made illegal, and eventually banned in California. Charles Fey continued to produce his machines regardless.
He knew his machines were popular and that the end users
were the ones using his inventions illegally. Why should he
give up producing, when as far as he was concerned, they
were legal if used correctly?
He continued to produce and sell his inventions, and was eventually
arrested and fined.
It was never legal to produce or own slot machines
again in California as long as Charles Fey was alive. Production
was legal in other states and these producers often copied his
machines and sold them to his clients.
I wonder what Charles Fey would be thinking of doing in the year
2000 with Internet gambling and online casinos. Are we missing
out on the latest invention of the "Liberty Bell"?
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