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Today the largest group of casino players are playing slots. It wasn't always this way, as late as the mid-seventies slots were not thought of serious games of chance. They were often played
by the female companions of male table players, husbands were often seen giving their wives money to play the slots with while they went off to play the more serious table games. In those
days a "respectable" table player wouldn't be caught playing the slots.
The original slot machines were mechanical devices and some cheats tried various ways to beat the house. People tried everything from the use of magnets to drilling a hole through the
side of the machines, all in an attempt to influence the mechanism. There was even a legal method discovered by a few that involved a style of pulling the handle that controlled the drop of
one or more of the reels. This increased the players odds greatly, and caused the casino operators some concern until a method was devised to remove this advantage. The manufacturers
have kept modifying and refining the machines to keep the games honest.
Today the vast majority of slot machines are electronic and computer controlled so that outside manipulating of the machines by cheaters is now just a part of slot machine history.
It was the introduction and rapid acceptance of video games that changed the slot machine forever, the casino operators developed a new line of electronic slot machines, ones that offered
vivid graphics and exciting sound effects. The casino operators also added further refinements such as connecting several machines together and taking a small percentage of every play and
adding it to a jackpot total. If no one hits the jackpot for some time it can grow into a huge amount, and although the odds are small it will payoff and one lucky player will win big. These
"jackpots" also helped to increase slot popularity to where it is today.
Today slots are the most popular form of casino gambling, with up to 40% of casino revenue originating from these "one armed bandits".
Gold Coast is a three reel, five payline, and five
coin slot machine. The multiple paylines increase
your chances of winning.
It has a wild symbol and the maximum payout is 6,000
coins.
For every coin that you bet, you enable another payline.
You are paid out for winning combinations on enabled
paylines only.
The value of credits won depend on the coin size
you bet per payline. Your win amount is the number
of coins won multiplied by the number of credits bet
per payline.
Winnings are paid out on the highest combination
on each enabled payline only.
You are paid out for winning combinations on enabled
paylines only.
Malfunctions void all plays and pays.
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An online slot operates in much the same manner as the machines found
in today's casinos. They're all reliant on a random number generator
(RNG). In the casino, the RNG is built into the machine; online, it's
written into the programming.
The number of "reels" and the number of coins a player inserts determines
the overall payback of any machine. In days gone by, randomness was limited
by physical technology. However, with computerized number generators
there's another fly in the ointment in that the programmer can write
the script for any payback percentage.
This might make a player wary of computerized and/or online slot machines
but the truth is, if the programmer creates a script that pays few winners,
players will either lose all their money or quit playing in frustration.
This leads to casino losses in the long run. Therefore, programs are
written to provide balanced outcomes based on a payback percentage.
Payback percentage is simply what the machine can be expected to return
to players in the long run. For example, a machine set at 96 percent
should return 96 cents out of every dollar. The house gets to keep 4
cents. This doesn't mean you will get 96 cents back for every dollar
you play. You might get less or more or you could hit the jackpot and
get much, much more than your dollar. What's important to understand
is the expression "long term."
The RNG is coordinated with the symbols on the machine to produce a
96 percent payback after thousands of thousands of tries. So, in essence,
your own payback percentage will depend on one thing and one thing only-luck.
Even if a program is set to pay 50 percent, if you are in the right place
at the right time, you could realize a profit.
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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).
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