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The Couch Potato symbol is wild and substitutes for
any other symbol to complete winning combinations.
A single Couch Potato symbol pays out 5x on any combination
it completes.
Two Couch Potato symbols pay out 25x on any combination
they complete.
Three Couch Potato symbols on the payline create
a winning combination as shown in the Payout Table.
The Couch Potato symbol does not substitute for
a Cherry symbol, unless there is a Cherry symbol on
the payline.
Winnings are paid out on the highest combination only.
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Food Fight!
is a 5-reel bonus game slot machine. To view the pay table you
must click on the “Pay Table” button located next to
the red “Cash Out” button on the lower left side of
the machine. It may be played in denominations of 1¢, 5¢,
25¢, 50¢, $1, and $5. To play, put money in the machine
by clicking on the chips in the lower right corner and press
“Bet Max.” This will play the maximum bet (9 paylines
and 45 coins), giving you the maximum chance to win and automatically
spins the reels. If you’d like to play fewer lines or fewer
coins per line, just select the lines you want by using the “Select
Lines” and “Bet One” buttons. When you have the
bet you’d like, just press “Spin,” and wait for
a win. Win by lining up food icons on any of the nine pay lines.
Receive three pieces of an ice cream cone sundae (ice cream cone,
ice cream and ice cream topping) and watch them combine to give
you a bonus win! Get three pieces of a pie (Pie Plate, Pie Filling
and Cherry) anywhere on your screen and enter the food fight
bonus round, where you can finally get revenge on those people
from your past. Choose your victim, and when you’ve selected
your target, just click on the “hand” holding the pie
to let the splattering begin. You win the coins for each person
that you hit. Once you miss, the bonus game is over and you keep
the bonus that you have won thus far. The amount you win is dependent
on the total amount of coins you have played, so the more coins
you bet, the more you can win. All of the pays, with the exception
of the bonus game winners, are played from left to right. That
means that you win when you line up the icons starting from the
leftmost wheel. To see what each combination pays, just click
on the “Pay Table” button. Line up five pudding symbols
on any active pay line and win the progressive jackpot.
Light Speed
is a 3-reel 1-line system-wide Progressive slot machine with
a wild symbol. The pay table is displayed on the machine. The
progressive jackpot total is displayed just above the reels,
and re-starts at $700 every time the progressive jackpot is won.
This machine may only be played in denominations of $.25, and
only a 3-coin bet (max bet) allows the player to participate
in the progressive. The “Robot” symbol is also
“wild,” matching any non-“Light Speed” symbol.
You must make a maximum bet (3-coins) in order to qualify for
the bonus part of the game – the Light Speed meter, which
is represented by the lights going up both sides of the machine.
When you hit a “Light Speed” icon in the payline, then
the Light Speed meter is increased. A winning spin then pays
the payout on the payline multiplied by the level reached on
the Light Speed meter. The maximum multiplier for the Light Speed
meter is seven, and once a winning spin has occurred, the Light
Speed meter is set back to one. Win the progressive jackpot when
you hit three laser guns at the top (7x) level of the Light Speed
meter.
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.
Winning Wizards is a five reel, five payline, and
five coin slot machine. The multiple paylines increase
your chances of winning. There are no wild symbols
and the maximum payout is 10,000 coins.
For every coin that you bet, you enable
another payline. You are paid out for winning combinations
on enabled paylines only.
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