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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".
The picture above is a payout schedule from a "Red White and Blue"
slot machine.
As you can see, if you were to hit the jackpot betting one coin would
win you 2,000 coins, 4,000 coins for a two coin bet and 10,000 coins for
the maximum bet of 3 coins.
losing slot players will not pay attention to payout schedules, where
as smart players who win at slots do. If you walk by the above machine
and the first thing you notice is 10,000 coins, you might as well forget
about becoming a serious slot player.
The key to win playing slot machines is to understand the payout
schedule. You should play a slot machine that offers the highest payout
for lower winning combinations, not just play a machine because it has
the highest jackpot.
Reasons for doing so, are the simple fact that your chances of
winning the large jackpot are a lot lower than winning smaller payouts.
By walking around the casino, you should look at all slot machine payout
schedules before you begin to play.
For instance, say you decide to only play quarter slots and see two
identical machines. When you compare the payout schedules, machine 1
offers 25 coins for the lowest payout and machine 2 offers 50 coins.
Which would you choose?
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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.
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