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Golden Goose Winning Wizards is a 5 reel, 20 payline, 200 coin slot machine with a wild/multiplier symbol, a scatter symbol, and four Golden Goose bonus games. This is a coin-based game, meaning your credits are converted to coins. To qualify for the Golden Goose bonus games, you must place an additional bet of 5 coins and play all paylines. If you wager the Golden Goose bet, the Golden Goose may appear ramdomly at the end of any spin to award you 1 of 4 bonus games.
The Golden Egg bonus game.
The Golden Goose awards an egg that is worth up to 2,000 coins.
The Golden Reels bonus game.
Eggs are displayed on all five reels. Select one egg from each reel to win up to a total of 5,000 coins.
The Money or the Egg bonus games.
Select the cash to win up to 10,000 coins.
Or the Egg and win up to 50 free spins with up to 3X multiplier.
Wasabi San is a highly entertaining 15 line, multiple coin game with a humorous Japanese food theme. This 5 reel, 15 payline, multi coin slot has Wild and Scatter symbols, a Free Spin Feature, and a seriously entertaining bonus game-within-the-game for extra thrills and rewards. The special game features include a 2nd screen Bonus Game and a Free Spins feature. On Wasabi San slot you are able to bet up to 5 coins on each of the 15 paylines, taking the maximum wager per spin to 75 coins. Scatter wins will trigger the Free Spins feature where all wins are tripled and up to 10 free spins can be won. The Fish Market Bonus game will give players a chance to select some exotic looking bonus fish in search of the hidden reward. Jackpots up to 37 500.00 are achievable on a max bet, and can be boosted threefold to 112 500.00 if hit in a free spin. Scatter wins will trigger the Free Spins feature where all wins are tripled. The Fish Market Bonus game will give players a chance to choose from a well stocked fish market.
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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