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Slots machines have been around since the early 1800's and are as
varied as their numbers. The first machines had only three reels and 20
symbols. Today's slot machines have anywhere from 3 to 9 or more reels
and upwards of 100 symbols and take as little as a nickel to play or as
much as $100 a pull. Online casinos offer slots and have a tremendous
clientele or player base. Die-hard slot players can tell you which are
the best online casinos to play slots at, dependant on the casino
software, the payout schedule, the coin size and whether there is chat
capabilities available. Remember those are opinions and everyone's is
different and may or may not work for you. As a beginner you need to
develop your on insight into slots and this is where I come in. With the
information here, you will be able to play with the best of them, and
determine for yourselves which casinos and which games are best suited
to you.
Slots Basics.:
Determine your budget first, select a game that you feel comfortable
with, there are many many online slot games and each comes with it's own
theme and design so your choices are nearly unlimited. Some pick a
particular game because they like the name of the game, some choose a
new game thinking that the game is looser, the choice is entirely yours.
Always consider the payout and the coin amount in your decision.
Look at the payout table located on the top of the machine at about
eye level. Study the symbols and what each will pay you should you win
that combination. You have a choice of betting one, two or three coins
on most machines. Some have a two coin max. Whatever the coin max, bet
the max. You don't want to be sitting there stunned when you hit that
top winning combination only to realize you didn't get the jackpot
because you were one coin shy of the max bet required.
Next you want to begin your play by inserting your money. Slot
machines will accept coins or bills and payout in coins or a credit slip
that you take to the cashier to get paid. After your first spin glance
back up at the payout table to compare your spin to what is showing
there. You would have seen and heard the bells and whistles had you hit
a winning combination of a large size. But by keeping yourself familiar
with exactly what you are trying to achieve, you can start to play a bit
more relaxed and naturally and spin the reels with more confidence.
Slots Payouts.:
The payouts on slots can be very confusing to the novice. In general, a
good rule of thumb to remember is that the lower the bet such on nickel
slots, the lower the payout.
. Symbols pay from left to right and right to left. (for example: two barrels counted from the left and three bottles counted from the right), you are paid for both combinations. If you have five symbols in a row, you are only paid once. The sheriff badge symbol 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 Colt revolver symbol 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).
You can turn
the paylines on through one of two different methods in the interface.
If you click on the Bet One button, the number of active paylines
will increase by one. If all five paylines are already turned
on, and you click on the Bet One button, then the number of active
paylines will reset to one. The Bet One button will be enabled
regardless of the balance or the credits in the machine. You
can also select paylines by clicking on the payline indicators,
which are located to the left and right of the wheelhouse. If
you click on a payline indicator, then all of the paylines up
to and including the line associated with the indicator are turned
on. All other paylines are turned off. For instance, if you click
on the third payline indicator, then the first, second and third
paylines become active, and the fourth and fifth paylines are
turned off. If you click on the first payline indicator, then
only the first payline is active. If you click on the fifth payline
indicator, then all five paylines become active. You cannot selectively
turn on individual paylines (for instance, you can not activate
the first, third, and fifth paylines, and turn off the second
and fourth paylines).
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