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slots pay from left to right and right to left. The symbols have to lie consecutively, starting from the leftmost or rightmost reel, to qualify as hits. If you have five symbols in a row, you are only paid once. The gopher, duck and catfish symbols are scatter symbols – when you get 3 or more of these symbols (of the same kind) on the screen during one round, lying consecutively, you enter the bonus round. The symbols don't have to follow any pay line, meaning they can be on any position on the reel. In the bonus game, choose a driver, an iron and then a putter. You will win a prize based on these three clubs you choose. If you entered the bonus game with four scatter symbols and not just three, your prize is tripled. If you entered with five scatter symbols, your prize is multiplied by ten.
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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