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Viking's Voyage is a 5 reel and 20 payline video slot with an Nordic theme. A rather wild looking Viking is the substitute symbol and his Longboat is the scatter symbol in this adventurous slot. Two or more Longboats get you 10 free games and you can win re spins during the free games. A 10 free game feature is triggered when 3 or more scattered longboats appear left to right. All prizes except scatters are doubled during the free games. During the free games the triggering reels are held while any remaining reels re-spin from 1 to 10 times. Whenever 2 or more scatters appear left to right on a free spin a free game re-spin feature is awarded. 4 to 5 scatters occurring during a re-spin awards 3 to 5 additional free games. 5 scatters triggering a re-spin holds all reels and awards 5 scatters from 1 to 10 times.
Captains Treasure slot is a 5-Reel Multi line, Multi bet video slot machine with wilds and scatters. Symbols pay from left to right and right to left. The Captain symbol is a wild symbol – meaning it can substitute for any other symbol (including the scatter 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, the win will be multiplied by 2 regardless of the number of wild symbols contained in the winning combination).The Captain symbol appears on reels 2, 3 and 4 only. The Treasure Chest symbol is a scatter symbol – when 2 to 5 of these symbols appear on the screen, you are paid according to the number shown on the pay table (a scatter win is calculated by multiplying the number on the respective row of the scatter pay table with your TOTAL bet amount, not just the line bet). The symbols must be consecutive, starting from the leftmost or rightmost reel, to qualify as hits. 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).
Fortune Cookie. is a three reel, one
payline, and two coin slot machine.
It has a wild, multiplier symbol and the maximum payout
is 1,600 coins.
The Fortune Cookie. symbol is wild and substitutes
for any other symbol to complete winning combinations.
A single Fortune Cookie symbol doubles the payout of any
combination it completes.
Two Fortune Cookie. symbols quadruple the payout of
any combination they complete.
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".
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