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The Bonus Feature is triggered when three or
more scattered Chihuahuas appear. A second screen will appear
where the player picks one of two cards. If the player selects
a Bone then the prize is multiplied by the original bet and
the game ends. If the player picks a Hot Dog then the prize
pool doubles and the player wins another selection. There are
between one and nine bonus rounds. The player has a chance to
win up to 256 times their original bet.
Surely when Charles Fey built his first slot machine in 1896 he never
could have envisioned where the contraption would travel and how it would
transmogrify. In fact, for a hundred years his innovation hardly changed
at all, except cosmetically. The external design, consisting of an ornate
metal box was wrapped around the mechanism and became fancier or plainer,
larger or smaller, in attempt to attract the eye. But as always, when
a player primed the machine with coins and pulled the handle, the reels
spun randomly and, governed by stoppers eventually came to a halt. Each
reel was decorated with a variety of symbols that, when matched according
to a pay schedule (printed somewhere on the face of the machine), the
player won; when no matching symbols appeared, the player lost.
Though Fey is given credit as the Father of the Slot Machine, prototypes
existed years before he came up with the idea of converting them into
gambling device--which he believed would enhance the profits on his sales
routes. These early "amusement devices" could be found in saloons where
polite society would not be exposed to them and where proprietors stood
on the edge of breaking the law.
These first apparatuses had a major drawback. They were designed in
such a way that after a certain number of coins were inserted the weight
of these coins would tip the scales and some of the stored coins from
previous play would spill out, thus providing a winner. It didn't take
long for street-smart players and wise guys to figure out that the coins
would come out automatically with a little pushing and shoving and slamming
the machine around. So it was back to the drawing board where clever
builders devised first a metal bar to help prevent "tilting," and then
came up with smaller devices that could be bolted to a counter top or
wall.
Meanwhile, in dignified establishments such as grocery stores and mercantiles,
a similar piece of equipment began popping up and being played by even
the snootiest of patrons. Called the trade simulator, this machine operated
much like other contemporary devices except that the winners produced
could be exchanged or traded for goods within the establishment--thus
the name "trade," perhaps a forerunner to the modern cents-off coupon.
Playing slots was (and is) both a tactile and sensory experience involving
the feel of the coins and the touch and pull of the handle. It involved
the sense of vision, the sense of hearing, and the innate sensation of
anticipation.
Winning and losing depended on a simple mechanism that included symbols
(usually fruit of some kind, perhaps bars and/or sevens, and of course
hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades, Fey's original choice) affixed to
the three reels and a shaft. With ten symbols per reel, the machine was
capable of a thousand possible combinations.
Golden Goose Genie's Gems 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.
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