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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".
Funky Chicken is a slotmachine with 5 reels and
9 paylines. 5 Farmer symbols will
pay the jackpot of 5,000 coins. There are several other big
prizes to be won in this game. 5 Farmer Wife symbols will pay 2,500 coins.
Five houses or chickens will pay a 1,000 coins. The AutoSpin feature available
in the slot version.
the farmer tries to hit chickens with a slingshot to make them leave
his field. This is done
automatically by the system. Each chicken "hit" (up to 11) awards a prize from 2 to 50 times the
total triggering bet. If a chicken reveals "Bonus Round" when hit, an extra chicken is
added to the number of chickens revealed, a bonus round is awarded and
you are taken to the bonus round. The chicken that reveals the Bonus Round also awards a prize.
The game ends when none of the chickens hit reveal a
Bonus Round.
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I had a white rat named Elmo who didn't get fed until he learned to press
a bar in his cage. Whenever he pressed it, a pellet fell into his dish.
Elmo quickly learned to press the bar when he got hungry.
Then one day we (the professor and the rest of us budding psychologists)
changed the rules. Sometimes we gave Elmo dinner when he pressed the bar
- and sometimes we didn't. poor Elmo no longer knew when to expect his food.
So you know what he did? He pounded that bar relentlessly until the food
finally came. Sound familiar?
The biggest lesson we learned from Elmo was that if you want to make
behavior stick, don't reward it all the time - reward it now and then.
This strategy is called random reinforcement, and it's the same principle
at work on us when we play slot machines.
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The
Big Heist is a 3-reel 1-line classic slot machine. The pay table
is displayed on the machine. Bonkers! slots may be played in
denominations of $.05, $.25, $.50, $1, and $5. Once you receive
one safe dial, you receive one click that is placed in the safe
counter. You can win a secret safe bonus by cracking the safe.
In order to crack the safe, you must receive three safe dials
on one spin or accumulate a total of 50 clicks in the safe counter.
If you receive three safe dials on a spin, you will win ten times
the amount of the secret safe bonus. Playing with max coin bets
will lead to larger secret safe bonuses than playing with one
or two coins per spin. The Big Heist slots may also be configured
as a local progressive game, where a 3-coin bet (max bet) hitting
three “Police Badges” on the payline wins you the progressive
jackpot total, the current jackpot is located just above the
reels.
A single Double Wammy symbol on the payline and
a single Cherry symbol on the payline completes a
two Cherry symbols combination. A two Cherry symbols
combination pays out 15 coins, with three coins bet.
Since a Double Wammy symbol is showing, the payout
is 2 x 15 = 30 coins.
Two Double Wammy symbols and a 3-Bar symbol on the
payline complete a three 3-Bar symbols combination.
A three 3-Bar symbols combination normally pays out
120 coins, with three coins bet. Since two Double
Wammy symbols are showing, the payout is 4 x 120 =
480 coins.
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