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CashSplash .Video Slot is a five reel,
fifteen payline, and fifteen coin slot machine.
CashSplash. Video Slot has a wild symbol, a scatter
symbol, and a Progressive Jackpot.
The CashSplash .symbol is a wild symbol. This means
that it substitutes for any other
symbol to complete winning combinations, except the Blue-Scatter
symbol and the Progressive Jackpot.
The Blue-Scatter symbol is a scatter symbol. It can be scattered
anywhere on the five reels,
provided three or more Blue-Scatter symbols appear.
You only qualify for the Progressive Jackpot if you bet
the maximum bet of fifteen coins per spin.
This is one coin per payline. If you are playing the Progressive,
and five CashSplash. symbols line
up on the fifteenth enabled payline, you win the Progressive
Jackpot.
Coin Size:Fixed Value $0.2
The .
Progressive Jackpot is a
constantly accumulating prize.
The current value of the Progressive Jackpot is displayed
in the game.
To qualify for the global Progressive Jackpot, you must
bet fifteen coins per spin.
If you are playing the Progressive, and five CashSplash.
symbols line up on the fifteenth
enabled payline, you win the Progressive Jackpot.
All Players worldwide are notified and the Jackpot resets
to a fixed minimum value.
There
are 2 bonus games in this slotmachine. The first game will
start when you collect both halves of the Money Bag. In a
separate screen you choose a one out of 5 safes. The safe will
open and show you the bonus you won. If the safe contains a
key, a giant safe will open and a second bonus game will
start. Another wheel will begin to spin and when it stops you
win the corresponding number of free spins. You can win more
bonus rounds during the free spins. However, you can't win
more free spins during the free spins.
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.
In a modern slot machine,
the odds of hitting a particular symbol or combination of symbols
depends on how the virtual reel is set up. As we saw in the last
section, each stop on the actual reel may correspond to more than one
stop on the virtual reel. Simply put, the odds of hitting a particular
image on the actual reel depend on how many virtual stops correspond to
the actual stop.
In a typical weighted slot machine, the top jackpot stop (the one with
the highest-paying jackpot image) for each reel corresponds to only one
virtual stop. This means that the chance of hitting the jackpot image on
one reel is 1 in 64. If all of the reels are set up the same way, the
chances of hitting the jackpot image on all three reels is 1 in 643, or
262,144. For machines with a bigger jackpot, the virtual reel may have
many more stops. This decreases the odds of winning that jackpot
considerably.
The losing blank stops above
and below the jackpot image may correspond to more virtual stops than
other images. Consequently, a player is most likely to hit the blank
stops right next to the winning stop. This creates the impression that
they "just missed" the jackpot, which encourages them to keep gambling,
even though the proximity of the actual stops is inconsequential.
A machine's program is
carefully designed and tested to achieve a certain payback percentage.
The payback percentage is the percentage of the money that is put in
that is eventually paid out to the player. With a payback percentage of
90, for example, the casino would take about 10 percent of all money put
into the slot machine and give away the other 90 percent. With any
payback percentage under a 100 (and they're all under 100), the casino
wins over time.
In most gambling
jurisdictions, the law requires that payback percentages be above a
certain level (usually somewhere around 75 percent). The payback
percentage in most casino machines is much higher than the minimum --
often in the 90- to 97-percent range. Casinos don't want their machines
to be a lot tighter than their competitors' machines or the players will
take their business elsewhere.
The odds for a particular
slot machine are built into the program on the machine's computer chip.
In most cases, the casino cannot change the odds on a machine without
replacing this chip. Despite popular opinion, there is no way for the
casino to instantly "tighten up" a machine.
Machines don't loosen up on
their own either. That is, they aren't more likely to pay the longer you
play. Since the computer always pulls up new random numbers, you have
exactly the same chance of hitting the jackpot every single time you
pull the handle. The idea that a machine can be "ready to pay" is all in
the player's head, at least in the standard system.
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