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CASINO PLAYERS EZINE #111

Hello Fellow Slot Players:

The feature article in this issue reviews 10 Slot versions that have the potential of a better than 95% payout as per the manufacturer. Use it as a guide for your next casino visit.

With this information, perhaps you will join the 3 millionaires as described in this month's Winning Jackpot Stories.

Additionally, there is a new Question of the Month asking about other favorite casino games.

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Feature Article: Top 10 Slots and 95%+, Part 1


The slot manufacturers offer casinos a payout range low to high when presenting their creations to casinos.

Casino management decides the payout range they want to offer players and requests the slot maker to program as directed.

Therefore, based on this payout range, these 10 slots have the potential of hitting at the high end of 95% or better.

I have listed and reviewed these top 10 in order of payout range from high to low and included the average hit frequency.

Let’s explore.

1) White Orchid: IGT. 90-98%. 4 spins.

Images of butterflies, tree frogs, fish, bird and topical plants are the theme of this ‘exotic’ slot.

There is lots of winning combinations with this game as I describe below.

While this is a 40 line machine, if you play max coin of 20 credits/line, you will be triggering all the reels giving you 1024 possible win combinations.

There is an option to make a side bet that activates the Bettor Chance feature allowing you to play two ways, the standard 40 lines plus a MultiWay game increasing your win frequency.

And more. During the free spin mode, if the triggering symbols appear again, the free game mode starts again.

Would you not like to watch those butterflies and birds go round and round and round again?

2) DaVinci Diamonds: IGT. 88-98%. 3 spins.

As expected, Mona Lisa appears along with the ‘dazzling’ Da Vinci Diamonds.

Gather 3 or more of these dazzlers and you have set off a free spin bonus round.

This game incorporates two features, Tumbling Reels and Cashfall Feature.

With a winning combination on the grid, the triggering reel symbols vanish and new symbols drop down from the top of the screen until all the empty space is filled.

If another paying combination occurs, you again see the tumbling reels continuing until no combos remain.

The Cashfall feature is triggered during the free spin round resulting in bonus credits.

3) The House of the Dead: IGT. 85-98%. 4 spins.

Even though this slot is a basic 3 reeler, the combinations of matching and wild symbols translates into multiplying rewards.

The basic combination is to match the spooky characters on all 3 reels from left to right and then build from there.

Even though the hit frequency at approximately every 4 spins may leave you waiting for a reward this game can increase your credits while awaiting the top jackpot of 250,000 coins.

Doesn’t make it so ‘scary’, right?

4) Good Fortune: Aristocrat. 87-97%. 2-3 spins.

We look to the Chinese for their colorful lucky symbols at this 50 line game.

With this penny version, you are triggering 2 lines for each coin and the coin symbol is wild. Additionally, when the red packet symbols appear scattered on the first three paylines, the free spin round is activated. At that time, five symbols—a phoenix, lion, fish, turtle and butterfly—change to gold. Thus, one wild symbol in the first free spin increases to five by the last spin.

During the free round, as usual with slots today, can be respun with the right combination.

May Good Fortune come your way during this slot adventure.

5) Half Cents: Bally. 86-96%. 2 spins.

This game is appropriately named in that each penny pays for 2 payline, thus a half penny slot.

At only 1 quarter to activate all paylines, it’s a small risk to increase your bet/line.

There are multiplying wild symbols that together can produce a nice reward.

For example, if you line up a combination that includes a 2X and 5X wild symbol; the reward is multiplied by 10.

There is also a Free Game feature that gives you 10 free spins at double credits and can be re-triggered up to a max of 60 free spins.

Your good sense should tell you that ‘half cents’ is the way to go.

6) Bamboo Forest: Atronic. 86-96%. 2-3 spins.

Enter the magical forest where you will meet Yin Yang, Stone Paw and Lucky Cat scatter pays. The orchid symbol is wild and 3, 4, or 5 Lucky Cat symbols start the Lucky Cat Bonus.

If you selected the option Two Ways that pays right to left along with left to right, you can select free games or Spin as long as you Win.

With the free spin selection, all jackpots are doubled during the round while SALAUWIN selection will spin away as long as one winning combo is displayed.

Also, a losing combo can transform to a winner with the appearance of the joker.

Line up 3 or more Ying Yang symbols, select one and add to your credits.

Line up 3 Stone Paw symbols for the Marble Paw Bonus where your choices are Take Offer, Offers Left and Try Again.

With a multitude of choices and winning combos, this game is truly magical.

7) Miami Vice: True Identity: Atronic. 86-96%. 3 spins.

Those ‘wild’ Detectives, Crockett and Tubbs of the TV show Miami Vice will multiply your winning combinations.

You will also want to build the scattered letter symbols to spell MIAMI. Two letters will pay and 3 or 4 letters will begin the True Identity Bonus round, but the top progressive jackpot is yours with all five letters.

True Identity gives you a choice of a group of dishonest characters in a police line-up and your mission is to find the undercover police officer.

Choose the right one and at the second level, five suitcases await your selection and a bonus.

Take my adVICE and head for this slot.

Slots Review

The 3 versions below meet the criteria for this article with 95% at the high end, therefore should be explored. Slot descriptions/reviews are listed by Slot Name, Manufacturer, payout range offered, (low to high) and average hit frequency if available.

 

8) Wild Panda: Aristocrat. 88-95%. 2 spins.

You have 100 paylines and a free spin feature to keep you very busy at this slot.

When the symbols spell out PANDA across the five reels, you receive 5 free spins and those PANDA symbols are now Wild Panda symbols.

3, 4 or 5 Wild Pandas during free spin mode awards 1,000, 2000 or 4000 credits respectively multiplied by the line bet.

If you love these cuddly creatures, you are bound to see a lot of them during this fast-paced game

 

9) Gold Maker: Aristocrat. 88-95%. 2 spins.

First, you have the scale to weigh all the gold collected.

Line up 3, 4 or 5 of these scatter pay scales and your reward is 12, 15, or 20 free games where all wins are doubled.

Add the unique Gold Maker character as a wild symbol. When this ‘golden’ character appears on the free spin reel, all remaining reels spin again for bonus credits.

Lastly, if three or more scale symbols land during a free spin round, the spinning begins again upon the completion of the first bonus round.

The Gold Maker may look like a mad scientist, but he’s welcome at my slot. And don’t forget tobring the gold.

 

10) Double Dragon Deluxe: Bally. 88-95%. 2 spins.

This game doubles the features with a free spin mode and second screen bonus.

When the fire Dragon, Yin Yang and Water Dragon symbols appear on reels 2, 3 and 4 within one position of the center payline, the Double Dragon Bonus Game is activated.

You then select a Fire Dragon or Water Dragon and are rewarded with three free spins.

When your dragon is displayed on or within one position of the payline, the credits increase.

A Yin Yang symbol on a free spin awards the total bet to each side, but if your selection has more corresponding spins, you win 40 X your bet. If both dragons are equal, the reward is 10X the total bet.

Fire and Water don’t usually mix, but this game is both hot and cool!

 

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Jackpot Bulletin: Winning Stories

 

Two spins will do it!

Gloria Mae Waaland, 81 from Fallbrook, CA knows her Wheel machines.

“Since I live to play Wheel of Fortune, I knew right away that I won the progressive”, she stated while playing at the Aquarius casino in Laughlin, NV. The MegaJackpot hit for $1,522,266.

When the seat next to her was available, she bet $20 to spin away. On the second pull, the jackpot was hers and now grandma will have a new home.

 

Before I Fly Away

Jennifer Rappoport, a 34 year old lawyer from Pasadena, CA was in Vegas for a friend’s shower.

“I hadn’t had much luck and had been a loser all weekend, so right before I left for the airport, I took a chance,” The ‘chance’ was a Wheel of Fortune quarter machine at the Paris Casino that hit for a huge payday of $1,088,868.

After a cash outlay of only $60, Rappoport stated later, “I was attracted to the Wheel of Fortune game because of the payouts,” “I went totally blank and didn’t realize what had really happened.”

The new millionaire will invest wisely and continue to work.

 

A Winning Detour

Robert Serafine, a salesman from New Britain, CT was on his way to play his favorite game video poker when he noticed a vacant seat at a Star Wars slot. After betting $30, the MegaJackpot hit for $1,562,333 at the Mohegan Sun Casino. The shocked winner said, “I was on my way to my usual spot and this machine was the only one with an open seat. It just locked up with bells or whistles going off. I didn’t know what happened.”

As to future plans, Serafine stated, “I’ll buy a house.”

 

In the Next Issue

Issue #112 to be released later this month will include Readers Q&A plus STOP (Slot Totals Offend Players) awards in the Editor’s Rant section.

Monthly Slots Payout Report and Casino Players Ezine Question are also published.

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Until next we meet in the Slots Playground... Gayle.

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