Beware of online video slot betting techniques to win
October 29th, 2009
This article is going to those players that are looking for strategies or techniques to win at Video Slots.
There is a very common technique that has spread throughout the internet that claims it will help you win at video slots. As you may know, the characteristic feature of the video slot is that it provides a player a chance to play a “bonus round” which is a sort of mini-game in which the player has to perform well to earn some coins. The bonus rounds typically pay so well the either the player recovers his or her recent losses or gains enough to actually start a profit.
What is sometimes suggested on webpages is that the player has to apply bet techniques to try to get into one of these bonus rounds with a higher than normal denomination. So, for example, if the player has a starting balance of $100, the player should spin the reels at a very modest amount, say, $0.25 per spin for a long time. Unless the player is lucky and hits a bonus round right away, the player should slowly start raising the bets per spin. The idea is that as the player starts raising slowly the bets, when the bonus round does hit, it will reward the player with coins at the higher denomination. Winning 1000 coins on a dime machines is not as much as wining the same amount of coins on a quarter machine.
The problem with this slot strategy is that the bonus rounds don’t always give a default amount. Sometimes it can be very low, so that the technique made the player spin at higher denominations, lose faster and not get his or her money back on the bonus round. Another reason why this strategy is flawed is because the bonus round may not appear at all or it may appear consecutively. Since the games are run by Random Number Generators, predictable systems like these are always going to end up in a disappointment.
We strongly suggest players to not fall for online slot techniques. There are not proven techniques that can lead to a guarantee win.
Wild Symbols in Video Slots Machines
October 23rd, 2009
Remember when you were growing up and you used to play with a real deck of cards? Oh those were the days! Remember that funny card called “The Joker”? Well very much like with a deck of cards, slot machine games have what they call a “Wild Symbol”. “Wild Symbols” and Joker cards have the same function which is to replace any symbol to make up a winning combination. In the case of slot games, the “Wild Symbol” will replace any other symbol on the reels to create a winning pattern.
When playing free video slots the “Wild Symbol” serves as an element of surprise to the slot machine game adding extra suspense as to what will happen when the next “Wild Symbol” makes an appearance. Often times new graphics and sounds pop up with every new combination of the wild.
“Wild Symbols” also have a feature called “Expanding Wild Symbols”. This means that the “Wild Symbol” will fill an entire reel of the slot and cover the reel as one big single symbol. Also, in many online video slots games, the wild symbol works as a multiplier. This means that if a wild symbol is used to complete a winning combination, the payout for that combination is doubled, tripled, or even quintupled and when this is combined with the Free Spins feature your winnings could skyrocket in no time. For example, in the Rival Powered game “Spy Game” if a player gets an expanding wild during the Free Spins, any win could be multiplied by up to 12 times. Needless to say, multipliers with wild symbol is a feature that is extremely popular with slot machine games.
Next time you’re scouting around for the best new game or simply a new slot experience make sure that the wild symbols are present. With wild symbols you have a guaranteed higher winning chance and you’ll be likely to hit that fun bonus round in no time.
Video Slots that will frighten you this Halloween!
October 15th, 2009
As Halloween comes nearer we are looking for those video slots that will commemorate best this season of the year. We believe we’ve found two perfect candidates for this job. The two video slots featured today are closely related, in fact one is a sequel to the first. This Halloween we invite our readers to play: Scary Rich and Scary Rich Part Two.
Scary Rich is the original of the two. It has the whole array of characters children love to dress up as. The reels are fraught with horror movie fictional characters as Frankenstein, Werewolf, mummies, zombies, the headless rider and many more. The effects of this slot are quite something else. It has an eerie but charming sound when the reels are turning. The special features of this game are the Free Spins that Frankenstein triggers and the count Dracula icon. This latter on is a wild icon and will become an expanding wild during the free spins. This an optimal candidate for players looking for a Halloween video slot, especially with Bach’s Fugue in D minor setting the mood every few spins.
The sequel to Scary Rich is much more frightening. The characters lose their innocent caricature aspect and become much livelier. New freaky characters emerge and the core darkness of Halloween is truly experienced. Player will truly enjoy this one because besides having somewhat grotesque animations the game pays out very well. Again this video slot features Free Spins, 13 this time, with a wild icon. During the free spins players can easily multiply their bet by over 1,000 times.
The Scary Rich duo is certainly the two video slots player must look for this upcoming 2009 Halloween. Besides all the scares, you’re likely to scream out of joy when you hit a good jackpot here.