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Our annual sneak peek at the games coming your way in the new year By Frank Legato To the average slot player, a trip to a casino normally brings some new adventure in play—it seems there is always a new game to try, offering a new theme, a radical new presentation or some fun new […]
Do you know whether your slot has low or high payback? By Frank Legato On July 15, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas released the results of a study performed in Australia to ascertain whether players can notice different payback percentages on identical slot games. Two pairs of identical slot machines were placed at […]
SLOTS TO THE MAX By John Grochowski For decades, players have been told they should always bet the max to get the best possible payback percentage. That’s still the case for most of the three-reel stepper slots, as well as on a small percentage of video slots. But simply getting the highest payback percentage […]
Airports, dinosaurs, a crook gets caught, and much more By Sean Chaffin There has been plenty of news in the casino and slot machine world lately. This month Spinning Reels takes a look at the situation in Massachusetts, including a slot-related crime, as well as some other news in the industry. From slots at […]
How can slots be random if… By John Grochowski It’s hardly news to informed slot players that the games are designed to yield random results and that there’s nothing you can do to make winners come up more often nor identify when the big hits might be coming. The games don’t have pre-programmed patterns […]
Go for the big score or the steady wins By Frank Scoblete I love baseball. I am a New York Yankees fan (do not boo me!) ever since I met Joe DiMaggio in 1953 shortly after he retired. It was my first time at Yankee Stadium. I was six years old and I was […]
Slot competitions offer plenty of fun and a shot at some BIG paydays By Sean Chaffin 3 … 2 … 1. Go! The casino buzzes with excitement as gamblers begin tap, tap, tapping those buttons on their machines. The sounds, bells, whistles, and pulsing lights fill the room as rows of players keep […]
AGS continues to create exciting games we all love to play By John Grochowski What drives a slot manufacturer to make the games in its own style? At American Gaming Systems, it’s partly that game designers produce games they love to play themselves. “Nearly all of AGS’ game designers are avid gamblers, which makes […]
When you can’t just bet the minimum By John Grochowski My wife Marcy and I play a mix of penny slots when we go to the casino together – progressives, non-progressives, games with pick-a-prize bonuses, games with free spins, games with and without pop culture tie-ins. It was at a progressive recently that another […]
Everything from zombies to worthless cash By Frank Scoblete Manufacturers of slot machines can sometimes go off the deep end. They can be all wet in their approach to what kinds of machines players actually want to play. Some of you might not know this, but a slot machine that I have seen in […]