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Slot Machines - 3 - Wild Symbols  Rate It [ 0.00 / 0 Votes ]
Some machines designate a particular symbol as “wild”. The wild symbol can be used as any symbol on the machines to create a winning combination.
For example, BAR BAR WILD might payout for three bars, and LEMON WILD LEMON and 77 WILD might give you winning combinations as well, to be paid according to the payout schedule on the front of the machine.
Some machines use symbols to multiply a payout line. For example, the diamond on IGT's Double Diamond machine, when lined up to form a winning combination, will double the payout. Two diamonds are even better. They will double each other for four times the payout.
You'll sometimes see a winning combination noted as ANY BAR. What this means is that anyone of the single, double or triple bar symbols on the reels can work as a paying symbol for the combination listed. Thus, you might have CHERRY CHERRY ANY BAR as the three symbols needed for a winner.
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Slot Machines - 1 - Reels and Payline Rate It [ 0.00 / 0 Votes ]
1. Reels
The symbols on a slots machine are printed on spinning mechanisms called reels. Typical slot machines contain three reels, though there are also four reel machines and novelty- type slots with as many as eight or ten reels, monster machines often referred to as Big Berthas.
Reels contain 20-24 steps or stops. Each step is a place where the reel can end up when it is spun. This step may contain a symbol, such as a cherry or lemon, or a blank, a step with no symbol, just a blank.
2. Payline
The glass window in front of a slot machine's reels is marked by one or more horizontal or diagonal lines, called pay-lines. Essentially, this is the visual display that shows if you have scored a winning spin or not. Winning combinations must line up directly behind a pay-line to be considered a winner.
When there are three pay-lines on a machine, they will generally be lined up as three horizontals, one in the middle, and one each above and below that middle line.
Usually, it takes one coin for each pay-line to be activated. Thus, on a three pay-line machine, you'll need to play all three coins to activate all three pay-lines, one coin for each line. If you only put in one coin on a three pay-line machine, it will probably count only for the middle pay-line. If you hit a winning combination on the bottom line for example, with only one coin played, it won't be a winner, since a coin for that line wasn't inserted. You would have had to insert three coins.
Slot Machines with five paylines generally add two diagonal paylines so you have five directions that can win. Again, you will typically need the full five coins for all these pay-lines to be active.
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