Video slot
At the initial stage of development of slot machines they represented purely mechanical machines. Though the distribution of rollers with symbols brought any element of chance, nevertheless the skilled and experienced players frequently could predict it, they noted time of activization of a disk and so they could pull the handle of “the one-armed gangster”, thus the probability of an advantageous combination very much increased. Other more simple ways of intervention in slots, prospered also, for example use of false coins. Therefore and taking into account technical progress now slot machines are computerized and represent the special program operated by a microchip, and coins have replaced real money. By means of systems of special bill-acceptors the player inserts a banknote into a slot machine then he gets the points corresponding to the sum of the game deposit onto his game account. For removal of money from a slot machine a special bill-deliver is used, or by means of special button “Collect” the employee of a game hall is asked to come, attendant who gives out a prize or draws out the check for reception of money in cash desk and removes the advantageous sum from the device. Sometimes special cards of players are used for payments – money for the game are taken off and put onto the game account.
Many slot machines of present generation are supplied by so-called bonus games. In them the same system of random numbers operates, as in standard games. Everything that the player can see on the slot-machine screen is just the numbers transformed to interesting pictures, sometimes cheerful and “a prize-giving “.
Time of “one-armed gangsters” has been left in the past. Now slot machines are supplied by buttons for those or other actions of the player and if there is a lever for spin-start it carries out only collateral function - force from which the player will press the lever, does not influence the lucky combination.
All buttons on video-slot have constant meaning though there are also exceptions. As a rule, there is a script in English on each button, showing the action that will take place after pressing.
Spin - the Button of start of game.
Bet - Exhibiting of the rate of the player on which he is going to play.
1 line – One-line game.
3 line – Three-line game.
5 line - Five-line game.
7 line - Seven-line game.
9 line - Nine-line game.
10 line - Ten-line game.
15 line - Fifteen-line game.
20 line - Twenty-line game.
Collect - Fixing of game and the deposit of the player for its subsequent removal.
Bet one - Game under one rate.
Bet х2 - Game under the rate multiplied by two.
Bet х3 - Game under the rate multiplied by three.
Bet х5 - Game under the rate multiplied by five.
Bet х10 - Game under the rate multiplied by ten.
Bet maximum - Exhibiting of the maximum rate on which the slot machine is calculated.
Gamble - Possibility to double the rate, as a rule, having tried to guess color of a card (Red or Black) or its relation to number 7 (it is more or less - Low or High).
Last bet - Possibility to repeat the previous rate.
Also there are special designations on the automatic machine screen:
Credit - the Account of the player in standard units.
Bonus - Now plays a bonus.
Free games - a bonus Version when the certain free quantity спинов is given to the player.
Win - the advantageous combination Has dropped out.
Nothing - no any advantageous combinations have dropped out.
Paid 100 - the General payment has made 100 standard units (figure 100 is given for an example, the size of payments is various).
There are slot machines on which this or that action can be done both by means of buttons, and by means of the screen - putting a hand finger to the button on the screen. The special sensor control distinguishes a choice of the player then the program carries out the action which was chosen by the person.
On the slot machine, as a rule, directly before the player a bit above the monitor there is a menu of payments on symbols and possibility of bonus games. Thus, the player can always learn what he gets on each combination.
Currently more players prefer to choose those game-halls and slot-machines where there is a system of funded Jackpot. The Slot machines linked up to the general memory system, are called progressive ones. From the slot machines which are all combined in a network, certain percent is deducted into prize-winning fund, that makes Jackpot. To win Jackpot, as a rule, the player should catch the highest combination of symbols under the biggest rate.
Interesting addition to game in slots is the musical background. Each model of a slot machine has its own specifying sound, both rollers turning, and payments for combinations, background music, bonus games.
Video slots are one of the most interesting and hazardous kinds of leisure of the today’s person. Millions people on all planet play them, taking pleasure. However, to take pleasure, instead of to be involved, as players speak, it is necessary to understand, that its only a game, but not way to settle the financial problems.