Slots Adventures

since the tournament i’m playing in is on this machine, and i’ve gotten a thousand spins in, i thought i’d post up a little bit about the game. 

the game is a three reel slot.  there are three paylines on it, but you wouldn’t tell from the looks of it.  it has the look of a classic single payline slot.

the odd thing about it, it’s one of those slots that i’ve only found at OddsOn (or are they vegas-something now?) casinos.  there is a winning symbol, instead of a set of winning symbol combinations. 

one symbol is designated as a winner.  land that symbol, anywhere, on any payline, and you win.  it’s that simple. 

in the case of the Atomic Jackpot slot, the symbol is a beaker with what looks like some electons flying around it.  Atomic-themed stuff, makes sense.

what doesn’t make sense right away, is that you can land three of any other symbol, right across the center payline, and it’s worth nothing.  kindof makes you blink the first time or two that happens and no bells go off, or credits rack up.

i looked at the paylines of the slot, and landing the jackpot (which is three winning symbols in a line) doesn’t pay disproportionately more if you’ve bet the max.  so, this is one of those machines where it doesn’t matter if you play max bet or not.

oh, by the way, now you know the entire payout chart.  land less than three winning symbols on any payline, it a basic win.  land three winning symbols in a row on any payline, it’s a really big win.  ta-da, that’s all there is to it.

the coin sizes range from a dime, to $10 per coin.  i’ve been playing quarters.  habit i guess, no real thought went into that.

the game has Autoplay, woo-hoo!  you can set a couple of different things, like the time to take between spins (.25 for me), when to stop (at every winner, or when you go up or down so much with the bankroll, as two examples), and how many spins to take in an “auto-spin session” (between 5 and 500).  i love this feature.  it let me get 1,000 spins in tonight without having to push the spin button 1,000 times, and that i appreciate!

you can stop the machine when it’s in autospin mode, in case you have, or want to. 

all in all, i think these one-symbols (which is how i describe them to my wife) aren’t the most interesting of machines, but since i’m in a tournament, i’m having some extra fun.