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Slots Terms Dictionary

Slots Terms Dictionary starts with Action:
Slots Terms: A - B
Action:
Slots activity that includes all coins or credits played and winnings played or lost.
Ex. If you begin with $200 and win $50 during the session, your action is $250. Slots Action also determines your comp points.
Bank: Group of slot machines, aka known as a carousel of machines. Progressive carousels are linked to play one top jackpot
Basic Slots: Single payline, aka straight or “flat-top” slots, have a constant top jackpot payout that does not change. 
Bet Max: is to bet the max coins for each play/spin. The best payouts occur when maximum bet is wagered. If you want to receive full value for your slots play, this is the best strategy.
Bet One: is to bet one coin for each play/spin. While you play longer, it eliminates the possibility of receiving payouts for the highest jackpots. See Onesies.
Bonus Added Slots: Fe
atures include multi-spins, 5 reels, multi-lines, bonus games, wild symbols, scatter pay, multiplier and nudge-hold. Available at casinos online and land-based.
Bonus Feature: Most slots offer several bonus features. Example: free spins, multipliers, scatter pays, wild symbols and/or second-screen bonus event.
Bonus Multiplier Slots: offer larger top jackpots as incentive to play max coins. The top jackpot symbol, (ex. 7’s) will only pay with max coins.
Bonus Multiplier ‘Wild’ Slots: Versions with wild symbols, scatter pays and/or free spins. During play, max coins produce larger winnings.
Bonus Slots Online include:
Multi-spins: games within a game. You can play 2, 4, 6 or more games within added reels with a multi-spin game.
5 Reels: more than extra reels, these slots provide options such as wild, scatter pay and multipliers.
Multi-line: up to 40 paylines thereby offering multiple win combinations. A variety of options include multipliers, wild symbols, scatter pay and progressive jackpots.
Bonus slots: you will find free spins and a second bonus event.
Fruit Machines: offer interactive fun with nudge and hold features.
Bonus Video Slots: Aka ‘branded machines’, ‘entertainment -content’, ‘brand recognition’, ‘participation’ games, and ‘interactive’ slots. Initially available at land-based casinos.
Bonus Slots feature ‘second chance’ bonus round and up to 50 paylines.
Buy A Feature Slots: Additional bonus credits/features are added when multiple coins are bet.
Top jackpot is won only with maximum coin play.
Buy-your-Pay Slots: Each coin played triggers the posted symbol payout. Example, if you play one coin, you only trigger ‘cherry’ pays. Two coins trigger ‘cherries’ and ‘bars’.
Slots Terms: C
Call Attendant: The slot of your dreams has just lined up a hand-pay accompanied by the sound of bells and clapping.
Certified Slots: Casinos promote their ‘certified’ slots with flashing, large, neon lights, guaranteeing 98-100% payback.  Most are at least dollar denominations.
Coin In and Coin Out: Coins In is amount played through machine. Coins Out are paid wins.
These two numbers determine a slots overall payout percentage.
Coins: Slot coins offer several denomination options, usually from pennies to $5. Betting maximum coins will activate all symbols and/or lines on a multi-line bonus slot.
Collect: Amount of credits/cash won after a session of slot play. Bonus slots conclude the bonus round with a Collect button.

Comps: Freebies awarded to new or returning players in the form of cash, and other special amenities.
Credit(s): paid after winning spins or with an initial betting amount as displayed on the credit meter. To convert credits to cash dollar value, use the following formula:
100 pennies=$1.--Divide by 100 for $ value.
20 nickels=$1.--Divide by 20 for $ value.
10 dimes=$1.--Divide by 10 for $ value.
4 quarters=$1.--Divide by 4 for $ value.
2 50cents=$1.--Divide by 2 for $ value.
Dollar credits=same cash value. $5 play, multiply credits X5=cash dollar value.
Slots Terms: D
Denomination: Most slots offer several denominations options, usually from pennies to $5.
Double/Triple Symbols: Whenever these symbols appear in the center of a single payline slot   in combination with other symbols creating a winning combination, the payoff amount is doubled or tripled. Two or three of these same symbols increase the jackpot payout.

Slots Terms: F-G
Free Spin(s): Slots bonus feature that offers one or more free spins.
Games/Hour:  500/games/hour is an average for slot players.
Slots Terms:
H-I
Hit and Run Winner: Play a maximum bet at a single payline slot for 4-5 spins. If no credits come your way, move on to another machine.
Hit Frequency: is the average number of spins for slots. The lower the hit frequency, the better.
For example, a 2 indicates some kind of hit every second spin, while a 7 is a hit approx. every 7th spin. It is better to have a payout on average every 2nd spin, rather than every 7th spin.
Hold and Re-Spin Bonus Slots: Player holds the reel results while the other reels spin unassisted resulting in additional credits.
Hold Percentage: Percentage of coins played that casinos keep.  The looser 98% slots hold two dollars while returning 98 dollars to the player. That percentage is over the long term, perhaps months, while short-term play return percentages can rise and fall quickly.  
Instant Winner: Slots win paid immediately rather than installments--re: progressive slots.
Slots Terms: L
Line Bet: Wager for each line activated. Tip: to receive full value at a multi-line bonus slot, you should activate all available paylines.
Linked Jackpot: increased by a percentage of coins bet by two or more machines.
See WAP: Wide Area Progressives.
Loose/Tight Slots:  Loose slots will have better payoffs to a ‘certified’ high of 100%, on average over a period time. A slot will have a symbol; ex. 2 cherries, which pay a couple of coins. These cherries will replace a symbol that doesn’t pay, thus; a loose machine. Reverse this procedure for a tight slot.
Slots Terms: M
Multi-Line Slots: offer multiple paylines up to as many as 50. Most of these versions come in penny denominations; also nickel, quarter and dollar.
Multiplier: Slot feature where winning credits are multiplied 2X-10X for a bonus win.
Multiplier Slots Version: pays for certain symbols on a graduating scale. On a three reel, you get 5 coins for a ‘cherry’ playing 1 coin, 10 pay for 2 coins and 15 pay for 3 coins. The payouts for playing 1 coin are much smaller than if you played maximum coins.
Slots Terms:
N
Near Miss: Non-winning combinations or reel blanks. The reason there are so many near misses is that the blanks or ‘almost’ winning combinations are programmed to come up more often.
Nudge Slots: Slot feature where a paying symbol will ‘drop down’ creating a win. It could be a basketball, diamond, cherry or wild symbol. You just need a little nudge up or down and you are in the money. Nudge slots usually display the word ‘Deluxe’ in the name.
Slots Terms: O
One Armed Bandit: Slang name for slot machines.
Onesies: Slot players who play only one coin.  I advocate bankroll management, but this is wager suicide.  Drop down a denomination and play max. coins.
Slots Terms: P

Payback Percentage: Percentage of each dollar on a certain slot machine that is returned to players over the long term.
Payline: Alignment of reel positions where symbols land resulting in a winning combination.
Payout: Number of credits converted to cash paid out for a winning combination(s).
Paytable-Pays: Slot Pay Schedule that details the value of payouts for each symbol, line, scatter pay and/or other winning combinations offered by that specific game. Tip: Scan the slot paytable

before play to determine payouts for specific winning combinations.
Primary Jackpot: Top prize offered when a player hits a specific combination.

Progressive Slots: offer growing jackpots dependent upon amount of monies played through the linked bank/carousel slots. All progressives are at least three coin max slots. Values are reset to minimums after a win. Maximum coin play is mandatory here.
Progressive Slots Online: can be linked from one casino or linked through several online gaming sites. There are sites online that provide updated jackpot totals for progressive slots.
Progressive slots, grouped by slot name (ex. Megamoola), start at a minimum jackpot amount that increases as those machines are played. The growing jackpot draws from a percentage of total coin-in. When the big strike arrives, the jackpot amount is reset to the minimum and the process starts all over again.
Slots Terms: R
Reel Stop: One position on the reel, either a symbol or blank space that determines the results of the game.
Reels: Number of wheels/reels displayed in window of slot imprinted with symbols specific to that particular slot theme or game.
RNG - Random Number Generator: A computer program of numbers created by the manufacturer related to a reel result that is then duplicated. Higher payouts are assigned fewer numbers, while lower payouts assigned more numbers. The RNG then sequences through a series of numbers determining a result when the player triggers the spin button or slot handle. This program is also designed to determine the slot’s average payout %.
No slot machine will pay back its preset payoff percentage rate every time as the final outcome of every spin is randomly selected.
Slots Terms: S
Scatter Pays: Specific symbols of the slot game that pay even if the symbols are not on the same payline. Tip: Scatter Pays pay only on a line that has been activated with a bet.
Second Screen Bonus: Video slot that displays a second video screen bonus round after a certain combination(s) is hit.

Secondary Jackpots—Progressives: are displayed below the big screen of the primary jackpot, and increase based on the number of coins played.  These secondary jackpots are hit more frequently and will not payout as large a sum of money.
Select Lines: Select the number of paylines you want to bet on by clicking the ‘bet one’ button or the line number left or right of the reels. Example: when you click on line number 5, you also select lines 1-4. Each click on the ‘bet one’ button selects one more line. Click Bet Max or line number 9 to select all paylines.
Your total bet for the game round is line bet x number of lines selected. Clicking bet max will spin the reels automatically.
Short Win: This happens all the time. A large jackpot is hit with a minimal cash outlay--
15 bucks gets you $1000’s.
Signature Slots: Casinos own brand of slots, generally looser creating the desired PR for the casino.
Slot Schedule: Posted information on front of slot tells you what type of slot, denomination, and symbol combination win amounts possible for each coin played. Required reading.
Slot Testing: playing through a pre-determined amount of cash; e.g. $20 without using accumulated credits to determine possible payout % for selected slot.
Slots Tournament: Popular promotional event where players vie for cash prizes at specifically programmed slots.
Slot Types: Basic, Progressive and Bonus Slots are the three major types/categories.
Slots Drop/Hold: Drop: amount of money through the slot. Hold: amount not paid out as wins.
These two numbers determine a slots payout percentage. 
Spin: After making your bet and number of lines to activate with a bonus multi-line slot, you are ready to hit the spin button and await the results.
Symbols: There is an enormous inventory of slot symbols along with the traditional cherries, and 7’s found on slot machines at land-based casinos and online.
Slots Terms: T-U
Total Bet: determined by number of reels and/or lines activated for a slot game.
Up/Down Slot Cycle: Slot’s average payoff percentage rate applies over the long haul.   Therefore, a slot with a 98% payoff percentage rate will sometimes pay off at 130% and other times at 50%...sometimes at 28% and other times at 502%.  The lower percentages indicate a down cycle and the higher numbers--an up cycle.

Slots Terms: V-W-X
Virtual Reel Technology: Computerized selection of reel results utilizing a system called Telnas. System assigns a series of different numbers within a program to a specific combination of reel symbols, thereby increasing the universe of numbers by which a game result is chosen by the random number generator. As you might imagine, the number of combinations within this system is astronomical.  
Wager Management: Monitoring your gambling bankroll. Tips: dividing bankroll into sessions, playing coin denomination within your bankroll and cashing out while ahead.
Wide Area Progressives: Slots linked in more than one casino, area or country. Progressive jackpot amount is displayed as the same $ amount at each machine regardless of location.
Wild Symbol Slot: Designated symbol for the slot that substitutes for a win in combination with other symbols on the payline. Double/Triple wild symbols multiply your win accordingly.
For bonus multi-line slots, five wild symbols usually reward with the top jackpot.
Win!: This is what the game of slots is all about. 
Winner Annuity: Jackpots, usually over $500,000 paid out in installments over 20 years, however, player may receive instant cash with approximately 50% reduction in prize award.
X – Symbol that designates a Multiplier times payout amount for winning combinations.  Example 2X, 5X, 10X, etc.

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