Glossary

We give you a mini-dictionary-a list of terms and their meanings which follow here so that you can get familiar:

• Bonus feature

  This means that the slot machine that you are playing has the 'bonus feature', meaning that upon activation, you will be awarded free spin rounds and bonuses so that you win more money.

• Coins size

  The value of the bet is called the coin size-and usually you can bet coin sizes from one cent to up to five dollars, and even more.

• Hit frequency

  The frequency at which you 'hit' a win or get spins which make you win is called the hit frequency. Of course, as the name suggests, a higher hit frequency means that the slot machine pays more often, but note this does not mean that the slot machine necessarily pays more!

• Free spins

  When you achieve a certain winning combination, or a certain set of winning combinations, like 3 scatter symbols, you get free spins!

• Hopper

  Hopper is that storage place for the coins which are used for betting. You will rarely find that a hopper is empty; since they are mostly full to the brim with coins. When the coins overflow, they fall down into a bucket which is located below-and this part of the huge mass of coins then becomes the casino's profit. So hopper is a term generally used in the context of land based casinos.

• Fill

  We just told you about the hopper; when the hopper becomes empty, the casino calls for the 'fill', meaning that the coins are refilled into the hopper.

• Hold

  The hold is the part of the coins which is held by the casino. Simply, this is about 3 percent to up to 15 per cent.

• Hold and re-spin

  When you do a 'hold and re-spin', then you hold the reel, and spin the reels again with the hope that you will get a better combination.

• Loose and tight machines

  The term 'loose' indicates that the slot machine is paying out quite often, and more than the average machine should. Tight machines, of course, pay less often and low.

• Pay line

  When you look at a machine, you will see a line in the middle, the combinations of the symbols gets aligned here.

• Multiline

  This term refers to the machines in which there are two or more pay lines.

• Rng-random number generator

  Many players already know about this. The RNG is how the modern slot machines work-the RNG generates numbers at random and with equal chances, the combination symbols actually get aligned corresponding to these numbers.

• Scatter

  The scatter symbols always make you win, irrelevant of what their order is!