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- Refers to the total amount
of money bet in a specific period of time. Five bets of five dollars each
is $25 of action.
- This refers to any new bag of
coins used to refresh an empty hopper (when the machine runs out of coins
- because you were lucky).
- One or more cards from a full
deck that are discarded after the deck has been shuffled by the dealer
and cut by one of the players. Burn cards are never revealed to the players.
- The place inside the slot machine
where the coins that you deposit are held. When the hopper overflows,
the excess change flows over into a bucket. The "excess" is
the profit the casino takes home. Hoppers are generally emptied in the
morning before the crowds arrive.
- It is commonly believed that
slots work on pay cycles. In other words, after TAKING a set value of
coins, the machine must PAY out in order to meet the established percentage
payout.
- Usually the line in the middle
of the slot window but also it can be three lines or even five lines.
Only winning symbols on a pay line will drop coins in the tray.
- This refers to the material that
holds the values which spin after the lever has been pulled. You might
find two, three and four reelers, but three is the most common. The more
reels, the harder it is to hit jackpot.
- The image that spins on the
reel. Symbols can be anything, depending on the slot-maker's creativity.
- The opposite of the Pay
cycle. According to Pay/Take, a pay cycle is followed by a take cycle,
in which you might win a smidgen, but the machine will win a lot.
- Slots often tilt for a couple
of reasons: either they have run out of coins, or because a coin is stopping
up the machine. When a machine tilts, it stops paying and the tilt light
comes on. If coins are owed to the player, the slot's memory will account
for them and pay the player after the problem has been fixed.
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