Slot Machine Bonuses

People keep asking me if when you get to a bonus round on a video slot and you have a chioce such as thw Wizard of Oz Bonus round, weather you are really chosing one of 3 amounts on the display or is the amount you receive already determined and will show up no matter which character you pick? It seems that if it is really random it would give a ';Lucky'; player who guesses right a chance to win. If someone has a hot streak and guesses at a high % does this affect the next players choices of bonuses. I always see people grimace about picking the wrong choice and wonder if it really is a choice.

Slot Machine Bonuses

Good question. I wonder about that sometimes too.

Slot Machine Bonuses

Two schools of thought. One - yes - it is random. The outcome is not predetermined.

Or - there is this article - which I posted a while back:

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SLOT MACHINE MYTHS REVEALED

By: Sam Lotchine

The sing song clinking is long over and Harvee T. Buckle is in the employee washroom of the MGM Grand, having just finished his graveyard shift in the slot machines located in the high limit room of the casino.

Yes, you read that right, I said ';in the slot machines.';

Mr. Buckle happens to be a very small inchworm with hands, legs, eyes, mouth, and an IQ of 345. He also happens to be one of the MGM%26#39;s highest paid employees.

';I make about $400,000 to $500,000 per month - just depends on how much I%26#39;m able to fix the machines so that people think they have %26#39;control%26#39; over the outcome.'; Mr. Buckle confided to me in a coffee room interview.

What is amazing about this story is not that I had the pleasure of wining and dining Mr. Buckle for a 36 hour period - or that I was witness to his incredible propensity for attracting beautiful women to his table - no - what is amazing is that nobody outside of local Las Vegas seems to be aware he exists.

';I%26#39;m an inchworm - it%26#39;s not like I make a lot of waves or anything. Plus, I%26#39;m green tinted and not a lot of people are in to that.';

Turns out Mr. Buckle was discovered during a science experiment at Red Rocks Middle School several years ago. The story goes that Johnny Beatsomemeet was doing a project involving the cross-breeding of monkeys and inchworms and somehow ended up with Mr. Buckles.

';Um, yah, it was, um, like, I, like, looked in the glass cage thing, and, like, there was this, like, little green dude sorta, like, waving at me and, like, covering his private parts.'; Johnny confided.

Tests soon revealed that little Johnny was not on drugs and that this little inchworm had a big thing for numbers.

';It was amazing, I%26#39;d ask him something like, what%26#39;s two plus three, and he%26#39;d freakin%26#39; answer'; Mr. Hootboss, Johnny%26#39;s teacher proclaimed.

Soon enough, MGM brass got wind of this little number cruncher and found a way to put his size and math ability to good use.

[THE REST OF THE STORY FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY]

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Sorry, that%26#39;s all I could cut and paste in here . . . but search around in google, the story is out there.

There was an incident recently on the Atlantic City TripAdvisor boards where the power went out at a Harrahs casino (not in AC... might have been in PA) while one forum member was in the middle of a bonus round. The casino told her that they couldn%26#39;t pay her for the bonus round because it hadn%26#39;t completed, and therefore they had no way to know how much she%26#39;d have won.

That tells me that it%26#39;s not a predetermined amount, or else it wouldn%26#39;t be worth lying about it and having the situation brought to the CCC.

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