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General Slot Glossary

Basic slot machines
slot machines with simple general payout scheme.

Big Bertha
Big machine with a big lever arm and 8-10 drums.

Bonus Option
Bonus rounds and bonus spins on some machines.

coins Size
The nomination of the value of the coins accepted by the machine.

Double machines
Machines that payout double wins when special symbols come up.

Down slot machine games
A slot machine that has a small average payoff.

Full Pay slots
Slot Machines that pay out more for a maximum coin play.

Jacks
Biggest prize in a machine.

Liberty Bell
The premiere slot machines invented by Charles Fey.

Loose slot machine games
Higher payout slots games.

Max Bet
Maximum number of coins permitted for one turn.

Multi-Line
slots games that have two paylines or more.

Onesies
gamers who bet one coin per turn.

Pay Line
The line on the barrels where the particular symbols are to appear to guarantee a payout. Some machines provide a number of paylines.

Pay Chart
The enumeration of all the offered numbers and their combination and the amount of the prize.

Payback
The rate of the coins put into the machine which it has to pay out.

Payout Percentage
The rate that should be paid back to the gambler from a machine during a year.

Primary Jack
Big jackpot for the slot machine which is very rarely won.

Progressive
slot machines with the largest jackpots. These jackpots raise each time the chips are put into.

barrels
Spinning barrels which contain images on them.

Session
A particular time to play on a single machine.

Short Win
Big amount of money won in a few spins.

Sizzling Slot
slots games with large payouts.

!Slots Schedule
Information displayed on any slot machine which concerns the variant of the machine, chip denomination, winning amount.

slot machine games Drop
Number of coins put into the machine.

slots games Hold
The percentage of all the money put into the slot machine that the gambling room holds.

Sputtering slot machines
slot machines that have little average payout.

Static
Jack that is the same and can not be altered.

Straight slots
slot machine games which pay off particular amount of coins. This sum is usually displayed on the machine.

symbols
numbers on the reels. These symbols may be signs, fruit, etc.

Tight slot machines
slot machine games with lower payouts.

Up Slot
slot machines with large overall payoff.

Video slot machines
slot machines that have reels are displayed on the screen on the place of the regular ones.

Wild image
A joker in slot machine games that may stand for any number which makes the player hand win.