Star Wars Slots system
Mar. 22nd, 2006 08:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tagrynWe were in Las Vegas over the weekend, visiting with my Mom, who'd flown out from PA. Pictures will be up in my Flickr account in a few days.
I figured out my first slot system during this trip. It was while playing the Star Wars slot machine game. That's a penny slot, with lots of bells and whistles.
The game has normal slot play - if items come up in played rows, you win - plus three different bonus games: Death Star Bonus, Vader-Kenobi Fight Bonus, and Scatter Bonus. Death Star must have at least 3 icons on a played line, but the latter two are valid regardless of whether the triggering icons are on a played line or not.
The system I came up with is designed to maximize playing time. Basically, what I do is to play only 5 lines, 1 credit, so each spin only costs 5 cents. You're mostly sacrificing the Death Star bonus, which is the most exciting part of the game, in exchange for playing time. The key is that Vader-Kenobi and Scatter pay out regardless of where they happen, so they can keep you going even if the 5 lines aren't paying out big.
I tested this out at the Silverton casino. I put in $10, and got to play $31 worth of credits before leaving with only $5 in losses. Not bad. I was actually turning a profit at a couple of points, but chose to keep playing. Over 45 minutes I got around 620 spins in. My bonus tallies were 2 Death Star bonuses, 7 Vader-Kenobi bonuses, and 8-9 Scatter wins.
An extreme version of this would be to do only 1 line, 1 credit (1c per play), but I think it would probably be too boring for my tastes.
I figured out my first slot system during this trip. It was while playing the Star Wars slot machine game. That's a penny slot, with lots of bells and whistles.
The game has normal slot play - if items come up in played rows, you win - plus three different bonus games: Death Star Bonus, Vader-Kenobi Fight Bonus, and Scatter Bonus. Death Star must have at least 3 icons on a played line, but the latter two are valid regardless of whether the triggering icons are on a played line or not.
The system I came up with is designed to maximize playing time. Basically, what I do is to play only 5 lines, 1 credit, so each spin only costs 5 cents. You're mostly sacrificing the Death Star bonus, which is the most exciting part of the game, in exchange for playing time. The key is that Vader-Kenobi and Scatter pay out regardless of where they happen, so they can keep you going even if the 5 lines aren't paying out big.
I tested this out at the Silverton casino. I put in $10, and got to play $31 worth of credits before leaving with only $5 in losses. Not bad. I was actually turning a profit at a couple of points, but chose to keep playing. Over 45 minutes I got around 620 spins in. My bonus tallies were 2 Death Star bonuses, 7 Vader-Kenobi bonuses, and 8-9 Scatter wins.
An extreme version of this would be to do only 1 line, 1 credit (1c per play), but I think it would probably be too boring for my tastes.
