Star Wars Slots system

[tagryn]

We 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.

Comments

[jilara.livejournal.com]

Aha, you're another one who plays slots as essentially a video game. That's my system, too.

[tagryn]

You mean casinos aren't the new arcade rooms? 8)

I would like an option on slots which maximizes the chance of a bonus game coming up, even if that makes the payout significantly reduced. Come to think of it, I never play straight slots - the old-fashioned ones without any bonus games. Those don't seem any more interesting to me than just buying a lottery scratch card at a gas station (i.e. not very).

[jilara.livejournal.com]

I know, I play the ones with interesting bonus rounds. Once upon a couple decades ago, I played poker machines, as there was some degree of strategy, but that was all they had then. But now, yes, I play the new interactive machines. (I'm still trying to get the "exploding mosquito" round on the Tabasco machine, though I've got a couple other bonus rounds and gone into long periods of extended play.) I think someone got clued in that some of us really prefer video game type machines, where you get some fun activities, not just money (boring...).