Slots

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The basic rules of online slots are fairly straight forward and easy to learn, although each individual game will carry its own additional set of rules pertaining to betting limits and payout lines and levels. Remember that different slots games will carry larger or smaller payout limits and jackpots.

What you can be sure of is that certain groups of online casinos use the same software producer and as such their games and the rules of those games will all be the same. So if, for example the casino you are playing at is powered by PlayTech, then all other casinos that are powered by Playtech will have the same games.

Different slots games have different configurations and some are more complex than others. The most simple of these are the three reel one arm bandit games. These online slot games are created to emulate the classic one arm bandits of the past, although of course they no longer have mechanical reels and coin slots.

More complicated games have additional win lines added to the original single win line across the centre of the reels. They also have more than one pseudo coin slot, enabling you to play each game with multiples of the standard bet for attracting higher payouts on winning lines.

Even more complicated games have five or more reels with multiple win lines that follow a variety of paths across the reels making it possible to create several winning lines in a single game. These mega-reel monsters can appear extremely complicated on first seeing them, but at their heart is the same principle as the more simple one arm bandits.

A different class of online slots is the video slot game. These are found in real world casinos and are the next generation of slots. They also have multiple reels, coin slots and win lines and are much more sophisticated than the mechanical reel slots. Some of these video slots games are often also interlinked between other games in the same casino to create a kind of progressive jackpot array of machines.

In online casinos, you’ll find many of the popular video slots games, although it surprises some people to discover that online, there is really no distinction between reel slots and video slots, because as they are all driven by software anyway, all online slots are essentially video slots!

Progressive jackpot slots games exist online and are probably the most successful variety of big payout games because they can be linked between many online casinos, usually those that are owned or run by the same software provider, such as PlayTech, Microgaming or Real Time Gaming etc. These games are capable of producing multi-million dollar jackpots. These progressive jackpot games are the pinnacle of online slots games and represent the ultimate in life changing payouts that any game other than a national lottery can produce.