Home Partners Articles Contact Us Sitemap
Basic Rules and strategies to win at Online Slots Games
Tips to help your winning odds while playing a slot game
• Getting Started • 5 Reel vs 3 Reel Slots
• Online Casino Etiquette • Online vs Land Based Slots
• Slot Machine Myths • Slot Strategy
• Online Slots Basics • History of Slot game
• Responsible Gaming • Slot Glossary
• Online slot odds • Online slots
Best Casinos
• Spin Palace
• Golden Casino
• Vegas Palms
• All Slots
• Intercasino
• English Harbour
• Casino Classic
Slot Glossary

It is important to know the terms and jargons used when playing online slot machines in order to appreciate and understand the game more.

    • Bonus Feature: In bonus slots, the combination starts with a bonus feature that permits the players to add into their payouts. It often involves either free spins or another game.
    • Buy your Pay: As the player plays max coins, rare machine provides more payout selections. Playing with one coin would activate only a single winning combo set and playing with max coins will unlock more.
    • Coin Size: This refers to the bet size in one spin. Say, the player wishes to play the quarter slots the bet is a quarter.
    • Hit: This is a slang term synonymous to a win.
    • Max bet: This refers to the highest bet of coins that permit the players to play in just one spin.
    • Onesies: This is a slang term used for players who are only allowed to play one coin for each game.
    • Progressive Jackpot: This is a large total of money that increases in every spin as the player hits the special combination while on play.
    • Pay line: These are lines or a winning line in the slot machine indicated by a pay table.
    • Payout: This is the amount given by the machine as prize to players who won a game.
    • Payout Percentage: These are the amounts per wager that is deposited into the slot machine, which composed a payout or win. If the slot machine has 98 percent payout percentage this means that 98 cents per dollar is the payout and the 2 cents left is the casino’s profit.
    • Pay Table: This is the chart in the slot machine that presents the amount of cash won for every winning combination.
    • Random Number Generator: The computer program applied by the online casinos to determine a random win. This kind of classy program makes sure that all payouts and wins are honest and fair.
    • Reels: These are the wheels within a slot machine which spin around while on play. The landing of these wheels determines the winning or losing in a game.
    • Static Jackpot: This is a prearranged jackpot which can never be changed regardless of the number of people that play or up to what extent does it pay.
    • Staggered Payout: This is a chart for payout that provides more cash to plays including more coins.
    • Symbols: These are the pictures printed on the reels.
    • Take Cycle: The manner in which the machine will no longer give payouts after it had made one payout.
    • Tilt: Refers to slot machine that malfunctions.
    • Winning Combination: These are the various symbol combinations in the reels which must be hit on the machine to gain payouts.
    • Wild: A symbol, which can replace other symbols.
    • Zombie: A term called for players that sit on the same slot machine playing again and again instinctively without turning on the machines.

Sir Winsalot
Jungle Jim
First Past the Post
Stash of the Titans
 
© 2008 Slot World.org, All rights reserved.