Slots machines (also called slots or gangsters penguins): history, alternatives…


The slots machines are of very loins the most popular games of the casinos. They are so popular that they garaged in the inner room of the casinos of province the traditional games like the roulette or the craps. Their success comes certainly from their simplicity (it is enough to insert a token, to actuate a lever and to recover the gained tokens), autonomy left to the player (there does not need croupier, and the player games at his rate/rhythm), of the important profits and jackpots often concerned on the best combination. The small moment of suspense when the rollers turn is there surely also for something…

Little story of the slots machines

The very first slots machines appear at the end of the 19th century. The distributer of currency of Arthur and Adolphe Caille, Liberty Bell succeeds developed by August Fey. The latter takes as a starting point the very widespread automatic roulettes at the time. Fey tried to only exploit its machine which was very quickly sharp a success. It places specimens in bars of San Francisco. Soon one of its machines stolen and will curiously be found in the workshop of one of its competitors of Chicago: Millets. This one will develop its own machines and Caille and Watling will encase the step to him.

Mechanics slots machines

The slots machines mechanics are drectement similar to Liberty Belle of Fey. A compartment makes it possible to slip the parts, or the tokens. A handle actuates concentric rollers, usually three. On the outside of the rollers, symbols are printed. A dial one by one posts the result made up of the three selected symbols when the rotation of the rollers stops. According to the combination read on the dial, the profits are restored in a lower compartment. A gaining combination often consists of three identical symbols.

Electronic slots machines

The slots machines electronic have to replace their mechanical counterparts little by little, while preserving the same principles. The slit to slip the tokens is always present, just as the handle and the compartment to recover the profits. The rollers and the dial are replaced by a screen posting a combination, by simulating the rotation from 3 to 5 even 6 rollers. The electronic machines also make it possible to play on several lines simultaneously. Indeed the only line of symbols in the center of the screen is not any more the only taking into account. All the visible horizontal lines are generally used as well as diagonaleset much more still.
The slots machines electronic frequently have other characteristics:

  • Free or double: it is an option which allows of double the profits obtained on the last blow.
  • Multiplier: a symbol makes it possible to multiply the profits obtained in addition.
  • Joker: a symbol makes it possible to replace any other symbol. On certain machines the joker replaces only one symbol.
  • Scatter: it can have a mixed role between joker and multiplier, according to the slot machine. It often offers free turns of machine.

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