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Late on the morning of Monday, December 22, 2003, less than 24 hours into her annual holiday to Las Vegas from her home in Kaunakakai on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, Amy Nishimura held aloft a cheque for $8.92 million dollars, having hit the jackpot on the ‘Megabucks’ slot machine at the Fremont Hotel.

Nishimura, who celebrated her seventy-second birthday just two days later, had apparently been playing slot machines at the Fremont Hotel since the Eighties, but was especially fond of one International Game Technology (IGT) ‘Red White & Blue’ machine. ‘My machine’, as she called it, was linked to the Megabucks progressive jackpot system, which connects hundreds of slot machines across Nevada, and cost $3 a spin to play for the jackpot payout.

Having eaten breakfast, but not yet been to bed, Nishimura had reportedly been playing the machine for about three hours when her investment of $140 or so finally paid dividends. She lined up three golden ‘Megabucks’ symbols on the pay line of the standard, three-reel slot machine – in so doing, defying odds of 16.7 million to one – and won $8,919,598 with 37 credits left to spare.

Nishimura admitted to being nonplussed, initially, but after time to reflect on her good fortune – believed to the biggest win on Las Vegas slots by a Hawaii resident since John Tippin won a Megabucks jackpot of $11.9 million nearly eight years previously – came up with some ideas about how to spend her winnings. They included paying off her mortgage, visiting Las Vegas more often and indulging her family.

Of course, the odds of winning on a slot machine depend on the probability of aligning a winning combination of symbols. That probability depends, to some extent, on the total number of reels and the total number of symbols on each reel. However, that is not the whole story; the reels of a slot machine are ‘weighted’, such that low-paying symbols and blanks occur more frequently than high-paying symbols. To make matters worse, each reel is weighted differently, such that high-paying symbols are even less likely to occur on reels two, three and so on than they are on reel one.

The weighting for each ‘stop’ on each reel – which, in turn, determines the probability of each winning combination occurring, and the house advantage, or ‘edge’ – is known to the casino, but not to the player. Consequently, in the absence of a so-called ‘par sheet’, which is generally confidential information, the player knows the winning combinations and the payout for each one, but little, or nothing, about the odds of each combination occurring. The fact that the odds of winning are unquantifiable makes slot machines unique among casino games.

If the weighting of each symbol and reel is known, calculating the probability of each winning combination becomes easy. For example, on a three-reel slot machine with 64 stops on each reel, only one of which is mapped to a jackpot-paying symbol, the probability of winning the jackpot is 1/64 x 1/64 x 1/64 = 0.00004 or, in terms of odds, in excess of 250,000/1.

Note that, while a player may not be aware of the odds of winning on any given slot machine, those odds remain constant for each spin. Slot machines are programmed to pay out a percentage of money staked, but the percentage return-to-player (%RTP) displayed on machines in the UK, and elsewhere, is calculated on the basis of playing the machine forever, not for a period of minutes or hours. Consequently, the belief that, say, a jackpot is more likely to hit because it has not done so for some time is fallacy; each spin of the reels of a slot machine is an independent, random event, completely unaffected by past events.

Introduction

The Blue slot by Endorphina is a classic five-reel, three-row video slot that takes you on a journey through the deep blue sea. With a calming soundtrack and captivating graphics, this game gives you a relaxing experience as you explore the depths of the ocean. You can find plenty of ways to win with the bonus features, wilds and scatters, and the potential for big payouts.

Gameplay and Symbols

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Bonus Features

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Conclusion

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