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Slots Terms You Need
to Know: Volume 4
Hopper: The container that holds all the coins
within the bowels of a slot machine. When the hopper is full, all
the coins accumulated within it fall into a larger basket at the
bottom of the slot game device. When the hopper is empty, the
machine will display the “TILT” symbol, signaling an attendant to
come fill it up again. Any winnings or jackpots are dispensed out of
the hopper.
“Big Bertha”: This slot game title is well-known in the annals of
slot machine history for being among the most popular of the
original electromagnetic slot games, which forced old-fashioned
slots into obsolescence.
Handle Slammers: These are scammers who attempted to defraud
old-fashioned slot machines. When slot games were first rolled out,
they all had levers (not push-buttons, like many do today). “Handle
slammers” would be as rough as possible with these arms, trying to
scam the machine by disrupting the action of the lever. Obviously,
this was never legal!
Near Miss: When playing an old-fashioned slot machine with
mechanical reels, a “near miss” happened when the last reel stopped
a half turn away from the last symbol you needed to win a jackpot.
Thanks to the RNGs (random number generators) installed in
latter-day slot devices, all “near misses” are illusions. Because
the RNG turns out a random number corresponding to either a win or
loss, the display of the reels is just for show. This is probably a
good thing – can you imagine how frustrating it must have been to
watch that last reel come up short?!
Continue to part 5 here.
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