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Slingo Brings The Best of Both Worlds

There’s a hot new game in town for those folks who love both the convenience of slot machines and the excitement of Bingo! The hybrid of these two games is known, unsurprisingly, as Slingo. Slingo is a product that was unveiled last fall by AC Coin & Slot, and is an adaptation of a popular Internet title and several different types of scratch-off tickets with this theme. Because it is still a new slot game title, Slingo is still in limited distribution. One casino carrying Slingo, the Isle Casino and Racing establishment in Pompano Beach, Florida, reports that Slingo is “the most popular game on the floor,” and that people are occasionally lined up to hightail it to these terminals when the casino opens!

Slingo has a minimum bid of two cents, following the trend in land casino gaming towards players preferring games with lower-denomination bids, as well as those titles that they can spend longer amounts of time playing. In these troubled times, players want to get the most bang for their buck, and aren’t contented with the small amount of time spinning the reels that they get for their wager. This so-called “casual gamer” is the exact demographic for Slingo.

Basically, each wager gets the player five “numbers,” that they then have scratched off their virtual Bingo card. The numbers come on the slot machine reels. Slingo is a sixty-payline slot machine with a bonus game. If players are able to fill their card, they have won the jackpot. As casinos rush to install one and two-cent machines on their casino floors, we bet that Slingo terminals will be in hot demand!

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