At this point it will still owe the player a 5x multiplier for six seconds.

If the player plays at a faster rate than one bet per ten seconds, causing there to not be enough space in the queue to add 10 seconds of multipliers, then it will cram any excess multipliers into the last second.įor example, if the player has 35 seconds of multipliers in his queue, and he makes a $1 bet, then it will put a 5x multiplier in four of the five of the empty seconds. The game can remember only 40 seconds of multipliers. This multiplier is added to the end of the player's queue. So, a $1 bet would buy 10 seconds of 5x multipliers.

The game keeps track of the players 40 seconds of betting activity for each player in the form of a queue.įor each 20 cents the player bets at one time it buys him 10 seconds of 1x multipliers.

Let me try to explain how the games determine this multiplier. To avoid such injustice a multiplier is applied to the final bonus win roughly according to the amount the individual player was betting per second at the time the bonus was initiated.Ĭonfused yet? It gets worse. It would be unfair if there were two players in a bank of community bonus machines, and one was betting $1 a minute, and one was betting $10 a minute, if they both had the same expected value in the community bonus. I am speaking specifically about IGT machines, more specifically American Idol, and even more specifically the installation at the Red Rock casino. The generalities I'm about to give do not necessarily apply to every community bonus machine.

An exception might be the enormous Wheel of Fortune community bonus machines where an enormous wheel sits between each individual machine. The results of said bonus are usually shown on a large video screen above the machines.

Briefly, the way it works is a number of slot machines, typically four to eight, will all be awarded the same bonus at the same time. Community, or group, bonuses is a popular new concept in slot machines.

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