Every once in awhile we hear from someone who was shocked to discover they won a progressive jackpot on a slot machine seemingly out of the blue:
How do you know what machines pay random jackpots?
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For the most part, slot makers do confirm when a random jackpot is possible within their pay table rules.
As we shared in a previous article, Aristocrat games with a hold and spin feature can have this – games like Gold Bonanza, Dragon Link and Midnight Express are among examples where this is one of the features they sometimes bake into their rules.
We also shared the example of Konami’s Bingo Frenzy, another that has a random jackpot possibility.
A bit more prominent are games with “must hit by” progressives, as they can go off at any time randomly after a spin. Sometimes, it can be obvious that one’s nearing, especially if it’s really close to that must hit by target. Other times, it can feel totally random because it was far away from reaching the must hit number.
In both cases they tend to just pop up right after a spin’s completion, whether a winning one or not, and will announce the win on the screen. The post-spin aspect can make it quite fun to achieve, and is why other slots are starting to incorporate “rescue” features that save a spin and bring excitement even after it seems like that spin is dead.
Unfortunately it’s a pay table dig through to confirm this sort of information on many of the slot machines that offer it. That may make it impractical to go machine by machine through the various options to try to find it, which is why we’ve shared a few examples above.
But it’s just one of the various ways a jackpot can be made available, and likely one of the most difficult to achieve given it’s usually attached to very hard to reach bonuses.
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