Multi-game machines haven’t necessarily caught on everywhere, but there’s an increasing number of them on casino floors. How does changing the game impact things?
On a machine with multiple different games such as Buffalo & Lucky Leprechaun with 4 screens I usually play all 4 on Buffalo. If Buffalo hits a bonus does changing the game to Lucky Leprechaun make it less likely to hit another bonus on the same machine? I know you usually do some back up spins after a win before moving on but what if you stayed with the same machine but chose a different game?
William B.
Changing the game after a bonus won’t make a bonus more or less likely just because you had a bonus or made a change. What will be more important just in general will be the specific game’s chances of getting a bonus to begin with.
Lucky Leprechaun may be designed to bonus more or less often than Buffalo for various reasons – more of the money for that game is built into the bonus, the bonuses pay less but come out more often to make up for it, and so on.
Game makers don’t necessarily share with players the odds of getting a bonus on any individual game, but we’ve all over time gotten to know games that are frequent bonusers and games that aren’t, and based on what we prefer, we’ll tend to favor those.
Brian’s back-up spins, in turn, are a sort of personal choice to set a hard stopping point before moving on to whatever’s next, whether it’s another game on the same machine, or another machine altogether. But your odds of bonusing on any spin will be the same within the same game.
Changing to a different game will change the odds insofar as that game just bonuses on a different frequency, but your odds of a bonus within the same game on the same machine will remain the same.
It’s one of those things we discourage players from stressing too much about, as it won’t impact you in the long term. Usually on these multi-game scenarios the paybacks are set similarly within each of the games, so ultimately regardless of how each game plays, you’ll end up in roughly the same spot in the long run.
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