When you play slots in casinos, there’s an element that can occur that effectively announces something special is about to happen. Brian Christopher calls it a “Shakey Shakey” (here on Flip The Switch we call it a “shaky shaky”). Not every slot has it, and slots that have it don’t do it every time, but it’s an increasingly common concept to players nowadays.
A player wonders if that particular element makes the leap online too:
What I want to ask is, when you play the online games do you get a “Shaky Shaky”?
Mark N.
Like most physical slot machine design elements, the idea of a Shaky Shaky has also made the leap online. Like physical slots, not every online slot has them, and not every slot that has them will do it anytime a bonus or big win is coming.
But it’s a pretty significant element of slots nowadays and players overall seem to like them, so it’s natural that they have made their way online as well.
We tend to get some questions about these elements, like whether they are the reason you get a bonus or if you’d get a bonus without them. To those questions we can confirm the bonus would occur with or without the element (after all, the outcome of the spin is determined when you make your wager to start the spin).
But the shaky shaky element itself is just a fun addition that doesn’t disrupt the outcome of a slot, but instead just adds additional entertainment value. So slots without the Shaky Shaky element are no more or less generous than those with it – it’s just a design choice.
We also get asked if you can identify with slots have a Shaky Shaky. Since they don’t have any impact on a slot’s payout, you won’t find any sort of information about this on the pay table. You’ll just have to find out by playing it.
