With the functionality of Historic Horse Racing machines working differently from a slot machine, players wonder how other parts of it work compared to a slot:
If you are at a ‘casino’ that is based on past horse races, are all bonuses preset? Or will stopping reels or rapid firing change the outcome?
Cindi K.
We can’t say we know every wrinkle about every system out there, but from what we know, the amount you are being paid is established by the wager placed upfront on a historic horse race. If it’s a bigger win, it’s more likely to render that win in the form of a bonus.
It also allows, in some cases, for more granular payouts on certain types of machines that otherwise don’t have the flexibility to pay out some of the variations that can be awarded on a race. Some HHR machines will even offer some ‘random payout’ amount above/beyond what’s on the reels for games that are just too rigid to offer payouts with random cent amounts.
So, that means the entire bonus is window dressing to get you to the amount you were awarded on your wager, so that would all be predetermined, and doing anything to the reels wouldn’t change what’s going to happen.
We had a player report in that her local Historic Horse Racing casino was posting winners before the bonus was even completed, which is another sure sign of this.
Of course, we also understood this was how it worked for Bingo, and perhaps at one point it was, but other innovations there have allowed for various ways for bonuses based on Bingo machines to play out, so we don’t want to speak in absolute terms, as the mathematicians who make all this stuff possible are incredibly savvy and creative.
But it’s our understanding that, at least for what we’ve seen, it’s predetermined, and the slots are completely window dressing – for entertainment purposes only, as they say.
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