The concept of playing rapid fire on a slot machine is simple – instead of letting a spin complete at its normal pace, by hitting the spin button on a slot machine again, it can bring the spin to a sudden stop.
The general outcome of this is the conclusion of a spin faster. This can allow the next spin to start sooner, allowing more wagers to take place in a shorter timeframe. This can provide more winning spins, as well as more losing spins, because you’re just getting more outcomes in a window of time.
What rapid fire spins don’t do is change the outcome of what a spin would be, as the outcome is decided when you start the spin, not when you stop it. So if you stop a spin and get a bonus, that bonus would have occurred regardless of whether you stopped the spin or not. There’s no skill to slot machines in that way.
Rapid firing will change the timing of each spin, since you’ll be making your wager at a different time than if you had let the spin play out before making your next wager, but we as players won’t know if that helped or hurt the outcome, because we don’t know what that other outcome would be. We could have missed out on a jackpot by spinning faster, or we could get a jackpot we would otherwise not have – it cuts both ways.
So it really comes down to play style. Just like some people will let the game count up every credit before moving on when there’s a big win, some will speed through that and move on to the next bet. In the same way, some will want to get to the outcome of the spin faster, while others will let the game play out. There’s no right or wrong way to play slots, so games tend to be designed to let players do what they want as it won’t impact the overall game design.
One last note: There are some games where you can’t speed stop. This will either be by design – some games by default to now allow a rapid fire play process – or by casino choice. So while rapid fire can be fun for some players, it’s not unusual to find some games set up to not allow it.
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