As players realize the random number generator (RNG) does matter on many bonuses, including many of the hold and spin bonus games out there, one player wonders what that means for them:
I was playing coin trio, and when I was in the bonus and got down to my last two squares, both squares had coins going around. I got one of the squares, and on all three spins of my last square there were coins going around. I did not get the last square filled in, maybe I should have stopped the reel mid spin on one of my three chances?
Shari
It won’t make a difference, ultimately, because the animation happening is just window dressing.
During a hold and spin, you press the button to start each spin. For bonuses that rely on the RNG, we know that it effectively works the same way as a base game spin. That means the outcome is decided when the spin starts.
So regardless of whether the coin is in there or not, whether you’re going to actually get it has everything to do with when you press spin to start that spin, not trying to stop the spin to a win – whatever was going to happen when you started the spin will happen when the spin stops, regardless of whether you stop it early or not.
A coin spinning in all the spaces doesn’t mean you’re guaranteed that grand jackpot – on ones where one spot is scarce, it means you’ve done the hard part, but the rest still has to go your way, and that’s far from guaranteed. Otherwise most hold and spin bonuses would peter out after landing 14 coins, and we know that doesn’t happen every time or even nearly every time.
So you can stop it, or let it do it’s thing – once you set the reels in motion it already knows where they’re going to end up.
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