Many players have watched Brian Christopher rapid fire spins on a slot machine. But, you can’t always do it:
How is it decided which machines allow rapid for spins and which do not? What is the criteria or logic?
Ann B.
There’s a few things that can go into whether you can rapid fire a slot machine or not.
The first, and probably most obvious, is the slot manufacturer. Whether you can speed stop a machine, whether you can stop a machine counting up (and if you do whether it simply stops the count, or moves on to the next spin, like many Ainsworth games), is a matter of the basic software that governs a manufacturer’s baseline slot software.
Similar to a computer, there’s generally an underlying OS, that has all the standard rules and pieces that governs all the games for a particular manufacturer, and then there’s the game itself, which has the game-specific software.
So if the manufacturer hasn’t put in an ability to stop the reels, then it simply can’t be done.
Another layer could be at the configuration level. Casinos have access to all sorts of settings on machines, and they may have the option to allow or not the ability to stop the reels. If you’re used to a slot working one way, but then it ends up working differently at a different casino, that may very well be because of the configuration that specific casino decided to implement.
One final bucket could be local regulations – each casino operates in a market and often the regulations can differ from market to market. Where being able to stop the reels is concerned, we have never seen a scenario where it’s specifically not allowed, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
So hopefully that helps clarify – like a lot of things related to slot machines, there’s multiple components that can factor in to the final result.
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