The Payback Percentage and the OddsĮvery slot machine is designed and then tested in order to get a particular payback percentage.

It is creates an impression that they just missed winning the jackpot which again encourages them to keep playing more. A player is more likely to hit these blank stops rather than the jackpot images. Also, these blank stops show that there are more virtual stops on the reel than images. When there are blank stops below and above the jackpot symbols, these are losing stops, which means that the player would not win anything on those symbols. Also, in machines that have a bigger jackpot, the virtual reels would also have several more stops so this would again decrease the chances of hitting the jackpot immensely. This means that for every player the chances of hitting the jackpot are very low. If all the reels in the machine are set up that way, then the chance of hitting the jackpot symbol in all the 3 reels is 262,144. What this means is that the chance of the player hitting the jackpot in one reel is 1 to 64. In the typical slot machines the top jackpot for every reel would correspond to just one virtual stop. For this reason, it is a bit difficult to calculate the odds of hitting the winning combinations especially with machines that have many virtual stops. The odds of hitting a particular symbol on the actual reel would also depend on how many stops would correspond to the actual stop. Every stop on the reel can correspond to more than a single stop on the reel. In all the modern slot machines the player's odds of hitting the winning combination of numbers and symbols would depend on how the reels are set up. The odds are basically the chances of hitting the jackpot in a slot machine or the chances of hitting any winning combination. Players who are interested in winning slot machines should spend some time understanding the odds and the secrets of the machine and of hitting the jackpot before they start to play slots for real money.

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