Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Happy Birthday to Me (From Casino Rewards)

Happy BirthdayHappy Birthday... ME!!!
Another year has passed and an amazing day with friends and family celebrating has now ended.

The house is back to a "normal" state and the kids are in bed... The time for the yearly casino birthday promotions could not have been any better.

With more than 100 different online casino accounts, today is one of the few days where the promotional email i recieve are more than
welcome, - most of them include free cash or bonus casino chips.


The first "Happy Birthday" casino email i looked at was from the huge casino group Casino Rewards that send me a €50.00 no deposit bonus that could be used at any of their 18 online casinos.

I decided to launch Phoenician casino and browsed thru the list of pokies, - trying to find one that gave me a lucky feeling.

A €50 casino balance is much less than i normally gamble with, but in terms of completely free cash it is a really impressive bonus. In order for me to turn it into an even more impressive withdrawal i would need a combination of luck and slot machine bonus features with high payout potentials.

I decided to launch my favorite 9 payline slot machine: Break Da Bank Again.

Break Da Bank again is a free spin bonus slot machine that offer players a 500% prize payout during the bonus feature, - but more importantly it has a wild multiplying symbol that also offer players a 5X multiplier.

This means that prizes won during the free spin bonus feature with a wild symbol are paid out with two 5X multipliers, something that can result in really nice payouts.


Free Spin Trigger
Break Da Bank Again Free Spin Award

Lady Luck was smiling at me, something that resulted in a free spin bonus feature with my casino balance at €32.03. The free spin bonus feature triggered after just 6 spins on the slot machine, - spins valued at €4.50 each.


A wild free spin
Break Da Bank Again Free Spin Award
The free spin bonus feature wasnt looking that good, but the 6th spin resulted in something "interesting". This free spin had two wild multiplying symbols on the top slot machine row and resulted in the kind of prizes i was looking for on my birthday;)


The Free Spin Ends
Break Da Bank Again Free Spin Award

The Break Da Bank free spin bonus feature ended with a 5,250 coin prize ~ €262,50 in total.

With my casino balance at €294.53 i had allready won enough to call it a day, i would be able to withdraw about €250,00 (after substracting the free no deposit bonus) and claim a decent birthday prize from the Casino Rewards group.

A thought about it for a while and decided to see if i could hit another lucky bonus before i claimed my birthday present from the largest casino group in the world.

I wanted to keep my winnings, - but also play on a slot that had better than average bonus feature payouts.

I browsed thru the huge slot machine list once more and found the best slot for the job, - Gladiator.

Gladiator is a 50 payline slot machine that offer players a free spin bonus feature with 100 free spins. The free spins are played with normal prizes (no multipliers) but with 100 spins players are as close to guarantied payouts as possible with an online gambling game.


The 100 free spins award
Gladiator - 100 Free Spins
After just a few minutes with the Gladiator slot machine, - the feature i was hoping to see landed with a bang on the slot machine reels.

The free spin bonus feature was triggered with four scatter symbols, something that resulted in a €100 scatter bonus prize in addition to the 100 free spins that were about to start.


You have won 100 free spins
Congratulations - 100 Free Spins
After a few seconds with the impressive scatter bonus prize, it was time to sit back and relax while 100 free spins were played at €5.00 per spin. I was hoping to increase my casino balance to atleast €350.00 with this bonus feature and withdraw a minimum of €300 as my birthday present from Casino Rewards.


Super Wild
Super Wild Free Spin
The type of spin i was hoping to see landed with 21 out of 100 free spins left. A total of four wild symbols appeared on the game reels, - and with 50 paylines a massive trigger and payout came as well.

My casino balance increased to more than €435 with this crazy spin, and i still had 21 free spins left.


Perfect Payline Combination
Perfect Payline Combinatio
A low payout perfect payline combination landed on the second last free spin where my casino balance had increased to €550.98.

The two slot machine bonus features resulted in a casino balance increase of factor 11, - and a birthday present from the Casino Rewards casinos of more than €500.00.


Congratulations
Perfect Payline Combinatio

The free spin bonus feature ended with a nice congratulations screen, - 38,080 coins won ;)
Time to visit the Cashier and send this birthday present to my bank account !

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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Samba Nights 50 Payline Free Spin

Samba Nights Slot Machine

Samba Nights Free Spin Bonus Feature

Samba Nights Free Spin Bonus AwardSamba Nights Free Spins re-trigger


The Samba Nights free spin bonus feature is awarded and re-triggered when three scattered beach symbols appear on the game reels.
Players win a scatter bonus prize equal to 200% of theit total bet and 20 free spins with a 2X multiplier.

The slot machine will spin 20 times, - at no cost to the player and with all prizes doubled!
The slot machine screenshots above show the free spin bonus feature as it is awarded (1st screenshot) and re-triggered (2nd screenshot).

A bonus feature such as the one i enjoyed while i took these screenshots have 40 free spins with a 2X multiplier instead of 20 free spins because the feature re-triggered while i was playing it.

Samba Nights Stacked Wilds

Samba Nights Free Spin Bonus WinSamba Nights Wild Free Spin

The Samba Nights Wild symbols that appear during normal and free spins are stacked on the game reels. This means that they "fall" five at a time. Lucky spins will land 2,3, or even 4 wild symbols on a single reel making it much easier to win. The Samba Nights screen shots above were both taken during a free spin bonus feature and show some of the crazy potential the stacked wild symbols offer.

If you are wondering why you see a larger Samba Lady on some of the reels, then you will be happy to know that this special wild lady appear when an entire reel is covered with wild symbols.

This means that both screenshots show 8 wild symbols in total.
The first screenshot show three on the first reel and five on the fourth, the second has four on the second reel and three on the fourth.

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Samba Nights Payouts

Samba Nights Paytable and Rules

Samba Nights PaytableSamba Nights Paradise Rules

One of the most things many players forget when they start with slot machines at online casinos, - is to check out the paytables and rules for the slots before they start playing.
The information on these pages make it possible for players to understand how the different features and payouts are awarded. Reading the pages will of course not affect the game-play automatically.

The slot machine paytable can be accessed with a click on the "Paytable" button that is visible in the slot machine window. Once opened, the game paytable offer players a slot machine symbol and payout overview.

The Samba Nights paytable is designed like most other slots paytables. It is divided into three rows with the special slot machine symbols at the top row, the high paying normal symbols on the middle row and the low payout symbols on the last row.

The Samba Nights slot machine wild symbol (called Girl) is shown in the upper right corner. The symbol substitute for each of the 10 normal symbols shown in the middle and bottom paytable rows, - but it also has its own payout table.

The Wild Girl symbol result in the games top payout of 2,000 coins when five appear on an active payline.

The second slot machine symbol on the first row is the Scattered Beach symbol. This symbol can only appear on the three middle reels and award the 20 free spin bonus feature and a 2X scatter bonus prize (equal to 200% of the players total slot machine wager) each time this happen.

Many regular slot machine players love scatter symbols because they often result in decent payouts, -even when the symbols are scattered all over the game reels.

I personally prefer online casino slot machines that offer a 2X scatter bonus prize each time two scatter symbols appear on the game reels, but the enormous amount of wild symbols and the free spin bonus that Samba Nights offer more than make up for this.

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Samba Nights Slots

Samba Nights Slot Machine

The Samba Nights slot machine is the first 50 payline slot machine that offer players prizes that scale with the amount paylines they can wager on. Unlike most other slot machines with massive amounts of paylines, the Samba Nights slot machine offer players stacked wild symbols that can appear on each of the five game reels and a re-triggerable free spin bonus feature with all prizes doubled.

The game has a warm Samba party theme with animated slot machine symbols that combined with the game sounds take players into the next generation of online entertainment.

The slot machine has a relatively low max payout for a single payline, - 2,000 coins, but on the brigt side the stacked wild symbols make it possible for players to win the prize 50 times with a single spin.

If Lady Luck happens to smile on you while you land such a winning spin during the free spin bonus feature, you can look forward to a smashing 200,000 coin payout.
The Samba Nights slot machine is designed with the newest slot machine control features. The features make it possible for players to control the game speed, - and to setup custom auto-play preferences that can stop the game once players balance reach (or decrease to) a given amount.

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Saturday, March 28, 2009

Reel in the Cash - Fishing Folly Feature

Reel in the Cash

Reel in the Cash Fishing Folly Bonus Feature

Reel in the Cash Bonus Feature AwardReel in the Cash Bonus Feature Help

The Fishing Follow bonus feature is awarded when three or more Scattered Fisherman symbols appear anywhere on the slot machine reels. The Scatter symbol positions do not matter at all. Players are awarded a scatter bonus prize in addition to the Fishin Folly Pick a Prize feature as shown on the left most slot machine screenshot above.

Once the Fishing Folly bonus feature is awarded, a small bonus feature help text is shown with information about the bonus feature. Players must click on the "PLAY" button to start the bonus feature.



Reel in the Cash Fishing Folly Bait Multipliers

Reel in the Cash Bonus Feature MultiplierReel in the Cash Bonus Feature Winning Multiplier
When the Fishing Folly bonus feature is started, players must click on one of five bait boxes. The bait boxes will show a bait with a winning multiplier attached. The two Fishing Folly bonus feature screenshots above show bait with 3X and 4X multipliers.


Reel in the Cash Fishing Folly Bait Location Prizes
Reel in the Cash Bonus Feature PrizeReel in the Cash Bonus Feature Winning
When the bait is selected, players must chose one of five different fishing locations by clicking on one of the numbers from 1 to 5 shown in the left area of the bonus screen.

When a location has been selected, the Fisherman navigate to the location and try to catch something with the multiplier bait selected. Each location has a random cash prize attached that is multiplied with the value of the bait that was selected.

The result of the multiplication is the bonus cash won for the Fishing Folly round.

Players can enjoy three Fishing Folly bonus rounds each time the feature is awarded.

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Reel in the Cash

Reel in the CashRell In The Cash is a comical fishing themed slot machine with a single top payout of 5,000 times the players bet during spins and several houndred times the players wager during the Fishing Follies bonus feature.

The slot machine has a really simple setup that make it easy for new and experienced gamblers to enjoy. In terms of symbols, the game is designed with wild substituting symbols that can appear on each of the five slot machine reels and scatter bonus symbols that can result in scatter prizes and award the Fishing Follies bonus feature.

The slot machine offer players 20 paylines to wager on with as little as $0.01 per payline, - $0.20 for a max bet $0.01 coin denomination spin.

The Fishing Follies feature is a "Pick a Prize" bonus feature type, where players must select fishing bait and a fishing location three times.

Reel in the Cash Paytable and Rules

Reel in the Cash PaytableReel in the Cash Rules

If you are new to slot machines, or are thinking about playing the Reel in the Cash slots for the first time, then checking out the Paytable and Rules page is highly recommended.
The pages can be accessed directly from the slot machine game window with a click on the "Paytable" button.

The first page you will see is the Paytable that has information about the 11 different slot machine symbols and the prizes and features they can award.

The paytable is split into three rows with the two special symbols (Wild and Scatter) at the top most row, the highest paying normal symbols in the middle row and the lowest paying normal symbols at the bottom row.

Read about the Scatter and Wild symbols at Secret Slots Club


High payout slot machine symbols
High payout Reel in the Cash symbols
The second row on the slot machine payline show the symbols that offer players the highest normal payline payouts. The slot machine symbols the can be seen below offer players prizes that range from 5 coins to 3,000 coins. The left most symbol has 4 payouts and is the only normal symbol that offer a prize with just two symbols on an active payline.


Low payout slot machine symbols
High payout Reel in the Cash symbols
The last five symbols shown on the Reel in the Cash paytable are themed versions of the classic poker hand video slot symbols A (Ace) K (King) Q (Queen) J (Jack) 10 (Ten).

The low payout symbols offer top prizes of 200 coins with five Aces or Kings on an active payline and as little as 5 coins with three symbols in a row on an active payline.

It is important to note that all non scatter payouts are based on symbols that appear on an active payline from left to right.

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Surfs Up (Penguins in Paradise) Bonus Features

Penguins in Paradise


Penguins in Paradise Free Spin Bonus Feature

Penguins in Paradise Free Spin AwardPenguins in Paradise Bonus Trigger

The Penguins in Paradise free spin bonus geature is awarded when three or more scattered Drink symbols appear anywhere on the sot machine reels.

The slot machine screenshots above show the free spin bonus trigger with three and four scattered Drinks bonus symbols.

Players win a scatter bonus prize based on the amount of scatter symbols on the slot machine in addition to 10 free spins with all prizes trippled.

The scatter bonus prizes won with the free spin triggers shown in the screenshots above was 20X and 5X the total slot machine bet.

There is little to say about the free spin bonus feature itself because it is played exactly like normal spin, - but at no cost and with all prizes trippled.

Penguins in Paradise Surfing Penguin Bonus Feature

Penguins in Paradise Surfin Penguin Bonus AwardPenguins in Paradise Surfin Penguin Bonus Trigger

The cool Surfing Penguins bonus feature is awarded when the slot machile wild symbol appear on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th reel at the same time. The symbol positions do not matter at all.

When three wild symbols land after a spin, players are paid out all normal wins in addition to the Surfing Penguins bonus feature prizes.

The two slot machine screenshots above show the Surfing Penguins feature award. The left most image show the feature award during a free spin bonus and the right most image show the feature award during normal spins.

Penguins in Paradise Surfing Penguin Bonus Feature Start
Penguins in Paradise Surfin Penguin Bonus HelpPenguins in Paradise Surfin Penguin Bonus Start

Once the Surfing Penguins bonus feature has been awarded, a small bonus feature help screen is shown (Similar to the one in the left most screenshot above). The feature is started when the player clicks on the OK button on this screen.

Once the feature is started, players are presented with three buttons and a amazing surfing scene. The buttons represent three different surfing "moves" that players can chose for the Penguin to make.

A move is selected with a mouse click on the Surfing move button.

Penguins in Paradise Surfing Penguin Bonus Wins
Penguins in Paradise Surfin Penguin Bonus WinPenguins in Paradise Surfin Penguin Bonus Summary

Once the surfing move button has been clicked, the penguin perform the selected move. Shortly after, three penguin judge votes are shown with values from 1 to 10. The values translate into a prize multiplier, - an amount the total slot machine wager is multiplied with.

The best prizes players can win is a 2 x 30 point vote, - two rounds where all three judge votes are 10.

When the two bonus rounds are completed, a bonus win summary screen is shown where players can see the total bonus feature win.

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Penguins in Paradise Paytable and Rules

Penguins in Paradise payouts and rules

Penguins in Paradise Paytable and Rules

Penguins in Paradise PaytablePenguins in Paradise Rules

The Penguins and Paradise paytable and rules page can be accessed directly from the slot machine with a click on the "Paytable" button. The first page shown is the slot machine paytable that has information about the different slot machine symbols and the prizes and features they can award.

One of the most important things to note on this page is the Wild Substituting Penguin symbol shown in the upper left corner. This symbol substitute for all normal symbols on the slot machine but only appear on the three middle reels.

The wild substituting symbol is also the key to one of the two bonus features, - Surfing Penguins. This feature is awarded when the wild substituting symbol appear on all of the three middle reels after a game spin.


Penguins in Paradise

The slot machine scatter symbol is a Drinks symbol, it is shown in the upper right area of the paytable with information about the scatter bonus prizes.

The Penguins in Paradise slot machine offer a low-end scatter bonus paytable with a 1x payout for two scatter symbols and 5X, 20X and 100X for three, four and five scatter symbols.

It is important to note that the scatter bonus prizes for 3, 4 and 5 scatter symbols are won in addition to the free spin bonus feature awarded.

Penguins in Paradise has 10 normal slot machine symbols that offer payouts ranging from 5,000 coins to 5 coins. The symbols are all designed to match the game theme but the lowest paying symbols are skinned version of the classic poker hand symbols 9,10,J,Q,K and A.

The second page you can access from the paytable area is the slot machine rules page that has information about the different slot machine payline paths and the bonus feature rules.

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Surfs Up (Penguins in Paradise) slot machine

Penguins in ParadisePenguins in Paradise is a comical slot machine with a fresh theme that appear to be loosely based on the cartoon "Surfs Up". The slot machine feature Penguins surfing, drinks and classic slot machine symbols as well.

When it comes to normal payouts, Penguins in Paradise offers a max payout for a single payline of 5,000 coins. The prize can be won without help from the slot machine wild symbols that can appear on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th reels only.

The Penguins in Paradise slot has two bonus features, a free spin bonus feature and a Surfing Penguin feature.

The free spin bonus feature add 10 free spins with increased wins (3X winning multiplier) to the game and is awarded when three or more scattered Drinks symbols appear anywhere on the slot machine reels.

The Surfing Penguins feature is somewhat more interesting allthough it has a 60X upper limit to the bonus win. The feature is awarded when the wild slot machine symbol appear anywhere on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th reel after a spin.

The Surfing Penguins feature allow players to select two of three surfing moves that will be performed by a skilled penguin surfer during the bonus feature. The animations during this bonus feature are really great and I seam keep playing after this feature because i want to try it again.

The move result in multiplier prize votes from three judges, the multipliers are added together and result in the players bonus feature win.

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Friday, March 27, 2009

Call of Duty 4 - Amazing Bonus


Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare bonus feature

The amazing Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare bonus feature is awarded when three or more scattered logo symbols appear anywhere on the game reels.

Players win a scatter bonus prize in addition to the bonus feature award where free spins with multipliers and bonus cash can be won.

Triggering the Call of Duty 4 feature

Free Spin Bonus AwardBonus feature trigger

Once the Call of Duty 4 slot machine feature starts, players are shown one of several "battle scenes" and a help screen with information about the bonus feature. The help screen is a nice teaser for players that havent read the slot machine rules page.

Call of Duty 4 feature Startup Tips

Free Spin Bonus TipsBonus feature Help

The bonus feature will start when players click on the OK button on the startup tips page. Once the feature starts, players can enjoy a truly unique slot machine bonus feature that merge the best of slot machines with the action from shooter games!

When the introduction screen fades away the battle scene will be populated with enemies that hide different places on the bonus screen. The player controls the corshair with the mouse and must point on the enemies and click on the mouse to shoot them.

Call of Duty 4 Battle Scenes

Call of Duty 4 Battle ScenesCall of Duty 4 Shots

When you target and shoot at an enemy you have a chance that appear to be random to Miss, Hit and Headshot the enemy. The Hits and Heatshots result in free spins with extra cash for headshots. Each time you shoot an enemy you "Hit Streak" indicator in the upper left area of the bonus screen increase by 1. This value reset when you Miss an enemy and result in an Airstrike when it reach 5.

The Airstrike is a "super bonus" that add 3x, 4x or 5x multiplier to the free spins that players win during the bonus feature. If you complete the bonus feature without an airstrike, - by shooting enemies but missing without shooting five in a row, the free spin bonus is played with a 2X multiplier (all prizes doubled).

Call of Duty 4 Head Shot and Airstrike

Call of Duty 4 Air strikeCall of Duty 4 Head Shot

Once players have fired a few rounds the bonus feature end with a summary screen that show the amount of free spins won, the multiplier that is applied during the free spins and the extra bonus cash won during the feature.

Call of Duty 4 Bonus summary

Call of Duty 4 Bonus SummaryCall of Duty 4 Bonus Wins

The summary screen is show for about 10 seconds before it fade away and start the free spin bonus feature. The free spins are played with the multiplier shown on the summary screen and start with the amount of free spins shown here as well.

During the free spins, no additional multipliers can be won, - but additional free spins are won each time three or more scattered bonus symbols appear on the game reels.

The amount of free spins players win when this happens is the same as the amount won during the shooter feature.

This means that if players won 21 free spins during the shooter feature, 21 additional free spins will be added to the bonus each time players land three or more scattered bonus symbols during the free spin feature.

Call of Duty 4 Free Spin Re-Trigger

More Free SpinsDouble amount of free spins

The two screenshots above are taken during a Call of Duty 4 free spin bonus feature. The first image show the free spin re-trigger with three scattered logo symbols on the game reels. The free spin bonus feature show 8/9 free games at the bottom of the screen because i only had one free spin left out of the nine i won. This spin resulted in a re-trigger, the text "10 FREE GAMES REMAINING" mean that i won nine additional free spins.

The second slot machine screenshot show the feature end with 18 /18 free spins completed.

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