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SLOT MACHINE TERMINOLOGY
You can’t be a decent slot machine player without knowing some slot machine terminology. Below you will find the most common terms and what they mean in the slot machine community/industry. If you are ever confused on this site or while gaming, please feel free to refer back to the terminology for clarification. Most slot machine jargon/terms used in the definitions can be found defined on the corresponding Web page. A-D >>> E-H >>> I-P >>> Q-S >>> T-Z SLOT MACHINE TERMS Q THROUGH S Reel: The symbol-covered wheel. In traditional slot machines, these reels spin around and come to a stop in random fashion dictated by the payout percentage. *Rhythm Play: A player strategy used to control the slot machine’s reel. This theory relies on the idea that a player can bring out a winning combination of symbols through skill and timing. RNG: Each slot machine has a computer chip in it that selects random numbers. RNG means Random Number Generator. The RNG determines if your spin is a winner or loser. This computer chip constantly cycles though numbers until a coin is placed in the slot machine. Once the button or lever is pushed the reel stops on the symbol combination determined by the number the RNG stopped on as the coin was inserted. Rollup: The sounds used to announce a win while the slot machine meters tally the amount won. Scatter Pay: Scatter pay slot machines are ones that will pay you something back just for having a particular symbol anywhere in the window. Rather than paying out based on winning symbols aligning on a single payline, scatter pay slot machines allow the winning combinations to be “scattered” across the screen. Second Screens: Second screens are exclusive to video slot machines - and most video slot machines have them. When you hit the bonus symbol on a video slot machine and the screen fades to the bonus screen, that’s a second screen. This was made popular by the video slot machine Reel ‘Em In. Short Pay: References a slot machine’s partial payout of a players slot machine winnings. If the coin hopper is low, a slot machine attendant or the cage will hand pay the remainder amount due to the player. Short Win: A large jackpot win after a small cash outlay. Signature Slots: The house brand of slot machine. Casinos create their own brand of looser slot machines to generate PR for the casino. Slant Top Slot: Also known as a “Low Level” slot machine, this type of slot includes a stool so that players can sit while they play. Slots: The nickname for slot machines. Slots Drop: The amount of money that goes through the slot machine. Slot-aholic Pain: This comes from staying too long at one machine. Slot Club: A frequent slot machine player can join a slot club at a casino to earn rewards and incentives for time and money spent at the slot machines. A player receives a slot club card which is then inserted into a slot machine while a player is gaming. The card then records the time and money spent on the slots and rewards bonuses and comps accordingly. Slot Placement: A strategy casinos use to tempt gamblers; casinos generally position the loose slot machines in areas where other players can see slot machine payout. Slot Schedule: This is information posted on the front of slot that discloses what type of slot, denomination, and win amounts possible for each coin played. Slot Talk: The information traded between players, a good way to improve slots knowledge. Slot Tournament: Slot tournaments allow slot club members to earn more comps and bonuses based off of competitions among slot club members. Tournaments are free for players and during a tournament a player doesn’t use coins to activate the machines. Tournament prizes are based off the number of credits a player accumulates during the competition. Often times the freebies and prizes are worth significantly more than the price of admission into the tournament. Sound of Rain: The coins dropping into the holder after a payout. Spooning: A method used by slot machine payers to cheat the slot machine’s coin counter. Basically a spoon-like device stops the jackpot’s coin-counting micro-switch so that more than the actual jackpot is awarded to the player. Stand Up Slot: Also known as an “Upright” slot machine, this type of machine allows player to stand up while playing. Stops: This is the dead space between the symbols on a reel. When a reel spins around and a symbol does not land on a payline, it has landed on a stop. Stringing: A method used by slot machine players to gain a free play out of the slot machine. These type of slot machine cheaters solder a string onto a coin or token, and once the machine recognizes a coin has been inserted players pull the coin back out. Symbols*: These are the fun characters and items that appear on the slot machine's reel. A common symbol is a colored bar or a piece of fruit, like a cherry. Back to Slot Terms>>> Index of terminology >>>

SLOT MACHINE TERMINOLOGY

You can’t be a decent slot machine player without knowing some slot machine terminology. Below you will find the most common terms and what they mean in the slot machine community/industry. If you are ever confused on this site or while gaming, please feel free to refer back to the terminology for clarification. Most slot machine jargon/terms used in the definitions can be found defined on the corresponding Web page.

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Reel: The symbol-covered wheel. In traditional slot machines, these reels spin around and come to a stop in random fashion dictated by the payout percentage.

Rhythm Play: A player strategy used to control the slot machine’s reel. This theory relies on the idea that a player can bring out a winning combination of symbols through skill and timing.

RNG: Each slot machine has a computer chip in it that selects random numbers. RNG means Random Number Generator. The RNG determines if your spin is a winner or loser. This computer chip constantly cycles though numbers until a coin is placed in the slot machine. Once the button or lever is pushed the reel stops on the symbol combination determined by the number the RNG stopped on as the coin was inserted.

Rollup: The sounds used to announce a win while the slot machine meters tally the amount won.

Scatter Pay: Scatter pay slot machines are ones that will pay you something back just for having a particular symbol anywhere in the window. Rather than paying out based on winning symbols aligning on a single payline, scatter pay slot machines allow the winning combinations to be “scattered” across the screen.

Second Screens: Second screens are exclusive to video slot machines - and most video slot machines have them. When you hit the bonus symbol on a video slot machine and the screen fades to the bonus screen, that’s a second screen. This was made popular by the video slot machine Reel ‘Em In.

Short Pay: References a slot machine’s partial payout of a players slot machine winnings. If the coin hopper is low, a slot machine attendant or the cage will hand pay the remainder amount due to the player.

Short Win: A large jackpot win after a small cash outlay.

Signature Slots: The house brand of slot machine. Casinos create their own brand of looser slot machines to generate PR for the casino.

Slant Top Slot: Also known as a “Low Level” slot machine, this type of slot includes a stool so that players can sit while they play.

Slots: The nickname for slot machines.

Slots Drop: The amount of money that goes through the slot machine.

Slot-aholic Pain: This comes from staying too long at one machine.

Slot Club: A frequent slot machine player can join a slot club at a casino to earn rewards and incentives for time and money spent at the slot machines. A player receives a slot club card which is then inserted into a slot machine while a player is gaming. The card then records the time and money spent on the slots and rewards bonuses and comps accordingly.

Slot Placement: A strategy casinos use to tempt gamblers; casinos generally position the loose slot machines in areas where other players can see slot machine payout.

Slot Schedule: This is information posted on the front of slot that discloses what type of slot, denomination, and win amounts possible for each coin played.

Slot Talk: The information traded between players, a good way to improve slots knowledge.

Slot Tournament: Slot tournaments allow slot club members to earn more comps and bonuses based off of competitions among slot club members. Tournaments are free for players and during a tournament a player doesn’t use coins to activate the machines. Tournament prizes are based off the number of credits a player accumulates during the competition. Often times the freebies and prizes are worth significantly more than the price of admission into the tournament.

Sound of Rain: The coins dropping into the holder after a payout.

Spooning: A method used by slot machine payers to cheat the slot machine’s coin counter. Basically a spoon-like device stops the jackpot’s coin-counting micro-switch so that more than the actual jackpot is awarded to the player.

Stand Up Slot: Also known as an “Upright” slot machine, this type of machine allows player to stand up while playing.

Stops: This is the dead space between the symbols on a reel. When a reel spins around and a symbol does not land on a payline, it has landed on a stop.

Stringing: A method used by slot machine players to gain a free play out of the slot machine. These type of slot machine cheaters solder a string onto a coin or token, and once the machine recognizes a coin has been inserted players pull the coin back out.

Symbols: These are the fun characters and items that appear on the slot machine's reel. A common symbol is a colored bar or a piece of fruit, like a cherry.

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