Archive for April, 2008

  • Cheating

    Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

    The common form of cheating is called “slugging.” That’s where a player uses slugs-metal discs other than U.S. coins or casino tokens - instead of coins. There are slugs that work in slot machines, but the downside is a harsh one. Get caught and you’re looking at jail time.
    Back in the old days, some cheaters used to get away with gluing a string to a coin. They would insert the coin, pull the arm, and then use the string to pull the coin back out through the slot. By doing this again and again they could play for free for as long as they wanted, or until they got caught. It has been a long time since such a scheme could work. Anticheat devices in modern slot machines make such an act impossible today.
    In every community there exists the very bottom of the totem pole, the lowest form of known life, and in the slot machine section of any casino that lowest life-form is called the “silverminer.”

  • Four Card Keno

    Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

    One of the games I like most on these machines is а game called Four Card Keno. This video keno game has four cards, and you can play all four at the same time. You don’t have to, but the whole point of this game is that you can and because of this, you can quadruple your hits. Here’s how it works:

    First, you select the amount you wish to wager per credit. You do this by selecting the denomination icon of your choice on the main screen. Next, you touch the Four Card Keno icon, and this takes you to the game. Then, you choose how many credits you wish to play per card. You do this by touching the bet-one icon once for each credit per card. For example, say you want to play one credit per card. This means you will touch the bet-one credit button four times, and this will wager one credit for each of the four cards. Or you can touch the “bet max” button, and this will play the maximum wager per card, which is ten credits, for a total wager of forty credits per game. If you are playing the one-penny-per-credit, this means you will be wagering 10 cent per card, for a total bet of 40cent per game. And so on for all the other denominations available.