difference in the size
of your payoff. Example: One coin inserted pays
500 coins, two coins; 1000 coins, three coins; 4000
returned. Paydirt when three coins are played.
If you can afford to play the maximum coin amount,
do so. If you cannot, switch to a lower denomination
machine.
Dear Mark:
My husband claims that certain casinos use different
weighted dollar coins for their slots in order to
make it sound as if people are winning in the casino.
Is he right? Sally L.
Your husband is on
to the casinos. It’s not heavier coins, though,
but the tray where the coins fall. Casino operators
have long understood the value of “the sounds
of winning,” so what some do is install “loud
drop bowls,” which are the metal trays that
catch the slugs when your slot is paying off. These
deeper pans tend to make more noise when the coins
drop, creating the misimpression that people are
winning big. Unfortunately, that sense of luck is
really nothing more than an illusion the casino
hopes will stir interest in playing their machines.
Dear Mark,
If a slot machine pays back with hot coins, does
that mean it’s a hot machine? Sly G.
No, Sly, the temperature
of the coins has nothing to do with the machine’s
payback percentage.
I remember years ago seeing a gentleman heating
up his coins with a hair dryer in the men’s
bathroom. In questioning his gaming prowess he replied
with unwavering conviction that inserting hot coins
produced more winners because the coins coming out
of his favorite machine were hot. My explanation
that coins falling out hot is due to the close proximity
of lights and other electrical components to the
hopper fell on deaf ears.
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