There is something kind of similar at my local casino. There is a bank of 10 slot machines all with different games. There is a random pirate bonus which pops up randomly. When it pops up you get three chances to pick one of 42 spots to find a key. Then you have a 1:4 chance for the maxi prize which is progressive and starts at $125. You can bet as low as 30 cents and bet amount doesn't seem to increase the frequency of the pirate bonus. The thing is it doesn't reset between players. So you can walk up to each machine and see how many spots have already been picked. I sat down at one that only had 4 spots left to uncover. Bonus popped up within 10 minutes, and I did hit the maximum for $137. Once you find the key, your machine resets to a 1:42 chance of finding the key. People don't seem to be understanding how this works yet and sit down with little to no spaces uncovered.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Mickey" <mickeycrimm@...> wrote:
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> It's extinct now so what the hell! I'm singin' the blues, baby! They took the easy money job away. Those dirty *&%&$*&%*&^$#!! Oh, well. May as well brag about the extinct play, now that it's over. This goes out to those friends of mine that didn't tell me about the $1 FPDW progressive at Ruidoso, New Mexico until it was over. You had a good laugh on me so guess who's laughing now? I'll tell you everything but the name of the game. But it has something to do with gold, pyramids, and such. Only thing is, it's extinct here.
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> It was a keno progressive. It was stand-alone progressive, but found on multi-game machines. It was on a few thousand machines around the state. 5-Spot, 6-Spot, 7-Spot, 8-Spot, 9-Spot, 10-Spot progressives. I'm gonna leave off the 5-spot and 9-spot, because, in 4 years I only got one play on each. I'm gonna start with the 6-spot which was the least pay:
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> HIT.............PAY....FREQ....PAYBACKS%
> 3/6..............3.....7.70...//.3896103%
> 4/6..............7....35.04...//.1997716%
> 5/6.............29...323.04...//.0897721%
> BONUS ROUND......9...151.00...//.0596026%
> 6/6............400..7752.84...//.0515539%
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> BASE GAME PAYBACK.............//.7980502%
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> Wow! That's a pretty bad payscale. Better be something good to fade a drop like that.
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> 1% progessive with meter starting at $100. You can bet up to $2 but only have to bet 50 cents to qualify for the progressive.....but the meter isn't on hitting a solid six-spot....it's on catching 5/6 five times.
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> The frequency for hitting 5 out of 6 five times is 1615. Betting 50 cents the meter pays 200 bets. 200/1616=.123839%. So now we got the game up to 92.1889%. Then there is the 1% meter which brings the game up to about 93.2%.
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> Not anything I'm gonna play straight thru. I'm gonna use $110 as a par progressive number. There are five little blank icons at the top of the screen. When you make 5/6 it fills an icon in. When you make another 5/6 it fills another icon in, etc. When you get five icons you get the progressive.
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> So I walk into a joint, go up to a machine, punch the game up and see how many icons are filled in.
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> This is where I'm at according to how many icons are filled in using $110 as the par progressive number"
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> One icon to go................//148.9%
> Two icons to go...............//111.8%
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> It's the OPM principle....other peoples money. Their money filled those icons in, but they didn't finish the play. I finished it for them.
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