--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Bartop" wrote:
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> I listened to the whole show, I still don't know what they're talking about. What the heck is a "mystery slot" or "mystery progressive" or whatever it was they were talking about? I seldom play slots, but I walk around and I'm pretty familiar with most of the slots, or what they look like. So what were they talking about? Can someone describe one or two of them for a poor dummy like me? What do they look like? What's the mystery?
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Bob, I think you are familiar with Quick Strike. That's a form of a "mystery slot" or "mystery progressive" that Listen is referring to. He's actually using a generic term to describe all of the various forms these slots come in.
I always called it Lucky Coin Bonus System because that's what the name was on the first of these machines I encountered, which was at the Mandalay Bay opening in 1998. The program was introduced by Acres Gaming. Back then the games were 2 coin quarters, 2 coin dollars, 2 coin $5, with meters that ran from 2% to 5%. There were about a half dozen linked banks of machines. Mandalay Bay removed the system after about two months and that's the last time I ever encountered a mystery slot with a 5% meter.
To find these machines you have to walk through the casino looking for all slot progressives. Then you have to take another look to see if there is a cap on the progressive. For Quick Strike the machine will show something like: Range $25 - $50. These so called mystery slots come in various forms. The Jumbo Jackpot at the Stations Casinos was one form.
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