King Cashalot

[Slotster!]

Well, it seems all the casinos are getting very excited about the progressive jackpot amount on this one!

I can't open my email without seeing another promo from XYZ casino telling me I'm just £2.25 away from becoming a millionaire!!

As I type, the latest email says it's at "£1,187,172 & rising"

Now I don't really ever play progressive slots online due to the lack of decent features and poor returns I've experienced in the past, but I might just go crazy and give this one a spin! Out of interest, anyone got any idea of the odds of lining those five kings up on the the relevant payline and hitting it big?...

P.S - How cool would it be if we could get the progressive hit screenshot posted up on the "winner screenshots" thread!

[KasinoKing]

Originally Posted by Slotster!

I can't open my email without seeing another promo from XYZ casino telling me I'm just £2.25 away from becoming a millionaire!!

As I type, the latest email says it's at "£1,187,172 & rising"

Two questions for anybody that knows!

1. As this mega-jackpot is generated across all MG casino's in one huge 'prize pool', how come the jackpot is $1,187,172 or £1,187,172 (depending which currency you play in) = vastly different amounts of cash?

2. I believe this machine can be played with different numbers of coins (?) - so is the chance of hitting the jackpot the same at min coins as it is at max coins?
(Should be if it is truly random)

[guesswest]

For question 2, it says in the paytable that the progressive is only payed when betting with max coins. So if you hit it with less coins you'd get the standard 15000x payout for 5 wilds (still pretty nice!).

Question 1 tho I don't know the answer to, and have always wondered this myself. In fact, IS it payable in any currency? Had occured to me that they might just pay it in $ regardless of account currency. Anyone know?

[guesswest]

Originally Posted by Slotster!

As I type, the latest email says it's at "£1,187,172 & rising"

Oops I should have read that more closely. Guess that means it does pay in £. Still intrigued how they do this tho.

[ergopro]

I read somewhere that the jackpot pays in the currency your account is set with...so if the jackpot shows 1million and you have a £ account, then it pays 1million £, and if you have a $ account...then it pays 1million $...strange but that's how it works...

[guesswest]

Originally Posted by ergopro

I read somewhere that the jackpot pays in the currency your account is set with...so if the jackpot shows 1million and you have a £ account, then it pays 1million £, and if you have a $ account...then it pays 1million $...strange but that's how it works...

Yep that bit we've got. Question is how is this jackpot funded, 1 million £ is almost twice as much money as 1 million $.......

[Simmo!]

I had a play on this one for the first time yesterday. Not a lot mind, but actually it wasnt a bad little slot. Some nice smaller hits between $40 and $150 to keep me going, ended up around even after 400 spins or so.

If its like Tstruck, then its probably 30 symbols a reel making the chances of the Jackpot on Line 9 1/30(n5) or 1 in 24.3 million if my maths is right and it was truly random.

However, MG slots are weighted, so who knows.

Cheers

Simmo!

[Slotster!]

or 1 in 24.3 million

I'm pressing the 'bet max' button with slightly less optimism than earlier! Heh hee...

[spearmaster]

The base currency used to be dollars, but is now pounds sterling because it is the most valuable as a single unit.

If it is hit in pounds, the winner gets the entire amount and the jackpot resets to the seed value (100,000).

If it is hit in any other currency, the winner gets the amount in the currency he is playing in, and the jackpot resets to the seed value plus the difference between pounds sterling and aforementioned currency.

Here's a good tip for you though. In my experience - watching, not winning - if a progressive does not reset to near seed value (ie the jackpot is not won in pounds sterling) another jackpot will fall shortly thereafter. I don't know why this is, but it's true, at least with the Microgaming jackpots.

[KasinoKing]

Originally Posted by spearmaster

Here's a good tip for you though. In my experience - watching, not winning - if a progressive does not reset to near seed value (ie the jackpot is not won in pounds sterling) another jackpot will fall shortly thereafter. I don't know why this is, but it's true, at least with the Microgaming jackpots.

If that's true - it's not random!