9, 10, A, J, K, Q

[Freeman]

My brain just popped up a question. Ive tried Google it and searching this forum, but found nothing.
So here we go: What does the symbols 9, 10, A, J, K, Q stand for/mean in the slots? I mean why is it specifically those numbers/letters and not just BUSTED or something. Its not even a royal flush 10, J, Q, K, A Strange I didn't think about this before, because Im a sucker for such useless info...

 

[vinylweatherman]

My brain just popped up a question. Ive tried Google it and searching this forum, but found nothing.
So here we go: What does the symbols 9, 10, A, J, K, Q stand for/mean in the slots? I mean why is it specifically those numbers/letters and not just BUSTED or something. Its not even a straight flush 10, J, Q, K, A Strange I didn't think about this before, because Im a sucker for such useless info...

It might be an Australian custom for slot games. In the UK we have used fruits, bells, and bars, and only recently have these symbols started turning up. They are the high cards in a suit, but are not represented as being of any suit on a slot. They are not "busted" either, but represent the low wins, whereas the decent wins come from symbols that fit the theme of the slot.

Maybe an Aussie will know why these symbols started getting put on slots, or "Pokies" as they are out there.

Try Googling "pokies" or "poker slots", and maybe this will bring you closer to an answer.

 

[BMWSTACK]

My brain just popped up a question. Ive tried Google it and searching this forum, but found nothing.
So here we go: What does the symbols 9, 10, A, J, K, Q stand for/mean in the slots? I mean why is it specifically those numbers/letters and not just BUSTED or something. Its not even a royal flush 10, J, Q, K, A Strange I didn't think about this before, because Im a sucker for such useless info...

Well lots of slots like to use the numeric card values. I think they just decided to stop at 9, maybe to have plenty of shitty payinging symbols rather than abuse us with really really really shitty paying symbols going from 8-2 . Actually I haveseen some slots that go down to the number 8.

 

[cpdnd31]

If i remember right in the USA it had to do with when the first slots were made. It was something about old west and card players that they were designed after. I thought I saw it on one of the cable channels. Talking about when gambling and slots first started.

 

[cpdnd31]

Here found some info I was right based on cards.

1891 and against the backdrop of the town of Brooklyn, in the recently-booming east coast New York City, Sittman and Pitt had just developed the gaming machine that in the years to come would be considered THE precursor to the modern slot machine. Based on poker, possibly to cash-in on the popularity of the game, the machine contained five drums carrying a total of fifty cards and like it’s namesake in the table-sitting world, it proved to be a popular hit with gambling players everywhere but especially in it’s home city of New York. At this time you would be hard-pressed to find a bar in the city that didn't have at least one of these machines standing at the side of the bar waiting for potential players to insert a nickel and press the lever in the hope of a good poker hand.

 

[quber]

One reason they keep them is that it is easier to see low pays and high pays on a slot, everyone knows that 9 is low and A is high and picture symbols are the top payers. when you get a new slot with all symbols it can take a while to recognise low and high wins.

Same with fruits we all know that cherries are low then lemons, oranges, plums etc .

 

[vinylweatherman]

One reason they keep them is that it is easier to see low pays and high pays on a slot, everyone knows that 9 is low and A is high and picture symbols are the top payers. when you get a new slot with all symbols it can take a while to recognise low and high wins.

Same with fruits we all know that cherries are low then lemons, oranges, plums etc .

Not always, but it can be a shock to the system to find that the three cherries you just got is the JACKPOT, and not the 30p you expected.

I suspect that with online slots, the card symbols were chosen in keeping with the main target market at the time, the USA. For UK players, it was a new concept, not a fruit to be seen on many. Now we have the online type of video slot in arcades. They have far higher stakes and prizes than traditional fruit machines, and seem to fill the gap between the "family arcade" and the casino hardcore gambling. The "family arcade" in terms of fruit machines is dying out. The current regulations mean that most former "family" fruit machines are now regarded as strictly 18+, and so children have to use things like penny push, penny drop, and refurbished fruities set to 10p and £5 jackpots as their introduction to the adult world of gambling.