Tracking Slot Daily Jackpot Drop Times – Is It a Real Strategy?

[dunover]

Just wondered as I don't play these 'Daily Jackpot' casinos myself or the slots they are attached to don't interest me.

So have any forum members ever won these daily/weekly guaranteed prizes which tend to be in the hundreds up to a few K on each slot?

Is it possible to get a feel for these time-sensitive prizes and make a consistent profit, or have regular wins via your own strategy?

The mind boggles...

 

[mulven]

Just wondered as I don't play these 'Daily Jackpot' casinos myself or the slots they are attached to don't interest me.

So have any forum members ever won these daily/weekly guaranteed prizes which tend to be in the hundreds up to a few K on each slot?

Is it possible to get a feel for these time-sensitive prizes and make a consistent profit, or have regular wins via your own strategy?

The mind boggles...

Memory is a bit hazy but I think when these first came out and were on William Hill etc, if the time had passed a certain point it became advantagous to play or something along those lines.

They've probably changed how they work since then though.

 

[dunover]

I never got into the idea myself but did see them mentioned here in a few treads.

 

[Siohmy]

Well in Vegas when there is a must be won by a certain amount progressive the machine randomly sets a value between the seed value and must be won value when the JP is won. Only the slot knows when that is as it is an encrypted value that not even the casino or even the operators know. A perfectly fair way to do things.
The fact that the online casinos use a time based must be won by and the fact they use all the dirty tricks elsewhere to keep you playing make me skeptical that they strictly use the same technique but if they do then the time is picked at random when the JP resets and then given to a random slot when the time is right, maybe based on stake being played, maybe not.
I suspect though, that this may not be quite how this is done as I’m guessing the JP is probably won nearer the end of the JP window than the beginning, you know, keep the punters punting and all that.

 

[Reelsoffun]

On the one I had dealings with, the chance of hitting the daily is random, however it’s very unlikely to go early as the chance gets easier the nearer to the end of day.

I can’t give details due to NDA’s etc, but as an example the first hr could be 1 in 100 trillion, 12 hrs into the day it might be down to 2 trillion by the last hour maybe 1million and then easier every minute right down to 1 minute might be like 1 in 10 on the last few seconds it would be a case of who presses the button first for a 1 in 1 chance

Depending on the provider, this makes them very rare to go before the last hr or so but is technically possible.

 

[Kroffe]

On the one I had dealings with, the chance of hitting the daily is random, however it’s very unlikely to go early as the chance gets easier the nearer to the end of day.

I can’t give details due to NDA’s etc, but as an example the first hr could be 1 in 100 trillion, 12 hrs into the day it might be down to 2 trillion by the last hour maybe 1million and then easier every minute right down to 1 minute might be like 1 in 10 on the last few seconds it would be a case of who presses the button first for a 1 in 1 chance

Depending on the provider, this makes them very rare to go before the last hr or so but is technically possible.

I kind of assumed those timed jackpots would work like that.
Tried for a bit to hit one of those hourly jackpots that Red Tiger had on some sites, dont think i ever saw one go the first 30 minutes, and most went the last 5 minutes.

Playing the last 10 minutes every hour would probably be a decent strategy for those hourly ones.
Of course betsize also affects your chances but its usually vaguely described how it works.
Is a £1 spin 10 times more likely than a 10p spin to hit the jackpot, who knows... maybe?

Transparency and slots do not go hand in hand.

 

[dunover]

Yes, that's what I always thought, it's counter-intuitive for the casinos and game providers to let the jackpots drop too early. They would rely on rising participation as the time got nearer, otherwise you would be leaving 'dead slots'.

 

[Reelsoffun]

TBH, I don’t like the format and even told my boss at the time that they not great, many players wouldn’t or shouldn’t touch the games till last hr or if it had gone with time spare no player in their right mind would play it until the following day.

Seemed totally strange to me to design a slot with a dynamic that should and does put players off playing it 96% of the day eg only a 1hr window a day….but they have stuck with it so it must make money, and maybe I just underestimated how many idiot players there really are LOL.

 

[Siohmy]

Yep, this somewhat weighted mechanic is utter dogshite. Technically possible to win the hourly/daily jackpot early in the same way that technically Bonanza has an “unlimited” multiplier.
When Vegas is ahead of you on the ethics front you know you’re in the seventh level of hell!

 

[kg2025]

I kind of assumed those timed jackpots would work like that.
Tried for a bit to hit one of those hourly jackpots that Red Tiger had on some sites, dont think i ever saw one go the first 30 minutes, and most went the last 5 minutes.

Playing the last 10 minutes every hour would probably be a decent strategy for those hourly ones.
Of course betsize also affects your chances but its usually vaguely described how it works.
Is a £1 spin 10 times more likely than a 10p spin to hit the jackpot, who knows... maybe?

Transparency and slots do not go hand in hand.

I hit the hourly one for 800 quid before playing bloodsuckers, if was about 5 mins to go till the hour was up . Tbh I stopped playing all them games because they rarely pay out

 

[09237653]

I used to play the red tiger daily ones on mrq in the final mins before they dropped if they were still not won, never hit it of course and they eventfully got rid of the daily jackpot versions.

UK players are probably at a disadvantage due to spin speed (no turbo modes) and autoplay (can easily play 10 games at once)

 

[TheAddict]

TBH, I don’t like the format and even told my boss at the time that they not great, many players wouldn’t or shouldn’t touch the games till last hr or if it had gone with time spare no player in their right mind would play it until the following day.

Seemed totally strange to me to design a slot with a dynamic that should and does put players off playing it 96% of the day eg only a 1hr window a day….but they have stuck with it so it must make money, and maybe I just underestimated how many idiot players there really are LOL.

I suppose a chunky portion of its players are the same returning punters. A seasoned daily jackpot chaser will probably be aware that the higher the betsize the higher the chance of hitting the monster, as Kroffe pointed out above. I Think I recall @trancemonkey may have once also explained that this is generally how it works. each 10p or whatever the minimum bet size, counting for 1 ticket. So doing a £1 spin instead of a 10p spin effectively means getting 10 tickets at once.

Anyway, yeah, I think the seasoned chasers who do use higher bet sizes during optimal periods, would somewhat cover the quiter, morning periods. Only 1 person is going to hit it when it's ripe, so everyone else who is betting higher than they might elsewhere only for the specific reason of having a slightly improved statistical chance to hit the monster, are often going to get their wallets drained on such high stakes due to the dire rtp in the base game eating all the other players alive. That's alot of drained wallets every evening.

Having a slot like this will also keep players who enjoy the design of it, returning daily, to check the pots or to play during ripe hours. Each time they do this, they also then have the annoyingly irresistible option to lose more money on other games.

 

[09237653]

Dailies are probably all swiped by massive betters, a few grand win is nothing to somebody playing at 20.00 a spin low rollers likely have next to zero chance of last min winning a daily.