How to Play Slots

The vast popularity of slot machines is probably due to the easiness with which they can be played. As winning on a slot machine is more down to luck than it is skill, it is possible for any player to get the large wins on slot machines regardless of as to whether they are seasoned players or first time players. This is due to the actions on the part of the player during the playing of the slot machine having little or no effect on the RNG (Random Number Generator), the device that actually dictates when the wins will occur.

So as our interaction has very little effect on the outcome of the game, we are really nothing more than spectators to our own game of slots once we have put in our money and done what ever is required to start the reels spinning.

At first, when slot machines were first introduced, they had three wheels and accepted coins. These coins had to be placed in the slot on the machine before each spin could be started and in those same days the reels were started by way of a lever that was pulled down. The same principles that applied to how to play those original machines still stand the same for the modern slots.

How to play slots today then, is the same as it has always been, first make payment and then start the reels, after which you can just stand back and watch as the machines do the rest of the work. The slots today may not need actual coins to be used but they still need ‘feeding’ somehow whether it is by card, token or credit. Also, you may not need to pull a handle to start the reels spinning but you still have to start them spinning somehow either by pressing, clicking or pushing. Some machines may have an auto mode which will mean that you only have to start the reels once and then they automatically keep spinning until you actually press, click or push something to make them stop. Obviously though, they will stop if they run out of ‘food’.