Is it possible to know if a slot machine is going to pay?

Slots, the term by which slot machines are known, are one of the icons of gambling. They base their success on offering fast and direct action and allow anyone to enjoy rounds where luck has a lot to say.

Being so accessible, their popularity has been growing ever since these machines appeared in casinos all over the world, so it is normal to wonder how you can tell if a slot machine is going to pay out or not. Let's see.

Is it possible to know if a slot machine is going to give a prize? The keys

To know how close we can be to getting a slot machine prize, we must take into account all the factors that influence it. Although chance is very present and its weight is evident, there are also other factors that can help you to know if the prize of the slot machine you are on is close or not.

• RTP: Return To Player. This is a statistic that, if well studied, can be helpful to understand the long term probabilities that your slot machine has to pay out. This is represented by a percentage that is the rate of return to player, known as RTP. This numerical value indicates the amount of money the machine returns to players in relation to the total amount wagered in a given period of time. If, for example, we see that our machine has an RTP of 80%, it means that, on average, the slot machine returns 80 units for every 100 wagered.
• Randomness. If there is a casino game where randomness and chance have a special weight, it is slots. This randomness is given by a component: the RNG, Random Number Generator, an algorithm that guarantees that each spin is completely unpredictable.
• Volatility. Slot machines can be classified into three levels according to whether their volatility is low, medium or high. The higher the volatility, the lower the number of prizes per spin, although the rewards are usually higher than those of low volatility slots.
• Establish budgets per game. This can help you to stay active for a longer period of time, preventing you from losing more money than recommended. Thus, it will be easier for you to play without the risk of being left out, because if you play without budgets you can forget to measure your expenses in the game, and it is better not to get to that.

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The biggest slot machine jackpots

"Okay, that's all very well, but what I want to know is if I can predict if a slot machine is going to give a prize", you may think. The truth is that the heart of slots is made in such a way that it is impossible to predict when a slot machine is going to pay out. That is taken care of by the implemented algorithms, which guarantee randomness in all spins.

What do exist are indicators that can help you understand how close (or "hot") a slot can be, and they are the ones we have told you a few lines above. But these are statistical data that are often only a mere orientation, and are not at all representative of anything.

But knowing how to identify the signals that a slot can give when it is close to giving a prize is possible, if you have a trained eye and know how these machines work.

It has always been said that a physical slot machine, when it is about to give a prize, starts to emit strange noises, the buttons usually feel different when pressed and even, if the machine vibrates, it will stop doing it. That is because the bag of coins will be almost full, and that is the moment when the prize is approaching.

But these signals do not work for virtual slots. There are those who have reported that, when a slot machine is going to pay out soon in an online casino room, it starts to work less smoothly.

The game may even feel slowed down, although there are many reasons that can cause this outside this fact: overheating of the device by a high game time, failures in the Internet connection ... if all that is well, and the temperature of the device you use to play has not increased excessively, the slowdowns could be due to the machine is close to giving award. But be careful, it is not an exact science.

The most important thing is to always pay attention to the RTP of the machines, to know how often they pay. It is also interesting to know the number of lines of the machine, because the higher the number of lines, the more chances of forming combinations you will have.

The higher the number of lines, the more possibilities of forming combinations you will have.

We tell you all this because the biggest slot machine prizes have not been won by luck alone: they have been influenced by a series of factors that have led people like Amy Nishimura or Johanna Huendle to win some of the highest prizes ever.

Johanna Huendle won a prize of $22 million by betting $170, one of the biggest prizes in living memory. She won it with the jackpot system, which grows each round to increase the prize pool.

Amy Nishimura invested 100 dollars in coins and won a prize of almost 9 million dollars, another of the biggest slot machine prizes ever.

But not all the winners are well-known. Some have preferred to remain anonymous, such as the 60-year-old woman simply known as "Laurie" (possibly a nickname) who won nearly $4 million at the Hard Rock Hotel in Seminole.