How to Play Online Slots

When real money online slots happened first in the mid-1990s, they just had a few reels and one pay line. Today, you can find a lot of online slots with 3 up to 5 reels with 1024 pay lines and of course, expensively animated sequences. There are even online slots that are based and built according to the latest Hollywood blockbusters.

Here are a few tips on how you can better play online slots.

Spinning the slot reels

Right after loading up on an online slot, you will be then presented with a game filled screen with reels. This will be your indication that you are now inside the game. Classic online slots have only three vertical reels. However, most modern video slots have 5.

Each reel will have upwards symbols of 20 to 25 which are all relevant to the slot’s them. The aim is to spin the reels and hit winning combinations of symbols as the reels come to a stop. The complicated thing is that with having a lot of symbols on the reels it can really add up to the millions of possibilities in hitting a jackpot. Or to put it simply— it is hard.

Bet sizing and pay lines

Before you even play a real money slot machine, you have to set the bet sizes and number of pay lines first. For lower variance fame, slots that appeal to smaller wallet will find betting that starts from $0.01 per line.

Afterwards, you can pick a number of coins you want to bet on a particular line. You can start betting from 1 to 10 coins per line. Then choose how many pay lines with combinations of symbols across the reels.

• Lea Schneider
• May 3, 2020