Slot terms / What's what on a slot machine? / The Great Slots Dictionary

Players who enjoy playing at a legal online casino for fun know it. Online slots and online video slots have brought their specific terminology into the casino world. The so-called slot jargon. Or: closing terms. If you are a novice casino player, it can be useful to know what all those words mean when playing an online slot machine. We at the online casino Goldrun Casino, you know us, are happy to shine a light on you in this online Casino Goldrun Casino guide: what is what on a slot machine? That is a very good question… Read along with us!

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The so-called Avalanche Series has become known through the popular online slot Gonzo's Quest from NetEnt. The winning symbols on your slot machine explode or are otherwise happily wiped away and replaced by others. This can lead to an impressive streak of consecutive wins (but it doesn't have to). When playing a slot nothing is ever certain except the RTP, Return to the Player, the RNG, Random Number Generator, and the slot's so-called volatility, see below ).

An expanding wild is a wild that expands over the entire reel on which the wild, the wild, falls. A very well-known expanding wild is the joker of the online slot game Starburst from NetEnt. The wild card of Netent's Starburst expands and then you score another free re-spin. In addition to expanding wilds, there are also expanding symbols, and expanding regular symbols.

A feature on a slot is a bonus game on a slot machine. You usually win bigger prizes during the feature on a slot machine than in the regular role-playing game. To win the feature, you usually have to spin a few specific feature symbols on your online slot. Sometimes the following applies: the more feature symbols you spin, the longer your bonus round on your slot lasts. On many online slots, feature symbols are called scatter symbols.

It is sometimes possible to extend your bonus game on an online video slot. Spin several feature symbols again during the feature and you have a longer party!

Free spins are free spins on an online slot. You can score free spins in several ways. You can get free spins from an online casino. Often so-called bonus conditions are attached to this. You can also get free spins when the feature drops. There are no conditions attached to those free spins. Many online casinos give away free spins as a bonus to loyal players. Free spins are one of the most popular online casino bonuses out there.

A classic online slot machine means a slot as you used to play it in an arcade hall. Well-known Dutch classic slots are, for example, the Random Runner, the Club 2000 and the Old Timer. And hey, you can now also play them all online at Goldrun Casino. You can find all the classic online slots from Goldrun Casino in our casino section 'Classic Slots'. On most classic slots you play with a limited number of pay lines, for example, 3. The number of reels is also often limited to three and the reels feature well-known, old-fashioned slot symbols such as a cherry, a lemon, an orange and a melon. Or that good old familiar bag of money.

Playing with Megaways is an invention of slot designer Big Time Gaming (BTG). You can (also!) play the best slots from Big Time Gaming at Goldrun Casino. Playing with the principle of the mega ways means that you no longer play with traditional reels on a slot and with fixed pay lines. The reels of a Megaways slot can shrink and grow each spin. There are therefore a different number of symbols on the reels per spin. It may sound a wee bit complicated and a wee bit weird, but rest assured, it's not. Spin a few times on a Megaways slot and you will know and see how it works. The most famous and one of the very first Megaways slots was the well-known, popular online slot Bonanza from, yes, Big Time Gaming. Other very popular Megaways slots are Buffalo King Megaways (from game maker Pragmatic Play ), 88 Fortune Megaways (you know 88 Fortune from the physical locations of Holland Casino) and Spartacus Megaways from Scientific Gaming. With us, at the online casino Goldrun Casino, you also play Multiways slots in addition to Megaways slots. That is a variant of playing with Megaways. The Multiways method can only be found on the online slots of the Dutch game developer Holland Power Gaming, HPG. Popular Multiways slots from HPG are Double Gold Multiways and Golden Joker Multiways.

A multiplier on a slot is a multiplier. Your prize will be paid twice. Or triple. Or tenfold. It's all possible in an online casino!

A progressive jackpot on an online slot machine is a jackpot that keeps growing until the jackpot hits. At Goldrun Casino, for example, we have our special and exclusive Goldrun Casino Mystery Jackpot. The Goldrun Casino Mystery Jackpot only falls in our online casino, so you have a relatively higher chance of winning the jackpot. Progressive jackpots are completely random. It is often the case that the more you bet, the greater the chance that you will catch it. But you know: never play above your budget and let playing a game remain a game. Winning a jackpot is great fun, but unfortunately, you can never count on winning a progressive jackpot.

The reels of online slots, but also the reels of the slots in the physical locations of Holland Casino, for example, all run thanks to the Random Number Generator, the abbreviation for which is RGN. A Random Number Generator – RNG – is a computer program that determines completely 100% randomly, so independent of what you do or what you don't, whether your spin is profitable. Or not. Be aware: you do not influence this yourself.

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An online slot, but also the slot machines and slot machines in the physical locations of Holland Casino, for example, run using a Random Number Generator, an RGN. A Random Number Generator is a computer program that determines completely randomly, so independent of what you do or what you don't, whether a spin is profitable. Or not. Be aware: you do not influence this yourself. Once you have pressed the start button of an online slot machine, the computer, the RNG, then determines whether you win or not and if you win, how much (or how little) money you win. You can see for yourself how much profit an online slot in an online casino theoretically pays out, measured over a lot of playing time. You can tell by the number called RTP. RTP stands for Return To Player. Any online slot and any online video slot that has a Return to Player (RTP) of 97% or more is a relatively attractive slot to play. We at Goldrun Casino strive to adjust our online slots and slots as much as possible to an RTP of at least 97%. We state the RTP of each slot machine loud and clear at our online casino Goldrun. You can already see the RTP if you just move your mouse over a slot that you want to play with us. As mentioned, we are an honest online casino. The best-paying slot machine, in theory, is the online slot Book of 99 (Relax Gaming) with an RTP of 99%.

What are Scatter Symbols on a Slot? Scatter symbols do not and never have to be on a pay line to win. That's one. Usually, at least three 3-scatter symbols that fall into view during one spin activate the feature, the bonus round of the slot. That's two. A very well-known feature symbol is, for example, the golden book and the golden tomb on the online slot Book of Dead from game maker Play 'n Go. Often enough scatter symbols will award free spins.

Many online slots share a jackpot. We call those jackpots 'shared jackpots' or 'pooled online jackpots'. A shared, online jackpot. These jackpots grow faster, but there is a downside. They can fall in all online casinos that offer the shared jackpot. The chance that you win such a large jackpot is therefore smaller than if you, for example, set your sights on winning the Goldrun Casino Mystery Jackpot. A very well-known pooled online jackpot slot worldwide is Mega Moolah from game maker Microgaming.

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A slot tournament works as follows. An online casino has a bonus promotion. For instance. You have to play on a certain online slot machine. Whoever spins the most spins on that online slot or gets the most winnings within a certain time will earn an extra prize or extra prizes. The slot does not pay those prizes, but the online casino in question. Sometimes there are very nice prizes to be won during slot tournaments, such as holidays, televisions, cash or bonus money. Many slot tournaments are free. Very occasionally you have to pay a slot tournament fee. We at Goldrun Casino say to you: then it must be a very good slot tournament! If you understand what we mean.

Symbols that are stacked on the reels of an online slot are stacked on top of each other on the reel. This allows you to win nicely during one spin if you are successful.

Sticky wilds are 'sticky' wilds that remain for an x number of consecutive spins.

Do you want to play for a long time on a slot machine in an online casino with your budget? Then it is probably best to choose online slots with low volatility and low variance. A low variant means many small prizes that fall often. Highly volatile slots, if you are successful, give higher prizes, but those (high) prizes fall at a slower rate. An example of a highly volatile slot is Book of Dead from game maker Play 'n Go. You play Book of Dead at Goldrun Casino.

Online video slots are online gambling games that, in principle, can have an – virtually – unlimited number of pay lines. Video slots usually also have more bonus functions (features), such as wilds (jokers) and multipliers (multipliers), than so-called classic slot games, such as classic slots.

Walking Wilds are jokers that spin from left to right, per spin, out of the picture.

A wild symbol on a slot machine is a wild card and almost always counts for any symbol except the scatter symbol.