Machines To Look For

Useful information for playing some of the most popular banking games except slots is provided below. The playing advice is as current as I could make it, but be aware that manufacturers frequently modify their machines and you should try to verify that the game you are considering is the same one as described. Applying the following suggestions does not guarantee that you will be money ahead every time you play an advantageous machine, but only that your long-term average will be profitable.

Bingo Strategy

This is exactly like the game using cardboard bingo cards (you do know how to play bingo, don’t you?). The video screen displays five reels that represent the five columns on a standard bingo card. Most of the time, the machine plays like any five-reel video game, but every so often a bingo ball appears on one of the columns and the machine will draw a bingo number. This continues until the selected bingo configuration is completed, whereupon a bonus round determines how many credits have been won. Study the paytable to learn how to identify the various bingo configurations.
Bet one credit per spin on one payline if you find a game in which the bingo is at least half finished. Although Bingo has five paylines, the bingo ball does not have to fall on a line to be valid. Cash out when the banked bonus is won.

Boom Strategy

This game banks firecrackers and awards the bonus when fifty are accumulated. Although it is a five credits-per-payline, nine-payline game, don’t ever bet forty-five credits. Bet one credit on one payline when you find a game with at least thirty firecrackers lined up across the top of the screen. Cash out when the banked bonus is won.

Chuck Wagons Strategy

In this game of racing chuck wagons, if “Your Wagon” reaches the bonus area before “Their Wagon” finishes, you collect the banked bonus. The race distance is seventy miles. Bet maximum credits per spin when you find a game in which “Your Wagon” has gone at least thirty miles and “Their Wagon” is at least 25 percent behind “Your Wagon.” Cash out when the banked bonus is won.

Diamond Thief Strategy

This is a rather complex three-reel game with the ultimate goal of filling all nine compartments of a case with diamonds, six diamonds per compartment, for a total of fifty-four diamonds. Bet one credit per spin when you find a game that needs no more than five diamonds to completely fill the case. Cash out when the banked bonus is won.