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Wheel of Fortune Slots
 The Wheel of Fortune
One of the most popular types of micro gaming is the progressive jackpot. A progressive jackpot is a large jackpot at gambling machine, often a slot machine or video poker, where the total worth of the jackpot increases in small increments for every game that is played. In most cases, multiple machines are linked together to form one large, progressive jackpot that tends to grow pretty quickly because numerous players are helping contribute to the linked progressive jackpot concurrently. Micro gaming software is designed to facilitate this at online casinos.
Most micro games display the jackpot amount on a money value meter near the top. The jackpot can usually only be won by hitting the grouping with the highest payoff – such as a royal flush on a video poker game, or five of the most valuable symbols, like cherries, lemons, or frogs, on a slot machine game. Once a player hits the jackpot, the prize then resets to a minimum level that is predetermine by the casino or micro gaming site. This is known as the preset jackpot starting point, and can range from a few hundred dollars all the way up to millions of dollars. The sum of the jackpot keeps growing a little bit every time someone plays on a machine connected to the network. The micro gaming software sets the amount that the progressive jackpot raises to each time.
The gaming industry has increasingly embraced progressive slot machines because of their enormous popularity. One extremely well liked example is the Wheel of Fortune Las Vegas slot machine game, named after the long-running television game show. This is one of the many Mega Jackpot lines of slot games and can range from penny to $5 slots. Mega Jackpots are created by IGT, the same company that originally developed the ultra-popular Megabucks series. Mega Jackpot machines have awarded over $3 billion in jackpots and have made several hundred people millionaires. The Wheel of Fortune slot machines run on the popular Game King - AVP platform. The configuration of the progressive slot machine for Wheel of Fortune Las Vegas slots is 5 reels, 30 lines and 400 credits.
The Wheel of Fortune Las Vegas slot machine has eight pointers on its top of the box wheel device. Local and wide area progressives are available with most games. Overall, this is a multi-level progressives system game. The widespread popularity of the Wheel of Fortune game show makes this slot in high demand for most casinos. Two 23-inch LCD screens provide excellent video graphics and sound. A special bell rings when a player enters the progressive bonus. There are four local progressive levels and a fifth level that is part of a larger linked progressive system. When a player enters one of these levels, the LCD shows the meters for the jackpot amounts. When it comes to game play on the Wheel of Fortune Las Vegas game, players can wager up to eight credits per pay line with a special 20 credit side bet allowed on penny slots. Each credit that is bet per line gives the player control of another point on the wheel. The progressive jackpot is won when the maximum bet is wagered and five Wheel of Fortune symbols appear on the first pay line. The record jackpot for a Wheel of Fortune Slots machine was over $11 million at the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas, NV, in May of 2004. For nickel slots, it was just over $3 million at the Menominee Casino Bingo Hotel in Keshena, WI, in July of 2001.
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