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Persistence Every 10 Spins
Gold Egypt Grand, Golden Jungle, and Scarab triggered a boosted experience every ten spins. During spins one through nine, players accumulate value by hitting specific symbols. On spin ten, the spin includes all of the boosts landed from the first nine spins. This splits the player’s excitement into ten spin chunks … while also incentivizing a player to reach spin ten. The video below is from Fantini Research.
Collection Mechanic Converted to Wilds
In Coin O Mania, players collect symbols on each reel to spell out the word WILDS on the bottom of the reel set. Once the word is complete, the stacked coins add wilds, and wilds with multipliers, to the reel set. This machine seems fairly social mobile due to the amount of action, cartoony art, and high hit frequency. [pigeon_protect]
Hitting Chests unlock and distribute coins.
Adam Levine’s Guitar Hero
The bonus game in the singer Adam Levine IP machine simulates a Guitar Hero experience. While the bonus isn’t new, the presentation and adaptation to the theme is nicely done.
The bonus game includes three wheels that drop Guitar Picks to trigger a jackpot win and other boosts. This mechanic is very intuitive to players on how to win the progressive. The math is likely tuned so that players often receive two Guitar Picks but, if three wheels are triggered, rarely hit six. This generates near misses to the top progressive often (the progressive jackpot payouts are tuned .5x, 1x, 2.5x, 5.3x, 25.2x, 10x).
Players can pick the song they want played while spinning the machine.
The Three Price is Right Machines
IGT invested heavily in The Price is Right IP with three machines: 1) Plinko 2) Showcase, and 3) Showcase Showdown. Showcase Showdown combined a stepper machine with a massive display of a wheel. The video below is from Fantini Research.
Expanding Single Reels
IGT’s Innovation Labs machines include Griffin’s Throne, which expanded a single reel to a 12-high reel made of wilds, wilds x2, wilds x3, etc. In the base game, players often see near misses as the wilds outside of the reel set are unused … and, the 12-high reel serves as a preview of the free spins. During the free spins, the entire reel set becomes 12-high.
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