Bonus: It is a specialized condition in a particular theme of the game. Whenever certain symbols emerge in a combination that wins the player many points, this special condition of a bonus is reached. When a player gets a bonus, he will be presented with the option of choosing a few from the several items that appear on the screen. According to which items the player has chosen, certain credits points are shown and awarded. A few bonuses use mechanical devices like spinning wheel, which works in a particular combination with the bonuses, so that the winning amount is displayed.
Candle: It is a kind of light which is situated at the topmost portion of a machine of slot. When it flashes, the operator is alerted. Its flashing might refer to a number of occasions, like a situation when changes are required, or it might be a request for hand pay, or it might also indicate a possibility of a problem in machine.
Carousel: This is a term used to refer to slot-machines assortment, commonly either in a circular fashion or an oval order.
Coin hopper: It is a kind of container holding only those coins which are readily available for payout. When a player presses the “Cash Out” button, this hopper, which is a form of mechanical apparatus, rotates the coins in the tray of coins (known as coin tray) for the player to collect credits/coins. Excess coins are dropped into the “drop bucket” or “drop box”, as a coin diverter transmits in an automatic way, when a particular coin capacity, that had been set previously, is reached.
Credit meter: It is a LED screen with a visual display of money-amount or the machine-credits.
Drop box, or drop bucket: It’s a type of container situated at the base of the slot machine. The coins which are in excess are sidetracked into it from the coin hopper. Drop-bucket is usually employed where the slot machine is of low denomination, while it is drop-box which is preferred in cases of slot machines with high denominations. A lid which is hinged and is provided with the facility of one lock or more is attached to the drop box, but no such lid is found in the drop bucket. The fillings of the drop-buckets and even those of the drop-boxes are gathered on a regular basis. The casino then keeps a count of it.
EGM: is the abbreviation used for a particular term. E stands for “Electronic”, G stands for “Gaming”, and M stands for “Machine”.
Hand-pay: This term is used to indicate a payout that has been done by an attendant of slot-machine or cage, and not by the machine. The highest amount is always pre-fixed by slot machine operator at that level from which he would be deducting taxes. If the payout exceeds this amount, the situation of hand-pay occurs. Also in cases where the payment of the slot machine falls short, a hand pay is the only solution.
Hopper-slip(Hopper fill Slip): A document intended to record coin replenishments of in coin hopper once it becomes ineffective because of player payouts. The slip indicates total number of coin located in the hoppers, the employees’ signatures that have been used in transaction, slot machine no., location and date.
M.E.A.L-book: It stands for machine(M) entry(E) authorization(A) log(L). It is a register that monitors the entries that the employees make in to the slot machine.
Low Levels Slot Machines , or Slant Top Machines of Slot: A stool is provided with these kind of slot machines, so that one may sit while playing. In case of Stand Up Slot Machines or the Upright ones, one has to stand while playing.
Optimal play: This term refers to a particular percentage of the payback, and it is decided on the basis of the best possible line of attack used by a gambler in a game of slot based on skill.
Payline: It is a line which is straight or zigzag in alignment. It passes through one particular symbol on every reel, and based on this pattern the combination for winning is assessed. Normally there are up to nine paylines in the classic reel machines which operate on spin spinning, whereas the number of such paylines in slot machines with video may well over be one hundred.
Reel: It is that part of the slot machine which has a cylindrical core and the walls on its side are used to maintain the material coiled around the core.
Rollup: This is a special feature of certain slot machines. Through this procedure a win is dramatized playing different kinds of sounds, and the winning amount is counted by the meter.
Short pay: On certain occasions coin-hopper gets depleted owing to previous payouts made to players, and fails to make the full payment to a player who has played later and won. This partial payout by the slot machine is known as short pay. In such cases, residual amount owed to player is sometimes paid as handpay, or we have the attendant refilling the machine.
Tilt: This term refers to any kind of mechanical failure in the slot machine, such as a faulty state of the door switch, or a failure in the reel motor, or such other breakdowns. Though the modern slot machines no more possess tilt switches like their older mechanical counterparts, the term tilt is still in use.
Theoretical(T)-Hold(H)-Worksheet(W) i.e. THW: The manufacturers of all kinds of slot machines provide a document which theoretically signifies the percentage that should be held by the machine of slot estimated on the basis of sufficient coin-in levels. This document is called the Theoretical-Hold-Worksheet. Other specific information relevant to the particularities of a slot machine, like the settings of reel strip, the amount of coins to be played, schedule of payout and the reel numbers, are also mentioned in this document.
Weight count: (American term) It refers to dollar equivalent of token and coins taken out of the slot machines drop bucket (boxes) and then counted by casino's hard team by using the weigh scale.