Jackpots

Jackpots follows progressive jackpot slots: seed values after a hit, wide-area versus local meters, and whether the help file pro-rates the prize or demands a qualifying stake. A must-hit-by amount is treated as a deadline printed by the studio, not as a promise that the next spin pays it. Base-game features without a shared meter stay on the Slots rail.

Name a jackpot as wide-area or local, and date the meter

Meter captions need two facts or they are not captions. First, say whether the progressive is wide-area or local. A…

A wide-area jackpot is shared, and the casino that spun still pays

Wide-area progressive meters collect qualifying stakes from many casinos and show one shared figure. A local meter collects inside a…

After a jackpot hits, the seed is the next meter, not a missing prize

Seed values after a progressive jackpot hit are the amount the meter is built to show once the prize has…

A must-hit-by print is a deadline, not a late stake cue

Must-hit-by progressives print either a prize amount or a clock beside the meter, and that print is a deadline the…

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