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 wide-area meter is fed by more than one casino. A local meter belongs to the site, or the bank, you are looking at. Second, say when you read the figure. A number copied from a screenshot taken yesterday is not the meter a player will see today. Hits reset meters to a seed overnight. Ordinary play moves them by a smaller amount. Either change makes yesterday wrong.

A screenshot from yesterday is a different cycle

The sentence that works is concrete. Wide-area meter on this title, read at the cashier’s casino at 14:00, stood at the figure then on screen. Local meter on that other title, same time, stood at its own figure, which may be far smaller. Do not write the jackpot without the scope word. Do not write the scope word without the time. A headline that says the jackpot is huge, attached to an undated image, will be false as soon as the cycle ends, and it may already have been a local meter that only looked large in the crop.

The desk line needs scope and time

Payment stays with the casino where the winning spin was placed, even on a wide-area pool. The caption can say that in one clause so readers do not go looking for a payout from a different site that merely shared the meter. Seeds belong in the follow-up: after a hit, report the seed as the new meter, and keep the pre-hit figure labeled as the award. GameNews Daily items that skip the wide-area or local word, or that recycle an old picture, are not finished. The live panel, read now, is the source of the figure you print.