Bonus Slots

Certain online slot games have bonus features that could be the difference between you liking an online slot and loving them. You can learn more about Bonus Slots in the section by reading on, or you can skip all that by clicking on the games below to learn more about our recommended bonus slots:

• The Great Galaxy Grab
• Tomb Raider – the Secret of the Sword
• Hitman
• The Rat Pack
• Cashanova

Some online slots solely use the reels to produce wins, sometimes with the inclusion of wild and scatter features. Such games tend to produce more frequent wins and are favoured by slot purists. However, bonus slots have become increasingly popular recently and now players can enjoy off-screen bonus games, free spins, multipliers and much more. These have got increasingly complicated of late but essentially they remain made up of similar triggering and reward mechanisms (i.e. free spins, off-screen bonus game etc). Such games may focus big wins largely on the bonuses alone, where the reels are largely there just to trigger them. However, some have a balance between the two.

 

Freespin based bonus slots are favoured by the Australians, whereas Americans prefer bonus game slots. There is no particular preference for UK casino slot players but may swap online slots for fruit machines – a UK style slot that includes skill-based features too. Get more information about online fruit machines.

A term that is normally associated with 5 reel slot is ‘video slot’. Technically all online slots are video slots because they are not made up of mechanical parts but powered by computer based algorithms (know as Random Number Generators). However, the term has stuck and is used to define an online slot where the reels appear flat and not as reels. This is typical in 5 reels machines. Additionally, the term video slot can refer to the additional bonus features these games offer that are typically not available in 3 reel online slot games or in offline machines.

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