Casino slots have come a long way since the fruit machine in the bar.

Most casino games are pretty much the same today as they have been for many years but in the area of casino slots there has been a minor revolution since the early days of the fruit machine due mostly to the advance in electronics to not only control the reels but also to enable and recognise multiple winning lines. The original 3 reel, one winning line machines with fruit and Liberty Bell symbols, still known as one armed bandits by some, are still favoured by many mainly because it is easy to understand and identify a winning line but slots in casinos are offering casino slots with many more winning lines and reels and online casino slots are getting so complicated that it becomes impossible for the player to define a winning line. Slots in a casino usually have 3 or 5 reels but the maximum win lines are usually limited to lines drawn on the machine. Compare that to online slots where some (“Cashapillar” is a typical example) have 5 reels with 5 symbols showing on each reel giving a total number of combinations of symbols of 3125 of which 100 are winning combinations. If you had to check all 100 lines yourself it would be a very slow game but fortunately the electronics takes care of it for you. The most popular online casino slots are 5 reel with 3 symbols per reel showing which gives 81 possible combinations and generally there are between 15 and 25 winning lines. Another more simple way of doing it is to have as many winning lines as there are combinations of symbols. Ladbrokes has “Arctic Fortune” which is a 5 reel slot with 4 symbols showing per reel giving 1024 possible combinations. They advertise it as no winning lines but 1024 ways to win which is the same as 1024 winning lines but it is certainly much clearer when you have a winning line or lines.

Online casino slots really are great fun and you can choose from a wide variety of symbols and music as well as number of reels and winning lines and of course there are massive jackpots to be won.