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NEW GAME REVIEW by Frank Legato
Wheel of Fortune Mystery Link IGT
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GT continues to celebrate this year’s 25th anniversary of its venerable Wheel of Fortune franchise with Mystery Link, available with the inaugural base games of Lucky Pandas and Enchanted Tigers. The base games are five-reel, 243-ways-to-win video slots. Both games are available on the manufacturer’s PeakSlant 49 with Wheel cabinet, which places the familiar bonus wheel above a 49-inch curved monitor. The engaging, color-rich art package elevates the chance for free games, “moneyball” pointer symbols, and jackpot symbols. The special Mystery Link feature is triggered when six or more colored pointers land on the screen with either a jackpot name on it or a color-coded question mark. Each of the five colors relates to a pointer on the five-pointer wheel. When the mystery link is triggered, the number of pointers awarded lights up on the wheel and the player is prompted to spin it. When it stops, the question marks fill in with money values from the corresponding wheel pointer colors. The player then begins three respins, and each time a pointer symbol lands, the respins reset to three. If all 15 reel positions are filled in at the end of the respins, the digital wheel flips over to reveal a jackpot-only wheel where players are guaranteed to win one of the five jackpots.
Manufacturer: IGT Platform: PeakSlant 49 with Wheel Format: Five-reel, 243ways-to-win video slot Denomination: .01, .02, .05, .10 Max Bet: 150 Top Award: $10,000 Hit Frequency: Approximately 40% Theoretical Hold: 4.91%-14.91%
Lucky O’Reilly AGS
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his new video slot on the AGS Orion Curve cabinet is part of the Coin Bonanza game family, which utilizes the company’s “Cash on Reels” feature, which places coin symbols bearing credit amounts as reel symbols. The base game is a five-reel, 50-line video slot featuring a fiveby-five reel array. The main Coin Bonanza bonus is a mystery feature that can appear at the start of any spin in either the primary game or on free spins. The feature drops a random number of Cash on Reels coin symbols to the reel array, and pays the accumulated total of adjacent symbols. Three, four or five scattered bonus symbols trigger eight, 12 or 20 free games, respectively. Free games can be retriggered. There are three levels of progressive jackpot, each won with five jackpot symbols on a payline. The Minor progressive resets at $100; the Major, at $800; and the top Grand, $10,000.
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Global Gaming Business AUGUST 2021
Manufacturer: AGS Platform: Orion Curve Format: Five-reel, 50-line video slot Denomination: .01, .02, .05, .10, .25, .50, 1.00 Max Bet: 750 Top Award: Progressive; $10,000 reset Hit Frequency: 31.9% Theoretical Hold: 3.33%-14.02%
