Slot machines in casinos generate the most money. In the late 90s, slot machine builder IGT introduced a new machine called Visions. They were simply already common everyday casino slot machines with an added feature, a bonus. Most of them came out as a monitor located somewhere in the upper section of the machine. Ninety percent of these machines were winnable slot machines. Yes, you can win at the slots. How do you ask? It was a secret that was actually a very simple concept.
A traditional slot machine has a random generator that kicks in and chooses the spin the moment your first credit is triggered. This is what determines what you hit on the payline and what the final percentages of the machines will be. Traditionally, the higher the denomination in a slot, the better the percentage that is set. So how do you win?
On an IGT Vision machine, the difference is this. The percentages on the payline are much lower than on a traditional machine. This is because part of the percentage is added to the Visions bonus. This bonus that is usually found on the video screen can be very different. Have you ever seen a picture of a cartoon with a cherry pie on a monitor on top of a cherry pie slot machine? Or a picture of a diamond mine that has a little cartoon screen flashing as you play. These are two of the many visions of IGT that we are discussing.
There are hundreds of different styles of whipped IGT Visions, Cherry Pie and Diamond Mine are two of the most popular machines here. As an example, we will go into the details of the diamond mine. The Diamond Mine (like almost all IGT visions) has a video screen on top. There will be 3 columns containing up to 10 diamonds each. The traditional version is on a Double Diamond machine. On the reels everything is the same except the added diamond. Not the Double Diamond emblems that represent 2x on the payline, but the actual graphics of a diamond. This diamond doesn’t count for anything on the pay line. You only add 1, 2 or 3 diamonds (depending on whether you bet 1, 2 or 3) in the columns above on the video screen when you hit a diamond on the adjacent reel.
When you get 10 diamonds in a column, you get 10 credits. There are simply 2 things you should know about a diamond mine.
1) How many diamonds should he already have? (How many diamonds are needed on the machine before you can play with a positive expectation)
2) How many coins do you need to bet on each spin? (This depends on the diamond pattern divided into the 3 columns.)
Diamond Mine is one of the least volatile slot machines that can be won (the bonus comes very quickly) of all the Visions and therefore it is one of the most popular among ‘Hustlers’ who have a short bankroll. We will provide a link below to a website with the complete information.
One last note:
If you’ve ever played a lot of slots, I bet this happened to you. You noticed that it seemed like every time you were on certain machines, someone was on your shoulder watching you play. If it was an IGT Vision, chances are there was! These are the guys who knew about this a long time ago and the same people who eventually caused many to be kicked out of the casinos. They would tell their friends about it until so many people knew that they would literally almost erupt into a fight when a machine was left with a “full bonus”.
Those days are behind us, which is honestly a good thing for someone trying to just have a good time and not spend all their money at the casino. The reason they are gone is that today there are much less easy to win slot machines in casinos, so there are far fewer people doing it today.
