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Thanks @eejit101 regarding the slot teases query 🙂

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Hi Phil, and thanks for this Q&A thread.

My question is quite petty compared to most of the others on here.  No particular slot or provider, but I find that on a teasing spin, the 3rd scatter (or 4th if relevant) misses by 1 position, and my perception is that it happens a lot.  More so than any other type of tease where the 3rd/4th is nowhere to be seen.  So my question is: am I over-imagining this or are slots really programmed like this as a form of gambler’s fallacy to keep the player playing?

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I stick with 2 gambling sites and put a limit on both of them.  They used to be Videoslots and Royal Panda.  When Royal Panda stopped trading in the UK, I added William Hill so it was back up to 2 sites again.  I don’t go above 2 sites, because if I do, where does it stop?

For offline, I leave my cards behind because I can pay for everything using my phone and there is no way that you can gamble in a shop if you can’t access an ATM.  Then once a month, I will bring a card in for an arcade gamble.

So I still gamble, except it’s once a month on 2 sites and once a month in an arcade.  It means I can still do it, just in a more controlled way.

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The biggest change that happened for me was when the UKGC banned the roulette terminals in the bookies 4 years ago.  I never played bookies roulette but I did play on the fruit/slot machine style games in the arcades.  When the roulette ban came into force, the arcade machines started offering roulette games with a fortune spins.  It’s kinda like a bonus buy but you have to spin spin spin to get it (£1 or £2 at a time) until you get it.  Then this also made its way over to slot games and it was then that the slots became notedly worse for me.

The online side of things haven’t changed much for me though as most of the UKGC rules didn’t affect me except for autoplay.  I bust out in most months but I still get the odd 200X to 800X wins on the slots that I normally play on.  What I do miss though is being able to autoplay while grabbing a cup of tea to find that it has bonused itself when I came back to my PC.

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I’ve never had the bad gateway error, but the forum has never been able to keep me logged in, even if I tick the “keep me logged in” box.  If I come back the next day, I’m logged out again.  It has been this way for the entire time this site has existed.

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The immaturity in this thread is strong.

Not everyone are super-spellers.  As long as posters use the site’s main language ehich is English and the posts can be understood, then I think it’s a-ok.

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The Bandit used to run monthly competitions for people who have wagered on Video Slots, Energy Casino, Metal Casino, Betvictor and so on.  Prizes were usually in multiples of £100 up to £500 max.

With @Aldrizy12 suggesting win a pint, the top prize could be a day on the golf course with the Bandit plus a £100 bar tab at the golf club/bar afterwards.

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Pragmatic is kinda the “Apple” in slot-land.  Very pretty graphics and well made, but they tend the copy other studios… for the better or for the worse!

That Starlight Princess screenshot reminds me of Moon Princess / Moon Princess 100 a lot with the Sailor Moon thing going on.  A grid slot with increasing multipliers with 3 different princess characters.  There is also the Rise of Olympus version for the more masculine players 🙂

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The Bandit has said this in most of his videos – you can’t please everyone.  Just skip the bits that you don’t like.

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Please give Punk Rocker (Nolimit) a try.  Last night, I had the super feature (4 scatters) for the very first time.  On 50p, it went for £62.20, so only 124X.  I’m pretty sure that falls far behind whatever the bonus buy amount is.  Would be nice to see what Punk Rocker’s potential is.  On the standard 3 scatter feature, I once had over 400X.

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No he isn’t.

Sort out your browser cookies.

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Chips.

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I’ve never Gamstopped or Gambanned myself, but I did self-exclude from land based years ago.  That was from a time when cash was still used frequently.  COVID then turned us largely into a cashless society, so I don’t have this problem any more.  I can leave my cards at home, pay for everything with my phone and it means I don’t have to draw cash from an ATM to gamble away.

I find managing my gambling addiction online easier because I set a monthly limit and I only use 2 casinos.  It used to be Royal Panda and Video Slots, and when Royal Panda left the UK market, I switched that to William Hill and still use Video Slots to make it 2 casinos.

@Exgambler69 – as you have a history of addiction like myself and many others on here, I think try limiting the number of casinos and set a monthly limit on the casino’s site.  It will help against impulse gambling, knowing that it takes 7 days to raise or remove a limit, but setting a limit is instant.  Maybe try this for 2 months then see if it’s something you still enjoy.  Also, as you Gamstopped 5 years ago, a lot of changes have been brought in by the UKGC in that time.  Some I agree with such as not being able to reverse withdrawals and others I don’t agree with such as removing autoplay.  Banning bonus buys is inconsistent because you can’t buy a 50p/£50 (100X) feature any more, yet you can still put £50 worth of chips on the roulette wheel or Crazy Time etc.

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LOL – very good usage of Stable Diffusion Farrah 😀

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Get the double feature on Scruffy Duck.

A +5 +5 on Bonanza, so 22 free spins.

Reach level 5 on Flamebusters / Dragonhorn.

Get all 4 characters on Luchadora (so you get the 5th character).

Gamble to the top feature on Goonies / Goonies Return.

Get to the red wheel on Super Star Turns.

Get lady + elephant + temple on Thai Flower.

Get a Queen’s reel on White Rabbit.

Fill the middle grid on Danger High Voltage (Gates of Hell) and on Little Devil.

Reach 117,649 megaways on Return of Kong.

Get the gold bird on Dead Canary.

Get all of the upgrades on Jack and the Beanstalk / Goldilocks.

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