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If you are a slots fan then you'll likely have heard about how popular progressive slots are. These are the games which are targeted every hour by thousands of players, all hoping that they will be 'the one' who wins the jackpot.
Well, they are certainly going to have to go some to match the amount won by Crewe resident Jon Heywood back in early October when his 25p stake earned him a stunning £13.2m jackpot win on the fantastic Mega Moolah progressive jackpot slot as reported on the official MegaMoolah.com website.1
However, how is it possible for someone to place the lowest possible wager on a slot such as Mega Moolah and win the progressive jackpot, when players who have been spending far more per spin have not struck lucky?
It can be confusing because there are no hard and fast rules when it comes to progressive slot gaming.
How progressives can be won
Almost every slot player will know that progressive jackpot games work off the premise that a small percentage of the wager paid by each player on every spin is added to the progressive jackpot fund, allowing it to grow over time. What is generally accepted is then one lucky player will spin a certain sequence of symbols across the reels (or in a subsequent bonus game) which will trigger the progressive jackpot payout to that person.
It all sounds rather simple and in that sense, it very much is. But what is more confusing is the different rules that some progressive slots operate compared to others when it comes to which players are eligible for the big progressive win.
For example, in the hugely popular slot game Major Millions, only players who bet the maximum amount of 3.00 coins per spin are eligible to win the progressive jackpot. This is not an uncommon rule for slot players and it is partly the reason why many progressive slots have a "bet max" button, which means that players know there spin will qualify for the progressive jackpot if they are lucky enough.
In one sense, this seems fair because it means those players who spend more money per spin playing games like Major Millions, and thus contribute more to the progressive slot fund, are the ones who will have the chance of winning the big progressive jackpot.
However, the flip side of this argument is that many slot players feel that playing slots like Major Millions, or other slots that operate a progressive jackpot only available to Bet Max players, is not worth the effort unless you are prepared to bet max.
This means that many players who do not want to bet the maximum amount of 3.00 coins (or whatever the max bet value is) per spin, have a disincentive to play the slot as they are not going to win the big prize with the level of bet they are happy to make.
As such, this is a problem for casinos who want to give all players a chance to play for a massive progressive jackpot prize, regardless of how much they wager on a bet, however the casino realizes that in doing this, they need a system which will reward players that bet a larger amount.
That is precisely why the Mega Moolah jackpot differs to many other progressive jackpot games around the world.
Why Mega Moolah is different
So how does Mega Moolah operate it's progressive jackpot system? Well there's actually two distinct aspects to this, but let's begin with the part that is less well understood and that is the notion of tying how much you wager into your chances of triggering the progressive jackpot prize.
What happens on Mega Moolah is that every spin you make of the reels on any version of the game, regardless of how many pay lines is or what the Max Bet is on the slot, could potentially be a progressive jackpot winner.
That is because the amount you wager on the slot is directly linked to the chance you have of triggering the Jackpot Wheel (the method Mega Moolah uses to allocate its jackpots).
If you bet the minimum 0.25 per spin, then you have half the chances of triggering the jackpot wheel as you do a player who pays 0.50 per spin, or a quarter of the chances of a player playing 1.00 per spin and so on.
This is why you will see on many of the reviews of the Mega Moolah slot that to increase your chances of triggering the jackpot wheel, you can bet more per spin.
This is a great way to level the playing field and allow all users, regardless of their initial bet sizes, the chance to play for a massive amount of money. This single development however wasn't alone in triggering Mega Moolah's popularity.
The Jackpot Bonus Game
The other innovation which marks Mega Moolah out as different from the rest is that you don't win the progressive jackpot as a result of a spin on the slot. Instead, you can only trigger it by landing the jackpot on a spin on the off-the-reels bonus game called the Jackpot Wheel.
Now Mega Moolah's designers quickly realized that if the progressive jackpot was won every time the Jackpot Wheel was triggered, it would not be much of a jackpot. So to combat that the Mega Moolah progressive prize fund was split into four jackpots; Mini, Minor, Major and Mega.
The Mini jackpot is the smallest and most frequently won, usually awarding prizes of between 10 and 50.00. The Minor jackpot usually offers prizes around the 100 mark, with the Major jackpot awarding prizes in thousands, and the Mega jackpot offering a minimum amount of one million.
Now when the jackpot wheel appears on screen it may appear as if you have a relatively decent chance of landing the Mega prize, however the wheel isn't representative of your exact chances of success. In truth, it may take thousands and thousands of spins of the jackpot wheel before the Mega jackpot is won.
Most of the time the Mini jackpot will be won, with the Minor and Major jackpots also being won occasionally, and the Mega jackpot is often triggered usually once a month.
This may sound like a problem, but in truth it is precisely this feature which allows the massive Mega jackpots in Mega Moolah to climb to record levels, such as the £13.2m won by Jon Heywood.
And Mr Heywood won his record breaking haul, with a minimum bet of 0.25p!
And therein lies the biggest attraction of Mega Moolah, it is a slot that is affordable for all, that allows all players the chance to play for a life-changing amount of money on every spin.
TIP! For those players that just want to play for the jackpot, the Mega Moolah game can be played in auto-play mode. Players can set the amount to 0.25c and auto-play letting the machine do the work.
Find all our Mega Moolah articles here.
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1) MegaMoolah.com. Record-breaking £13.2m Mega Moolah jackpot won by 26 year old British soldier.
https://www.journalism.co.uk/press-releases/mega-moolah-makes-it-to-the-guinness-world-records/s66/a591761/
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