Biggest Slot Machine Jackpot
The humble and much-loved slot machine has changed drastically over the years. The first ever slot machine paid out just fifty cents – a far cry from many of today’s machines which can pay upwards of £1 million!
If you are somebody who thinks bigger is always better, and you love the prospect of a big pay-out, then taking your turn on humongous slot games could be just what the doctor ordered. If you are lucky enough to visit one, don’t forget to grab your memorable photo!
- Boyd Gaming announced that the Christmas Eve jackpot was the largest slot machine jackpot in Nevada in eight years at $15,491,103. W ith an investment of just $40, a part-time Las Vegas resident received the Christmas present of a lifetime on Thursday afternoon, hitting a jackpot of nearly $15.5 million on IGT Megabucks® machine at Boyd Gaming.
- The Rivers Casino said a Monday jackpot of $260,767 is the largest single prize ever awarded since the building opened in 2009.A customer hit the jackpot while playing a $1 Quick Hit Platinum slot.
- Top Online Casino Sites with Progressive Jackpot Slots. If you want to get your hands on those six or seven-figured prizes, then you’ve come to the right place. Here at SlotMachines.com we compare and rate a range of the biggest online progressive jackpot slots.
Bally’s Casino, Las Vegas
Here’s a list of progressive jackpot slot machines and the current jackpot totals: Biggest Slot Machine Jackpots. Hand Pay Jackpots. When you hit the winning combination of symbols for a large jackpot, your slot machine locks up. Depending on the machine, the lights on top of the machine may come on and start flashing, music may play or bells ring. A slot attendant arrives promptly to see what you have won.
Originally manufactured as a novelty item, this super-slot machine is known as one of the biggest slot machines ever created. Powered by five horsepower electric motors, twenty-inch wide chain wheels, and each pull costing a whopping $100, you can see where the name ‘Big Bertha’ came from!
Bally’s Casino, Las Vegas
It will probably come as no surprise that Super Big Bertha was an upgrade to the aforementioned machine. This beast of a unit once took the crown as the world’s biggest slot machine in the 1950s. Eight reels featured 20 symbols each, returning a huge 25.6 billion possible combinations. With so many combinations, the chances of winning the $1 million jackpot were incredibly slim; in fact, you’d have to play the machine 15 billion times to be in with a chance! Despite the odds, players have won big money over the years, including one woman in 2001 who won the jackpot in an Ontario casino.
Four Queens Casino, Las Vegas
This humongous slot machine is exclusive to the Four Queens Casino, Las Vegas. Standing ten feet tall and nine feet wide, the Queen’s Machine can accommodate up to six players at any one time, and has a jackpot of $50,000. So gargantuan is this machine that several people have been injured while pulling down the giant spin arm! Maybe try stretching before you give it a go…
Wynn Casino, Las Vegas
Built using the Windows 95 operating system, you could be forgiven for thinking that MicroSpin was as small as its name suggests. In fact, at nine feet tall, it was the tallest slot machine in the world during the late 90s. Due to its complex core components, the MicroSpin was able to accommodate up to nine people at any one time. However, winners would have felt a little sore once they realised there were no cash prizes.
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Barney’s Casino, Las Vegas
Situated in Barney’s Casino in Nevada, the mechanical behemoth ‘Big Irish Luck’ is a real crowd-pleaser. Five gigantic reels are complete with shamrocks, bells, oranges and four-leaf clovers!
Play slot games at Grosvenor Casinos; Star Lantern, Cleopatra and Isle O Plenty for mega jackpot pay-outs.
Have you visited any of these monoliths? Have we missed any out? Let us know in the comment section, below.
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