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Text 5. Slot machine
A slot machine is a certain type of gambling machine. The slot machine was
invented in 1895 by Charles Fey of San Francisco, California. The firs t machine, known as
Liberty Bell, had pictures of diamonds, hearts, spades, and cracked Liberty Bells on three
mechanical reels. Liberty Bell was a huge success and spawned a thriving mechanical
gaming device industry. Another early machine gave out winning in the form of fruit
flavoured chewing gums with pictures of the flavours as symbols on the reels. The popular
cherry and melon symbols derive from this machine. The "BAR" symbol now common in
slot machines was derived from an early logo of the Bell-Fruit Gum Company. In 1964,
Bally developed the first fully electromechanical slot machine called Money Honey.
A person playing a slot machine purchases the right to play by inserting coins, cash, a
debit card, or in newer machines, a bar-coded paper ticket (known as "ticket in/ticket out"
machines), into a designated slot on the machine. The machine is then activated by means of
a lever or button, or on newer machines, by pressing a touchscreen on its face. The game
its elf may or may not involve s kill on the player's part -- or it may create the illus ion of
involving skill without actually being anything else than a game of chance.
The object of the game is to win money from the machine. The game usually involves
matching symbols, either on mechanical reels which spin and stop to reveal one or several
symbols, or on a video screen. The symbols are usually brightly colored and easily
recognizable, such as images of fruits, and simple shapes such as bells, diamonds, or hearts.
Most games have a variety of winning combinations of symbols, often posted on the
face of the machine. If a player matches a combination according to the rules of the game,
the slot machine pays the player cash or some other sort of value, such as extra games.
There are many different kinds of gambling slot machines in places such as Las Vegas.
Some of the most popular are the video poker machines, in which players hope to obtain a
set of symbols corresponding to a winning poker hand. There are standard 5-card draw
machines, all the way up to 100-play machines , where you can play 100 hands at a time.
Becoming more popular now are the 9 line slots. Usually these are themed slots
(Addams Family, I Dream of Jeannie, etc.) with a bonus round. Most accept variable
amounts of credit to play with 1 to 5 credits per line being typical. The higher the amount
bet, the higher the payout.
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