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Slots players hear a few times a month about how casino game developers create and launch new online slots games. But they do not often hear about an older online slots game that gets revamped.

Think of it as making the online slots game in question new and improved.

Such is the case with Rival’s recent revamp of For Love and Money. This five reel, fifteen payline online slots game has been a staple at Rival powered online casinos. Even the launch of new online slots games, including the newer iSlots, cannot take the fans away from For Love and Money.

Well, Rival has finally recognized the draw this online slots game has, and has given it a facelift and relaunched it as a new online slots game.

But fans of the original game will not be disappointed. The same features that were loved in the original are there still. Mostly it was the graphics of this ‘new’ online slots game that have been given a going over: symbols have been cleaned up and animation smoothed out.

The story—and attachment—to this particular online slots game can be found in the opening:

A poet is contemplating love. He sees an older couple, obviously married for money, who are not all that fond of each other. Then he spies a young woman who is set upon by two nasty men; she is then saved by a Fabio-esque man—huge muscles, trim waist and lace up pants (which are kind of funny actually). The poet, I am assuming, believes this couple to be together for love.

Symbols include both couples, the nasty men and love symbols such as Love Birds, Chocolates, Roses and Poetry.

The Poet is the Wild and will substitute for any symbol other than the Scatter. He must be a good poet as he carries a 2x multiplier.

Cupid is the Scatter. A minimum of three Cupids landed will trigger ten free spins with a 3x multiplier.

So as players can see the favorite older features of For Love and Money are still there, just with cleaner graphics and better animation. I have to say that Rival did well with this ‘new’ online slots game. I would only have added a bonus game in which players helped Fabio rescue his girl, or one in which the players helped the unfortunate money man escape his woman.

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Today is the day. The big day as far as players at Microgaming powered online casinos are concerned. Today is the day that the Lord of the Rings new online slots game is released.

The official name of this new online slots game is The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring, but I think fans and slots players will simply refer to it by the first portion of its name.

Players who are familiar with Microgaming online slots game will remember the release earlier this year of the Thunderstruck II slots game, and how that slots game did not feature paylines. The new Lord of the Rings online slots game is the same.

That is right, there are no paylines to worry about and still 243 ways to win. Winning combinations are created when the same symbol is landed on consecutive reels.

Graphics-wise this is truly a cinematic online slots game. All nine members of the fellowship are in the game, and when a winning combination is made of a character, a shot video clip from the movie is shown.

Clips from the movie are also shown while the reels are spinning, giving some entertainment while waiting to see what has been landed.

To go along with the epic tale, Microgaming has given its new online slots game an epic Expanding Wild: the Eye of Suaron. When landed the enemy’s dreaded eye fills the reel and the sound of his voice saying, “I see you,” fills your ears. Very cinematic.

And who could forget the One Ring, the object of the entire trilogy. It is the Scatter and landing at least three One Rings will trigger fifteen free spins.

Unfortunately the Eye of Suaron is not available during the free spins, but players should not lose hope. Instead one reel is chosen at random to become an Expanding Wild for that free spin. Each free spin Expanding Wild plays a short video clip as well.

Also available are Stacked Wilds. The Stacked Wild symbol is the Lord of the Rings Logo, which offers an epic payout for the player who can fill the screen with all Stacked Wilds.

The new online slots game Lord of the Rings has definitely lived up to the excitement and hype surrounding the countdown to its release. Online slots players will truly enjoy this new online slots game, and US players will wish more than ever that they had a Microgaming online casino that would welcome them.

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I was doing some more thinking about one of the online slots games that I wrote about yesterday, Cashapillar. And while it is visually speaking a lovely online slots game with all the graphics and style that players come to expect from a Microgaming online slots game, there was still something about the game that bothered me.

Finally I realized what was bothering me so much. The paylines. All of them. There, to me at least, are too many paylines.

Think about it. Cashapillar has one hundred paylines. If a player is wagering only $0.01 per payline that still makes the cost of one spin $1. For some online slots players $1 is a lot for a single spin.

For other online slots players, the nickel and quarter players, the cost is even more. For the nickel online slots player the cost of a single spin is $5; and for a quarter player the cost is $25 per spin.

Compare that to what they would be paying per spin if they were playing a standard twenty five reel online slots game: $1.25 for the nickel player and $6.25 for the quarter player.

When comparing the two that is quite an increase.

What bothers me is that with those one hundred paylines, players can expect to run through their bankroll a lot faster, and potentially wind up wagering money that originally had not intended to just so that they can keep on playing.

And players do stand to lose more money faster when playing a one hundred payline online slots game than they would if they were playing the standard twenty five payline game.

Slots games are designed to take your money over time. Some take faster than others, but that is usually a result of the game’s payout percentage and odds. An online slots game with one hundred paylines is definitely going to take your money faster purely because of the paylines alone.

So while Cashapillar is a fun online slots game to play and visually amusing, it will be an online slots game that I play for fun since I do not want to spin my money away too quickly.

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Yes, you read that correctly. This online slots game has one hundred paylines for players to play on.

The online slots game is called Cashapillar, named after the caterpillar that stares in the game. Though oddly enough, it is the centipede that has one hundred games. But I guess online slots game developers can be lax on their entomology.

Cashapillar is being launched today at Virgin Casino, which is owned by Virgin Games. Although this online slots game is new to Virgin Casino, it is not by any means a new online slots game. Cashapillar was created a couple of years ago by Microgaming. It can be found in many Microgaming powered online casinos.

Other than the one hundred paylines, this is a five reel online slots game with an insect party theme. Apparently the Cashapillar who is really a centipede is celebrating his birthday, and has invited all of his little bug friends to help him come celebrate. I hope they help him blow out the one hundred candles that would be on his cake.

Like any good Microgaming online slots game, this one comes with some good features. There is a Wild, a Scatter, free spins, multipliers and a Stacked Wild.

A Stacked Wild is when the Wild symbol is stacked, in this case five high, on the reels, making it more likely to have a Wild completing a combination. The Stacked Wild can be found on all five reels of Cashapillar.

As for rewards, the potential is definitely there. Players can win up to 2,000 coins in regular play and up to 6,000 coins in the free spins feature. That is on a single payline. Now factor in all one hundred paylines and there is the potential to win two million coins in regular play and six million in the free spins.

In regards to the paylines and Stacked Wilds, Warren Eloff, Head of Products at Virgin Games, had this to say:

“With 100 paylines, this latest release from Microgaming is certainly a unique addition to our game portfolio. The plentiful paylines together with the stacked wilds makes this slot enormously rewarding and fun.”

While the theme and the bonus features definitely add to this online slots game, the only thing that actually worries me is the paylines themselves. Even wagering at the minimum amount per payline, a single spin can still cost $1.

Cashapillar can be found at just about any Microgaming powered online casino, such as All Jackpots. And now it can be found at Virgin Casino as well.

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Clue was one of my favorite board games when I was a kid. I think it was the mystery aspect of the game that I liked—the Whodunit question that hangs over the game. Naturally I was quite happy when I learned that there was an online slots game that had been based on Clue.

For some odd reason when Wagerworks created this online slots game they named it Cluedo rather than just calling it Clue, like how they called the Monopoly online slots game Monopoly. Oh, well, I am not going to try to divine the workings of game developers.

On to Cluedo.

Cluedo is a five reel online slots game made, as already stated, by Wagerworks with twenty paylines. The theme of this online slots game was taken from the board game Clue, and as such features the infamous cast of Clue: Miss Scarlet, Professor Plum, Mr. Green, Mrs. Peacock, Ms White and Colonel Mustard.

Cluedo features my favorite presentation of the traditional 9, 10, J, Q, K and Ace symbols in any slots game. Recall that there were six weapons in the board game. And that the traditional symbols are six in number. Guess what graces each of the traditional symbols. That is right—a weapon.

Like any good online slots game this one does offer players two Wilds and a Scatter. The Wilds will substitute for all symbols except for the Scatter. The Wild symbol quite plainly says Wild, and the other Wild symbol says MegaJackpots. Both will give a 2x multiplier for any combination they complete.

The Scatter is the Mystery symbol. Landing three or more will trigger a flash of lightening and review five golden secret reels. The free spins feature begins with 15 free spins, but more can be triggered during a free spin session.

Cluedo does offer a progressive jackpot, but there are some things you need to know before playing about this one.

Only players who are betting the maximum have a shot at triggering it. The only way to trigger it is to land five MegaJackpots symbols on the center payline. It must be the center payline. Any other payline will only award the standard amount for landing five of that symbol.

One more downside to this online slots game is that it is one of the few out there in the online casino world that you cannot play for free. It is real money players only.

Overall, I like the theme of the Cluedo online slots game. But the real money players only part is a big turn off, and the center payline being the only line for triggering the MegaJackpots is another downer.

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Monopoly. You either love it or you hate it. Personally, I like the game. So I was quite happy to learn that Wagerworks had created an online slots game based on the Milton Bradley classic.

As an online slots game, Monopoly is a five reel online slots game with nine paylines. The regular game is a little on the basic side. It features Monopoly themed-graphics, but the classic fruit symbols are there too.

With the Monopoly online slots game it is the bonus features that truly make this game.

Naturally there is a Wild: Mr. Monopoly himself. He will substitute for all symbols in the game except for the two bonus symbols. Sadly, he does not offer a multiplier on combinations he completes. I guess he has got to keep a little money to himself.

But the Pass Go bonus game more than makes up for a lack of a Wild multiplier. The Pass Go bonus game is triggered by landing three Dice on a payline. Once triggered the regular playing screen vanishes and players find themselves with a Monopoly board on their screen.

The Dice that triggered the bonus game then each reveal a number of dice rolls for the actual game. Players have the allotted amount of rolls to travel around the Monopoly board to collect bonus prizes to add to their starting bonus amount of 10 coins.

Each deed on the board has a bonus amount assigned to it, and landing on that deed automatically adds that bonus amount to the player’s total. Every time Go is passed the amount of the deed bonuses increases. If you land directly on Go you receive a 2x multiplier.

Free Parking will award a random bonus amount for landing on it. And Chance will move the player to a random spot on the board to collect that bonus and continue from there.

Even Jail is not bad in this bonus game. Players have three chances to roll doubles to not only get out of jail, but to get a multiplier for their bonus. Rolling doubles the first time awards a 5x multiplier; the second time awards a 3x multiplier; and the third time awards a 2x multiplier. If you do not roll doubles you get to leave Jail anyway and continue on your way.

When the bonus game is over any multipliers you have won are factored into your bonus prize before returning you to regular game play.

Thanks to that Pass Go bonus game, the Monopoly online slots game is quite full of fun features and chances to win money.

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Shh.

There are bugs in your online slots game.

More specifically, there are beetles.

Actually this is another 9 reel, five payline online slots game called Beetle Frenzy.

While Chinese Kitchen was a graphically entertaining online slots game, it lacked features that online slots players expect online slots games to have. Those features being free spins and a bonus game. Oh, and a Wild.

Actually this online slots game has several bonus features.

There are two bonus games to begin with:

The Bug Collector bonus game is triggered when three Glass Jars are landed on a payline. Then there is the Flower Frenzy bonus game. There are three different colored flowers in this online slots game. Landing three of the same color on a payline will trigger the Flower Frenzy bonus game.

As for the free spins, any symbol can trigger them. Which is why this is called the Lucky Spin feature. All that needs to happen is to either land the same symbol in all four corners, or land the same symbol in the middle space of all four sides.

The Lightening Beetle is the Wild. This little guy will substitute for any symbol in the game other than the Scatter.

And speaking of the Scatter, it is the Golden Apple. The multiplier on its payout starts at 2x for two Golden Apples, and maxes out at 400x for eight Golden Apples. And nine Golden Apples is the trigger for the jackpot: 500x the triggering wager.

One thing of note though is that the wagering works a little bit differently on this online slots game. All five paylines are active. The only wager controls the player has it the amount he is wagering and how many coins he is wagering.

The good thing about this is that players are not going to have to increase their wager to activate all the paylines. Think of it as similar to betting on one payline, but getting all the paylines active.

In short, players are only paying to spin the reels on this online slots game without worry over what paylines are active or not.

On the whole, the range of bonus features on this online slots game could make a player quite happy. Not to mention the slightly unique slots betting method here. I do not think I mind having beetles in my online slots game.

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Microgaming is one of the top producers of online casino games in the online gambling industry. Slots players have come to associate state of the art graphics and game quality from Microgaming online slots games.

And today Microgaming releases another little treasure into the sea of games offered by Virgin Games at their Virgin Casino.

Mermaid’s Millions is the new five reel online slots game to come out of the Microgaming creative pool. This new slots game features fifteen paylines of play. The standard wagering ranges per payline are available. Players can also adjust the number of coins they are waging on a payline from one to five. This makes the maximum coins per spin seventy five.

As for the graphics that Microgaming is reputed to give players, they do not disappoint. Players are given Neptune, Lobsters, Treasure Chests and more. Naturally there is the starring character: mermaids.

Players will find that this new online slots game foes off free spins with a 3x multiplier, triggered by landing three or more of the Scatter symbols.

And of course there is a bonus game which sends players to the sea floor in search of treasure in the barrels, clams and chests on the bottom.

Mermaid’s Millions comes on the success of the Tomb Raider online slots game that Microgaming created and released several months ago. Executives at Virgin Casino are hoping for a repeat performance in popularity.

“Following the enormous success of Tomb Raider launched a few months ago, this latest offering from Microgaming is set to be another big hit with our customers. Like Tomb Raider, Mermaid’s Millions offers the best online game functionality and great graphics—it really is a fantastically fun game to play and is of the quality and high standard that our customers have come to expect from Virgin,” said Warren Eloff, who is Head of Products at Virgin Games.

While Mermaid’s Millions carries the graphics and hallmarks of a good Microgaming online slots game, it does not have the already familiar characters derived from a movie like Tomb Raider does. The coming months will tell if this new online slots game will be as strong as Tomb Raider.

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In light of my discovering 9 reel online slots games yesterday, I decided that I would take a closer look at them to see just what it was like playing them.

One in particular 9 reel online slots caught my eye, perhaps due to lunch plans centering on sushi. Granted this online slots game is not about sushi, but it is about cuisine from the right part of the world.

This online slots game features Fish, Ducks, Caterpillars, Octopi, Snails, Frogs and Turtles. The symbols and graphics are in bright yet subtly subdued colors so as not to hurt the eyes.

This morning’s online slots game is called Chinese Kitchen. And obviously it is a 9 reel online slots game or I would not be playing it today. Like the majority of 9 reel online slots games, Chinese Kitchen only features eight paylines: three horizontal, three vertical and two diagonal.

Wagers per payline can range from $0.01 up to $5. With only eight paylines that means the cost of a single spin can range from $0.08 up to $5. All in all, that is inexpensive for the cost of one spin. The popular twenty five payline online slots games have spins that cost from $0.25 up to $125.

All payout examples are assuming only $0.01 is wagered per payline.

So the lesser cost per spin in Chinese Kitchen is quite nice. I like knowing that I can sit back and enjoy spinning the reels without having to worry that I am spinning too much money away in short period of time.

The payouts are multiplied by your line wager. So say you land three Fish, which has a payout of 40x, your payout is then $0.40.

Like any good online slots game of today, Chinese Kitchen does feature a Scatter: the Crab. This rather surly looking fellow will payout no matter where he lands on the reels. A player could land only one of him and still receive a payout.

The nice thing about receiving a payout for one Crab is that you are guaranteed at least to receive two lines worth, as the horizontal and vertical lines will both intersect him. So you can win $0.02 for one Crab.

The more Crabs that appear on the reels, the more you are paid. Two Crabs is 2x your line bet. At minimum these two Crabs will intersect at least four paylines, giving you a $0.08 payout.

On the whole, I find that I like playing 9 reel online slots games. The fewer paylines cut down on the cost of each spin, yet the paylines cover the entire face of the game. And the Scatter payouts are easily gotten and multiplied.

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While floating around looking for online slots information to share I stumbled across a type of online slots game that I had not heard about before: 9 reel online slots games.

The most reels I have ever heard of on an online slots game before is seven reels, and those can hit your bankroll fairly hard since you need to land seven symbols on the paylines rather than only three or five.

Based on that you would think that I would say that online slots games with nine reels should definitely be avoided. You would think I would say that if seven symbols are hard to land, nine must be next impossible.

Well, you are wrong. Nine reel online slots games are not too bad to play.

This can be owed to their format. The nine reels do not run across the game, nine in a row. Instead they form a cube of three spaces by three spaces, much like the numbers (minus the zero) do on a telephone pad.

When the reels are spin, each of the nine squares spin on their own and stop independently on their own. So while there are not nine vertical spinning reels, there are nine cubes that spin all of the available symbols.

This makes it easier to land symbols on a payline since, because of the cube layout, players only have to land three of the same symbol on a payline.

And speaking of paylines so work a little bit differently too. Again, because of the three by three square layout of the reels, there are not nearly as many paylines as there are on most of the five reel online slots games.

Nine reel online slots games will generally only have up to eight paylines: three horizontal, three vertical and two diagonal. That covers all possible lines of three symbols on the three by three layout of a nine reel online slots game.

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