Possibly the best casino game that encountered a smooth transition from the brick and mortar areas to the online world is the slots. This is mainly due to the fact, that whether you’re playing slots on land or online, you are playing against a machine. For most other casino games such as blackjack, roulette, baccarat and craps, playing them online would lead to the loss of the human element that is so vitally needed in these games. And however hard many casinos that work online try and replicate the land based atmosphere, there will always be something missing; a piece left out from the whole jigsaw. On the other hand, slot machines require no human element at all when playing in a land based casino.

Some of the regular slot players are so enamored and awestruck by the flashing, ringing, spinning, and clunking of the slot machines, they do not often realize what’s going on around them. Test this yourself by walking up to a concentrating slot machine player and ask him/her a question, nine times out of 10 you’ll wish you never said that. When playing online slots, hardly any experience you get playing slots in a land based casino is lost. Moreover, when playing online slots, you do not need to dress up in your best looking dress, wear makeup, do your hair etc. You could switch on the computer half naked and play a game of online slots. Due to this, a majority of the software developers of online casinos install huge slots ranges, which can go up to 200 on some websites.

One exceptional feature of online slots is that some online slots websites have the ability to join different jackpots from officially licensed casinos. This in turn greatly increases the total value of an online slots jackpot. For example, only recently did a person from Greece won a six million euro jackpot while playing progressive online slots. One interesting point wherein we can compare the advantages online slots have over traditional slots or vice versa is when we look at the game returns. In other words, it refers to the return a player gets for every dollar spent on a slot machine. Other casino games such as poker, blackjack etc require a human skill element. But when it comes to slots, it is all about chance so the return rates have been already predetermined.

Therefore, we would want to know the predetermined return rates for both traditional and online slots. In the case of traditional slots, the return rate is set by the regulatory authority and also depends on the location of the casino where the slot machine is located. In the case of online slots, the return rates can be found out easily by looking into the published third party audited historical rates. These however can change from month to month but generally the rates are set somewhere near the 95% mark. So to find out which suits you best, you need to find out the return rates of the traditional slots from the website of the official regulating body.

The slot machines are programmed to return the player's percentages explosively. That is, sometimes nothing comes out (more often than not) and sometimes a hell of a lot comes pouring out (rare, but heart-throbbing exciting). It is the lure of a great windfall (or even a little breeze) that excites the slot player. After all, inside the belly of that computerized beast are sequences that can make you rich and richer and even richer than that - and the heart pounds with that knowledge. And thus the casino can return its 92 cents on the dollar because it is giving us more than eight cents worth of anticipatory thrills with every dollar we plunk into the machine's maw.