Most gamblers who are new to playing slot machines rightfully do not understand the difference between reel slots and video slots, for they both look exactly the same. And aside from the format, both of these machines are exactly the same.In terms of appearances, video slots are the newer and glitzier looking machines of the bunch on the casino floor. These slots usually are composed of five or six reels, while reel slots are only composed of three reels. When it is divided up like this, the differences between video and reel slots is easy to spot.

Just remember that most gambling sites also offer video versions of their three reel slots, hence the reason you might see the same game show up under the video slots and slots categories in the main lobby of an online casino software platform. In addition to more reels, video slots characteristically offer more paylines and maximum coins per spin. Some machines allow up to 250 coins per payline (some even offer 400) and up to twenty-five paylines at once. For progressive video slots of this size, you can imagine that maximum bets get very high. This is precisely why nickel video slots have become so popular over the years in land-based casinos. Another characteristic that distinguishes video slots from reel slots (aside from the video versions of reel slot machines) is that almost all video slots offer bonus screens for players to take advantage of. Requiring a guess-based decision by the player, bonus screens always allow the player to win extra credits. Some examples include free bonus spins, choose-a-bonus, match-play-bonus and pick-to-win-bonuses. There are many players who abide by strategies when dealing with bonus offers, which countless other players attest to. Video slot bonus strategy is something worth considering and depending on the type of bonus offered, can get quite in-depth. We always suggest that players start off by first becoming very familiar with the rules and payout table of a particular video slot offered in the online casino. Practice it with free credits as much as you like, paying close attention to how multipliers, wild symbols, and bonus features work and contribute to the game itself. From that point on, adopting a bonus strategy is more feasible for beginning players.

Video Slots is a relatively new area of the slots business that emerged around the mid eighties with the development of a Random Number Generator in a microchip. The microchip randomly selects the Reel Stop Positions, which are displayed using a graphical representation of the reels on a video screen. In the last few years video slots have become incredibly popular, and are also the basis for Online Slots, another booming area of slots gaming. Video Slots and online slots are similar enough that when we talk about Video Slots the same can be applied to online slots.Unlike Reel Slots, which are limited by space and complexity, Video Slots can have, in theory, an unlimited number of reels, paylines, and symbols. Most video slots however, tend to stay between 3 to 7 reels, with up to 49 paylines. The number of symbols in any given video slots game tends to be high, with hundreds or even thousands, depending on the games jackpot, and the payout structure.