Ocean Magic is a popular machine made by slot manufacturer IGT. It’s also one of the most widely hustled machines by advantage slot players around largely because it is simple to spot opportunities. We’ll examine how it plays and what advantage players look for to make money on it.
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Starting off when looking down at the betting choices on Ocean Magic you’ll see two sets of options. They are regular play up top & the more expensive “bubble boost” on the bottom. With regular play, wild bubbles will periodically rise up from the bottom of the screen & will proceed to move up one spot with each subsequent spin until they reach the top & disappear.
When bubble boost is on, bubbles will still periodically rise from the bottom. However every once in a while a horn will sound that will add one to several bubbles on the screen. Bubbles from the horn will too stay & rise on the screen with each spin until they reach the top.
What is the significance of the bubbles & what are advantage players looking for?
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In addition to being wild, if a bubble lands on an ocean magic symbol, the wild will expand to every adjacent spot on the screen which could potentially lead to big wins. What an advantage player wants is to find a machine with leftover bubbles on the screen that have not yet reached the top row. The exception is any bubbles leftover on column 5. Because Ocean Magic pays left to right bubbles on column 5 are useless for the most part. Also be sure to go through each & every betting option as the play screen is different for each one. Repeat this process if the machine is multi-denominational
At the end of the day Ocean Magic is a solid machine that many hustlers have made good money on. I think we’ll all agree that having multiple bubbles land on Ocean Magic symbols & hearing the mermaid say “magic” followed by a huge win is a great thrill.
Here is Scarab & it’s a machine that is starting to find itself in more & more casinos nationwide. Scarab is another IGT slot machine that offers advantage play opportunities for observant gamblers. To the untrained eye, Scarab looks & plays like most other slot machines. It’s a 5-reel, 4 row machine & pays left to right. However, Scarab has a unique feature which is stated on the right side of the top screen called “Wild stays, charges than pays.” What this means is that as someone plays, scarab symbols will appear on the screen from time to time. When they do they are locked into place & on every 10th spin they turn wild. As a result the payback of this machine is heavily weighted on spin #10. It’s easy to know how many spins are left until scarabs turn wild because there is a meter on the bottom right side of the screen.
So where’s the advantage & how do I “beat” Scarab?
The advantage lies in other players abandoning the machine with an abundance of locked scarabs that are due to turn wild within the next couple of spins. While tempting to play, a screen with very few locked scarabs is an easy pass no matter how close you are to the 10th spin. Do not spin again after the scarabs turn wild on the 10th spin. The advantage is gone.
Remember this is a left to right paying machine so locked scarabs on the left reels are more valuable than those on the right. Be sure to touch each of the different bet levels as each bet presents a different game screen. You may find multiple advantage play opportunities doing this. Some Scarab machines are available in multi-denomination form. If you find one, make sure that you go through all denoms as well.
Overall Scarab provides a very solid advantage play for slot hustlers. In addition to being a good paying machine, this game is incredibly stress-free for hustlers in the sense that you know exactly how much money you will be investing on any given play. For example, if you have find a $3 play on spin 8 of 10 you know that you only have to invest a total of $6 to get your reward. Also because the bulk of hits on this machine happens every 10 games you’d be wise to check on it regularly. Every once in a while someone will inexplicably leave a loaded screen & you can collect a nice hit like this one here…