Advantage Slots

I’m only including these games because you find them all over the place. They’re dangerous at any number and if you avoid them altogether, I won’t fault you.

First, what is “reset”? Well, if you click on the symbol in the top left corner of the slot, you get taken to this page (for Big 5 Safari, it’s a compass symbol):

Let me blow up the important aspect of that photo:

Take a look at the five different bets, ranging from $0.75 to $3.75. You’ll see each one has five colors, with blue the lowest most times and red the highest. So when I say I look for 3x reset minis and minors, that means I look for three times whatever the reset number is for the blues and oranges in this case.

The blue resets at $20 on the min bet of $0.75, while the orange resets at $50. If you’re curious, the green resets at $75, the yellow at $125, and the red at $500. So if you’re looking for reset numbers on the $1.50 bet, let’s say, you’d just double everything: $40, $100, $150, $250, $1,000.

If I’m looking at the $2.25 bet, let’s say, and I’m looking for 3x reset blues and oranges, I look for the blue to be at least $180 or the orange to be at least $450. In the example photo above, none of the colors has any of the minis or minors (blues or oranges) anywhere near 3x the reset. The closest is the $3.75 bet at $346.95. Reset orange on that color is $250 and 3x reset $750, so you can see $346.95 is nowhere close.

Yes, some pros take this game closer to 2.5x reset, but good luck if you start doing that, especially if the accompanying colors are low. As is, even 3x reset numbers can get you killed on this machine sometimes.

The rare times I play this game, I usually look for something with an inflated blue, orange, and something else. In other words, a combo play. I play something like a 2x blue with a 1.8x orange and a 2.3x yellow, let’s say. Then I hit the blue or orange before hopefully too much damage is done and have an outside chance of backing into an inflated yellow. That’s just one example, but if you start playing for combos under 3x, you want the low values part of that so you don’t get destroyed in this game.

These colors aren’t must-hits. Yes, the blue hits most frequently, followed by orange, green, yellow, and red. But there’s no number where they “must hit.” Games like that are always scary and because part of your bet is going into five different values, it’s all the more volatile. In that way, the game reminds me of Whales of Cash a bit.

Here’s what Pyramid Progressives looks like:

It’s the same deal, where if you click on the scroll (instead of a compass) in the top left corner you’re taken to all of the individual bets and their values:

I won’t go through all of the bets there, as it’s the same deal as Big 5 Safari and Wu Da Jiang.

All of that out of the way, what the heck are you even trying to do? Well, you’re trying to spin and get a full screen of one symbol (blue, orange, green, purple, or red). But even if you do that, you’re not guaranteed to win the associated progressive. You’ll have a chance of doing so, but it’s no guarantee. It’s like a twist of the knife when you land a full screen of something and then don’t even win the numbers you’re chasing.

Oddly enough, the third version of this game, Wu Da Jiang, does have a “tell.” If you land a full screen and the last reel has the word “progressive” included, you won’t need to sweat things out, because you’ve won whatever color you landed. There’s no “advantage” aspect to knowing that, but it can calm the nerves a bit.

Unfortunately, I don’t have a good video yet for this game, so I’ll include one from KURI Slot which features the third version of this game, Wu Da Jiang:

Wu Da Jiang non-tutorial video