Is that a nickel (lower left corner of image) machine? What is the advertised jackpot on that machine? We had nickel slots at the club on base (Europe) back in the 1980s, I’m pretty sure the payout on them wasn’t $8M.
The only machines that would have a payout of millions of dollars would be something like Megabucks.
All of the machines in any of the casinos I have played in have maximum payouts showing on the machines somewhere and nickel machines, playing maximum coins would be in the hundreds.
I’d sure bet on a machine malfunction.
That’s what I was about to say. No 5 cent slot I’ve ever seen has an $8 million advertised pay-out.
The casino may indeed have a valid point.
We live an hour down the interstate from this Indian Casino. My parents live much closer and my mom and dad go there all the time; my mom says for the good buffet. It is one of the nicer places in the area. And admittedly they do have a good buffet. She and my aunt have spent literally thousands and thousands of dollars there on the slot machine. My aunt has a genuine gambling addiction, my mom does most of her “gambling” online using no real money is changing hands.
Yes it was a “nickel” machine. This means if you play one line it costs you a nickel. I don't know what the maximum number of lines that can be played on this machine at a time are. My mom likes to play about a quarter at a time on these machines. The maximum payout if you were playing all of the lines at once (apparently about a dollar a spin) was $20,000. The maximum payout on this machine with the amount that this lady was paying (probably a quarter) was apparently $6000. (This is from the British link above.)
All the casinos in our area seem to cater to older folks. The one nearest our house has a great buffet that is very reasonably priced. My wife and I used to sit next to each other and play one of the penny machines together after we had stuffed ourselves. We would play a maximum of one dollar per visit. Surprisingly it often took quite a while to lose our dollar playing a penny at a time.
Our favorite machines had these bonus rounds that would make enjoyable dinging noises for a minute or two with lights going off and make you feel like you had really won the jackpot. We “won” five dollars on several occasions and then left while we were ahead. We only went to the buffet about once a week. So we were actually still a couple bucks ahead when we finally just got bored with the machines and the buffet and now we play them only when we take my mom to the buffet for her birthday.