Players usually ask about the amount of coins they should place into slot machines. However, this decision should be personal as it should be based on how much money you brought along. If there is any rule to follow, though, it would be "progressive machines need the maximum amount of coins". Without that many coins, reaching all of the symbols won't give you the jackpot in the end. Therefore, always try to play the full coin amount on progressives. So, what other kinds of machines exist out there? After all, before anything else, you have to choose the kind of machine to play on, such as reel types and video slots.

Video Slots

Video slots are brand new, exciting and fun slots. After all, slot makers do everything that they can to make them highly entertaining. Another thing that slot makers do is add pay lines and coin amounts that can be bet on each pay line in order to make the betting amounts of every spin higher. This happens because video slots - most of all the ones with fancy screens for bonuses - take a bit more time for every spin compared to regular slots. Although video reels spin and bonus rounds play off, players do not waste more money by doing this. If you compare this with reel slots that eat up three coins while spinning quite fast, it will become more enticing to put in more coins for each spin in order to recoup some revenue that the machine doesn't generate during regular play/spin procedures.

The majority of brand new machines of video slots have at least 9 lines while the highest bet possible stands at 45 coins. For nickel machines, the maximum bet stands at $2.25 while the amount stands at $11.25 for quarter machines. To play just one coin on every line, nickel machines take 45 cents and quarter machines take $2.25. These can take much more compared to regular reel machines overall.

How to Choose

Something to consider when choosing between reel slots and video slots would be each spin's return. On reel machines, whenever you hit, you will at least get your money - in whole - back. This might not happen with video slots, though. If you have a single winning line, it might pay out three coins while the rest of the lines lose.

Another thing to consider would be the huge jackpots that the majority of machines have. They only pay out if the maximum coins are put into them. On reel machines, this might up to 4 coins, while video slots might require up to 90. Because the majority of video slot jackpots won't really change your life, you might just want to play a single coin for each line as opposed to many.