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has grown to include 28 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In the lottery version, there are nine ways to win, with the ultimate prize, of course, being the multimillion-dollar jackpot. To win that, players are required to pick ve white balls out of a possible 55 and one red ball out of a possible 42. But players can also win varying amounts by hitting eight other combinations of the bi-weekly drawing’s numbers.
e challenge to WMS game designers was to translate the Powerball lottery experience into slot machine play; and not just for the life-changing jackpot but also to incorporate the various other awards that are possible.
Rob Bone, WMS Gaming’s vice president of marketing, says the solution owed from the company’s high-powered “CPU- NXT” video gaming platform that supports “local area progressives”—awards that build from a reset amount based on the coin-in play on slot machines linked within the “local” casino. Of course, the slot o ers the grand prize wide-area progressive (wide-area meaning the jackpot grows or progresses based on
play on all linked machines within the jurisdiction) that in California begins at half-million dollars.
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For casino players, this advanced slot technology quietly operates in the background, coming to visual life in the form of a 3 x 3 grid called the “matrix” in the top box of the Powerball slot machine. e matrix displays the nine “local” progressives that grow constantly as the
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machines are played. eir reset amounts range from $5 to $1,000, and activating this matrix is the basis of one of the bonus rounds in all four versions of
Powerball slots. And players can win one to nine progressive jackpots, more than one at a time and even all nine in a
single bonus round! Powerball, like all WMS
“CPU-NXT” platform games, is built on the BluebirdTM cabinet.
It looks modern and sleek and boosts
Players scratch stars off the card with the virtual quarter, revealing bonus amounts, until they reveal a “Power” symbol.
Next, players scratch a letter to reveal bonus multiplier amounts for their bonus score—or the red Powerball, which awards players up to a 20x bonus multiplier!
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