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by Maya Winkler
M ONOPOLY Big EventTM is the thrilling new slot experience you don’t want to miss. It’s the rst
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community gaming experience where all eligible players can win together. e best part of
the game is when one player goes to the Big Event Bonus, all eligible players go as well. at’s when the action builds and everyone roots, cheers and applauds for the big thrills and big prizes!
have to bet the maximum to be eligible for the Big Event bonus. However, playing all lines is an eligibility requirement. MONOPOLY Big Event players can win up to 50,000 credits in the base games and the Big Event bonus rounds.
e basic games in MONOPOLY Big Event, Egyptian Riches, X Marks the Spot and Mystical Dragon, are not Monopoly-themed, but are lively, fun games with signature WMS exciting graphics and rich sound. ey even have their own
bonus rounds that can rack up credits with free spins,multipliers
MONOPOLY Big Event is a bank of four slots networked together and connected to a server in the huge LCD community screen where players will be riveted watching Mr. Monopoly and the classic Monopoly-themed bonus rounds rack up multiplied credits for all eligible players. is is a community slot—a new
kind of game that delivers tons of bonus action to a group of players at the same time.
What Are Community Slots?
In the past, playing slots was always a solo
experience. It’s usually you and “your” machine
in the casino. Casino group activities, by their very nature, are at the tables—blackjack, roulette, craps
and poker that involve people playing in a group setting. If luck is with a table of players—or the competition is intense, you can hear the group shout and clap with every turn of a card. e outcome usually a ects
all players at the table, and a quick camaraderie or bond is formed. And with the community slot, MONOPOLY Big Event, the same thrill of group activity is available to
slot players, as they cheer and applaud the Big Event bonus rounds, where all eligible players win
at the same time!
Vice President of Marketing for WMS Gaming, Rob Bone,
said,“Casino gaming is becoming more of a social event where players look to interact and share in winning outcomes with each other. At WMS, we see this trend continuing and we are developing multiple gaming experiences, in addition to Monopoly Big Event, that will provide players with table game
excitement in the form of a slot machine.”
How MONOPOLY Big Event Works
MONOPOLY Big Event is certainly the most unique of WMS
Gaming’s library of wildly popular Monopoly slots. MONOPOLY Big Event is a ve-reel video slot that is available in 10 and 20 lines in denominations of 2 cents, 5 cents and 25 cents. You do not
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAMING GUIDE
January 2007