Page 18 - May 2009 • Southern California Gaming Guide

By Borris Bienn
Last month, on April 8th, one lucky person in Washington, D.C. matched all six numbers in America’s most famous lottery, Powerball®. e
winning ticket was worth a staggering $144 million.
And just a few months before, on January 17th, a group of people from a Cincinnati investment rm shared a $163 million jackpot. (I wonder how many of them showed up for work the next day!) Powerball
was the rst multi-state lottery, o ering nine ways to win and a multi-million dollar jackpot.
e Powerball lottery isn’t available in California, but thanks to WMS Gaming, Californians can enjoy the excitement of the Powerball lottery experience
in the thrilling POWERBALL® slots.
WMS rst introduced the POWERBALL progressive slots in 2006. e innovative wide- area progressive games include exciting bonus games and, of course, the 3x3 Powerball Matrix Grid where players have the chance to win anywhere from one to nine bonus awards. WMS has awarded over $13,899,000 in POWERBALL Progressive jackpots, and made nine lucky casino players new POWERBALL millionaires.
Now, the newest addition to POWERBALL slots, POWERBALL® Power SeatTM, brings
the excitement of Community Gaming® to
this sensational lottery-themed game. e entertaining bonus games not only o er more ways to win, but the Power Seat multiplier increases those winnings— which can be up to 300 times or more! Now that’s what I call an amazing power seat!
e base games for POWERBALL Power Seat are both 5-reel video slots, available in either 10-line or 25-line con gurations. e 10-line con gurations are available as 5¢ denominations with maximum bets of 100 credits, and the 25-line con gurations are available as 1¢ denominations
with maximum bets of 250 credits. Both base games, the whimsical Hoppin’ Wild® and the Native American-themed Thunderhawk®, make use of “clumped” symbols—multiple consecutive series of identical symbols on a reel. is means that it’s possible for an entire viewable area of a reel to be lled with the same symbol, which translates to more winning combinations.
In Hoppin’ Wild, the clumped symbols change dynamically with each spin. On one spin, the clumps might be frogs, on another, dragon ies,
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