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Southern California casino players voted, and here are the Southern California Gaming Guide Best SlotsTM 2013! Readers voted for their favorite slots in 15 categories, and 5 categories for Best Casino slot play. All 20 awards feature the best top three winners — and all three winners are noteworthy. Southern California has 22 casinos and over 37,000 slot machines, so every one of the Best Slots 2013 winners stands out as consistently delivering a fun casino experience.
Slot and rst place Luckiest Slot. Its player favorite scatter- pay games o er more than 1,000 ways to win on each spin
®TM and can produce hefty wins. Tarzan Lord of the Jungle ,
also from Aristocrat, and a big winner for the past two years, won rst place Best Penny Slot again. Released in 2011, the Tarzan Lord of e Jungle top jackpot has been hit 23 times and paid out more than $7.6 million in total across the country. And Tarzan® & Jane Forbidden TempleTM, the newest Tarzan slot, won rst place Best Slot Graphics, and second place Best Video Slot Bonus Round. is Reel Power game is lled with awesome bonus features including two sets of Reel Power reels!
A consistent favorite with players all over, IGT’s Wheel of Fortune® was voted rst place Best Progressive Slot, Best Classic Slot, and Best Dollar Slot, holding its vaulted position as one of the Best Slots in the world. IGT’s recently released Star WarsTM Trilogy received rst place Best Movie- Themed Slot and rst place Best Video Slot Bonus Round. Part of IGT’s Center Stage movie-style format games, Star
Wars Trilogy is based on all three lms of the original trilogy: A New Hope, e Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi. In the community bonus rounds, played out on a huge overhead screen, players take on thrilling battles in the
TSlots are casino players’ favorite games all over the country, and every year for the past 11 years, we’ve asked Southern California players to tell us their favorite slots—the games they love to play, and return to casinos to play again and again. In April, readers sent us their write-in votes in the printed ballot in the April issue of the Southern California Gaming Guide, and voted online at TheGamingGuide.com for Best Slots 2013. An independent source tallied all reader votes, and here are the results.
Drawing Winners
As a thank you for completing ballots, Southern California Gaming Guide readers had a chance to win cash: $300, $200, and four $100 prizes. e winners were drawn randomly from thousands of completed ballots and include Brenda F. from Torrance ($300); Herman P. from Bell ower ($200); and four $100 winners: Lucy S. from La Mesa, Franklin
T. from Simi Valley, Margie J. from Cathedral City, and Jackson H. from Temecula. ank you for voting, and congratulations to all drawing winners.
What Makes a Best Slot?
For casino players, a favorite slot can be a game with a thrilling bonus round, a clever theme, amazing graphics, or an innovative function. Or it could be a fun movie or television show-based game, or a classic slot favorite. But the Best Slot is always a game casino players look for and play no matter which casino they visit, because when they’ve played a favorite slot, they’ve had fun — and usually won!
Big Jackpots, Best Slots!
In the Southern California Gaming Guide Best Slots 2013, readers voted BuffaloTM, Aristocrat Technologies’ thrilling game in the Xtra Reel Power series, rst place Best Video
TBest Video Slot
BuffaloTM
Quick Hit Pro®
Tarzan® Lord of the JungleTM
Best Video Slot Bonus Round
Star WarsTM Trilogy
Tarzan® & Jane Forbidden TempleTM Monopoly Grand HotelTM
Best Slot Graphics
Tarzan® & Jane Forbidden TempleTM Star WarsTM Trilogy
Michael Jackson King of PopTM
Luckiest Slot
BuffaloTM Blazing 7s® Crazy Money®
Best Movie-ThStar WarsTM TriloThe HangoverTM The Wizard of OTTTTTTTTTTPAGE 18
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