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Reader’s Choice
Slots are casino players’ favorite games all over the country, and every year for the past 13 years, we’ve asked Southern California Gaming GuideTM casino players to tell us their favorite slots. ese are the slot games they love to play and return to casinos to play again and again.
is year we ran the Reader’s Choice ballot for 2016 Best Slots online at TheGamingGuide.com. From May 1st to May 31st, readers lled out their write-in choices and an independent source tallied all of the thousands of reader votes, with the following results: the Southern California Gaming Guide Reader’s Choice 2016 Best Slots.
favorite slot, they’ve had fun and usually won, and want to play more!
2016 Award-Winning Reader Favorites
Southern California Gaming Guide readers voted Games of ThronesTM Slot Game
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and Buffalo Stampede from Aristocrat
Technologies a number of rst place awards including Best Video Slot, Best Music, Movie or TV-Themed Slot, and Best Slot Graphics.
A consistent favorite with players everywhere, IGT’s Wheel of Fortune® was voted rst place Best Classic Slot, and Best Progressive Slot, holding its position as one of the Best Slots in the world. IGT launched Wheel of Fortune slots in 1996, and has minted nearly 1,000 millionaires and delivered over $3 billion in jackpots throughout its history. ere are more than 200 variations of the game that can be found on casino oors in more than 20 countries worldwide.
And, no surprise, games from Bally Tech/ Scientific Games including Quick HitTM variations were big winners as rst place Best Reel Slot and rst place Best Dollar Slot. And newcomer 88 FortunesTM won Best Penny Slot and Luckiest Slot.
Best Reel Slot
Quick HitTM
Five Times Pay Ten Times Pay
Blazing 7sTM Double Diamond®
Southern California casino player-readers voted for their favorite slots in 12 categories this year. All 12 awards feature the top three winners. And all three winners in each category are worthy to note. Southern California has 22 casinos and over 38,000 slot machines, so every one of the 2016 Best Slots award winning games consistently delivers fun casino experiences.
2016 Best Slots Random Drawing Winners
To thank casino players for voting, Southern California Gaming Guide readers had a chance to win cash prizes including one $500 winner in the Early Bird Drawing on May 15th, ten $100 winners and one $1,000 Grand Prize winner. e winners were drawn randomly from the completed online ballots, and include Tara. P. from
Garden Grove who won the $500 Early Bird Drawing. Sam V. from Los Angeles was the $1,000 Grand Prize winner. e ten $100 winners were from Palm Springs, El Cajon, Torrance, Indio, Buena Park, Costa Mesa, San Marcos, San Diego, Anaheim, Dana Point, and Malibu. ank you, everyone, for voting and congratulations to all the random drawing winners.
What Makes a Best Slot?
For casino players, a best slot can be a favorite game with a thrilling bonus round, a slot with amazing graphics, or an innovative function. Or be a popular music, movie or television show-based game, or a classic slot favorite. But a Best Slot is always a game casino players look for and play no matter which casino they visit, because when they’ve played a
Best Video Slot
Buffalo StampedeTM
88 FortunesTM
Game of ThronesTM Slot Game
Best Penny Slot
88 FortunesTM Buffalo StampedeTM Titan 360TM
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAMING GUIDE
JULY 2016