Page 19 - Southern California Gaming Guide • June 2020

While you will be playing slots differently at the casino these days, they remain Southern California casino players’ favorite games, and give players more ways to win and have fun. Here is a group of hot slots currently in Southern California casinos that are all thrilling with amazing ways to win. You can also vote for them—and many more slots—from July 1st to July 31st, in the Southern California Gaming Guide Reader’s Choice 2020 Best Slots, online at TheGamingGuide.com. Be sure to check out all details in the July issue. To add to the Wicked Wheel fun, you’ll definitely want to play both Wicked Wheel PandaTM and Wicked Wheel Fire PhoenixTM. These new games feature a video wheel bonus round with random multipliers and nudges, creating an incredible amount of excitement and fun. As in Smokin’ Hot Stuff Wicked Wheel, the games offer the unique 243 Ways to Win feature, enabling players to potentially win progressive jackpots at any bet level. Look for Smokin’ Hot Stuff Wicked Wheel and Wicked Wheel Panda and Wicked Wheel Fire Phoenix at your favorite SoCal casino. Everi’s Little Shop of HorrorsTM The Little Shop of HorrorsTM slot is based, of course, on the cult classic featuring the unusual plant named Audrey II. To jog your memory, Little Shop of Horrors is a hilarious musical comedy starring Rick Moranis as meek flower shop assistant, Seymour, who pines for co-worker Audrey. During a total eclipse, he discovers an unusual plant he names Audrey II, which feeds only on human flesh and blood. The growing plant attracts a great deal of business for the previously struggling store. After Seymour feeds Audrey's boyfriend, Orin (Steve Martin) to the plant after Orin's accidental death, he must come up with more bodies for the increasingly bloodthirsty plant. Hilarity ensues. JUNE 2020 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAMING GUIDE PAGE 19 Smokin’ Hot Stuff Wicked WheelTM from Everi A gold medal winner for Best Slot Product for game theme from Global Gaming Business as part of their 18th Annual Gaming and Technology Awards in 2019, Everi’s Smokin’ Hot Stuff Wicked WheelTM series is based on the “Hot Stuff the Little Devil” comic book character. It is housed on the huge 55-inch giant flat-screen monitor and the 27-inch main game screen of Everi’s Empire 5527 cabinet to full fantastic effect. The Wicked Wheel is the giant wheel on top of the monitor used in a bonus that can result in one of six levels of progressive jackpots, with the Grand jackpot starting at $10,000. The base game is a five-reel scatter-pay video slot, featuring 243 Ways to Win on every spin. During the base game, when a Hot Stuff symbol is part of a winning combination on reels 2, 3 or 4, it multiplies the winning pay by 2x, 3x, or 4x. There are two separate bonus events involving the Wicked Wheel. Three bonus symbols trigger the Wicked Wheel Bonus in which the wheel displays bonus awards ranging from 1,600 credits to 8,000 credits, plus the four top progressives including Major, which resets at $40, Mega, which resets at $100, Ultra, which resets at $800, Grand, which resets at $10,000. The Progressive Pick Bonus can be triggered randomly after any base game spin into a picking bonus that can lead to one of the six progressives: the top four listed above plus the Minor progressive that resets at $20 and the Mini progressive that resets at $10. When the random bonus is triggered, a field of 25 coins is displayed on the screen. The player picks until matching three progressive prizes or revealing a pitchfork to end the bonus. You’ll more than likely see this game and all its permutations as a penny slot, although it’s available in 2¢ and 5¢ denominations.