IGT-Megabucks

There are a great deal of legends and stories associated with the Megabucks slot machine, and we delve into what’s real and what’s fake, and tell you our take on Megabucks. We finally see and express our conclusion that Megabucks, at the end of the day, is just not worth your time!

You need ‘dollar coins’ to play the jackpot and the requirement is of 3 coins. Every time somebody gets lucky and wins the jackpot, the total jackpot value is reset to a new amount, obviously greater than the previous value. As for the current scene, the value stands at $10 million presently, and is set to be $11 million. The actual network is called the Mega Jackpot slot system, which is responsible for linking up around 750 slot machines across the 136 Nevada casinos to one single main jackpot. IGT owns the machines that belong to the Megabucks class, and the creation of Megabucks stemmed out of the need to compete with other state lotteries

Where to play?

It suffices to say that the answer is majorly Nevada. IGT has also spread megabucks to places like New Jersey and California, but there is a difference in the jackpots and other features as well.

What are the Odds?

There were many calculations made, and statistics from various places have tried to estimate the odds of winning megabucks. Various figures have been purported, from one in 17 million to one in 50 million!

Megabucks is Megajunk

We conclude by saying that the rumor filled stories that surround and hang around the Megabucks and its ‘curse’ are in fact purely rumors, but we also go on to say this is actually not a good slot game which you should even try. We cite two reasons as to why we say this.

Firstly, Megabucks has a not so appropriate ‘house hold’, with its holding value being in the range of 10 to 15 percent per dollar, in contrasting comparison to the 2 or 3 per cent which Nevada holds. Secondly, and this might turn you off as soon you know this—you only get 60 percent of the jackpot that you have won! Of course, you deserve the full jackpot, and many websites which have progressive slots do indeed award you the whole jackpot.

So beneath the superfluous façade of glory and hype is a normal, quite moderately average progressive slot game which is not very seemingly promising. The main kink being the fact that you are only in the end awarded a fraction of what was actually claimed would be your prize—and that too, this sum which will seem meager to you, finally comes over a time of 25 years.

So what can we say, except that Megabucks is total Mega junk!