A Brief Guide to Online Pokies

Publishing: March 14, 2018

Most online pokies today have 3 reels or 5 reels and anywhere from 1 winning payline up to usually no more than 100 paylines. You’ll also find that a growing number of 5 reeled pokies have 243 or 720 different ways to win per spin, rather than having the standard payline structure. The 3 reel pokies are also often referred to as classic pokies or fruit machines and these are the more simpler ones that tend to have anywhere from 1 to 5 paylines.

The 5 reeled online pokies usually have 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 50 or 100 paylines, 243 or 720 win ways. Most online pokies have fixed coin jackpots to play for, plus you can also now find hundreds of progressive jackpot pokies. The jackpots on the progressive pokies can climb to no fixed amount and many of the biggest progressive jackpots today frequently climb to more than AU$1,000,000.00. The great news is that these life-changing progressive jackpots can be won from as little as AU$0.20 to AU$1.00 per spin.

Some of the special symbols that you are likely to come across when playing on an online pokie include Wild Symbols, Scatter Symbols and Bonus Symbols, and possibly one or two variations of these standard symbols. The Wild Symbols act as Joker or Mirror Symbols and they can basically substitute all other symbols on the reels (apart from the Scatter Symbols and Bonus Symbols) to help form new winning combinations that otherwise weren’t there. You can also find Wild Symbol variations such as Stacked Wilds, Grouped Wilds, Expanding Wilds, Multiplying Wilds and numerous other varieties.

The Scatter Symbols will award some kind of instant cash prize when two or more of them show up in any positions across the reels and this could be worth anywhere from 2X up to 50X or more times your total stake. Three or more Scatter Symbols landing in any position across the reels at the same time will trigger the Free Spins Bonus and Free Spins can also generally be retriggered in the same way.

Some online pokies also have an on-reels picking bonus (known as click me or pick me bonus) or a second screen bonus round to win prizes from. This will instantly trigger when two or three or more Bonus Symbols land on the reels at the same time. The best thing to do when you play on an online pokie for the very first time would be to head straight to the paytable because this area will tell you everything you need to know about the game.