How to play online slots

You’ve seen the news stories, you’ve heard other people talking about it; online casino games are big news these days and none more so than online slots. Every other person you talk to seems to know how to play and talks about the wins they’ve had. So how do you go about playing online slots if you’ve never done it before?
Well, the good news is that it’s easy. There probably isn’t a simpler kind of game to get to grips with than slots. The reason that they’ve become so amazingly popular is that they are easy to play, entertaining and very easy to win on. All you really need to do is click on Spin and hope that the right sequence of symbols comes up in one of your pay lines.
One thing that might put a slots novice off is the jargon that you might see on the online gaming sites. But really, it doesn’t take much to learn a few new words and phrases and you’ll soon be playing with ease. And if you ever get stuck, you can always refer to the Help or How to Play button on the screen.
To play most slots games, you need to decide how much you wish to wager – both in the value of the coins you bet with and the number of coins you wager on each spin. You also need to decide how many lines you wish to play at once. Some slots games have a wide number of betting options; others are more limited. For example on a three or five line slot, you usually play all the lines every spin, but on a 20 or 25 line multi-slot, you can decide how many lines you’ll play on each spin.
Of course, the more lines you play, the greater your chances of having a winner on a spin. The amount you win, however, is dictated by the size and number of coins that you bet, as the payouts are multiples of coin size.
A great way to get to grips with playing online slots is to play some of the many free slots that the gaming sites have on offer. You can even play slots on Facebook – for fun only, with virtual coins. You can also play most games in demo mode on the gaming sites, where you get to try out the games at no financial risk as you are playing with virtual money. Of course, the downside is that any win will also be virtual while you’re in demo mode!
Online casinos are offering an incentive to new account holders at the moment. For anyone who opens an account with £10, the site will add an extra £20 to their balance. So with online casinos, you’re off to a winner even before you’ve placed your first real money slots bet.