A challenge for NASA fans, space cadets, astrologists and UFO spotters!
February 22nd, 2007
Here’s a challenge for NASA fans, space cadets, astrologists and UFO spotters!
We thought we’d put the latest casino promotional freebie at Zodiac Casino to the test just to see how lucrative the ‘50 free spins, keep what you win’ offer could be.
The spins have to be taken on Starscape, a fairly classy Microgaming slot – nice spacey sounds, good strong space-themed graphics.
Starscape the basics:
A 25 payline 5-reel slot with wild symbols, multipliers and scatters. You can win up to 70,000 coins in the base game and the bonus game offers a potential win of 37,500 coins.
The test:
Right… to test this 10 of us each played Starscape at Zodiac Casino and then at 2 other unrelated Microgaming casinos, just ‘cos we could. Each tester had to complete 50 spins ten times at each casino (that’s 5000 per casino = 15,000 spins) and then we compared results.
The results:
Not great financially. While our sample size and method was far from statistically significant, it was still interesting that Zodiac Casino proved the luckiest of the 3 Microgaming casinos in our test – with a bonus game triggered 42% of the time (ie of the 500 groups of 50 spins at least 210 resulted in a bonus game). Play at Ruby Fortune Casino resulted in a bonus game 34% of the time and 32Red game play, only 29%. (That’s a 35% average across the 3 casinos)
As you’d expect, as the bonus game is triggered with 3, 4 or 5 space ships, almost all of bonus games were at the lower level (3) and so payouts were less accordingly. We did have 3 ‘4 space ship’ games but no ‘5 space ship’ bonus games triggered. Our average bonus game payout was around 4000 coins compare to the 37,500 maximum possible bonus win.
None of our play testers scored anything like the potential 70,000 coins from the base game and 90% of all sets of 50 spins resulted in a net loss.
Moral of this space saga:
If you play for free, ie no outlay whatsoever, getting a buzz from the potential to get something for nothing is what it’s all about.
Recommended, for the entertainment value alone.
>>Visit Zodiac Casino to suss out this offer, or to just play the game for real money or for free.
PS: Zodiac also give you an extra $40 to play with if you then go on to deposit $100.
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