Number Slot Machines In Macau

Go to most casinos around the world, and slot machines will dominate the landscape. They tend to be the biggest money makers for the casino, and gamblers love them for their simple gameplay and potential for huge rewards.

But that’s not the story in Macau. Here, it’s table games – mainly, baccarat – that are the biggest draw. In some cases, there will be more tables on the casino floor than slot machines, a situation you’d never find in a Vegas casino! Slots simply don’t have the same pull in Macau, so they’re often relegated to the sidelines.

That said, pretty much every casino in Macau will feature at least some slot machines, and a few have a huge selection that rivals the biggest casinos anywhere in the world. The key is knowing where to go to find the best slots action. Here are our picks for the best Macau casinos for slots!

The number of people gambling in Macau dipped to a record low in 2019. Ahead of football and basketball betting with 7.6% and slot machine parlours on 4.8%.

Best Macau Slots/Slot Machines

The Venetian Macau Slots

Located on the Cotai Strip, The Venetian is a massive resort with an enormous number of slots for you to choose from. In total, there are somewhere around 3,400 slot machines in the complex, which dwarfs the slots options at even the other casinos you’ll find on this list.

Really, there’s a ton of everything at The Venetian, and it’s a great spot to play at no matter what games you’re looking to play. But since slots are in relatively short supply in Macau, it’s definitely the best place to play if you’re a slot machine addict.

Sands Macau Slots

The Sands Macau was the first of the new, Western-style casino opened in Macau, so it’s no surprise that it came with a lot of slot machine action. There are over 1,250 slots here, spread out over the length of a huge casino floor that seems to never end.

One other cool thing for slots players here is that the Sands Macau has a special VIP area, the Pearl Room, which allows high rollers to play in relative seclusion. This section is notable because it also contains 180 higher-limit slots for big spenders to try their luck on.

MGM Grand Macau Slots

By now, it should be no surprise that most of the casinos on this list are going to be the casinos owned and operated by Western companies trying to make their mark in Macau. Since these casinos tend to be the ones most visited by Western tourists – who are more likely to want to play slots – they do everything they can to cater to their markets.

The MGM Grand is no exception to this rule. With over 1,000 slot machines, you’re sure to find something to play that should be right up your alley. It’s not quite as grandiose as a few of the other mega-casinos, but there’s still more than enough for any gambler to do here over two separate floors of casino gaming.

City of Dreams Slots

This brand new resort on the Cotai Strip features three different hotels and a ton of different gaming options spread throughout. Here, you can play in several different casinos without ever leaving the building!

Between all of the different hotels and casinos in this sprawling complex, you’ll find over 1,500 machines to play on. We also like that the City of Dreams isn’t all about appealing to VIP guests (much of Macau seems focused on attracting as many whales as possible), which makes it a slightly more affordable gambling option for more typical visitors.

Galaxy Starworld Slots

Galaxy Starworld is one of the top casinos in Macau, and it shows in the way that it is able to attract both Asian visitors and those traveling from the United States and Europe. It’s definitely a place to visit while you’re on a Macau trip, just to see what all the hype is about.

While you’re here, you’ll also be able to get in a decent amount of slot machine action. There are around 500 slot machines here – not a huge number, but by Macau standards, it’s quite the selection.

Honorable Mentions

While we bemoaned the lack of slot machine-focused casinos in Macau at the beginning of this article, the truth is that there are plenty of places here that offer at least a reasonable selection of games to choose from. When it comes to slots, Macau isn’t Vegas, but it’s not like you’ll have to search for days just to find a decent machine. Here are a few of the other casinos around that offer a good selection of your favorite slots!

Grand Emperor Casino Slots
Pharaoh’s Palace Casino Slots
Ponte 16 Slots
Wynn Macau Slots
Altria Macau Slots
Golden Dragon Casino

You are playing a three-coin slot machine. You only are playing two coins at the time. The jackpot is hit. If you had been playing one coin, or if you had been playing three coins, would it still have gone off at that point?

If you had put in one or three coins the outcome would likely have been entirely different. The machine is constantly drawing random numbers and the numbers that were drawn at the moment you spin the reels determine the outcome. So, if you had played fewer or more coins you would have spun the reels at a different moment and thus the outcome would have been different.

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Congratulations also on the new gig with Casino Player, I enjoy it the site and your occasional posts on bj21. As someone who works in the industry, admittedly not slots, I was under the impression that the more recent slots have the RNG stop the moment the first coin drops, so it really doesn't matter if you play 1,2, or 3 coins -- the symbols will line up the same. Have I been misinformed? According to your previous answer I apparently have. Keep up the good work and I'll stay in touch, thanks and best wishes.

Thanks for the kind words Dave. You're right that it was the money that finally made me accept the banners. It is my understanding that when the player presses the button to spin the reels the random numbers are drawn at that instant, which determine where the reels stop, and ultimately what you win. The number of coins bet does not matter.

How many numbers does the RNG (Random Number Generator) pick for each spin in a slot machine? Is it three numbers (1 for each reel) or is it 1 number that's mapped to a unique combination of symbols for all 3 reels?

This is a great website!. FYI - A guy missed the Megabucks jackpot (7.9M) yesterday because he had just two coins in. To the best of your knowledge, when does the RNG stop and determine your outcome? If it stops on the first coin, then he blew it. If it is on the last coin, he could have had an entirely different outcome. My guess that the stop time is set by the individual manufacturer, and there is no regulation telling him when to do so. Just wondering if you knew different.

Thanks for the compliment. The outcome of the game is determined when the player initiates the spin. The game is constantly drawing random numbers, even when not played. The random numbers chosen at the moment the button is pressed to spin the reels determine where the reels stop, which determines what the player wins. So, if the player bet three coins he would have pressed the button at a different moment, causing a different outcome.

Have you noticed when you look sideways past the right reel on IGT games there are 4-5 counters inside the machine labeled 'coins in, coins out, jackpots' or similar wording? I was just wondering what your experience with the counters was. Is there any way to get helpful information from those? Thanks for your time.

No, that information won’t help you at all. Your odds are always the same on every spin, regardless of the counters.

I have heard it is illegal for a slot machine to deliberately have too many near misses. Can you tell me what you know about this?

To answer your question I asked a well connected gaming consultant and he said Nevada regulations state that one stop on a reel can not be weighted more than six times more than either stop next to it. So if a jackpot symbol were weighted by 1 and both bordering blanks were weighted by 6 then there would be 12 near misses for every one time the reel stopped on the jackpot symbol. This would be the maximum allowed near miss effect. My own results detailed in my slot machine appendix 1 back up this theory well. The red double seven was the highest paying symbol and I saw the blanks above and below it about 5 to 6 times as often:

Double Strike Actual Results

Symbol	Reel 1	Reel 2	Reel 3
Blank	250	248	291
Double red 7	52	51	55
Blank	259	292	262

The same source said that New Jersey and Mississippi likely have adopted the Nevada regulations.

This is not a game theory question, but I figured since you answer dating questions you might handle this. I had a dream recently where I sat down at an open slot machine. I was getting my player’s card out of my pocket when a guy came up from behind me and put money in the machine. I told him it was my machine and hit the cash out button and gave him his ticket. He said he had his eye on the machine and since he had his money in first it was his machine. I turned to call a slot attendant and while I was doing that he put his money in again, pushed the button and hit a jackpot. In my dream we then had an argument over who gets the money, the person who clearly had the machine and intended to play it or the person who unsolicited put the money in the machine. I realize this is a bizarre situation but who do you think would win the argument?

My understanding is that the person who is pressing the buttons gets the money. I asked Brian, who helped with the last question, about this. Here is what he wrote, which I agree with.

In the scenario described, the person who put in the money and pressed the buttons would receive the jackpot.

What I find interesting about this question is the paradox that in all likelihood, the jackpot never would have occurred without this chance encounter.

As you know, the random number generator in the slot machine is continuously working even when the machine is not in play. So even though one patron feels cheated, their run-in ultimately led to pressing the spin button at that exact millisecond when the RNG was on the winning combination. So, if one patron had acquiesced, there is never a jackpot to fight over.

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Thanks for helping in the fight against betting systems. First let me say that I have never worked for a major slot machine company and don’t have direct knowledge of this. However, I know many people in the industry and those I trust pretty much are in agreement on this topic.

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That said, it is my understanding that in all forms of electronic games, including video slots, video poker, and video keno, the outcome is usually determined the moment you make your decision. Meanwhile the possible outcomes are constantly being shuffled, thousands of times a second. I can’t speak for every slot machine but I believe that with the major U.S. slot makers the outcome is not predestined but depends on the exact microsecond you press the button to make your play.

First, love the site, very informative! Background: When using a Random Number Generator (RNG) to determine certain payouts for a finite set, such as 1 million lottery scratch off cards, the RNG can be programmed to drop non-pay or add pay selections so as to keep a more even distribution of winners throughout the finite set of cards created. The goal is to maintain a more even distribution in the cards along with the payout percentage as required. Is this, or can this programming be done in Nevada? The law of averages would indicate no need for this, but is it not theoretically possible for a signed 97% slot machine to payout 95% one year and 99% the next year unless some control on the RNG was made?

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Thanks for the kind words. Scratch cards and pull tabs can indeed be printed in batches. These batches will have a specified number for each win, and the return of the overall batch will be exactly as the maker intended. In some jurisdictions, where only pull tabs are legal, the outcome can be displayed to the player on a video monitor, in the form of a slot or video poker machine. However, in Nevada, that is not how slots work. Each play is completely independent of the past. A machine programmed to average a 97% return, could indeed pay under 95% or over 99% over a year, especially if not heavily played.