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We love slots for a number of reasons, but one of the most important is that we always feel we're working towards something as we play. A jackpot is essential, and smaller wins too so that players have a sense of 'getting somewhere', otherwise why else would they play? The great thing about some slots is that they also guarantee a reward during play, leaving the jackpot wins as an exciting uncertainty.

Spin the Other Ones

First on the list of our favorite bonus slot machines is Super Diamond Mine Slots, a five-reel, nine-payline game with an expensive theme. Players will come across the 'cascading diamond' which is a diamond that can point either up or down. If the diamond is facing downwards and is at the top of a reel then the winnings will be increased by however many diamonds are below it. What's more, these points get copied into the Diamond Meter, which goes up to 99. Fill up this meter and Super Diamond Mine Slots' bonus round is triggered and the players' reactions are put to the test as they guide a gnome through diamond mines to collect prizes. The bonus round only ends when a mine collapses and any winnings found up until then are collected. It's not often you get a slot game with a skill game as the bonus, and we adore it!

Fruit Frenzy is another five-reel slot game, but it has twenty paylines and an electric bonus game. Okay so it's more difficult to trigger than most bonus features in slot games as you have to get five of the same symbols on one payline (rather than three or more scatter symbols), but it's well worth the wait. Players are taken to a second screen where they meet the circus master (a pineapple) who shoots a frightened strawberry through a melon. Depending on how far he goes through the melon, the player then wins a certain amount of free spins (from 5 to 25).

The last of our favorite bonus rounds is featured in El Toro Slots, a Spanish-themed bullfighting game with three reels and just one payline. When players bet the maximum wager of $5 and land the matador and bull symbols on one spin, they are taken to a new screen where they take bets on who will win a bullfight: the bull or the matador. Winners are rewarded with a cash prize and losers simply go back to the slot screen to try again.

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