New Wonka Machines

Mandalay Bay has a pod of them directly in front of the M Life desk.


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I vow never to play that version again and I love Wonka! Over the course of a few sessions and 500-700 bucks at the Venetian...... no bonus and barely a crap line hit.

 

I am beginning to feel like the Wonka franchise is being over worked. Much like Quick Hits. Wonka variation that started out great on early cabinets with
high pay and frequent hit potential. Paylines for max coins bets seemed like good payback.

Now we have seen this proliferation of higher line lower payback variations and with low pay bonuses and lower hit frequencies. It almost seems like with the new games, they know they have an established name brand so they can lower the normal bonus round payback and average out the theoretical with the rare high
bonus.

Case in point my local has a bank of Pure Imagination based on the Gamefield xD cabinets. I think they retrofitted these from WofOz since we have no WOZ games on the slot floor at HSI anymore. Anyways these are configured as .02 max bet of 10 bucks. While you may see the once a day handpays on the daily Jackpot stats that come out, these banks of slots are literally empty except on busy weekends. I have had only 1 winning session in 50 on these and have observed people get wiped out in 30 to 40 spins. Its not uncommon to see $200 to $300 buy in go up in smoke.

Same goes for the smaller Buffalo Gold at our locals. I have stopped playing them altogether and they are routinely empty.
Anyway my point of this post is, I feel like I am seeing a trend at my local and when I visit Vegas that these slot franchises (Buffalo, Wonka, WofOz) are being
tweaked downward on payback as a maturing game franchise. Meaning the manufacturers know they can give up less short term payback due to the popularity of franchise and in some cases offer less payback percentage for house edge on these cabinets. If hold percentage is the same on multi denomination cabinets (.01, .05, .10) then they become losers over all only good for entertainment value with no hope of beating the house in a session. This line of thinking has been driving me back towards more progressive bank games, where the appeal of a large potential progressive jackpot skews overall payback percentage when progressive is higher.

 

Out of all wonka, the one I never do good and probably will never challenge again is the imagination version.

Multi screen is fairly fun for me, lots of loompa and bonuses. No huge win tho

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I had bigger but less frequent hits on the new one by playing the regular version with the lollipops on the bottom of the touch pad versus the extra oompa loompa bonuses version on the top. Small sample size of course.

 

I'm glad you mentioned this. I was wondering if another thread exists where the discussion is around choosing more Oompa vs. higher win multiplier. For the record, I always play $6.00 and choose the higher multiplier. I have had pretty good success but I too have a small sample size.

 

I've had good luck on the World of Wonka, I'm at a net positive lifetime on it. I always play the x8 multi more Oompa $6 bet. When they are hitting consistently it is a steady train to profitville. But the machine can go cold and I've found if you are not getting features/bonuses within $100 its time to bail.

 

This has been my friend's best hit on the machine. I was the awful camera man on the video, and the person who can't finish multiplying. He's the one yelling.

 

My local has them, great at first few trips, last time cold as a ex spouse who lost it all in a divorce. Oompah loompah bonuses randomly really made the pays! Regular lines etc pay wise blow unless you do up a full screen of something.

 

Do they have these at Cosmo?

 

Does anyone know how to best play the new Wonka machine? i'm referring to the one that has the "hand gesture zone" and the 3 screens, with the $6 bet at x8 or x12. My question revolves around that bonus game that lets you pick the little circles, starting with the least risky, and progressing to the most risky. You can also have 1 or 2 donut bubbles which saves your life if you pick a circle that lets you "fall in".

So what i'm wondering is how to play with 1 or 2 donut bubbles. For example, if i start off the game (which has 7 picks) then when do i go super risky? Mainly wondering if i get a nice multiplier (like x10) on circle pick 1 or 2, then when do i get risky.

Last question- if you don't survive all 7 picks, does the multiplier actually work and still pay you? or do you have to survive all 7 picks. My wife and i were debating this. She had 1 donut left and waited to pick a risky circle till the 7th pick, as she thinks that you must survive all 7 picks or your multiplier does not work. Her thinking is she guaranteed the multiplier to work because when she "fell in" on her 7th pick, as it was the super risky circle, the donut saved her, the game ended, and it still paid her the 10x multiplier (For like a $700 hit).

Probably a complicated question that i'm asking rather weakly, but if anyone knows how this bonus works or can point me to any literature online, that would be nice. I just want to know if i should go super risky on pick 6, or wait till pick 7, if i have a donut left, and if that will impact letting the multiplier pay out or not

 

Was he betting max as I would have thought that would have been MUCH higher at max bet??

 

I believe you do have to survive the whole way to get the multiplier. That's how I remember it going for me.

 

Sounds like your describing the chocolate river bonus.
Yes you have to make it through all picks for the multiplier to work.
If your at 6 picks and still have two life saving donuts I don't see why not go for the biggies. I guess it's more how lucky are you feeling?

Main wager I use is more oompah but 1.50 a spin. I also delay my button pushes some and try to stay in syncs with button vs little Audio blurbs in the background of the main game.

 

This was a $1.50 on the extra Oompa Loompa spins. So I think it was only at a 2x.

Would have been higher on a regular multiplier spin. Or if he bet $6 a hand.