video slot machines

drop box for high denomination machines, because it can contain a hinged lid with one or many locks.

- EGM: stands for "Electronic Gaming Machine"

- Hand play: this is the case when the payout is made by a slot attendant i.e. casino employee and not from the machine. This case occurs when the payout amount is greater than the maximum possible on the slot machine

- Hooper fill slip: this is a document used to keep a record of the replenishments of coins in the coin hopper, after it becomes depleted.

- Optimal play: this is a payback percentage based on a player using the optimal strategy in skill-based slot machine game.

-Rollup: this is when the machine plays sounds after a win.

-Short pay: this is a case, when the hopper cant payout the whole sum to the player. It occurs when the hopper made earlier payouts to the player or other players before him. The remaining payout is given to the player by a slot attendee i.e. "hand pay" or from the re-filled machine.

-Tilt: this is the tilt switches that the old slot machines had. But even that the new machines don't have tilts, any kind of mechanical failure is called a "tilt"