What is the best way to spend a 10 deposit on the Absolootly Mad slot?

You may remember that a little while back we looked at the best way to spend £10, or your currency equivalent, on the Atlantean Treasures slot. In that article, we compared three different ways of spending £10 on that game, 100 spins at 0.10 per spin, 50 spins at 0.20 per spin and 25 spins at 0.40 per spin.

In that series of videos and article, our research showed that in terms of profitability, playing the 100 spins at 0.10 per spin proved to be the better value. However, the question remains as to whether that is the same across all the Mega Moolah family of slots.

So with that in mind, we decided to replicate (as best we could) the same experiment but this time on the other and newest addition to the Mega Moolah family of games, the Absolootly Mad slot.

One key difference

However, we unfortunately cannot replicate the exact experiment with the same amount of money on Absolootly Mad as we did on Atlantean Treasures and that is because the minimum bet size on Absolootly Mad is 0.20 per spin, which is double the 0.10 per spin on Atlantean Treasures.

So, what we have done is followed the same proportionate increase in bet size on the game as we used on Mega Moolah. So our initial bet sample is 50 spins at 0.20 per spin, then 25 spins at 0.40 per spin and lastly 16 spins at 0.60 per spin.

While this should give us a chance to see the slot in action and to test the hypothesis that playing more spins is generally a better option with a smaller amount of cash to spend, it also allows us to see the effect that playing the right game for your bankroll can have on your enjoyment and also how selecting the right game and right bet size could give you much more Mega Moolah opportunities for your money.

As with the last video, we have taken video of the three sessions so you can see them in full, complete with commentary and there are links to these videos throughout the article.

A brief recap of the Absolootly Mad slot

If you haven't yet played the Absolootly Mad slot game then this is the latest Mega Moolah-linked progressive jackpot slot from Microgaming, based on an Alice's Adventures in Wonderland theme. It is a 243 Ways to Win slot that features Rolling Reels and Multiplier Trails in both the base game and also during its Free Spins bonus round.

Spins start at just 0.20 per spin but you can increase the value well beyond that. The more you bet per spin, the more chance you have of triggering the Jackpot Bonus Wheel game, which is the special bonus round that can be triggered when you land a Wild symbol and add a coin to the golden teapot at the top of the screen.

How did each play-through go?

Let's now take a look at how each of the different £10 worth of play-through's went on the Absolootly Mad slot, starting with the 50 spins at 0.20 per spin.

• 50 spins at 0.20 per spin

Starting Balance - £30.00

Having put £30 into my account for the test (the minimum I would need assuming that I do not win on any spin), I started the first session hoping to follow the good fortune I have had in these longer sessions on the Mega Moolah series of games and to perhaps post a profit. However, what followed was one of the most uninspiring sessions of spins I have had for a while.

Instead of recording a profit, or even a small loss, at the end of my 50 spins I was down £7.18. This is by far the worst session I have had at the minimum bet amount on a Mega Moolah slot for some time now. On other slots, including the Absolootly Mad slot in a previous video, I have managed to post a profit.

So does this mean my theory about more spins being the better option is now in tatters? Well, before we make any hasty judgements, let's take a look at how the other two sessions turned out, with 25 spins at 0.40 a spin up next.

End Balance - £22.82 (-£7.18 loss)

Session One video

• 25 spins at 0.40 per spin

Starting Balance - £22.82

Now if we were going to show you my theory of playing more spins is the most beneficial, then we should see a loss of about the same, if not a little more for the second session of 25 spins at 0.40 a spin, but what we found in this session, was that we bucked the trend somewhat.

Having made a loss of just over £7 in the first session, in the second session we landed a couple of decent sized base game winners, including one just short of £5.00 in value. This massively boosted the amount of money we won in this session and meant that we actually lost significantly less (just £1.22) in this session than the previous one.

Of course, this runs a little against our notion that having more spins at a smaller bet is better value, but we will come back to this result after we have finished looking through how the third session went at 0.60 per spin for just 16 spins. Would we hit a big loss again, or could we make a profit?

End Balance - £21.60 (-£1.22 loss)

Session Two video

• 16 spins at 0.60 per spin

Start Balance - £21.60

With £0.60 not going into £10 exactly, that meant that we had to play through roughly 16 spins at 0.60 per spin to stay within the £10.00 budget limit for this slot, although you would have £0.40 left over from your £10.00 spend as the total cost for the 16 spins at 0.60 per spin is £9.60.

As you can see in this short video, with 16 spins, you do not really have enough chance to trigger the bigger value wins on the slot. Although we land a couple of wins, they are few and far between and with each spin costing me 0.60 from a relatively small balance amount, you can see that by the end of the spins I have lost around a third of the money I had available to me.

This to me is more in keeping with how a standard 0.60 session for a small amount of money like £10.00 tends to go. You just do not have the equity in terms of the number of spins to give yourself a chance of hitting better value wins, or the Free Spins bonus, which was notably absent in all three rounds on this slot.

End Balance - £14.04 (-£7.56 loss)

Session Three video

Why didn't we trigger a Free Spins bonus round?

One notable thing here is that despite having 91 spins on the Absolootly Mad slot, we did not trigger the Free Spins bonus round once. We had a number of close calls, where we landed two Scatter symbols on the reels but could not land the third.

However, after the final session, I did go back onto the slot, without recording the session and without a microphone and after just a few spins, I did hit Free Spins and landed a prize of over £10 from the 8 Free Spins I triggered (there is a video of that here).

This is in contrast to some other sessions, including my last session on the Mega Vault Millionaire slot where I hit Free Spins within three spins of starting and then again within the next 30-35 spins.

However, rather like the Jackpot Bonus, Free Spins are random events that can occur, or not, on any spin. There's no guarantee that just because you have around 100 spins, you will trigger a Free Spins bonus. You may spin 100 times and never trigger it, on another occasion on the same slot, you could trigger Free Spins 2, 3 or maybe even four times or more.

Like all aspects of the Mega Moolah slot, the Free Spins bonus round is random and no part of it is guaranteed to the player regardless of how many spins they play, or what they are betting on each of those spins.

However, as you can see in the video I took of the bonus round, it can prove to be a very lucrative part of the slot and had I landed that Free Spins round in any of the sessions above, then I would have made a profit on that session.

And what is key to realise here is that I would have much more chance of landing it with more spins played at a lower bet amount, than I would with fewer spins at a higher bet amount!

Is there anything that explains these results?

You may think that these results show that perhaps it doesn't matter how much you bet when spending a set amount on a slot, it is purely down to random chance whether you win or not, and to be honest, there is an element of that here.

As you can see, the second session at 0.40 per spin was nowhere near as costly as playing for 0.20 or 0.60 per spin, although we can out that down specifically to a couple of bigger value wins I landed in that second session, while I didn't land any comparable wins in the first or third sessions.

However, what I would say here is that results like this are not uncommon when you are playing a relatively small number of spins, even if you spin 100 or 200 times on the slot.

The way the game works is such that you can play just a few spins and get lucky and land a big win and hefty profit, or you could play many spins and pick up nothing but very small wins and end up losing money.

However, your chances of landing a bigger win increase the more spins you play as simply, you have more tickets in that raffle so to speak. If the Absolootly Mad Free Spins round triggered for sure once every 100 spins, then if you played 100 spins at 0.20 a spin, you would know you would trigger the bonus at least once. If you played 50 spins, then you only have half the chance of triggering the bonus, 25 spins and it is a quarter.

Of course, that is not how the maths work exactly on Mega Moolah games, but it is true for bonus features that the more spins you have, the more chance you have of triggering them and as such, if keeping your bankroll going for as long as possible is your aim, then playing more spins is still the best option for you.

However, a session like this is great because it shows you how variable these games can be and why you cannot take anything for granted. It also illustrates quite beautifully the fact that anybody that claims to have a 'system' to play games such as the Mega Moolah network slots, is simply not telling the truth. There is no system that can be applied to a truly random game.

Do check back shortly for a follow up article when I played through 100 spins on the Absolootly Mad slot at 0.20 per spin, to try and show that playing more spins at a lower price is generally better value and you can see the somewhat unexpected result that followed!