Star Trek Slot and Craps Fire Bets |
We hadn’t been to Las Vegas in a couple years until last week and it’s always interesting to see what’s new. The first and most disappointing part was that the Star Trek Experience amusement ride at The Hilton closed in September 2008. It is supposed to reopen in 2010 downtown near the Fremont Experience.
Here is the cool Star Trek slot from WMS Gaming using their patented "Adaptive Gaming that can save your progress earning medals so that you can continue playing at any other Star Trek machine in the world:
It takes earning 40 medals to unlock the Trouble with Tribbles adventure shown above. Considering that medals can only be won during bonus rounds and bonus rounds can be far and few between it can take many, many gaming hours to earn these 40 medals.
Tip: play the bonus game in the first experience where you pick different bonus amounts. If you pick all the crewmen before finding the monster you’ll earn as many as 5 medals for a single bonus game. These means that you could get your 40 medals in playing through as little as 6 bonus games. It might be possible to earn more than 5 medals in a single bonus game, but the best I could do was five and I only did that once.
Craps Fire Bet
My favorite table game, craps, has a new proposition available called the Fire Bet. With this bet which can only be made at the start of a new shooter throwing dice, you are betting that the player will make at least 4 individual points. This means that if the player makes four sixes, that only counts as one. S/he would need to make 4 different numbers like 5,6,8,9. It’s the worst bet on the table, considering the casino edge is like 21%-25% depending on the payout, but players can win up to $10,000 for a $5 bet if 6 individual points are made.
We saw the Fire Bet craps at one of the Station casinos in Vegas and The Cannery. It’s also at Harrah’s, the Sahara and the Rio on the strip.
I misunderstood the game’s rules the first time I played thinking that a player only needed to make at least four points but nope, that’s not how it works. It’s too bad that they don’t offer a lower payout for non-individual points being made like say 5 for 1, as this would add to the excitement of betting along with a shooter who has a hot hand. According to NextShooter.com Fire Bet was created by Perry Staci a Las Vegas casino supervisor. No idea if it will make it out of Vegas and to the various indian casinos around here. I haven’t seen Star Trek in any of the local casinos either but am encouraged by the fact that they do have many WMS machines. The Wild Horse Casino in Pendleton, Oregon has two Star Trek slots as of this writing.
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It sounds so much like the actual actors do you think they hired them for the voice overs?
I do find all the combination of start trek and slot machines strange, I think of trekies and harden gambler a too very seperate demographics.
Comment by Molly — August 1, 2009 @ 10:49 am PST
“Space the final frontier…these are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise”. And this is another frontier of making money. Anyway, I tried it as well and I love the seat shaking you..
Comment by Amanda Schuhe — August 3, 2009 @ 3:46 am PST
Good lord…it’s not bad enough that he is the priceline commercial. His voice needs to be in Vegas as well. Good ole TJ Hooker.
Comment by Grog — August 3, 2009 @ 9:42 pm PST
Hehe, the Star Trek games stood out a lot from the other slots. They were big, flashing, and had an logo that you recognized. I’m actually not a trekkie, and have seen only a few of the good ‘ol Star Trek episodes, but my friend showed me “Trouble with the tribbles” and I loved it. We went to the Star Trek Experience on the Hilton in 2007. The waiter at the restaurant was cool, when he came with the check he said “Here’s your damage report sir!”. I hope they succeed in rebuilding it, but I fear it will get less attention around the fremont experience. Hilton isn’t very central either. Maybe that’s why they had to shut it down?
I think I wasted about 20 dollars trying to get the Tribbles bonus game. I never read the rules or knew about the 40 medals. Sheesh..
Comment by Jeff — April 19, 2010 @ 7:22 am PST