12 best fruity slots on the web

Not long ago, as I was updating a link to a new fruity slot called Deep Sea Dosh, I realised I should write an article on this type of game.
Even though these slot machines are quite popular in England and in Spain, they remain rather obscure in most places around the world.
The main originality of these slots is that they are not random.
They follow a preestablished scenario, which allows it to play on your nerves.
It is then quite common to get the symbols which form the jackpot combination on the first two reels, so that the player’s excitation increases when the third one spins.
Then, the reel slows down but stops a second too soon on the symbol just before the one which would have made us rich.
This situation is obviously infuriating but also terribly addictive.
On top of this, you will often win several large amounts one after the other after a long time of not winning anything, which is always a great joy.
Thanks to this perpetual emotional rollercoaster, many players love fruity slots or type 2 slot machines.
They find them a lot more fun to play than their random cousins, or type 3 slot machines, which they mainly deem boring.
On the other hands, other players distrust fruit slots.
They don’t like the fact that everything is preordained and think that these games are less equitable.
Actually, a slot machine being random or not does not change the odds of winning money.
Everything depends on the pay-out rate of the game.
This is the percentage of money which the slot gives back through the amounts you win.
In this way, if you bet 100€  on a slot machine with a pay-out rate of 95%, you will win on average 95 euros, and the casino will keep 5€, whether you are playing on a type 2 or type 3 slot machine.
If you wish to know more about this useul concept, I advise you to read this past article on variance, in which I mention the issue of pay-out rates.
Fruity slots, also known as Amusement With Prizes (AWP), are to be found only in bars and pubs in Spain and in the UK (which is why they are sometimes refered to as UK pub slots) among other countries, as opposed to random slot machines which are only found in casinos.
The law says these type 2 slot machines should have a rather low pay-out rate, around 60%.Fortunately, it is not the case with their online doppelgangers which offer pay-out rates on a par with classical random slot machines.
This is a good incentive to try these slot machines which cannot be found in France, while benefiting from a much higher pay-out rate than the one found in the UK or in Spain.
All fruity slots offer an identical gaming structure.
They have three reels and a single payment line and a bonus game which is usually very addictive.
These slot machines often offer amusing features called nudge or hold.
The first one allows you to to nudge any reel one square in order to get the next symbol after the one you just got.
The second feature is slightly reminiscent of the one found in video poker or on multi-reel slot machines.
It offers you the possibility to select one or several reels which will not spin during the next game, in order to keep the symbols on them.
Online fruity slots are rather rare, since Microgaming seems to be the only well-known developer to regularly create some.
Cryptologic, however, also created a few in the olden days.
As a great finish to this article, here is a small selection of the best fruity slots available online.