Free Red White And Blue Slots

Red White and Blue Slots is a classic 3-reel game from IGT. In an age when progressive jackpots rule, the Red, White, and Blue slot machine remains one of the most popular gaming machines in the world. In a day when showy licensed slots are seen everywhere, this basic gaming machine still attracts gamblers in virtually every casino. Red Hot Triple Red 7's are the top prize in both the main game and the free spins, and you can win up to 150x your line-bet for hitting three of them, whilst it's 80x your line-bet for Red Hot Double Red 7's, and 40 x your line-bet for Red Hot Single Red 7's. There's also Blue 7's and White 7's to line-up, and these respectively pay 25x and 20x.

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You are probably reading this review because you love online slots, especially the opportunity to choose from many different games. But be honest. Aren’t there times when you would prefer a game that is less complicated than many of those that are currently being promoted? If so, a very simple slot by IGT called Red White and Blue might be exactly what you’re looking for.

At the turn of the century, who would have guessed that you can not only play your favorite slots today at home or from the convenience of your mobile device, but choose from hundreds of varieties. However, thanks to the marvels of modern slot technology, many of these games are surprisingly intricate. Game manufacturers seem convinced that the more paylines, bonus games, and other extra features an online slot offers, the more fun it will be to play, and sometimes they go overboard.

Not every slot player needs or wants a game with lots of bells and whistles, at least not consistently. And during these unsettling times, when everyone has to make many life adjustments, playing slots that are simple and straightforward with familiar symbols and a minimum of decision making makes a lot of sense.

All about the Red White & Blue slot game

IGT introduced its Red White and Blue online slot game in 2019, so it is fairly new. But, like many other IGT slots, this game was originally developed for land-based casinos long before being later adapted for online and mobile play. Therefore, if you also play in brick and mortar casinos, you might already be familiar with the original land-based version of Red White and Blue, which dates all the way back to 2000.

In the land-based version of the game (which is still extremely popular), players have the option to wager 1, 2, or 3 coins at a time. However, regardless of the denomination selected, betting 3 coins at a time is the correct way to play. That way, if you’re lucky enough to win a top payout, you will receive the maximum number of coins possible.

In the online/mobile version of Red White & Blue, your only decision as far as your bet size is concerned is the denomination or coin size. As soon as you pick your coin size, you’re good to go. You can only wager one coin at a time.

Minimum and maximum bets

You can play Red White & Blue online or iOS or Android mobile devices and either in demo mode or for real money.

The minimum and maximum bets might vary depending on where you are playing. However, when betting real money, you should be able to wager any amount from .02 or .05 per spin to as much as $100 or $200 per spin or even more. If you wish to play in demo mode, the minimum bet at some casinos websites might be $1.00 per spin.

Three reels, one fixed payline—Online slots don’t get any simpler than this

Red White & Blue is as basic as online slots get. The game consists of just 3 reels (instead of the usual 5) and only 1 payline.

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Furthermore, instead of the reels being filled with a myriad of symbols, as is often the case in modern slots, this game includes only two types of symbols: a 7 and a bar.

Each symbol can be red, white, or blue and can also appear either as a single symbol, a pair, or in triplicate.

What about a wild symbol, scatter symbol, and bonus symbol? There are none!

Is there a bonus round, or can you at least win some extra free spins with a multiplier? No, Red White & Blue doesn’t offer any of those features either.

Obviously, a game with a configuration this simple won’t appeal to everyone. Personally, I would become bored very quickly. There just isn’t enough action and excitement to sustain my interest for more than a few minutes. And having no progressive jackpot to shoot for and a big payday highly unlikely otherwise make it hard to find other reasons to want to play.

Although I am not a high roller, I can’t imagine that many big bettors would gravitate towards a slot like this. But for casual players who are nostalgic for a very easy to play, no frills slot like those that were popular in the good old days, look no further.

Red White & Blue RTP and volatility

According to the manufacturer, Red White & Blue has a theoretical return to player (RTP) of 93.98%. This figure represents how you are likely to fare in the long run if you were to play a great many sessions, not necessarily what you should expect after a single session. But even so, the RTP is only mediocre. In fact, it is below average for PA online slot games.

The problem with playing a slot with an average or below average RTP, particularly if you have a limited bankroll, is that you don’t know whether your luck early on will at least equal what the RTP suggests. If not, and you encounter a prolonged losing streak from the outset, depleting a big chunk of your bankroll or even all of it before you ever get a chance for your luck to turn around is a real possibility.

At least with a high RTP slot, payouts that return more than your bet size, so you actually win something, occur more frequently. So even if you’re down initially, your chance of recouping sooner rather than later is much better. On Red White & Blue that is not the case, and the game’s medium high volatility compounds the problem. The longer you play, the greater the likelihood that you will see big swings in your bankroll. Other than cutting your playing session short, there’s no way to prevent them. They’re built into the game.

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If you win, great, but lock in your win before you give it back

Of course, you can still get lucky and win and maybe get very lucky and win a huge amount. Just don’t count on it.

My advice for anyone who makes a big hit in this game is to lock in your win and cash out immediately.

For example, when I played in demo mode at $20 per spin, after losing my first three bets, thee blue triple bars all landed on across the reels on the payline simultaneously. This produced a whopping payout of 40 coins. After subtracting the $60 lost on the first three spins from the $800 payout, I had a net win of $740. Even though I hadn’t even played five minutes, I ended the session at once, as should you under similar circumstances.

Don’t press your luck and give the machine a chance to swallow back all of your winnings and more.

Red White & Blue symbols and payouts

Your entire bet, whatever that is, will ride on the single active payline. Winning combinations are formed based on three of a kind of the same symbol, color, or both.

But simply getting a match anywhere on the reels isn’t enough. In order to get a possible winning combination, the horizontal line going across the three reels needs to fall exactly in the middle of all three symbols. It is frustrating to say the least to keep seeing the symbols land either just above or just below where they need to be to produce a payoff.

The following paytable shows the payouts in descending order from highest to lowest for each of the possible winning combinations

Red White & Blue online slot game paytable

Simply multiply the number of coins shown in the table by the amount of your bet to get the payout.

As you can see from the paytable, the maximum payout possible is 2,500 coins. Even if you’re betting a relatively small amount (i.e., $1.00), that’s a huge payout amounting to $2,500. On the other hand, if the red, white, and blue 7s were to land with a $100 bet, you would receive a whopping $25,000!

The bottom line

The Red White & Blue slot game is as American as apple pie and the 4th of July. What you see in this classic slot is exactly what you get.

Red White & Blue hits

• By the world-renowned casino games manufacturer, IGT
• Unusually simple gameplay
• Very similar to the game in land-based casinos

Red White & Blue misses

• Only one payline
• Dated graphics
• Mediocre RTP
• No wild symbol, scatter symbol, or bonus features

• Appendices
• Slots Analysis
• Miscellaneous

Introduction

In the past I feared to show a concrete example on this page, not wanting to violate copyright laws. However, in the Netherlands, information on the reel stripping and probabilities of each win are sometimes posted on small cards on the machine. A fan of the site sent me the information provided on an IGT 'Red White & Blue' machine.

First, let me present the pay table. For those who are not familiar with the game, a 3-bar is in blue, a 2-bar is in white, and a 1-bar is in red.

Pay Table for Red White & Blue

After the player makes a bet and presses the spin button, the machine selects three random numbers, one for each reel. These are chosen from a random number generator that is constantly drawing random numbers at a rate of thousands per second. The numbers chosen at the moment the play is initiated are the ones used to determine the final outcome. In other words the outcome is predestined the moment you press the spin button.

In the case of Red White & Blue, each random number has 64 equally likely outcomes. Each random number is mapped to a stop position on what is called a 'Lookup Table.' The following is my estimate of what the Red White & Blue lookup table looks like, based on the total number of stops per symbol per reel, provided to me.

Lookup Table for Red White & Blue

Immediately after the random numbers are chosen they will get mapped to a stop on the machine via the Lookup Table, the outcome will be scored, and the player paid if he won anything. For example, if the random numbers chosen were 26, 8, and 43 the player would get Blue 7, Blank, Red 7.

Note how there are clusters of the same symbol in a row. For example, stops 60 to 62 on reel 1 all are mapped to a 1 bar symbol. These will all be directed to the same 1 bar symbol on the actual reel. There are exactly 22 groups of like symbols on each reel, which is the standard number of stops on an electro-mechanical three-reel slot machine, known as a 'Stepper Slot.'

Also note that only stop 45 on reel 1 is mapped to the red 7 symbol. However the blanks above and below it have five positions each. This causes the often seen near miss effect, where the reel stops directly above or below the highest paying symbol. Many people have written to me, claiming that this near miss effect is against the law. My slot machine Appendix 1 proves otherwise.

To calculate the return of the machine, add up the number of positions for each symbol on each reel, to get the total symbol weightings. The following table shows these totals. This table is what was indicated on the Red White & Blue machine in the Netherlands. The Lookup Table above, was reverse engineered to produce these total weights.

With the weighting of each symbol and reel known, it is just take simple math to calculate the return. The following table shows the win, number of combinations, probability, and contribution to the return for all possible events. For example, the table above shows the number of white 7's are 6, 1, and 7, for reels 1, 2, and 3 respectively. The total number of winning combinations for three white sevens is thus 6 × 1 × 7 = 42.

Return Table for Red White & Blue

The lower right cell shows a return of 86.58%. That means that for every dollar bet at the one coin level, the player will get back 86.58 cents, on average. Doing the same table for two coins results in a return of 86.58% as well, and three coins has a higher return of 87.47%, due to the disproportionately high win on the top two pays. The standard deviation is 9.03 for 1 or 2 coins, and 10.80 for 3 coins.

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Other Information on Slots

• Appendix 1 shows the details and analysis of almost 4000 actual spins on a Reno slot machine.
• Appendix 2 shows an example of the virtual reels behind a hypothetical slot machine and how the average return is calculated.
  
• Appendix 3A Las Vegas slot machine rankings.
  
• Appendix 3B Jean/Primm slot machine rankings.
• Appendix 3C Tunica slot machine rankings.
• Appendix 3D Henderson/Lake Mead slot machine rankings.
  
• Appendix 3E Quarter and dollar returns for Las Vegas slots
  
• Appendix 3F Miscellaneous slot machine rankings.
• Appendix 4 shows how the return is calculated for my Wizard's Fruit Slot Machine
  
• Appendix 5 analysis of the 21 Bell Slot Machine.
• Lock and Roll analysis of the skill-based slot machine found in North Carolina.
  
• Baltimore Sun article in which I am quoted.

External Links

• For a simplified explanation of slots, please see my companion site Wizard of Vegas.
• German translation of this page is available at richtigspielen.com.
• Another decent overview of how slots work and some practical advice for playing them is How Slot Machines Work at VegasClick.com.
• PAR Sheets, probabilities, and slot machine play:Implications for problem and non-problem gambling by Kevin A. Harrigan and Mike Dixon, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. This is an outstanding academic paper that details how some popular slot machines were designed.
• Blazing Sevens simulator.