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Harley Davidson Freedom Tour Slot Machine
Excitement of the casino to the comfort of your home! 756-8248 International / Local: 513-469-6486 100 Office Park Drive, Fairfield (Cincinnati) OH 45014. Harley Davidson Slot Machine If the feel of the wild wind in your hair, the sound of a roaring V-Twin underneath you and the open road in front of you is heaven, then IGT have duly delivered the perfect slot game with their new updated Harley Davidson video slot.
If you’re more of a homey type, stay away from it. The game is packed with visuals that point out to the world-famous motorcycle manufacturer: the one and only Harley-Davidson. Feast your eyes upon 5 different Harley-Davidson motorcycles, keys with Harley-Davidson key-rings, badass leather jackets and last but not least, safety helmets. The company’s logo is the game’s Wild, and a Bonus symbol with a motorbike engine is the key to a highly entertaining and rewarding bonus round.
The background shows desert scenery that is warped because of the speed, and the control panel is set against a motorbike handles. As soon as you load Harley Davidson Freedom Tour, consider yourself on the road! This is a game that is compatible with mobile devices, tablets and desktop computers. You can be on the road and play ‘on the road’, if you catch our drift. Now, let’s get back to the features and specifications. Harley Davidson Freedom Tour has 5 reels, 3 rows and 50 fixed paylines. Under transparent reels you can make all the necessary adjustments: reduce or increase graphic quality, mute the audio, set coins size, go for Max Bet or Autoplay.
Once you hit the Spin button, the reels and wheel will spin and hopefully, you’ll benefit from a successful outcome. Technically, there are two bonuses in Harley Davidson Freedom Tour: the Rumbling Wilds Mystery Bonus and the Road to Riches Bonus. The game gets a bit more complicated than that, though, but stick with us and you’ll get the gist of it. The Rumbling Wilds Mystery feature is randomly triggered. As long as your spin doesn’t end in a win or have a Bonus symbol somewhere on reel 1 there is a possibility to activate Rumbling Wilds Mystery. In this feature, up to 4 symbols in view can be chosen and turned into Wilds. The winning potential, of course, increases.
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If you had the opportunity to play other IGT slots such as Cleopatra Plus, then you are familiar with the Level Up Plus system invented by IGT and incorporated into Harley Davidson Freedom Tour as well. As you ride and reach certain milestones marked on the tour map, you’ll unlock new bonuses. These bonuses are then added to the Wheel of Fortune which can be seen as the game’s main special feature. For this feature to be more rewarding, you need to stack those levels up.
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At map stop 5, you’ll earn Free Ride Free Spins (3 free spins with added Wilds); reach map stop 13 and you’ll unlock Expanded Top Award (chances of hitting the chief prize enhanced); next stop is map stop 25 where you can activate the Showroom Bonus (a pick-me bonus with multipliers and cash prizes); the tour continues with map stop 45 and the RPM Multiplier (extra spin on the Wheel of Fortune with a 5x multiplier); next, the map stop 80 and the Custom Shop Bonus (match Harley badges to win cash prizes). Ultimately, at map stop 150 you acquire the Bonus Trigger Boost (the bonus round can be triggered with just two Bonus symbols instead of three). You get to spin the Wheel of Fortune when you land 3 engine Bonus symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5.
Harley Davidson Freedom Tour doesn’t come complete with a progressive jackpot, but it has a top payout of 2,500 coins. It is a low to medium variance game, capable to give you a ride of a lifetime if you’re up for it.
- Appendices
- Slots Analysis
- Miscellaneous
Introduction
Harley Davidson slots are what are known in the industry as 'variable-state' games. That means the expected return on any given spin is variable, depending on value previous players have banked into the game or taken out. To be specific, there is a free spin bonus, where there are incrementing meters for the number of free spins. If the meters are high enough, the game offers an expected return over 100%.
A good and easy advantage play is to prowl slot machines for Harley Davidsons and similar games, looking for machines abandoned in a positive state. After finding one, swoop in like a vulture and play it until you reap the value, leaving the machine in a negative state for the next player.
Rules
The rules for Harley Davidson are rather complicated and vague. It is beyond the scope of this page to explain them all. There are three ways the player can win, as follows. The approximate return percentage of each feature is shown in parenthesis.
- Line pays (73.5%)
- Wheel bonus (6.7%)
- Free spin bonuses (5.7% on average)
I won't get into the line pays and wheel spin bonus because the return from the sum of the two is constant. What the skilled player should focus on are the free spin bonuses.
There are scatter symbols on reels 1 and 3. On reel 5 are bonus symbols. The game has a 'symbol replacement' feature, where special symbols, namely the wild, scatter, and bonus symbols, randomly replace other line pay symbols. The more the player bets, the more scatters and bonus symbols will appear.
There are four types of bonus symbols:
- Wheel bonus
- Mega RPM free games
- Maxi RPM free games
- Mini RPM free games
If the player gets 0 or 1 scatter and any of the free games bonus symbols, then one additional free game shall be added to the meter of the specific free game bonus symbol. For example, if the Maxi free spin bonus has 20 free spins in the meter and the next spin results in a Maxi free spin symbol on reel 5 (with less than two scatters on reels 1 and 3), then the Maxi free spin meter shall be incremented by one, to 21.
The three free spin banks are different for every number of credits the player may bet, so check all if them if checking machines for positive value.
If the player gets a scatter on reels 1 and 3 as well as any bonus symbol on reel 5, then the player shall play the bonus associated with the bonus symbol on reel 5.
The Mini free spin bonus meter shall reset after a bonus at 7 free spins. All free spins in the Mini free spin bonus have a 1x multiplier. Likewise, the Maxi free spin bonus resets at 8 free spins and has a 2x multiplier. Finally, the Mega free spin bonus resets at 10 free spins and has a 3x multiplier.
Free spins use separate reel stripping, with no scatters or bonus symbols. I believe the expected return of a free spin, before applying any multiplier, to be 81% to 85% of the initiating bet.
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There are more Mini free spin bonus symbols than Maxis and more Maxis than Megas. Thus, the Mini will be hit the most frequently and the Mega the least.
The machine pictured in this article from the Four Queens in Las Vegas had a maximum wheel win of $10,000. Some other Harley Davidson machines have a progressive jackpot slice on the wheel. If that is the case, the expected value at any given time will also be a function of that progressive. How specifically the jackpot amount affects the value, I'm afraid I don't know.
Strategy
The big question is what is the expected return of the game according to the number of free spins in the three free spin meters. Let Mini, Maxi, and Mega be the number of free spins in each meter. Here is my answer to that question:
Return = 0.8018 + 0.003858×Mini + 0.002518×Maxi + 0.000948× Mega.
Let's take a look at the image above, as an example. It shows Mini = 23, Maxi = 30, and Mega = 97. Thus the return is 0.8018 + 0.003858×23 + 0.002518×30 + 0.000948×97 = 1.05803. In other words, the game has a 5.8% player advantage on the next spin. The value is certainly more, because the player can keep playing it in the positive state until it is no longer positive.
Another formula that works to estimate the expected value at any given state is:
Expected value = 80.18% + Mini/259 + Maxi/397 + Mega/1055.
For example, in the picture above, the return would be 80.18% + 23/259 + 30/397 + 97/1055 = 105.8%.
Rules Screens
Following are the rule screens. Click on any image for a larger version.
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Internal Links
Following are analysis of similar variable-state slot machines.
- Golden Egypt.
- Ocean Magic.
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank anonymous for sharing with me information about this game. Some of the analysis is above is based on his work. While it looks reasonable to me, I can't vouch for it 100%. Therefore, I would take the information on this page with a grain of salt.
External Links
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