"Must hit by" progressive games?

[sirius7]

Does anyone know of any AVP games that have "Must Hit By" (also known as mystery jackpot) progressives?

[Tilt]

That's a new one to me.  I've seen ones that let you hit them 2 - 3 times before they reset, but not that.

[sixcardmark]

I've seen that type of game in a casino but can't remember what brand it was.

[92ramsfan]

Wms does those I don’t think the igt avp does

[sirius7]

Yeah, I know there are several manufacturers that have them, but I was hoping there was a title for AVP that does.

[Heihachi_73]

This is from an Australian perspective, so I have absolutely no idea if these games were released in the US.

I can't think of any AVP "trigger by $xx" games but there was Jewel of Arabia on the Spectrum/I-Game platform (1 cent game, $50-$100 jackpot). There was also Apache Spirit on the BlueChip (AU1) platform - again in Australia, no idea if it was anywhere else.

Most/all of the AVPs (aka BlueChip Neo) I've seen have the more common style of random jackpot where once the smaller jackpot hits its ceiling the contribution is diverted to the next smallest progressive until the "stuck" jackpot is finally triggered (which isn't guaranteed of course, the game could randomly trigger twelve minors and two majors while the mini is stuck at its limit for four months as it's all up to the RNG). Naturally, if a jackpot is won before its ceiling it resets to its base amount.

And yes, other manufacturers - probably the most memorable to me aside from Jewel of Arabia would be the Konami Wild Fire jackpots from the Endeavour/K2V era.

[rickhunter]

I have seen a bank of machines with these "mystery jackpots" that hit by a certain amount, but I believe it is a 3rd party solution as the graphics displayed on the progressive screen look nothing like IGT typically uses for their progressive graphics.  It is probably an external SAS progressive of some kind.

[sirius7]

I have seen a bank of machines with these "mystery jackpots" that hit by a certain amount, but I believe it is a 3rd party solution as the graphics displayed on the progressive screen look nothing like IGT typically uses for their progressive graphics.  It is probably an external SAS progressive of some kind.

I've seen that as well at our local casino.  You are right, they are using an external progressive system to do it.  In our case they have a large bank of I-Games they are doing this with.

[jay]

Unlike the slot itself - which must be random - Progressives are a marketing tool that work outside of the slot.
Usually the top award is replaced by the word progressive and for every coin in the casino (not the slot) adds a small amount of money to the progressive.
I think there are some rules that if the top award was $1199 that the progressive must start as its base amount but there is no rule that says the progressive must be won by hitting the top award. The casino could raffle off the progressive amount if they wanted to and reset it back to the base amount.

Mikohn had a mystery progressive board - but I never did figure quite how to make it work properly.

[sixcardmark]

https://www.knowyourslots.com/must-hit-by-progressives-an-overview/

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