Early on in slots history, the slot machine was known as the "one-arm bandit." The lever that a person pulled to set the reels into motion was the "one arm," and the machine was a "bandit" because it tended to take people's money. The one-arm bandit is long defunct, replaced by computerized slot machines with a Spin button and a Random Number Generator. But the legend of the 1-arm bandit lives on in the 1-Arm Bandit online slot machine.

Appropriately for a slot machine that hearkens back to the early days of slot machine history, 1-Arm Bandit is simple in its design and layout. It is a 3-reel, 3-payline, 3-coin slot machine. There is nothing overly fancy about it.

The star of the 1-Arm Bandit online casino slots game is, of course, the 1-arm bandit himself. He is a rather ornery looking character, with a stubble of whiskers, a grizzly red mustache, a cigar clamped between his teeth, and a menacing sneer. There are some online slots players who detect a playful glint in the bandit's eye, challenging you to take him on; others say it is not a glint but a glare.

After the 1-arm bandit, there are the red sevens — the bandit's lucky number from his crap-shooting days. Then there are the single-, double-, and triple-bar slots symbols — except these bars are actually bullets. Remember, this is the 1-arm bandit we're talking about. And just to make sure you don't forget whom you are dealing with, you will hear a shot from the bandit's six-shooter every time you win at 1-Arm Bandit online slots.

Playing 1-Arm Bandit is about as simple as playing slots online can get. There is nothing fancy or tricky about it. First you pick your coin size, from 0.25 to 5.00. Then you pick the number of coins you want to gamble, from 1 to 3. Each coin enables an additional payline. The best slots strategy for 1-Arm Bandit is to always gamble three coins, because the biggest jackpot is on the third payline. If you want to stay within your budget, you can decrease your coin size — wagering three smaller coins is a better slot machine strategy than wagering one larger coin.

After selecting your coin size and the number of coins, you click the Spin button. The reels spin around and the Random Number Generator does its thing as you hope for the best outcome of your online slot game. And that's all there is to playing the 1-Arm Bandit slots game online.

Three bars or three sevens will give you a good payout in 1-Arm Bandit online slots, but the best payouts come from the bandit himself. Three 1-arm bandits on the first payline will give you a jackpot of 1,000 coins for every coin you wagered, on the second payline the jackpot is 2,000 coins for every coin wagered, and three 1-arm bandits on the third payline will give you 4,000 coins for every coin you wagered.

So, as you can see, the 1-arm bandit is a most unusual bandit. He is a bandit who actually gives YOU money, and quite a large sum of it, when you win at slots with the 1-Arm Bandit online slot machine. Beneath his gruff exterior, the 1-arm bandit is really a pretty nice guy after all.

Have fun playing slots online with the 1-Arm Bandit!