Queen of the Nile II still the best pokie or just pub nostalgia?
Nah, not nostalgia, Queen of the Nile II still slaps imo 😄 had a session at the club Friday, grinded for ages then the free games finally hit with the wilds doubling wins and it went off, walked out up a few hundred 💰 only catch is one pub's machine can play tighter than another's, state minimum and all that, so try a couple venues before you give up on her 🐍
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Turned 50 into 5k on the original Queen of the Nile at a Salisbury club once, so I've got no right being neutral about this one 😄 Brizzie's spot on though, the II version with the wilds doubling wins in free games is where a session turns. Trouble is the same machine can be two different beasts depending on the venue. The one at my local plays tight as a drum some weeks, then you wander to a club across town and the feature lands twice in an hour. Same cabinet, same Egypt wallpapers, totally different mood. Aristocrat sets the return per venue, so your pub's Queen might just be stingier than your mate's. My rule now is give a machine three or four slaps, if the free games won't show, move on. There's always another one down the road, and she's been good to me more times than I deserve.
I remember the old slots first-hand.
Maybe I'm being dumb but is that why the one at my local seems tighter than the one out of town? Only been on Queen of the Nile II a handful of times and I'm still waiting on the free games to actually pay 😅 good to hear the wild doubles wins is where it happens, might give it another slap this arvo.
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NearMiss_PTSD, you're not imagining it. Aristocrat ships Queen of the Nile II with the RTP set per venue within the state minimum, so your local can genuinely run tighter than the one across town. Same cabinet, same reels, different pay table setting underneath. I keep notes on this stuff and the venue difference is the single most overlooked variable in land-based play.
On the free games question, on a small spin sample you can go a lot of sessions without the feature, that's just the variance profile of a classic payline machine like this. When it does land, the wilds doubling wins during free games are where the whole session balance swings. Example from my own log: put A$60 through over a long grind, sat near even, feature finally triggered and the doubled wild wins carried it into profit by the time the spins ran out. So don't judge the game off three visits. Brizzie's Friday sounds like textbook Queen of the Nile II behaviour 📊
Do the EV, then spin.
Yeah the venue RTP thing is real, my club's QotN II ran like a dead machine for months then one night the free games hit with wilds doubling everything and I walked out grinning 🤑 Still my all-time favourite slap, tight or loose, when that feature lands it pays for the whole arvo 🔥🎰
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Honestly, the doubling wilds are the reason I keep slappin' it every Friday. QotN II is my absolute all-time favourite pokie! 🤑🔥💰
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