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Success Factor: Innovative Games

Innovative games, first-class ambience, excellent service and highly trained staff: these have always been the success factors of MERKUR CASINO.

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Success Factor: Innovative Games
Lee Lee

Constant change – yet success remains

For 50 years now, guests have been enthusiastic about the MERKUR Arcades.
This is due, among other things, to the four success factors:

  • innovative games
  • first-class ambience
  • excellent service, and
  • highly trained staff.

Here you can read everything about the success factor “Innovative Games”.

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When Paul Gauselmann launched the MERKUR B in 1976, it was already a sign of what would become reality and everyday life at MERKUR CASINO over the next five decades: innovation and a break with the familiar. The machine’s operating principle was completely different from that of the prevailing machines at the time.
But what was innovative about the MERKUR B?

Thanks to the arrangement of the three vertically running reels and the six success fields, a visual “cone” with six paylines was created. In addition, the 100 series was very popular with guests, as it made it possible to receive 100 special games from the very first play. At that time, this was a revolutionary innovation.

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The major turning point: The new Gaming Regulation of 2006

The year 2006 was a year of change for the slot machine industry. Even before that – but increasingly with the introduction of Technical Guideline 3 – the design of the machines began to change. What had previously been wall-mounted machines with only a single reel or disc game underwent a fundamental transformation from 2006 onwards. Suddenly, a variety of cabinet designs dominated, featuring multiple screens and, above all, multiple selectable games.

The games developed by MERKUR’s subsidiary adp MERKUR GmbH were initially made available on the machines in a limited selection of four to six games. But soon the number of games kept increasing. Today, you can choose from more than 300 games – a truly innovative milestone in the slot machine world.

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1/2 The Risk Ladder: one of the most popular game mechanics in MERKUR games (shown here as the Risk Ladder Plus).

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2/2 There is a wide variety of scatter symbols. Here you can see “Willow” from the game Westward.

It is not only the number of games and the design of the machines themselves that have changed time and again over the years. The game mechanics have also been continuously developed in innovative ways and adapted to the preferences of the guests.

The Risk Ladder , for instance, was an invention that perfectly captured the spirit of the time; special symbols such as Scatters and Wilds were also introduced to ensure that play was always taken to the next level.

Games where you try to build towers were invented: Tower Games . In these, successes accumulate on towers and are collected in so-called cashpots. Your goal is to climb to the top of the towers.

One of the latest developments on the gaming market are Power Spins . Here you can decide whether to take your win, which amounts to at least four times your stake, or invest it in Power Spins. The Power Spins are then played across four different reel sets.

So you see: with MERKUR, games never get boring!

One thing, however, has never changed despite all the innovation: free spins were, and still are, one of the most popular innovations in the gaming world.

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1/2 A classic: Alles Spitze has been a popular MERKUR game for many years.

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2/2 Popular games such as Jokers Cap are now also available in the Power Spins version.

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