Got the hots for online slots?

Most slots providers aim to release 1 or 2 slots each month. As PlayOJO has teamed up with all of the best slots providers in the UK, that means you can often try between 50 and 100 new slot games every month

Fire & Roses Joker, Big Bass Bonanza Hold & Spinner, and Granny vs Zombies are some of the best UK slots so far this year. However games like Big Bass Bonanza, Book of Dead and Starburst are still the most popular online slots.

Most of the online slots available at PlayOJO have demo versions so you can try them for free, before you play for real. To play slots for free, you will still need to register and verify your account, as we must ensure you are at least 18 years old. The top free slots include Big Bass Splash, Sweet Bonanza, Book of Dead and Dynamite Riches Megaways.

Join PlayOJO and you'll automatically get a slots bonus when you make your first deposit. Our slots bonuses usually involve an instant credit of Free Spins to your account, that you can use to play a specific game. The Free Spins will each have a notional value - for example Free Spins worth 10p each. Any cash prizes you win with your Free Spins are yours to keep. We don't make you play through them multiple times before you can withdraw them. That's why we call our slots bonuses 'no wagering' bonuses. As a PlayOJO customer, you can often win Free Spins on the Prize Twister and OJO Wheel too.

Online slots are pure luck, with no skill involved at all, which means there are no slots strategies that are guaranteed to help you win. There have always been myths about slots that have just paid out, or haven't paid out for some time. But our online slots are totally random and secure, to ensure you get a safe, fair game every time.

Drops & Wins is a promotion from provider Pragmatic Play, where an estimated £30 million in prizes will be given away across 12 months. Play any eligible slot or live casino game from Pragmatic Play and you'll have the chance to win random instant prizes, as well as daily and weekly leaderboard prizes.

An online slot is a piece of software that combines graphics, animations and sound, plus a super complicated maths engine linked to a random number generator algorithm. Slots providers use artists, designers, developers and mathematicians to create games that look incredible, sound incredible and pay out to the game's stated RTP, as randomly as possible.

The paytable of an online slot tells you the cash prizes available for every possible winning combination of symbols. Most paytables award a prize for matching 3, 4 and 5 of the same symbol on an active payline. Paytables are arranged with low ranking symbols at the bottom and high ranking symbols at the top. Some paytables show the prize amount in coins, while others show the specific cash amount that is dependent on the line bet you have selected.

In addition to the paytable prizes, some slots have one or more jackpots up for grabs. Most slot jackpots are progressive, which means they progress in size until they are won. These types of jackpot are paid for by the players, with a very small percentage of every bet being used to fund the ever-increasing jackpot amount. Some slots have their own progressive jackpot, but nowadays most progressive jackpots are linked to many slots from the same provider, such as Red Tiger's Daily jackpots or Blueprint Gaming's Jackpot King.

Like all casino games, slots have to be random, or there's just no point playing them. The bit of the slots software that produces the randomness is called a random number generator or RNG. It's like a digital version of a roulette wheel or roll of the dice, making sure that online slots are both impossible to predict, and fair. The software is checked by gaming regulators or auditors before it is allowed to be released to the public, and checked again regularly to ensure it is working and paying out as it should.

Slots with 10 payines and a single bet amount are the easiest to understand, because players who are new to online slots don't have to think too hard about coin values, variable paylines and line bets, nor complicated payline combinations and paytables. Slots like Starburst, Eye of Horus and Book of Dead are all good starting points for a novice slots player. For classics slots with 3 reels and 1 payline that are even simpler to play, try Grand Wheel or Lucky Diamonds.

Most slot machines have several bonus features, but the most popular is always the free spins or free games feature. They are usually triggered by landing 2 or 3 scatter symbols anywhere on the reels. You will then get a set number of spins, often 10 or 20, to try and win as much prize money as possible. Free spins use the same line bet as the base game spins on which they were triggered. Free spins often use come with enhanced rules, such as multipliers or special wilds.