{"id":222228,"date":"2024-04-09T23:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/09\/silver-strike-slots-removed-from-four-queens-dont-freak-out\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:18:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:18:56","slug":"silver-strike-slots-removed-from-four-queens-dont-freak-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/09\/silver-strike-slots-removed-from-four-queens-dont-freak-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Strike Slots Removed From Four Queens, Don&#8217;t Freak Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"post-info-panel\">\n<div class=\"post-info-panel__author-holder\">\n<div class=\"post-info-panel__author-logo\">\n                                                                                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/all-about-us\"><br \/>\n                                                        <img alt=\"Scott Roeben\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/author-logo-lg-88x88.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/author-logo-lg-176x176.png 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-88 photo\" height=\"88\" width=\"88\" decoding=\"async\"\/>                                                    <\/a>\n                                                                                            <\/div>\n<div class=\"post-info-panel__author-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"post-info-panel__author-content\">\n                                            <span class=\"post-info-panel__title\"><br \/>\n                                                                                                    By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/all-about-us\" class=\"post-info-panel__link\">Scott Roeben<\/a>, on April 09 2024                                                                                            <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Silver Strike slots have a cult following, and fans of the machine report experiencing heart palpitations upon discovering the machines been removed from the casino floor at downtown\u2019s Four Queens.<\/p>\n<p>Four Queens is one of just two casinos (the other is Plaza) in Las Vegas with the slot that dispenses collectible tokens.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is Four Queens will bring back the Silver Strike machines, although their return is veiled in secrecy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4100\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4100\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-4100\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/silver_strike_slot1.jpg\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you don\u2019t know what Silver Strike is, you may not be Vegas enough.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you thought we were kidding about Silver Strike machines having a cult following, please refer to \u201cThe Official Web Site of the Silver Strikers Club,\u201d a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverstrikers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Web site<\/a> we\u2019re pretty sure was designed on a manual typewriter.<\/p>\n<p>If you have no idea what we\u2019re talking about, here\u2019s a video of us demonstrating a very sophisticated strategy for winning a Silver Strike token of your very own. It\u2019s a strategy we call \u201cpushing a button.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"arve\" data-mode=\"normal\" data-oembed=\"1\" data-provider=\"youtube\" id=\"arve-youtube-aqg5tzrcjb46615ce104faa6403228761\" style=\"max-width:900px;\">\n<span class=\"arve-inner\"><br \/><span class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 500 \/ 281\"><br \/><span class=\"arve-ar\" style=\"padding-top:56.200000%\"\/><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" data-arve=\"arve-youtube-aqg5tzrcjb46615ce104faa6403228761\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/AQg5TZrcjb4?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"505.8\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/AQg5TZrcjb4?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\" width=\"900\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Basically, if you hit the Silver Strike symbol, you get a token valued at $10. Some tokens have different values, but nobody\u2019s ever actually gotten one of those.<\/p>\n<p>Players can turn the tokens in for cash, or keep them. Casinos just hate when people take the tokens home. In the business, it\u2019s called \u201cbreakage.\u201d It\u2019s like when collectors buy casino chips and don\u2019t cash them in. It\u2019s pure profit for the casino. Which would seem to contradict our earlier statement about casinos hating when people take tokens home. You must be new here. We invented sarcasm around the same time the Silver Strikers designed their Web site.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this quirky game is a hoot, especially since many old-timey slots are incredibly boring and repetitious. Silver Strike changes things up a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, Silver Strike is to Four Queens and Plaza as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lKVCyL1d2us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sigma Derby<\/a> is\u00a0 to The D. Long story.<\/p>\n<p>Four Queens constantly refreshes the designs of its Silver Strike tokens, also known as \u201cSilver Premium Tokens.\u201d It sounds like a pain in the ass, frankly.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4102\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4102\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-4102\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/silver_strike_slot_coin.jpg\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The tokens come in a plastic case, but we love the feel of the silver clad beauties in our sweaty hands.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Restocking these machines is akin to when casinos used coin-operated slots. Casinos switched to TITO (ticket in, ticket out) vouchers to save costs, including having to compensate slot attendants for back injuries suffered from lugging around giant bags of coins. Seriously, it was bad.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the slot voucher era, $100 bags of nickels with 2,000 coins weighed 21 pounds. Quarters? The $500 bags had 2,000 quarters, weighing 25 pounds. Dollar bags (which doesn\u2019t sound right) had $600 in coins and weighed 30 pounds. That\u2019s the weight of nearly four human heads! For our fellow youths, that\u2019s a reference to a movie called \u201cJerry Maguire,\u201d released about three decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>That said, Four Queens isn\u2019t your typical casino. It\u2019s a throwback, and staff know Silver Strike die-hards will keep coming back, not only gambling, but dining in their restaurants and staying in their hotel rooms.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39800\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39800\" style=\"width: 845px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-39800 size-post-thumbnail-crop-845xAUTO\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" alt=\"\" width=\"845\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/four_queens_cage-845x563.jpg\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Casino cage photos aren\u2019t allowed, so pretend you\u2019re taking a photo of where a Silver Strike machine used to be, boom, you\u2019re a rebel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As we said, Four Queens is being tight-lipped about what\u2019s next for their collection of Silver Strike machines, but the bottom line is don\u2019t freak out. We said that in the headline. If you were paying attention, you wouldn\u2019t have had to read all these additional words.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39809\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39809\" style=\"width: 845px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-39809 size-post-thumbnail-crop-845xAUTO\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" alt=\"\" width=\"845\" height=\"1122\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/silver_strike_missing-845x1122.jpg\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39809\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another Silver Strike machine has been usurped, its power outlet cleverly disguised by ceramics.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We\u2019ve been assured by Four Queens management we\u2019ll get to break any Silver Strike news that arises, so check our site hourly for updates. Take that, Silver Strikers Club.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/silver-strike-slots-disappear-from-four-queens-dont-freak-out\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] By Scott Roeben, on April 09 2024 Silver Strike slots have a cult following, and fans of the machine report experiencing heart palpitations upon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}