Slot bonus tracker.

A bonus round is a secondary mode inside a slot game. It interrupts the regular spin cycle with a distinct playfield and its own payout rules: free spins at a modified paytable, a hold-and-spin board, a pick-a-prize screen, a wheel spin. The big wins on most modern slots come from bonus rounds, not base-game spins.

Bonuses are also the part of a slot session most worth remembering and most easily forgotten. A two-hour session with three bonus hits feels like a different session to one with none, even if the net was the same. Tracking bonuses gives the session its shape.

Most modern slot games stack two or three distinct bonuses on top of a base game. The common types:

• ·Free spins. Extra spins at a modified paytable, often with added multipliers or wilds.
• ·Hold and spin. Symbols lock in place, you chase the jackpots on the board, the run ends when no new symbols land for N spins. Made famous by Lightning Link.
• ·Pick bonuses. Choose one of several hidden rewards. Dancing Drums and Pinball use variants of this.
• ·Wheel bonuses. Spin a wheel for a multiplier, a cash value, or entry into a higher bonus. Wheel of Fortune is the archetype.
• ·Progressive triggers. Enters a linked jackpot pool, usually decided by symbols or a secondary game. Megabucks is the most famous progressive.
• ·Collect or coin-collect. Certain symbols accumulate value on the screen that pays when a trigger lands. Buffalo Gold popularised the coin-collect.

A useful log captures the type of bonus, not just the amount. That's what lets you look back at a month of play and see which bonuses actually paid.

A bonus round lasts anywhere from fifteen seconds to four minutes. In the moment, it's vivid. An hour later, it's a rough memory. A day later, it's gone.

Logging each bonus in the moment gives you:

• ·A record of the exciting moments. Which machine, which bonus type, what it paid.
• ·A read on which games bonus for you over time. Personal, not statistical, but useful.
• ·A clear story of a session or a trip. Not just 'I was up £40,' but 'I was up £40 because a Lightning Link minor hit on my third spin.'
• ·Photos of bonus screens tied to the session, so a year later you can see the exact moment again.

The design constraint is simple: if logging a bonus takes longer than the bonus itself, nobody does it. Handpay's bonus flow is intentionally one tap.

• ·During a session, when a bonus lands, open Handpay and tap Log bonus.
• ·If the bonus has a distinctive screen, snap a photo. The photo attaches to the bonus entry.
• ·Enter the amount the bonus paid. This is the only thing you type.
• ·Confirm. The bonus joins the current session, with the machine, the bet level, the timestamp, and the photo already in place.

The rest of the context is inferred. The app already knows what session you're in, what machine you're on, and what you were betting. So the bonus record is complete with one typed figure.

A single session of bonus logging feels small. A month of it starts to show patterns you couldn't see before.

• ·Which games bonus for you at a rate worth the bet level. Not every game that trended online bonuses for every player.
• ·Which casinos you've had better bonus luck at. Personal, not predictive, but part of the trip memory.
• ·Whether a session without an early bonus tends to turn around or not, based on your own play.
• ·How often you chase a machine that bonused once and never again. A log makes this honest in a way memory can't.

None of this is statistically rigorous. It's your own playing history, shaped into something you can reference the next time you sit down.

Most bonuses pay ordinary amounts. A few pay exceptionally, and those land in the hall of fame inside the app automatically. The biggest bonus of each trip gets its own tile alongside any handpays and winning trips, drawn from what you logged.

The hall of fame is a page inside your app, not a feed. Nothing gets published to the web.

For the other pieces of the log, see Slot machine tracker and Casino trip planner.