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Royal Legacy

Class IIClass IIIHHR Astar SlantA Star Dual
Royal Legacy game screen — Ainsworth
Game artwork · Ainsworth

About this machine

Grand Legacy and Royal Legacy are Classic 3 Reel, High Denom themes. These themes are available as a

Linked or Standalone progressives. Base line win multipliers up to 125 times and up to three progressive jackpot multipliers are compelling reasons for the player to spend a lot of time on this device.

Description sourced from the manufacturer's public product page.

Royal Legacy on video

Real footage of this machine — 2 clips whose title names it. We index them; the videos live on YouTube. More on YouTube ↗

Royal Legacy with Andrew DuBose
Royal Legacy with Andrew DuBose Ainsworth North America · 291 views · 4 years ago
Grand Legacy and Royal Legacy with Andrew DuBose
Grand Legacy and Royal Legacy with Andrew DuBose Ainsworth North America · 275 views · 4 years ago

Artwork & cabinet

Where Royal Legacy sits in Ainsworth's range

It is listed on the Astar Slant cabinet. The cabinet is the hardware — screen geometry, button deck, chair and speakers — and the same title is frequently released on more than one, which is why a game can look and feel different at two properties.

Ainsworth lists it as a progressive. That does not make it a wide-area jackpot: most progressives build from play on that machine or that bank of machines inside one property, and reset locally. The wide-area systems — the ones where a meter is shared across dozens of casinos — are a much smaller, separately licensed set.

Why Royal Legacy doesn't have an RTP in the usual sense

This machine is designated HHR — historical horse racing. Despite the reels on the screen, it is not running a slot maths model at all: each play is a parimutuel wager settled against the archived result of a real horse race that has already been run, with identifying details stripped out.

That distinction is what lets these machines operate in states that never legalised slot machines — Kentucky, Virginia, New Hampshire and Wyoming among them. It also changes where the money comes from: payouts are funded from a wagering pool shared with other players, not from a fixed theoretical return set by the manufacturer.

So the honest answer is that the return depends on the pool and the takeout rate the operator applies, not on a par sheet inside this cabinet.

Reels, symbols and bonus animations on an HHR machine are a presentation layer over the race result. Ainsworth builds the cabinet and the presentation; the wagering system underneath is regulated as parimutuel racing.

Where to play

We don't yet have verified floor placements for this machine. Our casino cross-reference covers 442 properties, but only through IGT's public linked-progressive data — which doesn't reach Ainsworth titles. We would rather show nothing than guess.