Thunder Dragons
About this machine
Thunder Dragons offers up to 25 Free Games. Additionally, players will chase three levels of prizes and Progressives.
Description sourced from the manufacturer's public product page.
Thunder Dragons on video
Real footage of this machine — 4 clips whose title names it. We index them; the videos live on YouTube. More on YouTube ↗
Artwork & cabinet
Where Thunder Dragons sits in Ainsworth's range
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 Thunder Dragons 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.
Other Class II machines from Ainsworth
Class II titles run on a shared bingo draw rather than an independent RNG — a different product category, not just a different game.
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