Chick a Boom
Chick a Boom on video
Real footage of this machine — 6 clips whose title names it. We index them; the videos live on YouTube. More on YouTube ↗
Where Chick a Boom sits in IGT's range
It runs on IGT's Video platform. The platform is the cabinet family — screen geometry, button deck, seat — and it is what you recognise from across a floor before you can read the title.
Mechanically it is a 5 reels / 30 pay lines game. Pay-line games award only on defined line patterns, which typically means fewer but larger hits than an equivalent ways-to-win title.
Why Chick a Boom 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. IGT 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 IGT titles. We would rather show nothing than guess.
Also on the Video platform
The platform is the cabinet family — same screen geometry and button deck. If you can spot one of these across a floor, you can spot all of them.
Most-filmed IGT machines
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