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Magic Butterfly

Class II

Magic Butterfly on video

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

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Magic Butterfly slot machine at Resort World casino
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Where Magic Butterfly sits in IGT's range

IGT ships it on AVP, Bingo, CDS and others. The platform is the cabinet family — screen size, curvature, button deck — and it is what you actually recognise from across a floor, long before you can read the game name.

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.

Magic Butterfly is a Class II machine — that changes the question

Under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988, Class II covers bingo and games that are technologically aided bingo. This machine is legally a bingo terminal. Every play enters a bingo game shared with other players on the same system, and the outcome is decided by that draw — the spinning reels are an animation that reveals a result already determined.

That is why "what is the RTP of this machine" doesn't map cleanly onto a Class II title. Return depends on the bingo pool, the prize schedule and how many terminals are competing in each draw — none of which live inside this cabinet.

Class II is what allows tribal properties to operate without a Class III compact with the state, which is why the same game title often exists in both a Class II and a Class III build with different maths behind identical artwork.

If you have played Magic Butterfly at two properties and it felt different, this is frequently why — you may have been playing two different regulatory builds of the same title.

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 AVP 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.

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