Instant play games have advantages and disadvantages. The advantage lies in their uniqueness. The various instant play games offered at online casinos are far more different than the blackjack or online slots games. Instant play games are extremely simple and this can be either an advantage or a disadvantage depending on the player's temperament. The house edges in instant play games tend to be higher than in most table games. This article discusses a popular instant play game offered at Alderney licensed and WagerWorks powered Virgin Casino called Goal Three-2-Win.

It is a football themed game. Though the 2010 World Cup is over and done with football is always in the news and therefore football themed games enjoy great popularity. The betting has been made simple in Goal Three-2-Win. Players can wager only 1 credit each game. Sometimes not being given a choice helps. When the Play button is clicked the wager is placed and the playing arena is displayed on the screen. 30 footballs are displayed in a 5 by 6 matrix and the players have to keep selecting balls one at a time by clicking on them till a payout is made. Whether players follow a system in selecting the balls or do it randomly does not matter. A simple method is to go from left to right and top to bottom. However, the superstitious players can go backwards, or select alternate balls or even trace shapes and numbers. Players who do not want to make the selections themselves can use the Auto feature. But the Auto button has to be clicked before the Play button in order to activate it.

In the normal games there are two ways to win. Each football when clicked reveals either a color or a number. The game ends when either three balls of the same color are revealed or three balls of the same number are revealed, whichever happens first. If three same numbers are revealed first then that number is the payout. If that number is 10 then the player wins 10 credits. Matching colors activates the Cash Ladder feature. When this happens for first time the player moves one step up the Cash Ladder. The player then has to place a fresh wager and play the game again. If he matches three of the same colored footballs again, before matching another color of football, he moves another step on the Cash Ladder. After climbing five rungs the player is in the money and can choose to cash out or risk playing again in the hope of climbing further. If players reach the top of the ladder then they get the highest payout of 200 credits and they are removed from the ladder.

A Mystery Round games can be randomly awarded in Goal Three-2-Win and offers the chance for winning the mega-jackpot. In the Mystery Round the "?" symbol is added to the pitch. If three "?" symbols are matched an award display cycles through all of the possible award amounts until it randomly stops on the award won. The probability of winning awards between 25 and 250 are higher, but players can also win 500 credits, 10,000 credits or even the mega-jackpot of 500,000 credits.

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