007JL Scatter symbol Explained — Why Position Does Not Matter
Scatter symbol: Landing position is irrelevant for a symbol that pays or triggers a feature.
Key facts and contents
- Term
- Scatter symbol
- Short for
- Not published
- Set by
- The game studio, in the paytable
- Where you meet it
- Listed with a game's features, usually next to free spins
- Not the same as
- What a wild does, substituting for other symbols, a scatter does not do, as it is not a wild. Two scatters plus a wild may look like a trigger, but the overwhelming majority of games do not treat it as one. Also, a payout symbol it need not be, since scatters on many titles set the feature off and pay nothing directly.
Scatter symbol is a fair pick if you only want to understand one term on a casino page properly.
Scatter symbol — Landing position is irrelevant for a symbol that pays or triggers a feature.
What Scatter symbol actually means
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Term | Scatter symbol |
| In one line | Landing position is irrelevant for a symbol that pays or triggers a feature. |
| Fixed by | The game studio, in the paytable |
| Where you meet it | Listed with a game’s features, usually next to free spins |
Whereas regular symbols have to be on a payline, scatters do not need to be on one. A feature round, in most cases free spins, is what a stated number of them anywhere on the grid generally triggers, and they can pay out directly at times too. The required number is stated in the paytable and decided game by game, so no convention applies.
The common misreading
Widespread belief has it that scatters become ‘due’ once a dry run happens. They do not. However long ago the last trigger was, the probability of the next one stays the same, as each spin is independent. Players keep chasing a feature that has not moved any closer in an hour, and the cause is this belief, the gambler’s fallacy applied to a specific symbol.
What a wild does, substituting for other symbols, a scatter does not do, as it is not a wild. Two scatters plus a wild may look like a trigger, but the overwhelming majority of games do not treat it as one. Also, a payout symbol it need not be, since scatters on many titles set the feature off and pay nothing directly.
Using it in practice
In the paytable you will find the required number of scatters and their awards; these vary even if the games look alike otherwise. For no cost, a check removes the single commonest misread of a spin result.
Rather than quote a comparison site’s number, the game pages here say so whenever a studio publishes no figure behind a term such as Scatter symbol. Blank cells in several spec tables here are the result.
Checking Scatter symbol at 007JL
- Open a game at 007JL and find its info or help screen.
- The definition above is how to read Scatter symbol once you have located it there.
- Look up the same entry on another title and compare it before you settle on one at 007JL.
- Ahead of your first round at 007JL, record both your stake and your stop point.
FAQ
Scatter symbol: the usual mistakes people make
Widespread belief has it that scatters become 'due' once a dry run happens. They do not. However long ago the last trigger was, the probability of the next one stays the same, as each spin is independent. Players keep chasing a feature that has not moved any closer in an hour, and the cause is this belief, the gambler's fallacy applied to a specific symbol.
What does Scatter symbol mean?
Landing position is irrelevant for a symbol that pays or triggers a feature.
Does a casino get to alter Scatter symbol?
Not on this site's evidence. No outside source can confirm a value behind scatter symbol that a studio has not published, since the game's own mathematics sets it and that makes it the studio's property, not the operator's.