Trail Bonus

A trail bonus is a slot bonus round played on a board or track, where each throw or step moves a token forward across numbered squares that award cash, multipliers, free spins or a jackpot. Also called a board bonus, it borrows the look of a dice game: certain squares send you back, end the round, or promote you to a higher-value section of the trail. The number of steps is decided by the game's random number generator, so progress is not a matter of skill even when the screen asks you to press a button. Trail bonuses feel longer and more involving than a single pick screen, which is part of their appeal, but the value of the round is governed by the game's mathematics, not by how far you appear to travel.