Lunar Disc at Horseshoe Cincinnati - AP Guide

Scan Steps

1. Start with the fast scan: Discs 5+
2. Discs: 5 collected (any bet) • four discs on 300-credit start counts
3. I’ve heard from other APs that playing with four discs is +EV, but I doubt that is the case. Especially on the 300 credit bet that starts with three discs pre-filled. I have a hard time believing the game would become +EV so quickly. Lunar Disc isn’t at any of the local casinos around me, so the only time I have played it is while traveling. I haven’t logged enough sessions to definitively say for sure, so I would recommend playing at five discs only.
4. The fact that the 75 credit bet starts with zero discs and the 300 credit bet starts with three makes me think the number of discs collected couldn’t have that huge of an effect on the overall payout of the game. Typically, games will have the same RTP on all bet levels within the same denomination. There are exceptions for sure—I’ve seen PAR sheets that show a slightly higher RTP for the larger bet sizes and there are games where the player is only eligible for progressives at the higher bets. But there would have to be a drastic RTP difference between the 75 credit bet (that starts with zero discs) and the 300 credit bet (that starts with three discs) if the discs effected the outcome that much. Either that or the discs would have to come up less frequently on the higher bet levels (or some other mechanism to balance out the RTP between bet levels). I’m not saying it’s not possible for a game to have such a different RTP between bet levels, just that it would be unusual if that were the case. So I wouldn’t be surprised that even with five discs, this is a marginal +EV game that really depends on the specific machine’s RTP setting.