Slot Payout / Programming Questioning

I've designed and coded a MS Windows Slot Machine simulator just for fun.
One payout question has me conflicted.

Let's say there's a WILD symbol and a BONUS symbol. The WILD matches
anything but a BONUS (you need 3+ BONUS at left to trigger a free spin bonus).

The highest payout for 2 symbols is the GOLD symbol. Should the following payline
pay out for 2 GOLD?

WILD WILD BONUS

My coding for this situation came up with a 2 GOLD win and I thought
it was a bug. But thinking about it more, if "WILD substitutes for any symbol
except BONUS", then I think it should pay out, right?

sounds right to me.

Yes, it should pay out at the highest level. Sometimes there's a special pay for wild-wild, sometimes that's just the high-high pay - sounds like that's the case here with your gold-gold example.

Slot machines read left to right and this tremendously helps with decreasing complexity. All you have to do is traverse the line.

Doesn't sound too complicated at all. PS: you should look into other programming languages such as Java or C/C++/C#.

Thanks, everyone. I'll take out the exception that keeps it from paying it as 2 GOLD. I'll have to re-run the analysis to check the total
payout, which is currently about 99.8%.

It is written in C++/MFC. Nothing in it was terribly complex. Under 2000 lines of code. I was a programmer for a long time before switching to graphic design a few years ago. So I did the graphics for it, too. Also took the "check pay line" code out and put in a separate console (text) app to run the five-nested loop to check the payout percentage, like Mssr. Shackleford talks about in his analysis of Lucky Larry's Lobstermania on Wizard of Odds.

If there's a way to attach a screen shot here I would do so.

Here's a screen shot:



Sorry about the blurring and copyright notice. Comments and questions welcome.