How SLOT Machines REALLY Work! 

Here's a question that ive never been able to get a definitive answer on....does stopping the reels urself give u a different outcome than what would have happened if u would have just let the spin play itself out?

@@saintzfan09 No, Not at all. Like Dave said, once you press Spin that's it. You have no control over the outcome. Even in bonus rounds when you are picking symbols, it doesn't matter which ones you pick. The machine is going to give you whatever it decided to at the beginning of the original spin. If you have to spin a virtual wheel, roll virtual dice or whatever, you don't have any way of influencing the outcome.

This is true almost 100% of the time. There are allowances for games that do simulate physical objects, such as simulation of a roulette wheel, or a ball dropping through a pachinko style game, but any time they do that, it must be disclosed in the help pages with a disclaimer about simulation of physics, especially when depicting classic real world physical gambling. If you do not see such a physics disclaimer, then you can pretty much assume the game is using canned animations to present the outcome that had been determined for you at the point they hit the "spin" button. Usually you will see a statement about how "interaction with the wheel during the wheel spin feature is for entertainment purposes only.", or something along those lines. The designers can make every spin tense and dramatic, occasionally baking in near misses that barely hit the big win making things look like they are going to lose, only to just barely eek by. Sometimes you might see a wheel spin land on the lowest prize, only for the main character of the theme to appear on screen and manually move the wheel to the big win. You can also have a pick-em where the values won do depend on the players choices, but in those cases the history record has to keep track of where the picks were on the screen, and what order the player picked them. But it usually ends up being a more exciting experience for the player to not have a static pick screen, so in most cases the picks are predetermined. The list of credits won is generated before the pick game starts, and in this case, making your picks is the same thing as pressing a single button over and over with each credit value being awarded in turn. When they do this, then they only have to keep track of a list of pick values, and display them in the order they were dispensed to the player in the history record. Because it's easier to tailor a more exciting experience for the player and easier to keep track of in the history to use predetermined outcomes, that's how most of them are designed these days.

@@saintzfan09 ofc not! when u hit the button .the outcome is already known..

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​@@fredhammer6413 Yes

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I recall seeing the government official responsible for approving gambling machines, walk into a bar, hit 3 jackpots in a row, and then walk out. If you ever wanted to bribe a government official, that would be a foolproof way.

@Landrew0 well where I used to work, our machines weren't hackable. Or you couldn't do anything to make the machines pay out more. If you put the wrong percentage the machine doesn't work. It's all about % you can't control it anywhere else

yeah that's call draw with replacement, basically you draw a marble look at it and then put it back. You don't refill it, you just put it back. Refill brings up questions of what do you refill it with? There are some systems where the bag does get smaller, such as scratcher tickets, and even some jackpots in slots where they have to hit by a certain amount can be thought of that way, since the chances of hitting it increases as the amount moves toward the target...

@@djdedan its called rng 🤣

Better example is a stack of pull tabs and every hit of the button is pealing back another pull tab

So would increasing your bet, mean you are able to pull out more marbles at once?

This has just changed the way i look at slots wow thanks

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the same on the golden buffalo. when you get 2 gold coins for the bonus the next spin will always have the 3rd or missing gold coin to prove it was actually there.

Good idea. I played dancing drums slot and tried to trigger the bonus round. Lost $300 quickly playing $5 to $ 8 per spin.

Surely there's something broken or even tampered with on a machine paying "too much". At least that's what the floor manager is thinking. Bad luck for the casino is good luck for the customer. Sheesh. 🤦‍♂️

I saw this in action. I won 1000HKD in a slot machine in Macao in 2013. A dude walked to me and congrated me, give me the token to get cash and PULL THE MACHINE AWAY.

@@liryan F for the slot machine just trying to do its job...

@@liryan probably to do an analysis on it. You were probably tracked for a bit until a preliminary check for tampering was done.

@@RobertSzasz I am not aware of any tracking, I just walked out with the slot machine, chatted with the guy about the weather. Since I know it's my luck, I just blow my winnings into some handmade chocolate (disgusting taste), some duty free alcohol

looking forward to it :)

I would assume, being a coder myself, that there are a finite number of outcomes and each one is assigned a number. The rng's seed is based on that count 0-X. Now my big issue is, the RTP. if a machine is expected to maintain a certain rtp, it gets its result, looks at the value of the outcome and it then decides whether to pay it out or pick another "random" outcome. Else a machine could come online and NEVER payout or PAYOUT 100% Of the time. He says it in the video, it may go out of rtp % but will eventually come back into spec. I don't believe the machine, if it wasn't constantly calculating it's rtp, it could do as i mentioned, good or bad... of course a manufacturer or the gaming establish would never admit this because it would doom the industry!!!! And be illegal!! I would assume the gaming commission allows them to programmatically adjust to keep them from going broke or making too much money!!

You are right, it is not completely random @@jeffcrisp2159

post the video

​@@jeffcrisp2159that's interesting. I'm a technician/operator. We never adjust the payout because they are paying too much. They will always make up for the large payout, or when they don't pay out in a while. All of our games are very close to the payout we have chosen, no matter what jackpots, etc have happened. I'm not sure how this happens, probably way over my head.

You talking about actual coins, back in the day?

Holy wall of text! Either use paragraphs or make your own damn video lol

@@B3Band Sorry, I thought it was entertaining. I'll delete my comment

this can go in the long list of "things that never happened"

How could you tell which machines were “full”?

I'm just imagining me trying to explain how this works to the guys I work with who all believe the casino rigs things against them, specifically. "Yea, they saw I won $40 and turned down the payout so I lost it. Then I moved to a new machine and they did it again. Fuck them, I'm never going back!" 2 days later... Telling me how they won $600 because of their skill

The hard rock properties are tribal casinos owned by the Seminole tribe in Florida.

@@capicolaspicyand they make up there own rules..

​@anzelac5808 LOL not quite but you can believe that if you wish. Having worked on the inside for 12 years now almost there are more rules than you can imagine and they are monitored very carefully. Just to get inside the part of the machine where the settings are programmed takes at least three people or more and everything is recorded on multiple cameras.

@@capicolaspicy do the machines have face recognition just curious..

I agree, the slot apps are excellent simulators of real slot machines. They pay out at the same rates. And one thing is as true on those apps as real life: whatever you win will always, always, always be lost back if you keep playing. I once won a billion "dollars", coins, credits, whatever you want to call them on the slot app. Eventually lost it all back. The only reason I play it is because it offers a few little real life rewards (I just got $50 in real life free play redeeming it) AND because they give you free credits every day to keep playing. If they didn't, i'd quit the app tomorrow. I hate to think some suckers somewhere pay real money to those apps for credits to play. Why would you ever pay real money for pretend money? Once I lose my daily allowance of free credits, I close the app and I'm done for the day.

do they use seed based RNGs? or have they gone pure? how and when do they re-seed them?

Aren't all mobile games basically slot machines ?

It that aristocrat by any chance cash man Casio and lighting link

I like playing on my phone until I have a really bad loosing streak. Then I start playing the real slot machine during my winning streak. This plan should be foolproof. I don’t understand why I am poor. I guess I just haven’t done it enough.

Are Canadian VLTs Type II or Type III machines?

Why has no casino ever gone broke because the random events always favored the players? Even if just for a one hour period when all 2500 machines hit massive jackpots? The event is random, what about available symbols? Are better symbols available at specific times over the course of play? If the payout to the player is supposed to always be "Shooting for" 95%, how does the casino ever make money, it would seem the odds must favor the player, but they don't. You and Dave suggest that total random events are responsible for the ongoing success of a casino, but I know you cannot provide one example where the random events had such devastating effect, the casino could not cover player wins. How can slot machines go on hot streaks? They do, I've seen it. They seemingly pay, pay, pay, or a pay/lose combination. Especially when they will for for long periods of time. And with this line I would add, the streak suddenly stops when a jackpot or larger win is achieved. This would not be possible in pure randomness.

@@jdavis7515 I'm not sure where your question was in all that so I'll focus on just one aspect: the 95 percent thing-- Imagine a 100 sided dice. Each time you roll it, you have to pay a dollar. 91of the dice faces give you back the dollar you paid. 2 of the faces give you two dollars and six of those faces give you nothing. Roll that dice enough and on average you'll get 95 cents back for every dollar you spent.

@@Tstumpman There were actually several. You fail to answer the most important, which you just tried to explain. The law dictates the casino must pay back X amount of every $1.00, or something close to that. Your answer fails to explain how the casino is never the loser. And they never will be, but there is more to it than a simple RNG. Indeed the RNG doesn't care about the history of the machine, but the casino does.

@@Superzxoz I'm not sure, never dealt with Canada. The primary difference between class ii and class III machines is that class ii is for jurisdictions that don't normally allow slot machines, so the underlying slot simulation is based on something that is legal in that area, like bingo. So under the hood, a simulated game of bingo is played out, then your winnings are translated into a kind of pre recorded "slot pull" and you see some reels spinning which eventually pay out equal to the hidden bingo game you're actually playing. Class III is closer to what you actually might think a slot machine is doing.

"it was impossible to win anything known as the dead zone as this was the point the fruit machine was earning its keep and punters were to be fleeced" ... this I can well believe. The 'generator' can be as (pseudo) random as it likes; it's what happens with the a machine's payout control strategy that matters. While generated number sequences may have no 'history', payouts sure do!

In Japan they can change payout tables from a server to give favorable play to specific customers. Heck, a regular at pachinko can kinda cheat by holding tension on the bar without using a hand too while a random person will be kicked out.

Which casino does that ? To my knowledge here in North America, machines are set and tested at a factory before shipped to casinos, and the setting and testing is done as per gaming commission specs, no casino can dynamically change anything about the machine. INTERNALLY in a machine, as part of the algorithm, yes, a machine can dynamically change the random number ranges to add/remove winning numbers - pay TABLE remains the same, payout percentage over time remains the same - and hit frequency (SKILL setting) can be changed manually on the chip, by gaming commission.

​@@jimmydandy9364 Machines are not set up at the factory however they are tested of course (we still find broken stuff in new machines, it happens). I've literally installed thousands of new machines in the last 20 years. Just so we're on the same page, lets define terminology here. In the Casino world, the Paytable is a back end setting in the machine that you don't see as a player, synonymous with the payback percentage, hold percentage, etc... The pay symbols listing a player sees in the help menu is just there to show you what you'll get on winning combinations, That has nothing to do with what's happening behind the scenes in the machine. It is up to the property to decide what percentage to set a machine to. All jurisdictions have rules for a range of payback percentages but most are similar enough. In mine it's 80% to 100%, but the software developers typically don't create anything with a paytable lower than 85% (Yes, there are exceptions when bonus devices and progressives are involved, but the overall percentage still has to be in the legal range). In my jurisdiction, If I wanted to change a penny machine from 85% to 95%, I would submit a memo to the gaming agent, Wait for the machine to be dropped (all money removed) and with the gaming agent go break the gaming seal and do a ram clear (complete memory wipe) and then set up all the typical communication options, limits ($1200 taxable lockup, etc..) The percentage and max bet. We would give the machine a new Asset number, that's the 4-6 digit number that our back end system uses for accounting and a slew of other things. At that point the machine would be tested (we run cash, ticket and free-play tests) to make sure the accounting meters are working, and after approvals from gaming, Surveillance, accounting and myself verifying the options are correct it is put up for play. Machines do not dynamically change anything to add/remove winning combinations, That would be completely against regulations in any jurisdiction. Whatever percentage we set the machine to, it typically averages out to over 10M handle pulls. Hit frequency is not a skill setting (there is no skill involved), it's a function of how the virtual paytable is designed by the engineers and is just how often any winning combination comes up. If I can find any good resources for you on how virtual paytables work, I'll reply again. That's too much to type out in a comment (as if this isn't long enough already)

@@hicknopunk That's why I'm not a fan of server based gaming. It takes away the integrity of the machines. I think anyone that walks in the door should have the same chances as a VIP. As far as cheaters, we take that seriously no matter who you are.

@@whitelightning2 i totally agree with you. I played a little pachinko until I learned they rigged it to reward VIPs.

Don't even try to figure it out; just have a few drinks, go shopping and let your gambling friends lie to you about how much they have won or lost.

@@gigi9301then why do know it alls like this guy not have the answer? There’s no way that it is still completely random odds after someone hits a huge jackpot, or let’s say 2 big jackpots. The payout ratio HAS TO HIT THE %…so the machine literally can’t give out larger payouts if it is down let’s say 500%…someone riddle me that

@@ethandosier411 My best answer to you is to invest in the stock markets/ etf's and solid mutual funds instead of any of this gambling crap. How do you think these casinos have huge fountains in the middle of the desert? Why are those pretty ladies so nice and giving you free drinks? Because it's a SCAM

"Players don't seem to realize " ... that sums up most gamblers (i.e losers). Totally clueless about odds and totally wedded to superstitions.

How do you become a slot tech? Is it a fun job?

What abt them predetermined pick a coin?and do these new slots have face recognition?

Bingo!they track ur players card!

Yes I absolutely agree with you about the players card. It's to manipulate and keep you at a certain tier. They give you a nice win here and there. But behind the scenes in the control room they make sure you gradually give it back, and you do. I tested this out one night at my Australian casino. I on purpose kept pulling my card out and played few spins without it and a few with. I had staff rapidly come down to check up on my machine. I know it wasn't for my benefit but I know they were keeping a eye out on me for knowing there's truth with the card controlling your play. I won $25 grand jackpot over a year ago. Ever since then I never won nothing, not even a minor or good handpay. I know im not a amateur gambler by any stretch. But to pick all random machines and play my certain ways and not win anything for over a year? It's ridiculous.

How do you know that? I cannot find anything on the internet

Yes so you could sit down and count if you want to spend 16 hrs

that is a myth

As a kid I had a similar experience People think that doing this encourages gambling but it taught me that gambling doesn't usually pay out.

Brilliant educational strategy.

Lower. odds on cards & roulette

They probably played out all their hits instead of cashing out occasionally and saving those cash outs.

It makes sense to me too and I think they SHOULD do it, but couldn't find anyone who'd say they still do!

@@DavesGarage Yes, poor sentence construction on my part. I should have said, "Many years ago, according to the wife of a coworker..." I did my experiments back then.

While this may have been the case many years ago, it hasn’t been for quite sometime. The casino isn’t interested in “getting you hooked” and they sure aren’t sending employees out to throw you off the trail. The holds are set, the casino gets its percentage of the take every day without fail. It’s not that deep.

Dave excellent video, put your story is incomplete. Please explain how the 75% - 98% pay out is determined? If the random number generator is random. And each play is independent or all previous plays, is the 75% - 98% pay out achieved? What’s the relationship between the random number and what final when position/pay out? (Another video?)

So there is many well known social engineering tactics that advantage gamblers use to see the exact payback percentage on certain machines. And from my experience machines closer to entrances do not pay better. I'd say (I can't prove this obv) newer machines that are very loud has the better payout structure for the first few weeks. It was just an interesting observation I was doing back in the days.

Sounds about right. I worked for a company that tracked earnings on slot machines, arcade machines etc.. The amounts I'd see go through the slot machines as pure profit (even in small shops) genuinely blew my mind. So glad I'm out of that industry, didn't feel right.

The maximum win contributes almost nothing to the return though. Assuming 128 virtual stops for a three reel game and a 10,000 credit prize max, the biggest win only contributes 0.47% to the return. If the game payback is 90%, this is almost meaningless. A player who gets zero max wins over an infinite number of spins would have a 89.53% return instead of 90%.

It doesn't take a pamphlet to figure out that they don't build all those casinos and pay for all those flashing lights on the winnings of the players.

😂

Many machines don't even bother with random number generators. Instead, they have long, pseudo-random sequences pre-programmed into them with wins programmed at certain intervals which are designed to provide just enough encouragement to keep people playing while still not returning as much money as has been spent. Each number of coins which you can bet on a single play has its own separate sequence, so you can't cheat the system by recording the sequence for a single coin to predict a win and then stuff lots of coins into the machine just when a win is due. Doing this will cause the machine to switch to the sequence which it uses for the higher number of coins so that you can't guarantee a win. And casinos don't like "fair" because it means that the house can lose in the long run. This is the same reason why roulette wheels have zero and double-zero spaces.

Pretty sure modern systems use hardened hardware rng as frequent seeds. The odds are plenty to get the gamblers money, no need to risk trouble with the law.

Yea we used the Mersenne Twister in our machine. Was highly regulated and tested by each state licensing lab. We used the DIEHARDER test, etc., and used enough bits so the so the randomness was within a tight theoretical range and the roll-over length was high. We had to show them live onsite at the lab, give printouts, etc. I can't recall what sources of entropy we used (was back in 2003'ish). Seems like we saved the seed encrypted in nonvolatile RAM so it wouldn't just start over when a machine was restarted. Some people did and I'm sure still use HW based RNGs. And/or they XORed the output of the HW RNG with a PRNG incase the HW failed. Also note there was a lot more regulations around RNGs. Like you had to put RNG reads in your UI loops. So it was pretty much impossible for anyone to sync up to the current seed since it was always evolving.

The more I learn about the old days of Casino technology, the more old school criminal side of it makes sense. It sounds like modernizing and networking the machines played a big part in making the game more fair for all and push out some of the more old school criminality behind it. But I'm sure there's modern Robert DeNiro's out there still, just a lot younger and a lot slicker.

Well, it probably didn't make much difference to the total bottom line of the casino, just made even the best informed gamblers have the same rates as everyone else.

@@RobertSzasz this is logical, but there is something driving the casino's willingness to invest in upgrading all that equipment. That driver is usually regulatory or bottom line profits. I guess it could be that the regulatory burden is lessened - less paperwork if the state can just get a feed from the system.

Networking most likely allowed that "95% machine" to move about the floor after each idle period expired such that it never sat at an idle machine for very long, and most likely concentrated it's time deep in the bowels of the casino floor where the traffic was lowest.

​​@@chrismike318robably stopped insider jobs too. I wonder how much money casinos lost due to employees tipping a buddy off, or if this is even a consideration I do agree with the regulation thing though. It's so much easier to show your work now vs back in the day where they had to hand write all that junk and probably keep tags and shit to attach to their paperwork. I dunno shit about casinos, btw. I dont like gambling in them.. So I'm just an idiot with an imagination. I'll stick to options, which is also rigged against poor folks

I love cripple creek!!! That was the first Texas holdem’ table I sat at. 🙂

​@@sunshinelavender1663 you do know Golden Nugget has taken over Wildwood. 1st thing they did was take out the self serve soft drink,cheap Beverage manger. Typical Nugget reaction 🤑

What about KENO machines. Can they be programmed to know the numbers a player is playing, therefore prevented semi-jackpots or jackpots?????

​@@imaxfliIf the machine is totally electronic, then yes! If it is the type that has balls floating in air with the numbers on them, like bingo, then No!

You are saying a GAMEKING Keno machine can be programmed to not pay , say, 7 out of 7's??????? Think most experts would disagree with you. So you are saying a Machine can be programmed to know the numbers a player is playing and then NOT hit these numbers???? @@gordeng4001

I feel better now😂

The virtual reel concept was banned about 20 years ago. Precisely because it is misleading and gives a false impression of near misses. Even the wording that is displayed on-screen can't hint or suggest the you were 'almost lucky' or anything like that

​@@caffeineau and yet, as two of the reels hit the bonus symbol, the last wheel makes diff sounds or changes speed to bring your attention to the sequence and when it doesn't hit, you are left with the impression of a near miss. You are led to the assumption of a near miss with the visuals and sounds, all designed, I'm sure, to keep you playing, whatever the algo is doing internally.

Yes it's all very underhanded and sneaky. The designers are always looking for new ways to make their machines stand out, or seem more attractive. A dirty industry feeding on hopes and dreams and providing misery in return

Thanks for asking that question 😊 I wonder is it already predetermined, I always pick the mini no matter how much I bet or if i’m 2/3 away from picking major or mega I always get mini

90 percent mini 8 percent minor

It is predetermined if the game does not reveal what you did not pick.

NJ used to be 83% for slot payout or 85% for poker slots. In the case of progressives there could be no situation that any given spin would yield less than these percentages thus the meter advance could always be added to the reset expectation.

Thank you for this. I knew they re seeded those fuckers

I like the green machine, but 25 a spin is bananas. I have gotten 500 bucks when I played 5 reels and I have still gotten it playing one reel, is playing 5 reels better?

@@mickeyfeatherstone7738 Always best to play max bet, but if that's too much, drop to a lower denom. I've seen people play 25 cents on a bet 5 quarter machine and I point out that only pays $62 for a royal, but the same 25 cents on a nickle machine (max bet) pays $200

@@russesse1 Atlantic City changed the rules in Vegas on new gaming submissions when the head of Nevada Gaming Control went to Atlantic City and was caught cheating Keno. After that, all submissions must now be on un-alterable media (CD-ROM), which is ironic since it's now permitted for a gaming machine to have a hard drive

Always send one Red Shirt.

I once played on a samurai machine that gave you a 50-50 shot at playing your bonus again for an infinity number of tries. It didn't last either. It had stacked reels in the normal spins and really frequent wins.

@@SmartDumbNerdyCool The machines that are worth playing are the ones that are variable state machines. That is, based on previous players, the multipliers and bonuses on specific levels ( such as mini and minor and so on ) change over time. So you can get over 100% payout at specific times simply because you're looking at a stupid number of free spins on certain lower level jackpots. But these are rare now, at least in the major casinos. The last one I remember seeing was about 3 or 4 years ago (Harley Davidson?). I consistently would make enough to get some free food. lol.

People like slots machines because they give them that rush of dopamine every time they hit the spin button. Even without double tapping to stop the reels, this can mean 15-20 "hits" of what is basically a drug a minute. It's even been said/proven that many slot players hate getting small (or even big) wins because it slows the game down. It's not the win that gives them the rush, it's the brief moment of "will I win". Other forms of gambling, like betting on sports or table games, are much slower and you don't get that hit as often. So basically, the answer is the dopamine rush. You start playing to win money, and you keep playing because of the addition.

Dopamine isn't really drug-like though. Ironically anybody with ADHD can attest to the lack of dopamine being what really destroys autonomy over one's executive functions. I think I'd prefer a gambling problem over an executive dysfunction really.

It needs grammar lessons.

Actually the CPU box inside the machine has a separate gaming lock installed as well as a seal. No black box or anything special about the motherboard it's a generic industrial PC motherboard running code from a hard drive or memory cards or proms installed on the board.

That is pretty funny

Non-taxable pension does not suck. It ain't huge but pays the bills. I get taxed on interest earned only. $183 last year. Lol

How that work if ur on soc security and low income and u have Big win..will have to pay in?

If you win a very good jackpot you will immediately know because all of a sudden , “ Where are you staying sir/mam ?” The idea is to compliment you with upscale free room and dinner options to keep you around long enough to reinvest their losses .

@@robbyrose6904 interesting, I am not surprised they would do that. Thanks for the info.

I've heard rumors (from a reliable source) that most slot machines still use old 16-bit x86 code/boards to generate their random numbers, as they have already been certified by the Gaming Commission. Everything else is just a fancy skin on top. That being said, I can imagine modern code is capable of producing a lot more "truly random" sequences. Our understanding of PRNGs has progressed significantly since the 80s.

Some used, still use, HW RNGs though.

@@supersat A lot of older IGT game king video poker or S2000 3-reel slots (late 90's vintage) used an Intel i960 32-bit CPU. which was one of the forerunners of the 486, in the sense that it had 32 addressing, etc.. Still, the instruction set had a different pedigree than the 8080/8086/80286/80386 series, which was more or less merged at an "architectural" level, so that (I think) that the i960's 32-bit features were forked to create the 486, on the one hand, but with the opcodes swapped out to make the 486 backward compatibles with the 386. Even then the i960 did not support virtual memory or protected mode, it was simply a 32-bit address space, unlike the 80286 which actually only supported 24-bit addressing, etc.

As a 30 year old youngster to the old days, why exactly would someone do this? Don't you want to go and get your cash? Or were they just playing till the last second and didn't have time to cash out properly? Just curious, and that must have been hilarious to see lol!

@@madezra64 Jackpots used to take a LONG time to pay out.

My first time in Los Vegas was one time when I was going through and had a layover of an hour there. I had 5 dollars and put it in a nickel slot machine. My bus showed up early and my traveling companion came and got me after 20 minutes. I didn't have time to exchange the nickels, so I just filled a couple of cups. When I was able to count the money I had won $150. I know how the quarters guy felt.

​@@rowinfunBeen there. Certainly "fun" trying to make it to the gate with weight of quarters nearly equal to your carry on luggage, although in those days checked luggage was free, so we used to pack the carry on a bit lighter. Still it was a lot of quarters to lug around. And I was only connecting through Vegas at that time.

@@madezra64 Unless he was flying to another country then he already cashed out, the quarters are money.

Absolutely 👍🏻

I’m not sure that they “reset” with insert of money, however bill or ticket for sure doesn’t play a factor

Not really true but whatever makes you feel good about your gambling.

Denise, machines do not go cold or hot. Your perception is based on the small window of time you are in the casino. Each spin is truly random from the parameters set with the RNG and Paytable. The Payback percentages are calculated over 10's of millions of spins during the life of that machine and will not achieve that true balance for a long, long time.

Your experience sounds very extensive and interesting. And I too found this video to be brilliantly accurate about how slots work.

. Yeah.....like the bogus lie that quick-stopping the reels does not affect the outcome. what it does is change the outcome of what it would have been if you had continued at the same pace of play.....but they don't divulge that part. It's still considered "random", but you just changed that randomness. They try to control the slotting public with their total randomness message.....which is true for what it is. Just like everything else they do to stay within legal realms of oversight. There is no such thing as 100% random just like there is no such thing as 100% control. The human element(player) is the ultimate outstanding factor in play. They can only work with percentages.....not absolutes. End of story. You don't have to be a genius or a programmer to be blessed with common sense. IN fact.....most programmers have very little common sense by their very nature.....and mathematicians and engineers alike.

Same!so annoying or always one away from the progressive 🤦🏻‍♀️

Three letter initialism starting with 'G'?

@@caffeineau not sure what your talking about.

@@roax206 Probably not the same place as me then

It's not really that hard. I designed my own entropy generator back before RDRAND came along using the usual reverse-biased BJT method to produce iterated random walks. You just take any good gaussian noise source, put a buffer in front of it, integrate its output over a fixed time slice and sample the result with a comparator to generate and shift 1-bit into a register. Finally reset the integration capacitor to its initial state - rinse and repeat. Double-dabble the bits to make digits. The hardest part is actually the "buffer" part. To present the noise source a consistent controlled impedance and translate that into a current requires a carefully designed buffered transmission line feeding a comparator whose output feeds into essentially a voltage-to-current converter that feeds the integrator. The converter is switched and reset with analog switches clocked to the bit generator.

If you and your wife each flip a coin 5 times, there's a chance that you'll have identical outcomes on all 5 flips. This does not mean that the outcome is not random or that the coins are rigged. It's just a random event.

In advance, the chance of getting 5 in a row is 1/32. But when you've already had 4 in a row, it's still 1/2 or 50-50.