Timeline for Are slot machines purely random or do they pre-calculate every spin?
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| Mar 16, 2018 at 16:55 | comment | added | GordonM | Depends on whether you'd consider a Pseudo-Random Number Generator with a seed value a "pre-determined" calculation. It is a deterministic calculation and the same RNG with the same seed should produce the same number sequence. | |
| Mar 16, 2018 at 16:14 | comment | added | user11643 | Casinos bear this risk with traditional games. I don't see their motivation to mitigate it with slots. | |
| Feb 8, 2017 at 11:58 | answer | added | Frezzley | timeline score: -4 | |
| S Apr 20, 2012 at 23:37 | history | suggested | Flimzy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 13, 2012 at 19:27 | comment | added | Martin Scharrer | @SamIAm: It doesn't make sense for me as well and really sounds like some gamblers lore as said above. BTW, I remember seeing gambling machines in the UK which used real cash (.1 or .5 pounds or so), but these machines were for small winnings only and never had any big jackpots. | |
| Apr 13, 2012 at 19:15 | comment | added | Sam I Am | @Martin, yeah, less likely if not having the winnings on hand was the reason for the assumption. Every casino I've ever been to (3 of them) the winnings were paid by the cashier, not the machine itself. I'm sure there probably was a time where machines spit out money, but not the modern ones here. I can't imagine why anyone would assume results being pre-calculated was ever the case. I'm also a programmer, and I never thought that. | |
| Apr 13, 2012 at 19:07 | comment | added | Martin Scharrer | Thanks @Sam, I already thought something like this is used. (I don't have much experience with casinos myself, because they are very rare in Germany.) This makes the claim even less likely, right? | |
| Apr 13, 2012 at 19:05 | comment | added | Sam I Am | @Martin No slot machine in a casino I've ever seen still pays out cash. They give you a slip of paper with a cash value that you can either cash in or feed to another slot machine. Or you have a card, which has a cash value. Machines take money off the card for each spin and put the winnings on the card. You can get the cash value of some or all the money on the card at any time. | |
| Apr 13, 2012 at 14:53 | comment | added | Martin Scharrer | Why should they be designed like this? The chance that this happens is small at best and if the machine doesn't have enough money left to pay out a large win it still can alert an employee. | |
| Apr 13, 2012 at 6:10 | comment | added | Paul | Often, even after explanation, people have trouble grasping the statistical concept of a series of independent events. Instead, gambler's lore of various kinds is used to explain supposed patterns in the events as they are realized. | |
| Apr 13, 2012 at 5:35 | comment | added | going | @Oddthinking - I think I worded that wrong, I mean pre-calculated at each turn, as in decided in a deterministic way. | |
| Apr 13, 2012 at 4:46 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | On the last line, the answer to both options is Yes! | |
| Apr 13, 2012 at 4:41 | answer | added | Oddthinking♦ | timeline score: 28 | |
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