Myths about slot machines – part 2
FICTION: the Player who sits down and breaks at once jackpot, “steals” a prize of the previous player.
TRUTH: Nobody can steal jackpot. As it was marked above, Random Numbers Generator (RNG) touches a set of every possible result hundred times a second. To believe that the following player “has stolen” your jackpot means, that you would press the button of a stop of a drum in the same nanosecond as he. The probability of the case is astronomical. You could break jackpot or lose. It is impossible to learn this; therefore it is not necessary to worry.
FICTION: Casinos always place constantly losing automatic machines to the fore so it can be visible, that people win.
TRUTH: In it there is only a truth particle – no more. It is logical – to place winning automatic machines in the most appreciable places, however actually, operating casinos mix them. As it has been noted earlier, the probability of prizes is a policy of a casino, therefore the automatic machines located along the edges, eventually, also should pay back them, as well as those standing in the middle. Therefore mission of all automatic machines located in a casino is equal.
FICTION: the Result of the second prize-winning window is already predetermined; therefore, if there is a choice of the latent bonus, the choice of the player has no value.
TRUTH: Actually the choice of the player in so-called prize-winning game matters. When prize-winning game is started, mechanism RNG chooses the uniform screen of prize-winning sizes. After that the player himself decides to raise or reduce the sum. The majority of new automatic machines supervise it by reproduction of all possible variants after the player makes the choice. This function does not influence in any way game; manufacturers began to do so only because they, as well as we, constantly received questions from players about the importance of their choice in prize-winning game.
FICTION: Having counted up quantity of intervals and symbols on a drum rather to the award for each advantageous combination, the skilful person in the math can define probability of a prize at a drum-type slot machine.
TRUTH: It really took place during old times when the virtual drum-type system has not been invented yet. Nevertheless, as it was already mentioned in the introduction, the quantity of symbols on a drum means now nothing. The probability of loss of symbols on the screen copes now computer RNG.
Appropriating set of numbers to one symbol or a character set, programmers reach that the drum-type tape with hundreds symbols in spite of the fact that actually the drum has 22 positions for a stop as a result turns out. It also is a “virtual” drum. Drum-type tapes on the traditional automatic machine serve the same purpose, as the video screen – for display of the result chosen by RNG. Calculation of symbols and product of mathematical calculations will not bring anything, except a headache.
The computer is not excited with your rates. It generates numbers in a random way, irrespective of your rate.
FICTION: Warming up or coin cooling increases probability of a prize.
TRUTH: Here one more error, same strange, as well as the others. People actually warmed up coins by a lighter or packed them into ice before throwing. Result? It did coins hot or cold. And it is more than anything. No matter whether you like automatic machines with bill acceptors or not, at least new automatic machines will definitively dispel this myth.
FICTION: If drums rock, it means, that the mechanism prepares for payment.
TRUTH: Look above. Drums are necessary only for display of the result counted by the computer. Even if they rock, jump, dance an Irish jig or execute a national hymn, the result will be invariable – result display corresponds to choice of RNG from all numbers of the program.
In summary it would be desirable to tell the following: the majority of myths are based on imagination about a casino as about a place where its money illegally wishes to deceive and take away the player. If you believe in it, think that the casino on the business in it do not have absolutely any necessity. The casino has a license for quite lawfully to take from you money around 2-5 % from the rate in the majority of games, and we, players, willingly give this money, in exchange on exciting sensation of passion, and regular large prizes. All are glad, the casino receives money, players – have a rest from daily cares, and from time to time receive the prizes. The main thing is that the game did not become your obsession. Playing slots it is impossible to grow rich, this is simply a pleasant pastime.