Ladbrokes Alert!!

[cheekymonkey]

Land based casinos cannot change the payout percentage up and down at will. In Nevada it involves opening up the machine, changing a chip and filing the appropriate paperwork with the Gaming Control Board.

i had this simulator fruit machine (UK only) software where you could play around with all the switches and stuff at the back of the machine - basically you could adjust how the machine plays - mind you, i wasnt very good at it but i managed to fix it that the fruit machine would never pay the jackpot at all - i played 1000s and 1000s and 1000s of spins and it refused to pay the jackpot - this was a 25p a spin, £250 club machine

with reference to the paperwork, i do hope that this is the case but my point was that the machines can obviously be manipulated to pay out as tight or as loose as possible

[liquidsoap]

interesting, maybe its just luck, but isnt that what gambling is?

[Zoozie]

You should be very happy it happened at Ladbrokes.

I am sure they will pay winners and not use the 'all winnings will be void in case of malfunction' or whatever it is in the T&C.

But it is indeed very interesting to hear the cause of that defect game.

1) Is it the RNG
2) Just that game use of the RNG(i.e. wrong weight/mapping)?
3) Was it a 'setting' meaning the casinos can change MG's payout settings?

The worst is definately #3).

#2) is most likely.

In case the RNG is malfunctioning this can make the casino suffer a lot worse
than the players, so that would not scare me away.

Zoozie