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[HUNTS!!!!!]

ive been flicking through this forum for a while now im a low roller that plays poker quite a bit and often spends poker winnings in the casino to try and get one of those lovely screenies i see all the time!
theres 1 thing i still dont understand about online slots (small brain sry) is the random part.in a casino (B&M) the slot is'nt random it will pay the jackpot when it has received the amount of money it needs to drop in the big 1?
so casino's (B&M) state on there slots 78% ecpected payout e.t.c
this is the bit i dont get........
online casino's state 94% ish for there slots?
why do i keep reading online slots are random when surely if u have a % payout it cant be?
ive had a £1200 win on dinomite (i think its called) on ladbrokes i left the slot straight away over 18 months ago...i load the slot up on laddies now and the win is still in view does it have a memory? have you still got exactly the same chance of hitting a feature on the next press?
personally i dont think you have
could someone try and explain in simple english sorry if i sound thick but it has bothered me for ages!!!!
thx in advance

[Slotster!]

I'm not sure I can deal with this again!!!!!!!

Joking, sorry there Hunts - it's just this question is asked and disputed and discussed and deconstructed and debated over and over again - when the truth is really really really simple and straightforward.

There are a number of combinations possible that a slot can display, each relating to a randomnly generated number. The more commonly occuring combinations pay the lowest amounts, the rarest combinations paying the highest amounts. Which number randomnly comes back from the server dictates what is displayed and how much you win or lose.

The "payout percentage" is based on the OVERALL play on a particular slot, which in turn is based on the expected delivery of random numbers over any given period of time. There is no 'memory', there is no functionality to adjust the slot to meet the expected percentage.

The shorter time you play a slot, the more variance in payout percentage you'll experience. Play one consistently for ten years every single minute of every single day and -- guess what -- you'll end up bang on the 95% (or whatever) it's supposed to be.

Check out the conspiracy arguments about play that relates to how much you've won or lost... or how a slot or table or wheel has performed in the past (or most recently video poker)

CASINO'S ADMIT THAT THERE IS A CONSIDERABLE HOUSE EDGE ON THEIR GAMES. AS A RESULT THEY MAKE MONEY. PERIOD. FULL STOP. THEY MAKE LOTS OF MONEY BASED ON THE GAMES PERFORMING AS THEY ARE DESIGNED TO.

That's it.

[solarrocker]

Like somebody on this forum said before.

Real casino slots designed to take your money

Online casino slots designed to take your money.

Both if lucky you make some out of it, kinda the 1 in 10 effect. 10 people play 1 person walks out with slightly ticker wallet, 9 others try again to get their chance. If you look at pay out percentages it then based on those 10 people they might not all get the same pay out percentage but overall they do.

Even shorter, if real or online casinos didn't make money they just wouldn't exist. So there's always a dis advantage.

And what Slotster! says is right, the shorter you play, the more variance in payout percentage you'll experience. Casinos don't need to adjust slots based on your play as it is already a proven money making technology.

Spin spin, money goes in, spin spin, did I win?

[SlotsWizard]

What Slotster said hit the nail on the head. The long-term payback % is calculated by adding up the cumulative payouts for every possible combination of the reels, and dividing that payout by the total number of combinations.

For example, if the five reels have the following number of symbols:
Reel 1: 45
Reel 2: 36
Reel 3: 37
Reel 4: 48
Reel 5: 49

The total number of combinations is 45x36x37x48x49 = 140,978,880. If the sum of the payouts of each such combination totals 133,929,936 then the long-term return of the game is 133929936/140978880 = 95%

Regarding the Dino-Might game and "memory". The only thing the software remembers is the state of the game when you last left it. So yes, if you haven't played any more spins since your big win, every time you go into the game you will still see that big win as if it just happened. But this has nothing to do with the server "remembering" your last win and adjusting your future payouts accordingly - that does not happen. Remembering the state of each game IS important, however, most notably with bonus rounds. Suppose you exit a game half-way through your free spins. When you go back into the game, you would like to play your remaining free spins, right? This is why it saves the state of the game.

[HUNTS!!!!!]

thanks guys did'nt realise i had to be a mathmetician to work it out lol

B&M slots DONT work this way though do they?

[Slotster!]

thanks guys did'nt realise i had to be a mathmetician to work it out lol

B&M slots DONT work this way though do they?

Yep... Exactly like that! What DO NOT work that way are UK fruit machines where, exactly as you describe, they take a pre-determined amount of money before giving some back.

There is an influx of random percentage video slots into the UK now, the likes of "Rainbow Riches", "Holy Grail" etc - this is a good thing (not least because fruit machines of old are borrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring!!)

[SlotsWizard]

thanks guys did'nt realise i had to be a mathmetician to work it out lol

B&M slots DONT work this way though do they?

B&M video slots probably do.

Reel slots are slightly different, both online and in B&M's. Usually, instead of having repeat occurrences of each symbol on a reel strip, they will be there once but the probability of it appearing is weighted accordingly.

For example, in a video slot, suppose there are a total of 6 symbols repeated with different frequencies such that there are 30 stops on the reel. Suppose one of those symbols only appears twice out of the 30 symbols, it's probability is 1/15.

On a 3-reel weighted version, the symbol would appear once but instead of having a 1/6 chance of appearing, it would be weighted so that it has a 1/15 chance of coming up.

Regardless of whether using a single weighted symbol on a small reel strip, or spreading the weight out over a longer reel strip, they're both still random.

[HUNTS!!!!!]

do u think total stake has anything to do with a slot then or would it play just as "random" if u was playing .10 cent or 50 bux spins?
ive noticed when playing at low stakes it seems to be "hot" so i up stakes and i get "cold turkey"

[SlotsWizard]

do u think total stake has anything to do with a slot then or would it play just as "random" if u was playing .10 cent or 50 bux spins?
ive noticed when playing at low stakes it seems to be "hot" so i up stakes and i get "cold turkey"

That's been debated. It's hard to say, but I think with most online casinos you get the same probabilities across the board.

In land casinos, however, the lower-denomination slots tend to have a larger house edge than larger-denomination slots. Which I find interesting since you can bet $20 or more a spin on a penny slot. In a B&M casino if you want to bet that much you're probably better off playing a larger-denomination machine but with fewer coins per bet.

[TDTAT]

There are a number of combinations possible that a slot can display, each relating to a randomnly generated number. The more commonly occuring combinations pay the lowest amounts, the rarest combinations paying the highest amounts. Which number randomnly comes back from the server dictates what is displayed and how much you win or lose.

The "payout percentage" is based on the OVERALL play on a particular slot, which in turn is based on the expected delivery of random numbers over any given period of time. There is no 'memory', there is no functionality to adjust the slot to meet the expected percentage.

The shorter time you play a slot, the more variance in payout percentage you'll experience. Play one consistently for ten years every single minute of every single day and -- guess what -- you'll end up bang on the 95% (or whatever) it's supposed to be.

Check out the conspiracy arguments about play that relates to how much you've won or lost... or how a slot or table or wheel has performed in the past (or most recently video poker)

CASINO'S ADMIT THAT THERE IS A CONSIDERABLE HOUSE EDGE ON THEIR GAMES. AS A RESULT THEY MAKE MONEY. PERIOD. FULL STOP. THEY MAKE LOTS OF MONEY BASED ON THE GAMES PERFORMING AS THEY ARE DESIGNED TO.
That's it.

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