It seems to be generally accepted that when you play slots you are playing with unknowns. The only thing you will get is the paytable but you get no information about how likely it is to hit a certain combination or hit a bonus round. It would be a good service to actually list these probabilities and currently I know of only one software provider who has done this, and it's Galewind (see Link Removed ( Old/Invalid) ). In fact I believe they did this page based on feedback from people on this very forum. The wording of GRA terms is ambigious but it seems they don't require odds to be expessed to the player in this detail. It would be good for transparency if this was a requirement though.
I accept that the rule is not really very clear and I can see that publishing a full rtp is not an explicit requirement and maybe not part of the rule at all but this is the whole section
The published game rules and information should be sufficient to explain to
customers all of the applicable rules and how to participate. As applicable, game
information should include the following:
.......
h) Information about the likelihood of winning:
i) a description of the way the game works and the way in which winners are
determined and prizes allocated;
ii) For each game, information about the potential prizes and/or payouts
(including the means by which these are calculated) should be easily
available. This should include, where applicable:
(1) Pay tables, or the odds paid for particular outcomes.
(2) For peer-to-peer games where the prize is determined based on the
actions of the participants a description of the way the game works and
the rake or commission charged.
(3) For lotteries and other types of events where the potential amount or prize
paid out may not be known before the customer commits to gamble,
describing the way in which the prize amount is determined will be
sufficient.
(4) Displays of jackpot amounts that change over time (“progressives”)
should be regularly updated and as soon as possible after the jackpot has
been reset following a win.
Now to this bear of little brain it seems clear that the bold bit is additional to the bit underlined. I feel like I am so out of touch that I might come across as patronising or critical when I don't mean to but a general acceptance that all you get is the pay table is determined by what the casinos are providing, not what the rules say they are required to do. They have to have something for the bold bit that is supplemental to a pay table even if it is short of a full rtp disclosure.
If the play games and real games had something that meets the bold bit we could check if they play as described and that the descriptions match. It seems to me that we can only really see that the two "deviled" slots don't operate in the same way because the difference is visually explicit. There is no basis apart from huge sample sizes to check the rest of the stable of games - but there should be.
Clearly I am coming late to this particular party and I play poker and blackjack not slots but has anyone ever taken a sample game and made a complaint about the bold bit above not being met and seen what the GRA say about it? I guess I just prefer my "generally unknowns" to be the other players cards unless I force them to show me rather than pretty much the entire operation of the game.