To answer the question whether online slots are random:
- Fact is --> WE DON'T KNOW ...and probably never will.
- Fact is also --> 100% randomness just does not exist in anything mankind has build.
Netent is using Fortuna as RNG which is a secure random number generator, but they do not state how those generated random seeds are distributed.
I look at it as a mathematician and there are umpteenth occasions where my understanding screams --> "it just can't be random" .....
Example 1 - VS battles
This is happening in each and every battle but i will take straight numbers to make it easy to follow.
- 300 players, each spinning 1x / 2 seconds = 9,000 spins / minute
- 100 battle spins are played in appr. 3 minutes = 30.000 spins
- all is totally random, right
- however, in each battle is see players who made 2-5 spins suddenly shooting to the top with some outrageous number and they keep getting more bonus rounds and more high wins, like they are getting piled up on them. I experienced it myself --> 6 bonus rounds in 100 spins, each paying min. 50x bet, on top a few high 5OAK's
- random results means this can happen, no problem with that but it happens in every battle, so where is the randomness??
- that the RNG, which is supposedly 100% random, gives all those high wins to 1, 2 or 3 players out of hundreds and that in every single battle CANNOT be random.
Just to put it in perspective:
- assume you have a giant wheel with 30,000 possible results = the amount of battle spins, of those 20 are the really high wins who get the players in the battles to the TOP3
- that is 1:1500 to hit one of those high wins
- now comes the kicker: in each and every battle those few players are hitting repeatedly exactly those few high results available on the wheel
- mathematically it can happen occasionally but for it to happen all the time comes close to "absolutely impossible" to say it is random.
Example 2 - DOA --> Double 5OAK Sheriff Star
I have more numbers on this slot but will just give this one example. The win is very rare as it can happen only in 2 combinations on Line 1+6 or Line 3+7 .....i assume it happens about 1/15 - 20,000 spins.
Now here are my numbers:
- I took 0.5 Mio spins played at each of these bet levels since i started playing DOA, played a lot more than that but I only took the first 0.5Mio spins at each of those values, obviously it took a much longer period to accumulate those @ $.4.50 - 9.00 .... but I would say that it is a pretty good sample size
- The total hits for that specific win are:
--> 0.09 - 0.36 / 0.01 denomination --> 21x the double 5OAK
--> 0.90 - 3.60 / 0.10 denomination --> 1x
--> 4.50 - 9.00 / 0.50 denomination --> 0x
Now, you can call me a big unlucky git, but those numbers just don't add up if something is totally random. You have one event happening on average every 23,800 spins at one denomination but only 1x in 0.5Mio spins at the higher denomination and never in 0.5Mio spins at the highest.
Until this day, with tons more spins at the 0.50 denomination, I have yet to hit that win once at $4.50 or $9.00.
Again, looking at it mathematically, it is sheer impossible to say "yeah, it is random"
'NUFF SAID!