She will at the very least get the $6500 that is supposed to be the maximum payout from that machine. Especially if it’s posted somewhere in the fine print of the casino.
Geez. .......
The lawsuit will be interesting. I wonder what the law is on gambling prizes which appears to have been won. Seems awfully convenient to say, the machine malfunction happened as you were playing, but here’s a steak for your troubles.
How do we know the machine didn’t malfunction when it was taking money on losing spin after losing spin????
Who cares if the machine broke? Gambling is about luck. Mostly, the players are unlucky. The machine broke? The casino was unlucky today? Well ... pay up.
The selfie should be sufficient .... pay up, big boy
Why is it that there’s a number that can display on the screen that’s higher than the maximum possible payout?
That better be one damn fine steak!
In all cases I’ve read where people won big it was a machine malfunction ... yeah, right. Just don’t do it to a guy called Vinnie.
Glitch my fanny.
Time for casinos to honor the big payouts from these machines. Every story i read about people winning the big prize is a glitch.
It is impossible they are all glitches.
I find it interesting the high rate of malfunctions at Indian casino’s. when compared to rates of failures at Vegas casinos.
An interesting legal question.
I have no idea who will win but I bet the casino has some kind of disclaimer posted somewhere.
Still if I were on a jury I would be inclined to vote for her especially since it was the casino who made the error, not her.
Was it an Indian casino? The rule of thumb there is if it gives more than a nominal payoff, it is proof of malfunction.
There’s no ‘chance’ at all with modern slot machines. They are all linked by computer that is programmed as to payoff (or lack thereof). The Casino will never lose money on a slot machine.
Reminds me of the old Twilight Zone episode. I saw this 57 years ago and have never forgotten it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fever_(The_Twilight_Zone)
“ Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Gibbs, three days and two nights all expenses paid at a Las Vegas hotel, won by virtue of Mrs. Gibbs’s knack with a phrase. But unbeknownst to either Mr. and Mrs. Gibbs is the fact that there’s a prize in their package, neither expected nor bargained for. In just a moment, one of them will succumb to an illness worse than any virus can produce. A most inoperative, deadly life-shattering affliction known as the Fever. ”
The casino will LOSE in front of a civil jury!
Now, if they had offered bacon...
She could have won one of the largest Slot Jackpot ever. Called 7 on Your Side
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jHDSF7uES0
Machines highest payout was $6500. It couldn’t pay out $43 million
Jackpot: Here are some of the biggest slot payouts in Las Vegas history
The biggest (so far)
March 21, 2003: A 25-year-old software engineer from Los Angeles won $39.7 million after putting in $100 in the Megabucks slot machine at the Excalibur to win the largest jackpot in Las Vegas history. He beat odds at the time of one in 16.7 million. Total: $39,710,826.36
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2014/dec/10/jackpot-here-are-some-biggest-slot-payouts-las-veg/
If I were the casino, I would offer her a million dollar settlement. If I were the lady, I would take it.
For the casino to have a case, they would have to show how they made good when another person did not win because of a malfunction. A malfunction can not always benefit the casino.
That prize she won is the maximum value of an unsigned 32 bit value. Basically, some 32 bit location was set to 0xFFFFFFFF or 11111111111111111111111111111111 . It’s a bug.
My bet is that the team of programmers were leftovers from the pool of Obamacare developers and were tasked with developing the payout routine in 3 years for 420M dollars.