Posted on 08/27/2023 3:34:16 PM PDT by lowbridge
On EVERY slot machine somewhere it says “Malfunction voids play and pay”. Indian reservation or Vegas strip.
Starman is back?
I wrote slot machine software for a couple of years. You COULD put a cheat like that into the code, but you’d have to get the 2 other employees that check you code, and approve it to go along with it. Which could happen, but then you’d ALSO have to pass the gaming control board’s investigations of the code, and maybe GLI (Gaming Labs International).
All of which have seen this type of thing before, and they’d be able to trace it RIGHT back to the author.
I wrote slot machine software for a couple of years, and one of the games that I was looking at, the odds of hitting the jackpot were 1:20,500,000. (And this wasn’t a wide-area progressive).
Yup...something is off with this situation IMO.
It could be random, but man, I don’t know about that.
People have found ways to go after slots. Some people have made electronic devices to affect them.
Hitting 10 major slot jackpots in 2 days will trip their security though. He’ll be banned. And they will pour through the tapes of him and see if they can spot anything, if they haven’t already.
Nope! They can’t tell them when TO hit. They can’t tell them when NOT to hit. It’s all based on probability, and the random number generator.
A quick story, if you ever went into a convenience store or truck stop in the 80’s-90’s, you might have seen a video slot machine called a “Cherry Master”. I pulled the chips out of one, read the program off, and went through it. They CHEAT. For instance, you press the button to spin the reels, it grabs a set of “stops” from the random number generator, and then runs that set through the function that tells how much you win. It then does a calculation to see if you winning that much would skew the payout % too much. And if so, it throws away that set, and grabs another one. So let’s say you win. You THEN have the option to play the “Hi Lo Double Up” game. In this game there’s a deck of cards, and you’re betting if the next card to be drawn from the deck is a HI card (above 8), or a LO card (below 8). (8 is an automatic loser). So long as the number of points you’re wagering is less than 1000, it just gives you the next card from the deck. BUT! If you wager MORE than 1000, it waits for you to select HI or LO, and it looks through the deck to find the first card that would cause you to lose, and gives you THAT one.
I found those things before I got the job in Vegas. So, my first day when I got access to the source code for the game, I went through and looked to see how it handled things. The answer? “If you win, you win”. They’ve calculated it all out so that over the span of a million spins, the payout percentage will be the desired point. So, they don’t have the need (OR ABILITY) to start or stop hot streaks.
And yes they do that for card counters. They normally now work in multi-people teams. They can usually find everyone on the team.
Lol.
Yup.
Wait, what? How many people were involved in the winnings?
-PJ
Looks like Jack Pots are rigged, just like elections.
“In the early 1990s, Ron Harris was a software engineer writing anti-cheating software for the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
But secretly, he was coding machines with a hidden software switch that paid out huge jackpots when players inserted coins in a certain sequence.
According to CNN, Harris rigged 30 machines before getting accomplices to play the slots and walk away with hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Harris was eventually caught when one of his accomplices was busted trying to rig a game of keno in Atlantic City. Harris pleaded guilty in 1996 to four counts of slot-cheating, according to the Las Vegas Sun, and was sentenced to seven years in prison.”
15 years ago I witnessed a woman hit 2 royal flushes on video poker at Ceasers Palace.
After 9/11, I think the Vegas casinos made it a lot harder to win across the board.
I wrote slot machine software for a couple of years, and one of the games that I was looking at, the odds of hitting the jackpot were 1:20,500,000. (And this wasn’t a wide-area progressive).
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So what would the odds be for hitting 8 progressive jackpots on quarter slots over 2 day period that totaled over $2 million???
Has Biden taken over Las Vegas and now they are giving away money?????
As a regular Vegas visitor for 47 years, I totally concur
I agree. The slots are now just big video screens. No physical interaction or spinning wheels. I was in Vegas a couple of months ago and could not bring myself to put money in one of those modern slot machines. I wound up playing a few games of roulette.
When I was working in Vegas a story broke about a software engineer with a company that did BINGO systems. He wrote the code for those little electronic devices that let you play a bunch of cards at the same time. (Like the PlayMakers you’d see in bars for playing those trivia games).
He had added some code to enable some secret key combo that would let you pay for 1 card, but play 1024. He got caught, and before he made it to trial, he “committed suicide”.
So, it DOES happen, but it’s getting harder every day.
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