The Reel Story

Mathamatically weighted in the casinos favour and rigged are not the same thing.

Not how slots work mate. A big win has no impact on future payouts. Each spin is independent and RNG based.

Well, basically, yes, because it's independently tested and verified and then continually monitored. Slots are already in the house favour. There is simply no need to do anything else. Operator and provider licenses are worth millions to them, why would they risk their entire business when they already make a lot of money totally legally? It just doesn't make any sense. Now I'm not saying providers and casino's don't do dodgy stuff, they do, absolutely. But the stuff they do is either legal (just about) or it's the type of illegal that would just get someone fired, or a slap on the wrist, or a small fine. I.E, low risk stuff like taking casino managers out for coke and strippers to get your game promoted or evading tax through creative accounting or having horrible T&C's that they use to avoid paying big wins, because they know most people don't read the T&C. These are all things that happen, but are very low risk to the companies. Rigging, or even massaging slots, risks your ENTIRE business. It's just not worth it. BTW, I do absolutely understand where you're coming from. I often get the same feeling. I had it yesterday when Pheonix Sun ripped my entire balance from me. Part of my brain was saying 'This slot will kill you, you need to go' whereas another part was saying 'Well it's GOT to pay soon, surely'. So it's human nature, I'm not immune to it. I just know that those parts of my brain aren't really talking sense ?

Ahh, the old 'You work for them so you want to protect the lie' line. It's a classic. So, I USED to work in the industry. I haven't for over 4 years. And I was made redundant on pretty poor terms, so I have no reason to want to 'protect' the company or industry. Additionally, there are tens of thousands of people who work in the industry, over thousands of different companies in many different countries. You think ALL of them have somehow agreed to stick to this big wide conspiracy about how slots work? Especially disgruntled ex employees (of which there will be many). It's just not realistic. Like flat earthing, at some point you have to realise that the truth is actually far more simple than the lie. So yeh, slots do not 'run hot or cold' as I said. The nature of random patterns do. Slots cannot be made to 'run hot or cold' (it would actually be very difficult to do and would throw up lots of issues with compliance reporting of RTP and accredited hashes of deployed software packages.). As I said, if you could tell when a slot is hot or cold, you would always win. This is part of the deep psychology of gambling. Veteran players think they understand the system, but their experience counts for absolutely nothing on slots. As for tracjking achievements, yes, slots CAN have a memory. Anything can, and some have to track things, like lil devil with the hearts or whatever. But each spin is independent. I know you won't believe me, but it is ?

Jammin Jars is a slightly different case. It's more of a bag of results or a scratch card. So there is a pool of 1.2 million results and when you hit spin, it picks one of them and shows it to you. It's still a random game though, as those 1.2 million possible results average out to the stated RTP, and your chance of getting any one of them is 1 in 1.2 million. For the majority of slots, the positions on the reels are what determine the outcome. Now, it is common that a game will determine all of the result up front (even the bonus round) as soon as you click the spin button. That's pretty standard practice actually (tho providers like BTG do hit the RNG for every single bonus spin). There is nothing wrong with this. Each spin is still the result of the reel positions generated by RNG for that spin. You have to remember that, in almost all slots, a 'Spin' is defined as the point at you click the spin button to the point your total winnings are displayed and paid to you. This means 1 base spin and 50 free spins is all one 'spin'. So in the coin flip example, if you were given 5 free spins on the coin, it would be like me doing 5 flips and recording a video of me doing them, then coming out and showing you the video. I still did 5 coin flips, they were still random, but the result was fully determined before you started watching. Pre-determined does NOT mean rigged. Pre-determined results is absolutely fine, as long as it is done after you click spin, or, like Jammin Jars, it's a random selection from a pool of pre-generated results (although I hate Jammin Jars for this reason). Slots simply aren't 'programmed' to achieve a target. They don't need to be. The maths does it for them through volume of play. The simple fact is, you can't tell when a game is 'hot or cold'. You think you can, but you can't. If you could, you would be a millionaire because you would always win. In a random set, it's very common to have 'hot' or 'cold' streaks within it. That is the nature of randomness.

As Skyline said, most games will switch up the reel sets when going in to a bonus. And bonuses are not 'pre-determined' in the way you state. They don't pick a x win and then show you a result that matches. The bonus reel sets are used, 10+ spins are made and you get the result. Often all 10 spins are played on the server up front (after you click spin) but that doesn't make it any less random. Your comment about 'if slots were 100% random, casinos would die' is just a misunderstanding of how slots work. Slots hare a mathematical model behind them that makes it so that, statistically, they will pay out less than 100%. This mathematical model is determined by the setup of the reels and the payouts. It ia still completely random what result occurs. As an example. If i flip a coin and pay you 1 for heads and 2 for tails, you will get a certain return. If i then change the payout to 0.5 for heads and 1 for tails, you can expect a lower return. The odds of getting heads or tails is still random and 50/50 in both scenarios though. As for the 'collect losses period'. No. Not the case. Not legal and probably not even possible. Slots already have the mathematical edge. No need to rig them.