Slot Machine Myths and Facts

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Slot machine myths, misconceptions and superstitions. Most of the time what happens, even slot players who know the game and understand how the machine works, wonder if there is something they could do, a bit adjustments which could change their luck.

Such types of feelings give birth to slot machine myths or misconceptions. Let’s have a look of some of the most popular slot machine myths and the facts behind it:

Myth: Players could easily determine the set of patterns or sequence of spins the slot machines have:

Fact: Slot machines are truly random and they are having a computer chip inside that runs the random number generator (RNG). RNG continuously cycles through the numbers and generates millions of combinations per minute and thus the previous results have no effect on the next spin.

Thus it is really difficult to track any pattern in this game.

Myth: The machine turns cold to make up the payout after hitting the jackpot.

Fact: The results remain random after the jackpot. The machine continues to pay normally after hitting big jackpot.

Myth: Chances of hitting a jackpot become more when the casino is busy.

Fact: it could be true that most of the jackpots are hit while the casino is busy and crowded with lots of players.

Myth: The odds of winning could be easily determined counting the number of symbols on each reel.

Fact: Let’s say there are 20 symbols on each reel of a three reel slot machine. Here the odds of winning is 1 in 8000. But it’s not possible to pinpoint the exact odss, because it doesn’t mean you are going to lose 799 times in a row. Since it’s a luck based game, You never know what will be the outcome of this game. Playing slots is like tossing a coin. The probability of getting HEADS and TAILS is 50:50, but it doesn’t mean out of 20 tosses, we will have both HEADS and TAILS exactly 10 times each.

It may be possible, the slot machine is programmed to generated millions of combinations in order to offer large paybacks.

Myth: Temperature of the coin affects the way a machine pays.

Fact: it has nothing to do with the temperature of the coin. The machines are sense less, they have no feelings.

Myth: Less you wager, more are the chances of hitting maximum winning combinations.

Fact: Many of the slot players have experience the cold streaks after betting the maximum, then they switched over to one coin bet and hit the winning combination. But the random number generator doesn’t know about all of your bets. The percentage of winning combination remains the same regardless of number of coins wagered.



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