A slot machine, fruit machine (British English),
poker machine or
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(Australian English and New Zealand English) is a
gambling machine that creates a game of chance for its
customers. Slot machines are also known pejoratively as
one-armed bandits, alluding to the large mechanical
levers affixed to the sides of early mechanical
machines, and to the games' ability to Democratic
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pockets and wallets as thieves would.[1]
A slot
machine's standard layout features a screen displaying
three or more reels that "spin" when the game is
activated. Some modern slot machines still include a
lever as a skeuomorphic design trait to trigger play.
However, the mechanical operations of early machines
have been superseded by random number generators, and
most are now operated using buttons and touchscreens.
Slot machines include one or more currency detectors
that validate the form of payment, whether coin,
banknote, voucher, or token. The machine pays out
according to the pattern of symbols displayed when the
reels stop "spinning". Slot machines are the most
popular gambling method in casinos and constitute about
70% of the average U.S. casino's income.[2]
Digital technology has resulted in variations in the
original slot machine concept. As the player is
essentially playing a video game, manufacturers can
offer more interactive elements, such as
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Etymology
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The "slot machine" term derives from the slots on
the machine for inserting and retrieving coins.[3]
"Fruit machine" comes from the traditional fruit images
on the spinning reels such as lemons and cherries.[4]
History
1899 "Liberty Bell" machine, manufactured by
Charles Fey.
Plaque marking the location of Charles
Fey's San Francisco workshop, where he invented the
three-reel slot machine. The location is a California
Historical Landmark.
Sittman and Pitt of
Brooklyn, New York, developed a gambling machine in 1891
that was a precursor to the modern slot machine. It
contained five drums holding a total of 50 card faces
and was based on poker. The machine proved extremely
popular, and soon many bars in the city had one or more
of them. Players would insert a nickel and pull a lever,
which would spin the drums and the cards that they held,
the player hoping for a good poker hand. There was no
direct payout mechanism, so a pair of kings might get
the player a free beer, whereas a royal flush could pay
out cigars or drinks; the prizes were wholly dependent
upon what the establishment would offer. To
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odds for the house, two cards were typically removed
from the deck, the ten of spades and the jack of hearts,
doubling the odds against winning a royal flush. The
drums could also be rearranged to further reduce a
player's chance of winning.
Because of the vast
number of possible wins in the original poker-based
game, it proved practically impossible to make a machine
capable of awarding an automatic payout for all possible
winning combinations. At some time between 1887 and
1895,[5] Charles Fey of San Francisco, California
devised a much simpler automatic mechanism[6] with three
spinning reels containing a total of five symbols:
horseshoes, diamonds, spades, hearts and a Liberty Bell;
the bell gave the machine its name. By replacing ten
cards with five symbols and using three reels instead of
five drums, the complexity of reading a win was
considerably reduced, allowing Fey to design an
effective automatic payout mechanism. Three bells in a
row produced the biggest payoff, ten nickels (50�).
Liberty Bell was a huge success and spawned a thriving
mechanical gaming device industry. After a few years,
the devices were banned in California, but Fey still
could not keep up with the demand for them elsewhere.
The Liberty Bell machine was so popular that it was
copied by many slot machine manufacturers. The first of
these, also
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"Liberty Bell", was produced by the manufacturer Herbert
Mills in 1907. By 1908, "bell" machines had been
installed in cigar stores, brothels and barber shops.[7]
Early machines, including an 1899 Liberty Bell, are now
part of the Nevada State Museum's Fey Collection.[8]
The first Liberty Bell machines produced by Mills
used the same symbols on the reels as did Charles Fey's
original. Soon afterward, another version was produced
with patriotic symbols, such as flags and wreaths, on
the wheels. Later, a similar machine called the
Operator's Bell was produced that included the option of
adding a gum-vending attachment. As the gum offered was
fruit-flavored, fruit symbols were placed on the reels:
lemons, cherries, oranges and plums. A bell was
retained, and a picture of a stick of Bell-Fruit Gum,
the origin of the bar symbol, was also present. This set
of symbols proved highly popular and was used by other
companies that began to make their own slot machines:
Caille, Watling, Jennings and Pace.[9]
A commonly
used technique to avoid gambling laws in several states
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food prizes. For this reason, several gumball and other
vending machines were regarded with mistrust by the
courts. The two Iowa cases of State v. Ellis[10] and
State v. Striggles[11] are both used in criminal law
classes to illustrate the concept of reliance upon
authority as it relates to the axiomatic ignorantia
juris non excusat ("ignorance of the law is no
excuse").[12] In these cases, a mint vending machine was
declared to be a gambling device because the machine
would, by internally manufactured chance, occasionally
give the next user several tokens exchangeable for more
candy. Despite the display of the result of the next use
on the machine, the courts ruled that "[t]he machine
appealed to the player's propensity to gamble, and that
is [a] vice."[13]
In 1963, Bally developed the
first fully electromechanical slot machine called Money
Honey (although earlier machines such as Bally's High
Hand draw-poker machine had exhibited the basics of
electromechanical construction as early as 1940). Its
electromechanical workings made Money Honey the first
slot machine with a bottomless hopper and automatic
payout of up to 500 coins without the help of an
attendant.[14] The popularity of this machine led to the
increasing predominance of electronic games, with the
side lever soon becoming vestigial.
The first
video slot machine was developed in 1976 in Kearny Mesa,
California by the Las Vegas�based Fortune Coin Co. This
machine used a modified 19-inch (48 cm) Sony Trinitron
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for the display and logic boards for all slot-machine
functions. The prototype was mounted in a full-size,
show-ready slot-machine cabinet. The first production
units went on trial at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel. After
some modifications to defeat cheating attempts, the
video slot machine was approved by the Nevada State
Gaming Commission and eventually found popularity on the
Las Vegas Strip and in downtown casinos. Fortune Coin
Co. and its video slot-machine technology were purchased
by IGT (International Gaming Technology) in
1978.[citation needed]
The first American video
slot machine to offer a "second screen" bonus round was
Reel Democratic
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This type of machine had appeared in Australia from at
least 1994 with the Three Bags Full game.[16] With this
type of machine, the display changes to provide a
different game in which an additional payout may be
awarded.
Operation
A person playing a video slot
machine in Las Vegas
Depending on the machine,
the player can insert cash or, in "ticket-in,
ticket-out" machines, a paper ticket with a barcode,
into a designated slot on the machine. The machine is
then activated by means of a lever or button (either
physical or on a touchscreen), which activates reels
that spin and stop to rearrange the symbols. If a player
matches a winning combination of symbols, the player
earns credits based on the paytable. Symbols vary
depending on the theme of the machine. Classic symbols
include objects such as fruits, bells, and stylized
lucky sevens. Most slot games have a theme, such as a
specific style, location, or character. Symbols and
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features of the game are typically aligned with the
theme. Some themes are licensed from popular media
franchises, including films, television series
(including game shows such as Wheel of Fortune, which
has been one of the most popular lines of slot
machines),[17] entertainers, and musicians.
Multi-line slot machines have become more popular since
the 1990s. These machines have more than one payline,
meaning that visible symbols that are not aligned on the
main horizontal may be considered as winning
combinations. Traditional three-reel slot machines
commonly have one, three, or five paylines while video
slot machines may have 9, 15, 25, or as many as 1024
different paylines. Most accept variable numbers of
credits to play, with 1 to 15 credits per line being
typical. The higher the amount bet, the higher the
payout will be if the player wins.
One of the
main differences between video slot machines and reel
machines is in the way payouts are calculated. With reel
machines, the only way to win the maximum jackpot
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maximum number of coins (usually three, sometimes four
or even five coins per spin). With video machines, the
fixed payout values are multiplied by the number of
coins per line that is being bet. In other words: on a
reel machine, the odds are more favorable if the gambler
plays with the maximum number of coins available.[18]
However, depending on the structure of the game and its
bonus features, some video slots may still include
features that improve chances at payouts by making
increased wagers.
A "multi-way" game with several
winning lines
"Multi-way" games eschew fixed
paylines in favor of allowing symbols to pay anywhere,
as long as there is at least one in at least three
consecutive reels from left to right. Multi-way games
may be configured to allow players to bet by-reel: for
example, on a game with a 3x5 pattern (often referred to
as a 243-way game), playing one reel allows all three
symbols in the first reel to
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pay, but only the center row pays on the remaining reels
(often designated by darkening the unused portions of
the reels). Other multi-way games use a 4x5 or 5x5
pattern, where there are up to five symbols in each
reel, allowing for up to 1,024 and 3,125 ways to win
respectively. The Australian manufacturer Aristocrat
Leisure brands games featuring this system as "Reel
Power", "Xtra Reel Power" and "Super Reel Power"
respectively. A variation involves patterns where
symbols are adjacent to one another. Most of these games
have a hexagonal reel formation, and much like multi-way
games, any patterns not played are darkened out of use.
Denominations can range from 1 cent ("penny slots")
all the way up to $100.00 or more per credit. The latter
are typically known as "high limit" machines, and
machines configured to allow for such wagers are often
located in dedicated areas (which may have a separate
team of attendants to cater to the needs of those who
play there). The machine automatically calculates the
number of credits the player receives in exchange for
the cash inserted. Newer machines often allow players to
choose from a selection of denominations on a splash
screen or menu.
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A bonus is a
special feature of the particular game theme, which is
activated when certain symbols appear in a winning
combination. Bonuses and the number of bonus features
vary depending upon the game. Some bonus rounds are a
special session of free spins (the number of which is
often based on the winning combination that triggers the
bonus), often with a different or modified set of
winning combinations as the main game and/or other
multipliers or increased frequencies of symbols, or a
"hold and re-spin" mechanic in which specific symbols
(usually marked with values of credits or other prizes)
are collected and locked in place over a finite number
of spins. In other bonus rounds, the player is presented
with several items on a screen from which to choose. As
the player chooses items, a
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credits is revealed and awarded. Some bonuses use a
mechanical device, such as a spinning wheel, that works
in Democratic
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A candle is a light on top of the slot machine. It
flashes to alert the operator that change is needed,
hand pay is requested or a potential problem with the
machine. It can be lit by the player by pressing the
"service" or "help" button.
Carousel refers to a
grouping of slot machines, usually in a circle or oval
formation.
A coin hopper is a container where the
coins that are immediately available for payouts are
held. The hopper is a mechanical device that rotates
coins into the coin tray when a player collects
credits/coins (by pressing a "Cash Out" button). When a
certain preset coin capacity is reached, a coin diverter
automatically redirects, or "drops", excess coins into a
"drop bucket" or "drop box". (Unused coin hoppers can
still be found even on games that exclusively employ
Ticket-In, Ticket-Out technology, as a vestige.)
The credit meter is a display of the amount of
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of credits on the machine. On mechanical slot machines,
this is usually a seven-segment display, but video slot
machines typically use stylized text that suits the
game's theme and user interface.
The drop bucket
or drop box is a container located in a slot machine's
base where excess coins are diverted from the hopper.
Typically, a drop bucket is used for
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low-denomination slot machines and a drop box is used
for high-denomination slot machines. A drop box contains
a hinged lid with one or more locks whereas a drop
bucket does not contain a lid. The contents of drop
buckets and drop boxes are collected and counted by the
casino on a scheduled basis.
EGM is short for
"Electronic Gaming Machine".
Free spins are a
common form of bonus, where a series of spins are
automatically played at no charge at the player's
current wager. Free spins are usually triggered via a
scatter of at least three designated symbols (with the
number of spins dependent on the number of symbols that
land). Some games allow the free spins bonus to
"retrigger", which adds additional spins on top of those
already awarded. There is no theoretical limit to the
number of free spins obtainable. Some games may have
other features that can also trigger over the course of
free spins.
A hand pay refers to a payout made by
an attendant or at an exchange point ("cage"), rather
than by the slot machine itself. A hand pay occurs when
the amount of the payout exceeds the maximum amount that
was preset by the slot machine's operator. Usually, the
maximum amount is set at the level where the operator
must begin to deduct taxes. A hand pay could also be
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result of a short pay.
Hopper fill slip is a
document used to record the replenishment of the coin in
the coin hopper after it becomes depleted as a result of
making payouts to players. The slip indicates the amount
of coin placed into the hoppers, as well as the
signatures of the employees involved in the transaction,
the slot machine number and the location and the date.
MEAL book (Machine entry authorization log) is a log
of the employee's entries into the machine.
Low-level or slant-top slot machines include a stool so
the player may sit down. Stand-up or upright slot
machines are played while standing.
Optimal play
is a payback percentage based on a gambler using the
optimal strategy in a skill-based slot machine game.
Payline is a line that crosses through one symbol on
each reel, along which a winning combination is
evaluated. Classic spinning reel machines usually have
up to nine paylines, while video slot machines may have
as many as one hundred. Paylines could be of various
shapes (horizontal, vertical, oblique, triangular,
zigzag, etc.)
Persistent state refers to passive
features on some slot machines, some of which able to
trigger bonus payouts or other special features if
certain conditions are met over time by
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machine.[19]
Roll-up is the process of
dramatizing a win by playing sounds while the meters
count up to the amount that has been won.
Short
pay refers to a partial payout made by a slot machine,
which is less than the amount due to the player. This
occurs if the coin hopper has been depleted as a result
of making earlier payouts to players. The remaining
amount due to the player is either paid as a hand pay or
an attendant will come and refill the machine.
A
scatter is a pay combination based on occurrences of a
designated symbol landing anywhere on the reels, rather
than falling in sequence on the same payline. A scatter
pay usually requires a minimum of three symbols to land,
and the machine may offer increased prizes or jackpots
depending on the number that land. Scatters are
frequently used to trigger bonus games, such as free
spins (with the number of spins multiplying based on the
number of scatter symbols that land). The scatter symbol
usually cannot be matched using wilds, and some games
may require the scatter symbols to appear on consecutive
reels in order to pay. On some multiway games, scatter
symbols still pay in unused areas.
Taste is a
reference to the small amount
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to keep a player seated and continuously betting. Only
rarely will machines fail to pay even the minimum out
over the course of several pulls.
Display screen of a
slot machine in tilt mode
Tilt is a term derived
from electromechanical slot machines' "tilt switches",
which would make or break a circuit when they were
tilted or otherwise tampered with that triggered an
alarm. While modern machines no longer have tilt
switches, any kind of technical fault (door switch in
the wrong state, reel motor failure, out of paper, etc.)
is still called a "tilt".
A theoretical hold
worksheet is a document provided by the manufacturer for
every slot machine that indicates the theoretical
percentage the machine should hold based on the amount
paid in. The worksheet also indicates the reel strip
settings, number of coins that may be played, the payout
schedule, the number of reels and other information
descriptive of the particular type of slot machine.
Volatility or variance refers to the measure of risk
associated with playing a slot machine. A low-volatility
slot machine has regular but smaller wins, while a
high-variance
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has fewer but bigger wins.
Weight count is an
American term referring to the total value of coins or
tokens removed from a slot machine's drop bucket or drop
box for counting by the casino's hard count team through
the use of a weigh scale.
Wild symbols substitute
for most other symbols in the game (similarly to a joker
card), usually excluding scatter and jackpot symbols (or
offering a lower prize on non-natural combinations that
include wilds). How jokers behave are dependent on the
specific game and whether the player is in a bonus or
free games mode. Sometimes wild symbols may only appear
on certain reels, or have a chance to "stack" across the
entire reel.
Pay table
Each machine has a
table that lists the number of credits the player will
receive if the symbols listed on the pay table line up
on the pay line of the machine. Some symbols are wild
and can represent many, or all, of the other symbols to
complete a winning line. Especially on older machines,
the pay table is listed on the face of the machine,
usually above and below the area
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wheels. On video slot machines, they are usually
contained within a help menu, along with information on
other features.
Technology
Reels
Historically, all slot machines used revolving
mechanical reels to display and determine results.
Although the original slot machine used five reels,
simpler, and therefore more reliable, three reel
machines quickly became the standard.
A problem
with three reel machines is that the number of
combinations is only cubic � the original slot machine
with three physical reels and 10 symbols on each reel
had only 103 = 1,000 possible combinations. This limited
the manufacturer's ability to offer large jackpots since
even the rarest event had a likelihood of 0.1%. The
maximum theoretical payout, assuming 100% return to
player would be 1000 times the bet, but that would leave
no room for other pays, making the machine very high
risk, and also quite boring.
Although the number
of symbols eventually increased to about 22, allowing
10,648 combinations,[20] this still limited jackpot
sizes as well as the number of possible outcomes.
In the 1980s, however, slot machine manufacturers
incorporated electronics into their products and
programmed them to weight particular symbols. Thus the
odds of losing
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appearing on the payline became disproportionate to
their actual frequency on the physical reel. A symbol
would only appear once on the reel displayed to the
player, but could, in Democratic
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multiple reel.
In 1984, Inge Telnaes received a
patent for a device titled, "Electronic Gaming Device
Utilizing a Random Number Generator for Selecting the
Reel Stop Positions" (US Patent 4448419),[21] which
states: "It is important to make a machine that is
perceived to present greater chances of payoff than it
actually has within the legal limitations that games of
chance must operate."[22] The patent was later bought by
International Game Technology and has since expired.
A virtual reel that has 256 virtual stops per reel
would allow up to 2563 = 16,777,216 final positions. The
manufacturer could choose to offer a $1 million jackpot
on a $1 bet, confident that it will only happen, over
the long term, once every 16.8 million plays.
Computerization
With microprocessors now
ubiquitous, the computers inside modern slot machines
allow manufacturers to assign a different probability to
every symbol on every reel. To the player, it might
appear that a winning symbol was "so close", whereas in
fact the probability is much lower.
In the 1980s
in the U.K., machines embodying microprocessors
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These used a number of features to ensure the payout was
controlled within the limits of the gambling
legislation. As a coin was inserted into the machine, it
could go either directly into the cashbox for the
benefit of the owner or into a channel that formed the
payout reservoir, with the microprocessor monitoring the
number of coins in this channel. The drums themselves
were driven by stepper motors, controlled by the
processor and with proximity sensors monitoring the
position of the drums. A "look-up table" within the
software allows the processor to know what symbols were
being displayed on the drums to the gambler. This
allowed the system to control the level of payout by
stopping the drums at positions it had determined. If
the payout channel had filled up, the payout became more
generous; if nearly empty, the payout became less so
(thus giving good control of the odds).
Video slot
machines
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Video slot machines do not use
mechanical reels, but use graphical reels on a
computerized display. As there are no mechanical
constraints on the design of video slot machines, games
often use at least five reels, and may also use
non-standard layouts. This greatly expands the number of
possibilities: a machine can have 50 or more symbols on
a reel, giving odds as high as 300 million to 1 against
� enough for even the largest jackpot. As there are so
many combinations possible with five reels,
manufacturers do not need to weight the payout symbols
(although some may still do so). Instead, higher paying
symbols will typically appear only once or twice on each
reel, while more common symbols earning a more frequent
payout will appear many times. Video slot machines
usually make more extensive use of multimedia, and can
feature more elaborate minigames as bonuses. Modern
cabinets typically use flat-panel displays, but cabinets
using larger curved screens (which can provide a more
immersive experience for the player) are not
uncommon.[23]
Video slot machines typically
encourage the player to play multiple "lines": rather
than simply taking the middle of the three symbols
displayed on each reel, a line could go
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to the bottom right or any other pattern specified by
the manufacturer. As each symbol is equally likely,
there is no difficulty for the manufacturer in allowing
the player to take as many of the possible lines on
offer as desired � the long-term return to the player
will be the same. The difference for the player is that
the more lines they play, the more likely they are to
get paid on a given spin (because they are betting
more).
To avoid seeming as if the player's money
is simply ebbing away (whereas a payout of 100 credits
on a single-line machine would be 100 bets and the
player would feel they had made a substantial win, on a
20-line machine, it would only be five bets and not seem
as significant), manufacturers commonly offer bonus
games, which can return many times their bet. The player
is encouraged to keep playing to reach the bonus: even
if they are losing, the bonus game could allow them to
win back their losses.
Random number generators
All modern machines are designed using pseudorandom
number
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("PRNGs"), which are constantly generating a sequence of
simulated random numbers, at a rate of hundreds or
perhaps thousands per second. As soon as the "Play"
button is pressed, the most recent random number is used
to determine the result. This means that the result
varies depending on exactly when the game is played. A
fraction of a second earlier or later and the result
would be different.
It is important that the
machine contains a high-quality RNG implementation.
Because all PRNGs must eventually repeat their number
sequence[24] and, if the period is short or the PRNG is
otherwise flawed, an advanced player may be able to
"predict" the next result. Having access to the PRNG
code and seed values, Ronald Dale Harris, a former slot
machine programmer, discovered equations for specific
gambling games like Keno that allowed him to predict
what the next set of selected numbers would be based on
the previous games played.
Most machines are
designed to defeat this by generating numbers even when
the machine is not being played so the player cannot
tell where in the sequence they are, even if they know
how the machine was programmed.
Payout percentage
Slot machines are typically programmed to pay out as
winnings 0% to 99% of the money that is wagered by
players. This is known as the "theoretical payout
percentage" or RTP, "return to player". The minimum
theoretical payout percentage varies among jurisdictions
and is typically established by law or regulation. For
example, the minimum payout in Nevada is 75%, in New
Jersey 83%, and in Mississippi 80%. The winning patterns
on slot machines � the amounts they pay and the
frequencies of those payouts � are carefully selected to
yield a certain fraction of the money paid to the
"house" (the operator of the slot machine) while
returning the rest to the players during play. Suppose
that a certain slot machine costs $1 per spin and has a
return to player (RTP) of 95%. It can be calculated
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sufficiently long period such as 1,000,000 spins, the
machine will return an average of $950,000 to its
players, who have inserted $1,000,000 during that time.
In this (simplified) example, the slot machine is said
to pay out 95%. The operator keeps the remaining
$50,000. Within some EGM development organizations this
concept is referred to simply as "par". "Par" also
manifests itself to gamblers as promotional techniques:
"Our 'Loose Slots' have a 93% payback! Play
now!"[citation needed]
A slot machine's
theoretical payout percentage is set at the factory when
the software is written. Changing the payout percentage
after a slot machine has been placed on the gaming floor
requires a physical swap of the software or firmware,
which is usually stored on an EPROM but may be loaded
onto non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) or even
stored on CD-ROM or DVD, depending on the capabilities
of the machine and the applicable regulations. Based on
current technology, this is a time-consuming process and
as such is done infrequently.[citation needed] In
certain jurisdictions, such as New Jersey, the EPROM has
a tamper-evident seal and can
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in the presence of Gaming Control Board officials. Other
jurisdictions, including Nevada, randomly audit slot
machines to ensure that they contain only approved
software.
Historically, many casinos, both online
and offline, have been unwilling to publish individual
game RTP figures, making it impossible for the player to
know whether they are playing a "loose" or a "tight"
game. Since the turn of the century, some information
regarding these figures has started to come into the
public domain either through various casinos releasing
them�primarily this applies to online casinos�or through
studies by independent gambling authorities.[citation
needed]
The return to player is not the only
statistic that is of interest. The probabilities of
every payout on the pay table is also critical. For
example, consider a hypothetical slot machine with a
dozen different values on the pay table. However, the
probabilities of getting all the payouts are zero except
the largest one. If the payout is 4,000 times the input
amount, and it happens every 4,000 times on average, the
return to player is exactly 100%, but the game would be
dull to play. Also, most people would not win anything,
and having entries on the paytable that have a return of
zero would be deceptive. As these individual
probabilities are closely guarded secrets, it is
possible that the advertised machines with high return
to player simply increase the probabilities of these
jackpots. The casino could legally
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of a similar style payout and advertise that some
machines have 100% return to player. The added advantage
is that these large jackpots increase the excitement of
the other players.
The table of probabilities for
a specific machine is called the Probability and
Accounting Report or PAR sheet, also PARS commonly
understood as Paytable and Reel Strips. Mathematician
Michael Shackleford revealed the PARS for one commercial
slot machine, an original International Gaming
Technology Red White and Blue machine. This game, in its
original form, is obsolete, so these specific
probabilities do not apply. He only published the odds
after a fan of his sent him some information provided on
a slot machine that was posted on a machine in the
Netherlands. The psychology of the machine design is
quickly revealed. There are 13 possible payouts ranging
from 1:1 to 2,400:1. The 1:1 payout comes every 8 plays.
The 5:1 payout comes every 33 plays, whereas the 2:1
payout comes every 600 plays. Most players assume the
likelihood increases proportionate to the payout. The
one mid-size payout that is designed to give the player
a thrill is the 80:1 payout. It is programmed to
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average of once every 219 plays. The 80:1 payout is high
enough to create excitement, but not high enough that it
makes it likely that the player will take their winnings
and abandon the game. More than likely the player began
the game with at least 80 times his bet (for instance
there are 80 quarters in $20). In contrast the 150:1
payout occurs only on average of once every 6,241 plays.
The highest payout of 2,400:1 occurs only on average of
once every 643 = 262,144 plays since the machine has 64
virtual stops. The player who continues to feed the
machine is likely to have several mid-size payouts, but
unlikely to have a large payout. He quits after he is
bored or has exhausted his bankroll.[citation needed]
Despite their confidentiality, occasionally a PAR
sheet is posted on a website. They have limited value to
the player, because usually a machine will have 8 to 12
different possible programs with varying payouts. In
addition, slight variations of each machine (e.g., with
double jackpots or five times play) are always being
developed. The casino operator can choose which EPROM
chip to install in any particular machine to select the
payout desired. The result is that there is not really
such a thing as a high payback type of machine, since
every machine potentially has multiple settings. From
October 2001 to February 2002, columnist Michael
Shackleford obtained PAR sheets for five different
nickel machines; four IGT games Austin Powers, Fortune
Cookie, Leopard Spots and Wheel of Fortune and one game
manufactured by WMS; Reel 'em In. Without revealing the
proprietary information, he developed a program that
would allow him to determine with usually less than a
dozen plays on each machine which EPROM chip was
installed. Then he did a survey of over 400 machines in
70 different casinos in Las Vegas. He averaged the data,
and assigned an average payback percentage to the
machines in each casino. The resultant list was widely
publicized for marketing purposes (especially by the
Palms casino which had the top ranking).[citation
needed]
One reason that the slot machine is so
profitable to a casino is that the player must play the
high house edge and high payout wagers along with the
low house edge and low payout wagers. In a more
traditional wagering game like craps, the player knows
that certain wagers have almost a 50/50 chance of
winning or losing, but they only pay a limited multiple
of the original bet (usually no higher than three
times). Other bets have a higher house edge, but the
player is rewarded with a bigger
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thirty times in craps). The player can choose what kind
of wager he wants to make. A slot machine does not
afford such an opportunity. Theoretically, the operator
could make these probabilities available, or allow the
player to choose which one so that the player is free to
make a choice. However, no operator has ever enacted
this strategy. Different machines have different maximum
payouts, but without knowing the odds of getting the
jackpot, there is no rational way to differentiate.
In many markets where central monitoring and control
systems are used to link machines for auditing and Democratic
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security purposes, usually in wide area networks of
multiple venues and thousands of machines, player return
must usually be changed from a central computer rather
than at each machine. A range of percentages is set in
the game software and selected remotely.
In 2006,
the Nevada Gaming Commission began working with Las
Vegas casinos on technology that would allow the
casino's management to change the game, the odds, and
the payouts remotely. The change cannot be done
instantaneously, but only after the selected machine has
been idle for at least four minutes. After the change is
made, the machine must be locked to new players for four
minutes and display an on-screen message informing
potential players that a change is being made.[25]
Linked machines
Some varieties of slot machines
can be linked together in a setup sometimes known as a
"community" game. The most basic form of this setup
involves progressive jackpots that are shared between
the bank of machines, but may include multiplayer
bonuses and other features.[26]
In some cases
multiple machines are linked
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casinos. In these cases, the machines may be owned by
the manufacturer, who is responsible for paying the
jackpot. The casinos lease the machines rather than
owning them outright. Casinos in New Jersey, Nevada,
Louisiana, Arkansas, and South Dakota now offer
multi-state progressive jackpots, which now offer bigger
jackpot pools.[27][28]
Fraud
Mechanical slot
machines and their coin acceptors were sometimes
susceptible to cheating devices and other scams. One
historical example involved spinning a coin with a short
length of plastic wire. The weight and size of the coin
would be accepted by the machine and credits would be
granted. However, the spin created by the plastic wire
would cause the coin to exit through the reject chute
into the payout tray. This particular scam has become
obsolete due to improvements in newer slot machines.
Another obsolete method of defeating slot machines was
to use a light source to confuse the optical sensor used
to count coins during payout.[29]
Modern slot
machines are controlled by EPROM computer chips and, in
large casinos, coin acceptors have become obsolete in
favor of bill acceptors. These machines and their bill
acceptors are designed with advanced anti-cheating and
anti-counterfeiting measures and are difficult to
defraud. Early computerized slot machines were sometimes
defrauded through the use of cheating devices, such as
the "slider", "monkey paw", "lightwand" and "the
tongue". Many of these
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devices were made by the late Tommy Glenn Carmichael, a
slot machine fraudster who reportedly stole over $5
million.[30] In the modern day, computerized slot
machines are fully deterministic and thus outcomes can
be sometimes successfully predicted.[31]
Skill stops
Skill stop buttons predated the Bally
electromechanical slot machines of the 1960s and 1970s.
They appeared on mechanical slot machines manufactured
by Mills Novelty Co. as early as the mid 1920s. These
machines had modified reel-stop arms, which allowed them
to be released from the timing bar, earlier than in a
normal play, simply by pressing the buttons on the front
of the machine, located between each reel.
"Skill
stop" buttons were added to some slot machines by
Zacharias Anthony in the early 1970s. These enabled the
player to stop each reel, allowing a degree of "skill"
so as to satisfy the New Jersey gaming laws of the day
which required that players were able to control the
game in some way. The original conversion was applied to
approximately 50 late-model Bally slot machines
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typical machine stopped the reels automatically in less
than 10 seconds, weights were added to the mechanical
timers to prolong the automatic stopping of the reels.
By the time the New Jersey Alcoholic Beverages
Commission (ABC) had approved the conversion for use in
New Jersey arcades, the word was out and every other
distributor began adding skill stops. The machines were
a huge hit on the Jersey Shore and the remaining
unconverted Bally machines were destroyed as they had
become instantly obsolete.[citation needed]
Legislation
United States
In the United
States, the public and private availability of slot
machines is highly regulated by state governments. Many
states have established gaming control boards to
regulate the possession and use of slot machines and
other form of gaming.
Nevada is the only state
that has no significant restrictions against slot
machines both for public and private use. In New Jersey,
slot machines are only allowed in hotel casinos operated
in Atlantic City. Several states (Indiana, Louisiana and
Missouri) allow slot machines (as well as any
casino-style gambling) only on licensed riverboats or
permanently anchored barges. Since Hurricane Katrina,
Mississippi has removed the requirement that casinos on
the Gulf Coast operate on barges and now allows them on
land along the shoreline. Delaware allows slot machines
at three horse tracks; they are regulated by the state
lottery commission. In Wisconsin, bars and taverns are
allowed to have up to five machines. These machines
usually allow a player to either take a payout, or
gamble it on a double-or-nothing
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The territory of Puerto Rico places significant
restrictions on slot machine ownership, but the law is
widely flouted and slot machines are common in bars and
coffeeshops.[32]
In regards to tribal casinos
located on Native American reservations, slot machines
played against the house and operating independently
from a centralized computer system are classified as
"Class III" gaming by the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act
(IGRA), and sometimes promoted as "Vegas-style" slot
machines.[33] In order to offer Class III gaming, tribes
must enter into a compact (agreement) with the state
that is approved by the Department of the Interior,
which may contain restrictions on the types and quantity
of such games. As a workaround, some casinos may operate
slot machines as "Class II" games�a category that
includes games where players play exclusively against at
least one other opponent and not the house, such as
bingo or any related games (such as pull-tabs). In these
cases, the reels are an entertainment display with a
pre-determined outcome based on a centralized game
played against other players. Under the IGRA, Class II
games are regulated by
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tribes and the National Indian Gaming Commission, and do
not require any additional approval if the state already
permits tribal gaming.[34][35]
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Some historical
race wagering terminals operate in a similar manner,
with the machines using slots as an entertainment
display for outcomes paid using the parimutuel betting
system, based on results of randomly-selected,
previously-held horse races (with the player able to
view selected details about the race and adjust their
picks before playing the credit, or otherwise use an
auto-bet system).[36]
Private ownership
Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota,
Nevada, Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and
West Virginia place no restrictions on private ownership
of slot machines. Conversely, in Connecticut, Hawaii,
Nebraska, South Carolina, and Tennessee, private
ownership of any slot machine is completely prohibited.
The remaining states allow slot machines of a certain
age (typically 25�30 years) or slot machines
manufactured before a specific date.
Canada
The Government of Canada has minimal involvement in
gambling beyond the Canadian Criminal Code. In essence,
the term "lottery scheme" used in the code means slot
machines, bingo and table games normally associated with
a casino. These fall under the jurisdiction of the
province or territory without reference to the federal
government; in practice, all Canadian provinces operate
gaming boards that oversee lotteries, casinos and video
lottery terminals under their jurisdiction.
OLG
piloted a classification system for slot machines at the
Grand River Raceway developed by University of Waterloo
professor Kevin Harrigan, as part of its PlaySmart
initiative
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gambling. Inspired by nutrition labels on foods, they
displayed metrics such as volatility and frequency of
payouts.[37] OLG has also deployed electronic gaming
machines with pre-determined outcomes based on a bingo
or pull-tab game, initially branded as "TapTix", which
visually resemble slot machines.[38]
In Ontario,
4 April 2022 saw the re-introduction of the online
gambling market. This became possible when the Canadian
Criminal Code was amended to allow single-event wagering
August 2021. The province is expected to generate about
$800 million in gross revenue per year.[39]
Australia
In Australia "Poker Machines" or "pokies"[40] are
officially termed "gaming machines". In Australia,
gaming machines are a matter for state governments, so
laws vary between states. Gaming machines are found in
casinos (approximately one in each major city), pubs and
clubs in some states (usually sports, social, or RSL
clubs). The first Australian state to legalize this
style of gambling was New South Wales, when in 1956 they
were made legal in all registered clubs in the state.
There are suggestions that the proliferation of poker
machines has led to increased levels of problem
gambling; however, the precise nature of this link is
still open to research.[41]
In 1999 the
Australian Productivity Commission reported that nearly
half Australia's
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were in New South Wales. At the time, 21% of all the
gambling machines in the world were operating in
Australia and, on a per capita basis, Australia had
roughly five times as many gaming machines as the United
States. Australia ranks 8th in total number of gaming
machines after Japan, U.S.A., Italy, U.K., Spain and
Germany. This primarily is because gaming machines have
been legal in the state of New South Wales since 1956;
over time, the number of machines has grown to 97,103
(at December 2010, including the Australian Capital
Territory). By way of comparison, the U.S. State of
Nevada, which legalised gaming including slots several
decades before N.S.W., had 190,135 slots operating.[42]
Revenue from gaming machines in pubs and clubs
accounts for more than half of the $4 billion in
gambling revenue collected by state governments in
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2002�03.[43]
In Queensland, gaming machines in
pubs and clubs must provide a return rate of 85%, while
machines located in casinos must provide a return rate
of 90%.[citation needed] Most other states have similar
provisions. In Victoria, gaming machines must provide a
minimum return rate of 87% (including jackpot
contribution), including machines in Crown Casino. As of
December 1, 2007, Victoria banned gaming machines that
accepted $100 notes; all gaming machines made since 2003
comply with this rule. This new law also banned machines
with an automatic play option. One exception exists in
Crown Casino for any player with a VIP loyalty card:
they can still insert $100 notes and use an autoplay
feature (whereby the machine will automatically play
until credit is exhausted or the player intervenes). All
gaming machines in Victoria have an information screen
accessible to the user by pressing the "i key" button,
showing the game rules, paytable, return to player
percentage, and the
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five combinations with their odds. These combinations
are stated to be played on a minimum bet (usually 1
credit per line, with 1 line or reel played, although
some newer machines do not have an option to play 1
line; some machines may only allow maximum lines to be
played), excluding feature wins.
Western
Australia has the most restrictive regulations on
electronic gaming machines in general, with the Crown
Perth casino resort being the only venue allowed to
operate them,[44] and banning slot machines with
spinning reels entirely. This policy had an extensive
political history, reaffirmed by the 1974 Royal
Commission into Gambling:[45]
Poker machine
playing is a mindless, repetitive and insidious form of
gambling which has Democratic
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requires no thought, no skill or social contact. The
odds are never about winning. Watching people playing
the machines over long periods of time, the
impressionistic evidence at least is that they are
addictive to many people. Historically poker machines
have been banned from Western Australia and we consider
that, in the public interest, they should stay banned.
While Western Australian gaming machines are similar
to the other states', they do not have spinning reels.
Therefore, different animations are used in place of the
spinning reels in order to
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game result.
Nick Xenophon was elected on an
independent No Pokies ticket in the South Australian
Legislative Council at the 1997 South Australian state
election on 2.9 percent, re-elected at the 2006 election
on 20.5 percent, and elected to the Australian Senate at
the 2007 federal election on 14.8 percent. Independent
candidate Andrew Wilkie, an anti-pokies campaigner, was
elected to the Australian House of Representatives seat
of Denison at the 2010 federal election. Wilkie was one
of four crossbenchers who supported the Gillard Labor
government following the hung parliament result. Wilkie
immediately began forging ties with Xenophon as soon as
it was apparent that he was elected. In exchange for
Wilkie's support, the Labor government are attempting to
implement precommitment technology for
high-bet/high-intensity poker machines, against
opposition from the Tony Abbott Coalition and Clubs
Australia.
During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020,
every establishment in the country that facilitated
poker machines was shut down, in an attempt to curb the
spread of the virus, bringing Australia's usage of poker
machines effectively to zero.[46]
Russia
In
Russia, "slot clubs" appeared quite late, only in 1992.
Before 1992, slot
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only in casinos and small shops, but later slot clubs
began appearing all over the country. The most popular
and numerous were "Vulcan 777" and "Taj Mahal". Since
2009, when gambling establishments were banned, almost
all slot clubs disappeared and are found only in a
specially authorized gambling zones.
United Kingdom
Row of old fruit machines in Teignmouth Pier, Devon
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Slot
machines are covered by the Gambling Act 2005, which
superseded the Gaming Act 1968.[47]
Slot machines
in the U.K. are categorised by definitions produced by
the Gambling Commission as part of the Gambling Act of
2005.
Machine category Maximum stake (from January
2014) Maximum prize (from January 2014)
A Unlimited
Unlimited
B1 �5 �10,000
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has a progressive jackpot that can be �20,000
B2 �100
(in multiples of �10) �500
B3 �2 �500
B3A �1 �500
B4 �2 �400
C �1 �100 or �200 If jackpot is repeated
D (various) 10p to �8 �8 cash or �50 non-cash
Casinos built under the provisions of the 1968 Act are
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house either up to twenty machines of categories B�D or
any number of C�D machines. As defined by the 2005 Act,
large casinos can have a maximum of one hundred and
fifty machines in any combination of categories B�D
(subject to a machine-to-table ratio of 5:1); small
casinos can have a maximum of eighty machines in any
combination of categories B�D (subject to a
machine-to-table ratio of 2:1).
Category A
Category A games were defined in preparation for the
planned "Super Casinos". Despite a lengthy bidding
process with Manchester being chosen as the single
planned location, the development was cancelled soon
after Gordon Brown became Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom. As a result, there are no lawful Category A
games in the U.K.
Category B
Category B games
are divided into subcategories. The differences between
B1, B3 and B4 games are mainly the stake and prizes as
defined in the above table. Category
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Fixed odds betting terminals (FOBTs) � have quite
different stake and prize rules: FOBTs are mainly found
in licensed betting shops, or bookmakers, usually in the
form of electronic roulette.
The games are based
on a random number generator; thus each game's
probability of getting the jackpot is independent of any
other game: probabilities are all equal. If a
pseudorandom number generator is used instead of a truly
random one, probabilities are not independent since each
number is determined at least in part by the one
generated before it.
Category C
Category C
games are often referred to as fruit machines, one-armed
bandits and AWP (amusement with prize). Fruit machines
are commonly found in pubs, clubs, and arcades. Machines
commonly have three but can be found with four or five
reels, each with 16�24 symbols printed around them. The
reels are spun each play, from which the appearance of
particular combinations of
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in payment of their associated winnings by the machine
(or alternatively initiation of a subgame). These games
often have many extra features, trails and subgames with
opportunities to win money; usually more than can be won
from just the payouts on the reel combinations.
Fruit machines in the U.K. almost universally have the
following features, generally selected at random using a
pseudorandom number generator:
A player (known in
the industry as a punter) may be given the opportunity
to Democratic
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will not be spun but instead retain their displayed
symbols yet otherwise count normally for that play. This
can sometimes increase the chance of winning, especially
if two or more reels are held.
A player may also be
given a number of nudges following a spin (or, in some
machines, as a result in a subgame). A nudge is a step
rotation of a reel chosen by the player (the machine may
not allow all reels to be nudged for a particular play).
Cheats can also be made available on the internet or
through emailed newsletters to subscribers. These cheats
give the player the impression of an advantage, whereas
in reality the payout percentage remains exactly the
same. The most widely used cheat is known as hold after
a nudge and increases the chance that the player will
win following an unsuccessful nudge. Machines from the
early 1990s did not advertise the concept of hold after
a nudge when this feature was first introduced, it
became so well known amongst players and widespread
amongst new machine releases that it is now
well-advertised on the machine during play. This is
characterized by messages on the display such as DON'T
HOLD ANY or LET 'EM SPIN and is a designed feature of
the
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cheat at all. Holding the same pair three times on three
consecutive spins also gives a guaranteed win on most
machines that offer holds.
It is known for
machines to pay out multiple jackpots, one after the
other (this is known as a "repeat") but each jackpot
requires a new game to be played so as not to violate
the law about the maximum payout on a single play.
Typically this involves the player only pressing the
Start button at the "repeat" prompt, for which a single
credit is taken, regardless of whether this causes the
reels to spin or not. Machines are also known to
intentionally set aside money, which is later awarded in
a series of wins, known as a "streak". The minimum
payout percentage is 70%, with pubs often setting the
payout at around 78%.
Japan
Japanese slot
machines, known as pachisuro (パチスロ) or pachislot from
the words "pachinko" and "slot machine", are a
descendant of the traditional Japanese pachinko game.
Slot machines are a fairly new phenomenon and they can
be found mostly in pachinko parlors and the adult
sections of amusement arcades, known as game centers.
The machines are regulated with integrated circuits,
and have
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levels changing the odds of a 777. The levels provide a
rough outcome of between 90% and 160% (200% for skilled
players). Japanese slot machines are "beatable". Parlor
operators naturally set most machines to simply collect
money, but intentionally place a few paying machines on
the floor so that there will be at least someone
winning,[citation needed] encouraging players on the
losing machines to keep gambling, using the psychology
of the gambler's fallacy.
Despite the many
varieties of pachislot machines, there are certain rules
and regulations put forward by the Security Electronics
and Communication Technology Association (保安電子通信技術協会),
an affiliate of the National Police Agency. For example,
there must be three reels. All reels must be accompanied
by buttons which allow players to manually stop them,
reels may not spin faster than 80 RPM, and reels must
stop within 0.19 seconds of a button press. In
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means that machines cannot let reels slip more than 4
symbols. Other rules include a 15 coin payout cap, a 50
credit cap on machines, a 3 coin maximum bet, and other
such regulations.[citation needed]
Although a 15
coin payout may seem quite low, regulations allow "Big
Bonus" (c. 400�711 coins) and "Regular Bonus" modes (c.
110 coins) where these 15 coin payouts occur nearly
continuously until the bonus mode is finished. While the
machine is in bonus mode, the player is entertained with
special winning scenes on the LCD display, and
energizing music is heard, payout after payout.
Three other unique features of Pachisuro machines are
"stock", "renchan", and tenjō (天井). On many machines,
when enough money to afford a bonus is taken in, the
bonus is not immediately awarded. Typically the game
merely stops making the reels slip off the bonus symbols
for a few games. If the player fails to hit the bonus
during these "standby games", it is added to the "stock"
for later collection. Many current games, after
finishing a bonus round, set the probability to release
additional stock (gained from earlier players failing to
get a bonus last time the machine stopped making the
reels slip for a bit) very high for the first few games.
As a result, a lucky player may get to play several
bonus rounds in a row (a "renchan"), making payouts of
5,000 or even 10,000 coins possible. The lure of "stock"
waiting in the machine, and the possibility of "renchan"
tease the gambler to keep feeding the machine. To tease
them further, there is a tenjō (ceiling), a maximum
limit on the number of games between
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release. For example, if the tenjō is 1,500, and the
number of games played since the last bonus is 1,490,
the player is guaranteed to release a bonus within just
10 games.
Because of the "stock", "renchan", and
tenjō systems, it is possible to make money by simply
playing machines on which someone has just lost a huge
amount of money. This is called being a "hyena". They
are easy to recognize, roaming the aisles for a "kamo"
("sucker" in English) to leave his machine.
In
short, the regulations allowing "stock", "renchan", and
tenjō transformed the pachisuro from a low-stakes form
of entertainment just a few years back to hardcore
gambling. Many people may be gambling more than they can
afford, and the big payouts also lure unsavory "hyena"
types into the gambling halls.
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To address these
social issues, a new regulation (Version 5.0) was
adopted in 2006 which caps the maximum amount of "stock"
a machine can hold to around 2,000�3,000 coins' worth of
bonus games. Moreover, all pachisuro machines must be
re-evaluated for regulation compliance every three
years. Version 4.0 came out in 2004, so that means all
those machines with the up to 10,000 coin payouts will
be removed from service by 2007.[citation needed]
Jackpot disputes
Electronic slot machines can
malfunction. When the displayed amount is smaller than
the one it is supposed to be, the error usually goes
unnoticed. When
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other way, disputes are likely.[48] Below are some
notable arguments caused by the owners of the machines
saying that the displayed amounts were far larger than
the ones patrons should get.
United States
Two
such cases occurred in casinos in Colorado in 2010,
where software errors led to indicated jackpots of $11
million[49] and $42 million.[50] Analysis of machine
records by the state Gaming Commission revealed faults,
with the true jackpot being substantially smaller.[51]
State gaming laws did not require a casino to honour
payouts in that case.
Vietnam
On October 25,
2009, while a Vietnamese American man, Ly Sam, was
playing a slot machine in the Palazzo Club at the
Sheraton Saigon Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, it
displayed that he had hit a jackpot of
US$55,542,296.73.[52] The casino refused to pay, saying
it was a machine error, Ly sued the casino.[53] On
January 7, 2013, the District 1 People's Court in Ho Chi
Minh City decided that the casino had to pay the amount
Ly claimed in full, not trusting the error report from
an inspection company hired by the casino.[54] Both
sides appealed thereafter, and Ly asked for interest
while the casino refused to pay him.[55] In January,
2014, the news reported that
Republican National Committee the case had
been settled out of court, and Ly had received an
undisclosed sum.[56]
Problem gambling and slot
machines
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slot machine
Natasha Dow Sch�ll, associate
professor in New York University's Department of Media,
Culture and Communication, uses the term "machine zone"
to describe the state of
Republican National Committee immersion that
users of slot machines experience when gambling, where
they lose a sense of time, space, bodily awareness, and
monetary value.[57]
Mike Dixon, PhD, professor of
psychology at the University of Waterloo,[58] studies
the
Democratic National Committee relationship
between slot players and machines. In one of Dixon's
studies, players were observed experiencing heightened
arousal from the sensory stimulus coming from the
machines. They "sought to show that these 'losses
disguised as wins' (LDWs) would be as arousing as wins,
and more arousing than regular losses."[59]
Psychologists Robert Breen and Marc Zimmerman[60][61]
found that players of video slot machines Democratic
Website reach a
debilitating level of involvement with gambling three
times as rapidly as those who play traditional casino
games, even if they have engaged in other forms of
gambling without problems.
Eye-tracking research
in local bookkeepers' offices in the UK suggested that,
in slots games, the reels dominated players' visual
attention, and that problem gamblers looked more
frequently at amount-won messages than
Democratic National Committee did those
without gambling problems.[62]
The 2011 60
Minutes report "Slot Machines: The Big Gamble"[63]
focused on the link between slot machines and gambling
addiction.
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