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Speaker 1: Sitting across from me as always a senior writer, Jonathan Strickland.
Speaker 1: Hey there you high roller you. Yes, today we're going
Speaker 1: to take a gamble and I see what you did there.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Yes, I made a jokey joke. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about slot machines today. Actually high rolling really doesn't
Speaker 1: have anything to do with it, but I needed something there.
Speaker 1: So here's a quick question. Have you ever Have you
Speaker 1: ever played a slot machine, like an actual standing up
Speaker 1: thing with a lever on the side of it, a
Speaker 1: real life, for real Z slot machine. Yes, no, you
Speaker 1: have not. No. I have played video game slot machines
Speaker 1: on my computer and my portable devices, but not for
Speaker 1: money in a casino somewhere. I'm even in a non
Speaker 1: casino I've played. I've played pachinko before, I have played
Speaker 1: slot machines. Um, it's uh now grad the slot machines
Speaker 1: I've played. Were the more um, the more modern ones
Speaker 1: slot of your machines, Yeah, the ones that are not
Speaker 1: dependent upon mechanical operation but on electrical or computerized actually
Speaker 1: all of them are computerized operation. Um. But but we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk a little bit about all the different kinds
Speaker 1: of slot machines, not just the not just the computerized ones.
Speaker 1: So for those of you who have never seen one
Speaker 1: or don't know what we're talking about, the slot machine
Speaker 1: is a gambling machine. And uh, typically a slot machine has,
Speaker 1: especially the physical ones have three or more reels upon
Speaker 1: which our pictures and the pictures could be anything, but
Speaker 1: you know, the stereotypical one has like lemons and liberty bell,
Speaker 1: Liberty bell cherries a bar, you know, and when three
Speaker 1: of those pictures line up, or there's some interesting configuration
Speaker 1: of those pictures, you win money. Uh And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: you might wonder what's the connection between the pictures and
Speaker 1: the cash. And that gets really interesting, particularly when we
Speaker 1: talk about the modern slot machines that are in casinos today.
Speaker 1: But to start, we should probably talk about, you know,
Speaker 1: why do slot machines even exist. Well, they're really for
Speaker 1: the casual gamer. It's funny to think about because uh,
Speaker 1: you know, our our audience is probably thinking of casual
Speaker 1: games is something like Bejewel, the match three type games
Speaker 1: or Marble shooting games. There are several different variations of
Speaker 1: those versus uh, you know, the the role playing games
Speaker 1: or the first person shooters. But it replies to two
Speaker 1: games in real life too. In terms of casinos. When
Speaker 1: we're talking about serious gaming, we're talking about the card
Speaker 1: games that require strategy, um tables, craps tables, yeah, anything
Speaker 1: that has sort of a high barrier really, because they
Speaker 1: can be very intimidating to a person who's never played before.
Speaker 1: You walk up and you're like, I don't understand. There's
Speaker 1: so many things going on with this and so many rules.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure where to start or what's going on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll admit, you know, that's one of the reasons I
Speaker 1: don't play poker. It's not because not just because I'm
Speaker 1: a terrible liar, but I can never remember which hand
Speaker 1: is which. I know you know that there are certain combos,
Speaker 1: but I don't remember where they rank in terms of
Speaker 1: which one is higher than others. And high card pair
Speaker 1: three of a kind to pair. No, I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: not going to go through the whole thing. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's there's Yeah, you have to know something
Speaker 1: about gambling if you want to go to the craps
Speaker 1: table or if you want to, uh to play high
Speaker 1: stakes poker, but you really don't have to know that
Speaker 1: much to play a slot machine. You put you put
Speaker 1: a coin in the machine, uh, you pull the handle
Speaker 1: on the reels click into place, and you either win
Speaker 1: or you don't. And and there are two things that
Speaker 1: make that game very attractive to people who might otherwise
Speaker 1: not gamble. One is that it's easy. Like you said,
Speaker 1: it's it's there's not much to it. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: and it's got a nice attractive sort of appeal to
Speaker 1: it in that when it wins, it's a very visceral experience, right,
Speaker 1: Like there's bells going off and coins are falling, and
Speaker 1: it's a great, you know way of attracting attention. Well, hey,
Speaker 1: you know that's that's one of those things too. I
Speaker 1: mean when you win, when you really win and the
Speaker 1: bells go off in the lights flash, everybody around you
Speaker 1: knows that you won, so everybody turns around to look
Speaker 1: at you, and there's that thing of hey, awesome, and
Speaker 1: the second big attraction to it is that has a
Speaker 1: very low betting point for you know, typical machines do Anyway,
Speaker 1: you can find machines that have much higher requirements, like
Speaker 1: a hundred dollars per play, but the vast majority of
Speaker 1: them tend to be cents, fifty cents, maybe a dollar
Speaker 1: and uh. And so if when when each individual bet
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be huge, it attracts the kind of
Speaker 1: gamers who would be otherwise disinclined to play a game
Speaker 1: where it's you know, twenty five bucks per play, especially
Speaker 1: when they don't fully understand the rules, so they and
Speaker 1: and it's turned out that these things have become huge
Speaker 1: money makers for casinos. There was a report. We have
Speaker 1: a great article on How Stuff Works about how slot
Speaker 1: machines work. I really do highly recommend this because animations, illustrations,
Speaker 1: it's it's an exhaustive approach to how slot machines work.
Speaker 1: And uh. In that article, it's revealed that something like
Speaker 1: sixty of gaming profits in the United States stem from
Speaker 1: slot machines. And when we get to the point where
Speaker 1: we talk about payback percentages, that amount of money is
Speaker 1: going to blow your mind. Yeah, and and those things
Speaker 1: are changing too as as we speak, because there have
Speaker 1: been recent developments in the slot machine. I know you're
Speaker 1: you're going really they've changed slot machines. How how changed
Speaker 1: can they be? They're changing them to where people think
Speaker 1: that they're going to pay even more in the future.
Speaker 1: But what we can get into that in a moment,
Speaker 1: So let's start about talking about how they work. Will
Speaker 1: eventually get into things like the odds that are involved
Speaker 1: with the slot machine, and also the payback percentages, because
Speaker 1: that's that's the part that the player really is interested in,
Speaker 1: in the sense of, uh, what what's the likelihood that
Speaker 1: I'll ever win money using a slot machine. I'll even
Speaker 1: give you tips on how to pick the right slot machine,
Speaker 1: because I'm I'm I'm that kind of guy. Well, I
Speaker 1: would say there are four basic types of slot machines.
Speaker 1: This is This is just me making I didn't take
Speaker 1: these four from somebody else. So I would say the
Speaker 1: first one would be the purely mechanical machine. Yes, this
Speaker 1: is the the old slot machine, the original slot machines
Speaker 1: that used mechanical gears and levers to execute its function. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: those showed up in uh in the eighteen eighties. Yeah,
Speaker 1: um or eighteen hundreds. Anyway, late eighteen hundreds and um,
Speaker 1: you know that they name evolved into an electrical or
Speaker 1: or electronic slot machines where these mechanical elements are working
Speaker 1: in tandem with electronics to help control things. And then
Speaker 1: you have the you know, a digital slot machine where
Speaker 1: the pictures are now on screens rather than reels. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can also have a digital slot machine that still
Speaker 1: uses reels. Uh, it's just it's, um, the all the
Speaker 1: workings are behind the scenes digital, but the ones that
Speaker 1: you know, what you're looking as a physical representation, it
Speaker 1: looks like an analog system because you've got these physical
Speaker 1: reels rolling around. But that's you know, that's really just
Speaker 1: for show. It's really just to show you what the
Speaker 1: final result of your spin was. And now I think
Speaker 1: we're moving into the completely computerized version of the machines. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, let's start with the mechanical one, because I
Speaker 1: think in a way to me, that one there's the
Speaker 1: most fascinating simply because it's got uh gears and and
Speaker 1: police and brand and there's a block and tackle and
Speaker 1: there's a little man inside. Yeah, there's a little a
Speaker 1: little bearded man. I need to check my notes. I
Speaker 1: think I think I think we realized that in a
Speaker 1: previous podcast that all technology in the nineteenth century was
Speaker 1: ultimately powered by bearded old men. That was the mechanical turk. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was our Fax podcast. So we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: the mechanical ones. Yeah, if you were to open up
Speaker 1: a mechanical slot machine, first of all, don't do it
Speaker 1: in a casino, because that will get you in trouble. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you even look like you're going to mess with
Speaker 1: the slot machines there, well they were, they were watching
Speaker 1: you when he walked in. Very large people will come
Speaker 1: and very very firmly but gently suggest you high tail
Speaker 1: it out of there. But no, if you were to
Speaker 1: open up a mechanical slot machine, you would see the reels. Now,
Speaker 1: those are those, the spinning elements that have all the
Speaker 1: pictures on them are connected to a metal shaft and
Speaker 1: it's the central metal cheft supports the reels and allows
Speaker 1: them to spin. Uh and not that kind of shaft
Speaker 1: what you're talking about, so um just talking about I
Speaker 1: can take it. So these the reels are actually connected
Speaker 1: to some notched disks, and these notch discs are what
Speaker 1: allow the reels to spin around the the the shaft,
Speaker 1: the shaft the and it also stops the reels from spinning.
Speaker 1: And I'll get into that in a minute. But anyway,
Speaker 1: it's got notches. Kind of think about how a bicycle
Speaker 1: wheel when you look at the central part of the wheel,
Speaker 1: it has those notches where the chain uh connects and
Speaker 1: pulls the wheel, so it turns the wheel, you know
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. So it's same sort of thing. Now
Speaker 1: that main shift shaft has a there's a secondary cheft
Speaker 1: that has something on it called a kicker. Know. This
Speaker 1: kicker is an element that that hits these uh these
Speaker 1: notched disks and gets the reels to spinning. And the
Speaker 1: kicker is actually attached to a spring. So when you
Speaker 1: put a coin into a slot machine, a coin detector
Speaker 1: first of all realizes that you put a coin in.
Speaker 1: Hey there's a coin, yeah, because otherwise you could operate
Speaker 1: the slot machine whether you had put a coin in
Speaker 1: or not, which would be not profitable at all to
Speaker 1: the casino. Also, if you want, nothing would come out
Speaker 1: because people would have been playing that already. But it
Speaker 1: releases a break that's on that level, right, So the
Speaker 1: brake gets released and once the break is released, you
Speaker 1: can pull the lever down. This is these are the
Speaker 1: old old we're talking about the purely mechanical slot machines.
Speaker 1: Now that that pulls a hook, that pulls back the kicker,
Speaker 1: and that compresses a spring, so once the hook moves
Speaker 1: past a certain point, it releases the kicker. The spring
Speaker 1: makes the kicker move forward, and the kicker hits those
Speaker 1: notches that are attached to the reels, that makes the
Speaker 1: reels begin to spin. Now, also attached to that kicker
Speaker 1: are three stoppers. And the stoppers are these these uh,
Speaker 1: these these pieces of material that can go into the
Speaker 1: notches and stop the reel from spinning. It's like putting
Speaker 1: a stick through a spoke in a bike tire as
Speaker 1: it's spinning. It's gonna make the the bike tire stop spinning.
Speaker 1: It is not. However, unlike the documentary Indiana Jones and
Speaker 1: the Last Crusade going to cause you to flip forward,
Speaker 1: I was going to say, don't try that at home
Speaker 1: unless your insurance is paid. Happen and you you don't
Speaker 1: hold us responsible for whatever happened. There was actually a
Speaker 1: great episode of MythBusters where they showed that that particular
Speaker 1: stunt would not be possible that it would not make
Speaker 1: you flip forward. It would make you crash, but it
Speaker 1: wouldn't make you flip. Uh. So anyway, Yeah, the stoppers
Speaker 1: insert into the notches and stop the reels and the
Speaker 1: old mechanical ones. This was all purely by chance. The
Speaker 1: way that these stoppers would come in, and uh, the
Speaker 1: way that you would find out if you want, is
Speaker 1: that certain notches within that notched disk are deeper than others.
Speaker 1: All right, So if the first stopper happens to go
Speaker 1: into one of these deep notches, that deep notch corresponds
Speaker 1: with a jackpot symbol on the reel, So that real
Speaker 1: stops and then you get one of the jackpot symbols.
Speaker 1: So let's say it's a seven. That's a very common one.
Speaker 1: So seven stops, yes, awesome, Well, that particular stopper moves
Speaker 1: a little bit to the left, and the second stopper
Speaker 1: inserts into a notch. Now, if the second stopper inserts
Speaker 1: into the second jackpot notch, the second one with the seven,
Speaker 1: that's again a deeper notch, it moves a little bit
Speaker 1: to the left, and then you see that a second
Speaker 1: seven has stopped and you think, oh, gay, so close,
Speaker 1: and then the third stopper inserts. Now, if the third
Speaker 1: stopper inserts into the jackpot slot again, it's a little
Speaker 1: further in than the other notches. Uh, the the third
Speaker 1: and final seven shows up and you think I win.
Speaker 1: And meanwhile, the stoppers also connected to a little lever
Speaker 1: system that opens up a trap door where all the
Speaker 1: coins are, and then the coins fall through the trap
Speaker 1: door and land in your hot little gambling hands. But
Speaker 1: we're all over the floor. We're all over the floor.
Speaker 1: So if however, any of those stoppers hit a different notch,
Speaker 1: they will not go so far in as to allow
Speaker 1: that that doorway, that trap door to open. And so, uh,
Speaker 1: anything that is not a jackpot would not pay out.
Speaker 1: And you could have different systems, uh, you know, different
Speaker 1: levels of complexity for your your standard slot machine. But
Speaker 1: the old, old old slot machines essentially had one payout
Speaker 1: ability and that was it. And if it didn't land
Speaker 1: end on just that configuration, then it would just keep
Speaker 1: your money and you have to keep playing. Yeah. Now, um,
Speaker 1: we were talking about casual games. These how these being
Speaker 1: casual games. The very first slot machines actually used the
Speaker 1: symbols for playing cards on the three reels UM. The
Speaker 1: idea of being that it was a system that people
Speaker 1: understood and probably would feel familiar with. UM. But it
Speaker 1: was a guy named Charles Faye who who came up
Speaker 1: with a machine called the Liberty Bell and he added
Speaker 1: a symbol of the Liberty bell um UM and that
Speaker 1: was it was sort of an experiment, really, Uh. He
Speaker 1: was trying to see if this would catch on, if
Speaker 1: they could use symbols instead of the traditional playing cards,
Speaker 1: and as it turned out, it was very, very popular,
Speaker 1: and that's one of the reasons why they moved to
Speaker 1: the symbol version of this UM. And he also introduced
Speaker 1: some other, uh, some other innovations too about the way
Speaker 1: it would work UM. But Stephen mill In nine also
Speaker 1: added more symbols and UM also worked on making it smaller.
Speaker 1: And uh you know, as time has gone on, they
Speaker 1: have become easier to put into casinos in other places. UM.
Speaker 1: Jonathan and I went to uh UM Hotel and and
Speaker 1: c E s in two thousand and eight, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the hotel was sort of like any other hotel,
Speaker 1: except of course it had slot machines. Is the in
Speaker 1: the waiting area and I was thinking, wow, you know,
Speaker 1: they'll put these things anywhere at ye, the airport too,
Speaker 1: but they're they're smaller and easier to fit, you know.
Speaker 1: And then it's sort of like computers. They over time
Speaker 1: they figured out ways to make them more refined and
Speaker 1: easier to to shrink down. There's a particular slot machine
Speaker 1: in the Vegas airport and I can't even remember. I
Speaker 1: just remember every time I go there, I hear the
Speaker 1: same phrase over and over because I'm always the wheel
Speaker 1: of fortune machine? Is it? There is wheel of Fortune,
Speaker 1: which I do hear over and over, but there's another
Speaker 1: one that has like a like an old prospector type voice,
Speaker 1: like that kind of thing, and it just goes over
Speaker 1: and over and over again. And the problem is that
Speaker 1: I always get to the airport well in advance of
Speaker 1: when my plane is leading, so I get to listen
Speaker 1: to it until I am ready to um to to
Speaker 1: to screen like a crazy person, which by the way,
Speaker 1: I do not recommend you do in an airport, uh,
Speaker 1: particularly in an airport in Las Vegas. Gonna say, how
Speaker 1: did you find that out? Anyway? Moving on, so so anyway, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's so, that's that's the mechanical one. They're literally gears
Speaker 1: and levers that stop the reels, and those reels do
Speaker 1: correspond with payoffs and uh, it all has to do
Speaker 1: with the actual physical um uh components. Now, once you
Speaker 1: move on a little bit, it gets a little more complicated.
Speaker 1: The first electrical systems were not that different from the
Speaker 1: mechanical ones, right the but instead of having these physical
Speaker 1: stoppers go in two notches and that determine whether or
Speaker 1: not a trap door opened, they would detect an electrical connection.
Speaker 1: So the the notched wheel or the wheel that's connected
Speaker 1: to the reels has little electrical contacts on it, and
Speaker 1: when the contacts line up in a certain way, they
Speaker 1: create a circuit. And depending upon the circuit, that tells
Speaker 1: the machine if it's a payout or not a payout.
Speaker 1: And this is interesting to me because it reminds me
Speaker 1: a lot of the Enigma machine, because you think about
Speaker 1: the Enigma machine, which was it was a ciphering device, right,
Speaker 1: And the way the Enigma machine worked is that you
Speaker 1: would pick a certain letter, you would uh, you would
Speaker 1: set the reels of the Enigma machine to a very
Speaker 1: specific setting, which you know the person receiving the message
Speaker 1: would also have to do, and you would type in
Speaker 1: your message, and depending upon the way the connectors went,
Speaker 1: when you pressed say the letter A, then a metrical
Speaker 1: signal was sent to the first reel, goes in one
Speaker 1: side of that reel, uh comes out the other corresponding
Speaker 1: to a different letter, which goes into the second reel,
Speaker 1: That goes out of the second reel, corresponding to a
Speaker 1: different letter to the third reel. And so the ultimate
Speaker 1: letter that you would get from your cipher would be
Speaker 1: completely different from the letter you typed. And because there
Speaker 1: were so many combinations, it was really tricky to break
Speaker 1: that code. Well, the funny thing is that slot machines
Speaker 1: when they were using these electrical systems, were very similar.
Speaker 1: So an electrical current passes through one side of the reel.
Speaker 1: Let's say that it's a bar, and then the second
Speaker 1: one is also a bar. So the electrical current continues
Speaker 1: all the way through the first reel. The two contacts
Speaker 1: between the two reels are are touching one another, so
Speaker 1: then it continues on to the third reel, which is
Speaker 1: at a blank, so you have bar bar blank. It
Speaker 1: hits that third reel, there's no corresponding contact. The machine
Speaker 1: detects that it was a failed spin and you win
Speaker 1: no money or you win whatever it is that that
Speaker 1: two bars and and right there might be there might
Speaker 1: still be an electrical current. But then what would happen
Speaker 1: is it would be directed to a different sensor on
Speaker 1: the far side of this system, so that way, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, there might be one sensor that, when it's
Speaker 1: lit up, says this dude just made himself a pretty penny,
Speaker 1: And there might be another center sensor that says this
Speaker 1: dude just made some decent money, And there might be
Speaker 1: one So this dude needs to go and has some
Speaker 1: drinks at the bar because he has not one a
Speaker 1: darn scent And um, yeah, that's the that's essentially the
Speaker 1: electrical one. But other other than that, other than the
Speaker 1: the electrical component where it's trying to make that circuit,
Speaker 1: it was very similar to the mechanical one. Now, eventually
Speaker 1: you got to ones that would use an electric motor
Speaker 1: to spin the reels as opposed to the the the gears. Yeah,
Speaker 1: or the spring really I should say, because the kicker
Speaker 1: was spring loaded. Um, there was something else that that
Speaker 1: we didn't talk about as far as the basic functionality
Speaker 1: of slot machines. In general. Um, the wheels spin all
Speaker 1: the same time when you begin the game. However, they
Speaker 1: don't stop at the same time. If you've never seen
Speaker 1: a slot machine, you'll see the reels stop in order. So, uh, real,
Speaker 1: number one will stop and the other two are still spinning,
Speaker 1: and we all number two will stop, and so you
Speaker 1: have an idea. You know, you may have thought if
Speaker 1: you hadn't seen one of these when Jonathan was talking
Speaker 1: about the sevens popping up one after the other, Um,
Speaker 1: well you know, aren't they all stopping at the same time. No,
Speaker 1: they're not. So wheels one and two have stopped, but
Speaker 1: three is still spinning. What will it be? Yeah? It
Speaker 1: helps helps build suspense and it and it encourages people
Speaker 1: to keep playing. Yeah. You you might think that there
Speaker 1: was a mechanical reason for this. It's not. It's completely psychological. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's so that it will convince people to keep playing.
Speaker 1: For one thing, near missus can make a person determined
Speaker 1: to play longer. Right, So, something that looks like it
Speaker 1: you almost hit it, like you hit uh, you know,
Speaker 1: you almost hit three bars. You actually hit three blanks,
Speaker 1: but it's the three blanks directly above three bars, and
Speaker 1: you think I close, I just I gotta keep playing,
Speaker 1: and so yeah, it does keep people playing longer, which
Speaker 1: and we'll get into more about the psychological elements later.
Speaker 1: I thought near Mrs meant your wife was standing next
Speaker 1: to you. Your wife's over at the nickel slots. So
Speaker 1: next you have the photo electric cells version of UM
Speaker 1: of a slot machine. Now this is similar to the
Speaker 1: electrical detection systems, but instead of an electrical circuit, what
Speaker 1: happens is the little um notched wheels. Instead of being
Speaker 1: notched wheels, they have uh. These discs have little holes
Speaker 1: in them, and a light source shines from one side
Speaker 1: of the slot machine inside the slot machine. You can't
Speaker 1: see it from the outside, but shines through, and if
Speaker 1: the real alls are lined up properly, then a sensor
Speaker 1: on the other side of the slot machine detects it
Speaker 1: and that's what lets the slot machine know whether or
Speaker 1: not to give a payout. So of course, if the
Speaker 1: discs are not aligned quite right, then no light is
Speaker 1: going to be passing through and that ends up being
Speaker 1: a miss, and so or it could be a hit.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you had it where all the different
Speaker 1: positions had light except the one winning position, you could
Speaker 1: have that be the hit. It all depends on, you know,
Speaker 1: the actual manufacturer. But the the vast majority of slot
Speaker 1: machines you will run into today, assuming you're not going
Speaker 1: through like some sort of museum or curiosity type thing,
Speaker 1: are computerized slot machines. And these are absolutely fascinating to
Speaker 1: me because ultimately the mechanical elements of this device, all
Speaker 1: the motors, the reels, the spinning, have nothing to do
Speaker 1: with whether or not you win or lose. In other words,
Speaker 1: the old mc chanical one, the notches corresponded with those
Speaker 1: those pictures that you saw on the reels, and so
Speaker 1: in a way you could say, the way that the
Speaker 1: pictures line up determine whether or not you won, But
Speaker 1: the computerized ones, the the whether you won or lost
Speaker 1: is determined the moment you press a button or pull lever.
Speaker 1: And and here's why. Well, yeah, I mean it's really
Speaker 1: the pictures are just for the people. Yeah, The pictures
Speaker 1: really just tell you kind of there. The pictures are
Speaker 1: just a physical representation of what the result was of
Speaker 1: when you press the button or pulled the lever. The
Speaker 1: secret is random number generators. And we've talked about random
Speaker 1: number generators and how they're not. Yeah, we did a
Speaker 1: full episode on random number generators. It turns out it's
Speaker 1: really hard to build a true random number generator because
Speaker 1: computers depend upon algorithms, and algorithms have set rules, and
Speaker 1: when you have set rules, it's really hard to create
Speaker 1: something that's random. You can create something that is complex,
Speaker 1: and you might have a very long, long, long string
Speaker 1: of results that appear to be non repeating, but if
Speaker 1: you were to go long enough, you might start picking
Speaker 1: up patterns. There are random number generator systems that depend
Speaker 1: very much on outside systems that we do not control.
Speaker 1: Therefore they feel more random. For example, there are random
Speaker 1: number generators that generate numbers based upon weather conditions. So
Speaker 1: depending upon the barometric pressure and the temperature and things
Speaker 1: of that nature, a number will be generated. And because
Speaker 1: we don't necessarily have control over that, it's a very
Speaker 1: chaotic system and the numbers are it sounds weird, but
Speaker 1: more random than others. Well, and you wouldn't necessarily know
Speaker 1: it in the in the bowels of a casino because
Speaker 1: they don't have any windows, right, Yeah, it's very most
Speaker 1: of them. That's very important. No windows, no clocks, the
Speaker 1: so the the way these systems work is they generate
Speaker 1: a random number through some means, and the number tends
Speaker 1: to be huge, like within the billions. In most cases,
Speaker 1: your odds are not exactly stellar. Well, it has nothing
Speaker 1: that doesn't really have a whole lot to do with it,
Speaker 1: and I'll explain why. But you you got this random
Speaker 1: number which is generated the moment you press the button
Speaker 1: or pull the lever. So you put a coin into
Speaker 1: this machine, you push the button, you have either one
Speaker 1: or lost already. The reels that are spinning, that's just
Speaker 1: for show because you the machine already knows if you
Speaker 1: won or lost, because what happens is it's constantly generating
Speaker 1: these random numbers. And the lever is also just for show.
Speaker 1: These days, you don't need a lever, no, that's why
Speaker 1: they they have buttons. Most people I see like this,
Speaker 1: the quote unquote serious gamblers just press the button like
Speaker 1: they'll they'll just load up the slot machine with credits
Speaker 1: and then you just start pressing the button to stop things.
Speaker 1: But the way it works is that it has this
Speaker 1: big random number and then it divides that random number
Speaker 1: by some other number, and it all depends on what
Speaker 1: the machine is, who the manufacturer is what the number
Speaker 1: is tends to be some sort of factor of of
Speaker 1: like sixteen sixty four or something like that, and uh,
Speaker 1: you end up dividing the number by that. You know
Speaker 1: that you divide the random number by the non random number.
Speaker 1: It's always you're always dividing by that. You take the
Speaker 1: remainder and then you apply that remainder to a virtual reel.
Speaker 1: So it's it's like the physical reels in that it
Speaker 1: has a certain number of slots if you will, but
Speaker 1: it doesn't there's no physical representation of it. This virtual
Speaker 1: reel is mapped to the payouts. And so let's say
Speaker 1: that it lands on on real number UM fourteen, and
Speaker 1: then through connecting all that through this stem, it could say,
Speaker 1: all right, well, when it's on fourteen, that is a
Speaker 1: payout of five to one. So if you put a
Speaker 1: dollar in, you won five dollars. Ah. That's essentially how
Speaker 1: it works. Now that virtual reel could be pretty large
Speaker 1: and could be mapped to the physical reels in UM
Speaker 1: in a very kind of convoluted way, and ultimately you're
Speaker 1: going to be able to assign more of those notches
Speaker 1: in the virtual reel. Two misses in the what what
Speaker 1: looks like mrs in the physical reels. So in other words, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, if you've got sixty four actually I little
Speaker 1: we'll say thirty two. Let's say you've got thirty two
Speaker 1: slots in this virtual reel, you could make sure that
Speaker 1: h twenty of them go to mrs outright, So then
Speaker 1: you have the twelve that are going to go to
Speaker 1: some sort of hit. And then out of those twelve
Speaker 1: of those go to really low payouts, all right, and
Speaker 1: then now the six remaining three of those go to
Speaker 1: medium payouts. And now the three remaining two of those
Speaker 1: go to larger payouts, and one goes to jackpot. So
Speaker 1: in other words, you've got a lot more geared toward
Speaker 1: the geared toward the misses than the hits. And that's
Speaker 1: a very simplified way of saying it. Because the virtual
Speaker 1: reel actually adds way more options for the casino because
Speaker 1: you you would have a virtual reel for each physical reel,
Speaker 1: then you you suddenly made that much more complicated. In fact,
Speaker 1: the odds of hitting the jackpot can be in the
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands, like around two almost like two hundred
Speaker 1: fifty thousand to one, like you would have to play
Speaker 1: you know, a quarter of a million times before you
Speaker 1: would necessarily not necessarily hit it. But I mean that's
Speaker 1: just your odds, Like your odds are two hundred forty
Speaker 1: nine thousand times out of you will not hit the jackpot, right, So, uh,
Speaker 1: it's a good thing, a good way to think about
Speaker 1: it if you're going in and playing these games. And
Speaker 1: that's just one version of it. I mean, it all
Speaker 1: depends on how many slots this virtual reel has. That
Speaker 1: determines what and how many of those are geared towards losses.
Speaker 1: That's what determines the odds. So the funny thing is
Speaker 1: that means that all those reels that are spinning. This
Speaker 1: also applies for video slot machines. By the way, all
Speaker 1: those reels they are spinning is just for show. Has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with whether or not you won or lost.
Speaker 1: Uh so uh there there. That's really again that psychological
Speaker 1: element that draws people into play. What depends what what
Speaker 1: determines it is the random number. And there's because it's random,
Speaker 1: and because it's generating millions of numbers over the course
Speaker 1: of a second, there's no way to know when to
Speaker 1: press the button or pull the lever because there's no
Speaker 1: way to predict that random number is going to hit
Speaker 1: the right number for you to get a payoff. On
Speaker 1: top of that, every single spin is random, Like every
Speaker 1: every single second that goes by, you've got all these
Speaker 1: random numbers being generated. So hitting a jackpot on a
Speaker 1: machine doesn't mean that that machine is not going to
Speaker 1: pay out for another you know, month or three months
Speaker 1: or year whatever. That has nothing to do with it,
Speaker 1: just like losing and a spin doesn't mean that your
Speaker 1: next spin is more likely to win. It's random, so
Speaker 1: you have just as equal a chance to win or
Speaker 1: not win on each subsequent spin. It also means that
Speaker 1: if you were to ever hit this and it does
Speaker 1: that thing where the payout line, we didn't even talk
Speaker 1: about payout lines. A payoutline is a line that goes
Speaker 1: a physical line, usually although on video it's a it's
Speaker 1: represented by a graphic, but it's a line that goes
Speaker 1: across us the slot machine indicating this is where the
Speaker 1: symbol needs to be in order for you to win.
Speaker 1: All right, So on one of these computerized machines, when
Speaker 1: the reel stop and the bar bar bar is just
Speaker 1: above the payoutline, that has nothing to do with anything like,
Speaker 1: it looks like you were close, but that it's meaningless. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's only if they were all three on the payout line.
Speaker 1: That would just indicate that that random number it was
Speaker 1: in your favor on that particular play. So in other words,
Speaker 1: you have that psychological kick to keep playing because you
Speaker 1: were so close. But when you're talking about random numbers,
Speaker 1: close doesn't mean anything. So uh, that's that's the basic
Speaker 1: way that these things work. Now, that doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: there aren't odds and there aren't ways to improve your odds. Um.
Speaker 1: So for example, uh, if if you're if you're real,
Speaker 1: virtual real is one is sixty for slots long here's
Speaker 1: the actual number I fin finally found it, two hundred.
Speaker 1: Your odds of winning the jackpot are one and two,
Speaker 1: assuming that jackpot is assigned only one entry in those
Speaker 1: virtual reels. Uh, that's that's not great. But each slot
Speaker 1: machine has something called a payback percentage. Payback percentage tells
Speaker 1: you how much money a machine is going to pay
Speaker 1: back to the player over the course of the machines lifetime.
Speaker 1: So you might think, well, what's the percentage? Because a
Speaker 1: lot of the games in in Vegas and in Atlantic
Speaker 1: City and other places where gambling is legal are notoriously
Speaker 1: weighted towards the house as they as they have to be,
Speaker 1: because otherwise the house wouldn't exist. There wouldn't be a
Speaker 1: business if it weren't profitable. So a lot of the
Speaker 1: games you'll you'll play in a casino are weighted so
Speaker 1: that the house wins more frequently than it loses, so
Speaker 1: it makes money well. Slot machines the payback percentage usually
Speaker 1: there's a legal threshold that they must meet, which could
Speaker 1: be anything around seventy for example, So it says that
Speaker 1: seventy five percent the money that you pay into a
Speaker 1: machine will be paid out over its lifetime. Um most
Speaker 1: machines in in gambling institutions, especially places like in Vegas,
Speaker 1: are much higher than that, like or higher, meaning nine
Speaker 1: percent of the money paid into them gets paid out
Speaker 1: over the course of that machine's life. It sounds like
Speaker 1: great odds, right, and why you would think why is
Speaker 1: that even? Why would you even have it that high? Well,
Speaker 1: if you if you lowered those payback percentages, if you
Speaker 1: had machines that had lower percentages, then people would realize
Speaker 1: that your machines don't pay out as frequently. That's called
Speaker 1: tight machine is playing tight if it doesn't do a
Speaker 1: lot of payouts. Well, if Bob's casino down the street
Speaker 1: has loose slots, meaning that they pay out more frequently,
Speaker 1: you're gonna go down to Bob's. You're not gonna waste
Speaker 1: time at this other casino where all the slot machines
Speaker 1: are tight, right, I mean, why would you? So? In
Speaker 1: order to be competitive, these casinos tend to have payout
Speaker 1: percentages that are at or higher. Now I need to
Speaker 1: stress this. That does not mean that you will win
Speaker 1: of the time you play. What that means is, over
Speaker 1: the course of its life, of the money it it
Speaker 1: takes in will be put back out to players. That
Speaker 1: could mean that you walk up to a slot machine,
Speaker 1: dollar slot machine. Let's say, and you play that dollar
Speaker 1: slot machine ninety times and you don't win anything, and
Speaker 1: you walk off, and someone else comes up and plays
Speaker 1: that dollar slot machine ten times and on the tenth
Speaker 1: one they win ninety dollars. Well they just that's so
Speaker 1: that nine could be paid out in small payouts, small
Speaker 1: wins or big jackpots, and uh it's and it's again,
Speaker 1: it's like an average over the lifetime of a machine.
Speaker 1: So on any given day, a machine might be playing
Speaker 1: a little tight or a little loose, because again it's
Speaker 1: depending upon random numbers. Uh. And the way you adjust
Speaker 1: those percentages is again those virtual reels I was talking about.
Speaker 1: If more of the virtual reels correspond to winning combinations,
Speaker 1: then the machine will be looser than a machine that
Speaker 1: has fewer winning combinations. Well, you can't tell that as
Speaker 1: a person just standing there looking at a machine. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's no way of knowing whether or not the virtual
Speaker 1: reels within this machine are favoring you or not. So
Speaker 1: so that's that's the real trick. But there are little
Speaker 1: hints I can give you to help increase your chances
Speaker 1: of winning if if you want to, if you want
Speaker 1: to hear them, sure, However, keep in mind that your
Speaker 1: mileage may vary. Yes, these are all generalities, nothing specific,
Speaker 1: and you need to keep in mind that there. First
Speaker 1: of all, there is no system that will let you
Speaker 1: win at a particular slot machine because it's dependent upon
Speaker 1: random numbers, and when you have a random number, generator
Speaker 1: systems do not apply. So if you've ever heard about
Speaker 1: a surefire system, no fail system for winning at a
Speaker 1: slot machine, it's uh, it's a it's probably safety bullpucky
Speaker 1: is a good phrase to use to describe that. Um. However,
Speaker 1: there are approaches you can take to playing slot machines
Speaker 1: that will increase your odds of winning. First of all,
Speaker 1: in general, and all again, all of these are generalities,
Speaker 1: not rules, so there are exceptions. In general, the higher
Speaker 1: the amount of money to play the slot machine, the
Speaker 1: higher the payback percentages. So a nickel slot machine might
Speaker 1: have a payout, and a quarter slot machine might have
Speaker 1: ninety two, and a fifty cent might have ninety four,
Speaker 1: and a dollar might be or five dollar might be
Speaker 1: nine or ninety seven. You can actually find machines with
Speaker 1: payout percentages of up to So here's the other thing, though,
Speaker 1: once you get over five dollars, then the percentage jumps
Speaker 1: are smaller. So in other words, the jump from a
Speaker 1: nickel to twenty five cents might be fairly significant, but
Speaker 1: by the time you get to five dollars, the jump
Speaker 1: from five dollars to say a hundred dollars would not
Speaker 1: be as significant. So uh, it's still better than the
Speaker 1: the lower priced slot machines, and that the payback percentage
Speaker 1: is higher, but it's not so much higher that you
Speaker 1: should just immediately go to the hundred dollar slots. So
Speaker 1: rule number one and again this is again rule in
Speaker 1: the sense of just general guideline, is to look for
Speaker 1: the slot machines that are going to be priced at
Speaker 1: a level that you feel comfortable with based upon the
Speaker 1: bank roll you bring in with you to play, but
Speaker 1: are the at the highest level of that that comfortable scale.
Speaker 1: So in other words, if you just want to play
Speaker 1: all day, the nickel slots are fine, You're just not
Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of payback on that. Um, if
Speaker 1: you have a bankroll that's a sizeable nature and you
Speaker 1: want to play five dollar slots, you are more likely
Speaker 1: to see a payback from those machines. It's not a guarantee. Second,
Speaker 1: UH machines tend to be looser in places where it's
Speaker 1: going to inspire other people to play. So for example,
Speaker 1: in high traffic areas, UH that's a good place to
Speaker 1: go because they are their places where people are are
Speaker 1: walking by frequently and it draws a lot of attention.
Speaker 1: If you see slot machines that are on like a
Speaker 1: raised uh diets, like like there's a little platform, there's
Speaker 1: like five or six slot machines up there that Yeah,
Speaker 1: those also tend to be a little more loose, and
Speaker 1: the ones that are in the middle of the casino,
Speaker 1: you want to find places that like our our near
Speaker 1: say a coffee bar or or just a bar. In general,
Speaker 1: those tend to be pretty good too, because again, people
Speaker 1: who are taking a break start hearing that and they
Speaker 1: want to start playing, So those tend to be a
Speaker 1: little looser than the ones in the rest of the casino.
Speaker 1: Places that are generally tighter include entrance ways because if
Speaker 1: the machines over toward the entrance are playing loose, people
Speaker 1: never really gravitate away. They never leave that entrance, so
Speaker 1: they're also likely to leave once they get to a
Speaker 1: certain point. So casinos don't want people to leave, so
Speaker 1: you need to you know, they're usually a little further in,
Speaker 1: but they're in further in towards high traffic areas. Also,
Speaker 1: restrooms not necessarily the best slot machines near restrooms, because uh,
Speaker 1: what happens there is that you might be with a
Speaker 1: group of people someone needs to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 1: So you think, oh, well, i'll learn in the bathroom.
Speaker 1: I'll just play the slot machine if times well, if
Speaker 1: you have you know, if you're gonna be there playing anyway,
Speaker 1: then you can make that slot machine play a little
Speaker 1: tighter because you know that people are gonna be playing
Speaker 1: it anyway because it happens to be near the restrooms.
Speaker 1: Um also anything that's close to other games. So if
Speaker 1: it's slot machines that are close to say, blackjack tables
Speaker 1: or roulette or craps, or it's slot machines that are
Speaker 1: close to, say a sports betting area, probably not geared
Speaker 1: to win as frequently because the casinos don't necessarily want
Speaker 1: attention pulled away from those games. So you want to
Speaker 1: find slot machines that are not close to other games,
Speaker 1: they're not close to restrooms, they are in high traffic areas,
Speaker 1: possibly near a coffee bar or just a bar, and uh,
Speaker 1: and try those, and try the higher denominations, the ones
Speaker 1: that are you're still comfortable with, but are higher denominations
Speaker 1: than saying nickel slots or quarter slots. The other rule
Speaker 1: is that, and again not really rule. The other guy
Speaker 1: line is that not all the machines in that area
Speaker 1: are going to play loose. So a good idea is
Speaker 1: to start playing a machine for a little while, and
Speaker 1: if it just feels like that machine is not playing
Speaker 1: loose at all. You may want to switch to a
Speaker 1: machine that's close by, because some machines in that area
Speaker 1: are going to be playing more loosely than others because
Speaker 1: they the casinos want people to win because it inspires
Speaker 1: more people to play. And keep in mind, even though
Speaker 1: you might walk away a huge winner, like even if
Speaker 1: somehow you beat those odds and you win one of
Speaker 1: those crazy jackpots, over the course of the life of
Speaker 1: that machine, the casino is going to keep. Or even
Speaker 1: if it's just two percent of the money that's put
Speaker 1: in there, that's money that's put in there by people
Speaker 1: like you, it's not money that the casino has put
Speaker 1: in there. So the masino, the casino is making money
Speaker 1: no matter why. So, so don't feel badly for them
Speaker 1: when you win a big jackpot, because the casino, the
Speaker 1: casino always wins in the end, always wins, and it's
Speaker 1: because we're the ones pouring the money into the casinos,
Speaker 1: not the casinos themselves. So those are the general rules.
Speaker 1: Um and again, you could even follow all these rules
Speaker 1: and you could be playing the smartest possible play and
Speaker 1: still not come back with anything. You could you know,
Speaker 1: lose your entire bank roll because it's again ultimately dependent
Speaker 1: upon those random number generators. These are just the ways
Speaker 1: to give you a little bit of an edge when
Speaker 1: you are playing slot machines. So there is no such
Speaker 1: thing as a no fail system. Uh and uh, your
Speaker 1: mileage may vary. As Chris did say earlier, right right now.
Speaker 1: Of course, going back to uh what Jonathan said about
Speaker 1: not feeling bad, slot machines pull in about a billion
Speaker 1: dollars a day in American casinos. So even when you're
Speaker 1: doing these big payoffs over the long run, because the
Speaker 1: slot machines are making casino's major bank. Now, when I
Speaker 1: was talking about the computerized slots, UM, this is something
Speaker 1: I didn't know about. Now there's a major company that
Speaker 1: makes slot machines. Uh. They're based in Nevada, believe it
Speaker 1: or not. UM. It's called International Game Technology, and they're
Speaker 1: they're pretty much considered, if not the leader, one of
Speaker 1: the very top leaders and making slot machines. UM. And
Speaker 1: we were talking about loose and type machines. While in
Speaker 1: the past, if you wanted to change the way a
Speaker 1: machine played, you had to actually get into it. You
Speaker 1: have to get a slot machine technician to come in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now you know electronic machines. You couldn't automatically control whether
Speaker 1: it was tight or loose. You had to go change
Speaker 1: the electronics in the guts of the machine. And if
Speaker 1: they started getting dated, well, that's that's sort of an
Speaker 1: older one we were We were just talking a minute ago,
Speaker 1: sort of inadvertently about how they have themed machines, which
Speaker 1: is pretty common. Properties, entertainment properties and different groups have
Speaker 1: sponsored machines, and there are themes that your people are
Speaker 1: familiar with. Pretty much pretty much like any major um
Speaker 1: property you can think of, there's probably a slot machine
Speaker 1: that that is tied to that property. And and for
Speaker 1: some people the entertainment factor of the slot machine is
Speaker 1: enough to keep them playing, even though even if they're
Speaker 1: not necessarily winning. Yeah, they might pick a machine that
Speaker 1: goes along with a TV show that they've watched for
Speaker 1: years or something like that. Um, you know, it's comfortable.
Speaker 1: But uh, I was reading an article in the Huffington
Speaker 1: Post by Ron Dicker who was talking about something that
Speaker 1: i GT is working on, and they are offering server
Speaker 1: based slot machines. So basically the machines themselves are generic
Speaker 1: and the casino would be able to control those machines
Speaker 1: and change, uh the designs on the reels. For example,
Speaker 1: the virtual reels to a different kind of of property,
Speaker 1: so they wouldn't have to replace the entire machine if
Speaker 1: you wanted to change from say a Wheel of Fortune
Speaker 1: machine to a Transformers machine. Yeah, I should add also,
Speaker 1: the virtual reels that Chris is talking about are the
Speaker 1: ones that you see as a player, but virtual slot
Speaker 1: machines also have the other kind of virtual reels that
Speaker 1: I was talking about, the ones that even the slot
Speaker 1: machines that have the physical reels, they also have the
Speaker 1: video slots also have virtual reels that correspond to that
Speaker 1: random number. This is important because when virtual slot machines
Speaker 1: first appeared on the scene, people were suspicious that perhaps
Speaker 1: these slot machines were fixed in some way, like there
Speaker 1: was a specific number of plays you would have to
Speaker 1: play before there was a payout. But that's not the case.
Speaker 1: They're based on random number generators, just like the machines
Speaker 1: that have the physical reels are um so there's no
Speaker 1: difference in the way they operate on that end. The
Speaker 1: only real difference is that you've got a screen showing
Speaker 1: you the symbols as opposed to physical reels. But the
Speaker 1: whether you win or lose is still based on that
Speaker 1: random number generator. And this makes sense when you think
Speaker 1: about it, because if a casino were to introduce a
Speaker 1: game that was fixed one, you might be able to
Speaker 1: figure out the system, so then you could gain the
Speaker 1: system and two people would not play those games because
Speaker 1: I mean, why would you play a game that's fixed.
Speaker 1: So so it doesn't not it does not make sense
Speaker 1: for a casino to employ a system that has uh,
Speaker 1: you know that that's that's fixed in its favor beyond
Speaker 1: just the way the odds work. Yeah, well, it sort
Speaker 1: of reminds me in a way of the the arcade
Speaker 1: machines that had difficulty settings. I've gone to uh to
Speaker 1: play a game in a convenience store that I played
Speaker 1: in a pizza part or parlor, and I found one
Speaker 1: played way easier than another. And it's simply because the
Speaker 1: difficulty settings are are you know, changed in that case.
Speaker 1: And it's it's very much like the tightening or loosening
Speaker 1: of a slot machine. They're not going to manipulate that
Speaker 1: on a game by game basis because there's there's no
Speaker 1: benefit in doing that. However, these new server machines will
Speaker 1: let them change the themes of of the machines, and
Speaker 1: they can also change things like the payouts, so they
Speaker 1: might change the clientele. For example, older people might play
Speaker 1: in the mornings, um, you know, because they go to
Speaker 1: bed earlier, and they might change uh to late night.
Speaker 1: They might change the casino machines to higher dollar amounts
Speaker 1: because a more mature theme. Right whenever, whenever the casino
Speaker 1: is going to be really busy, I would imagine that's
Speaker 1: when they would want to get to some of the
Speaker 1: higher payouts because it would mean that if you have
Speaker 1: someone hit that perfect random number, that the the the
Speaker 1: the big celebration would be so overwhelming and it would
Speaker 1: get the attention of a lot more people, thus inspiring
Speaker 1: more people to play. That. You know, you don't want
Speaker 1: someone hitting the mega jackpot when the casino is practically deserted,
Speaker 1: because then there's that advertising aspect is not part of it. Um. Also,
Speaker 1: there are games that are linked to one another where
Speaker 1: there's a shared jackpot, a progressive jackpot. In other words,
Speaker 1: the jackpot itself grows as more and more people play. Now,
Speaker 1: from what I understand, UH, the player who wants to
Speaker 1: try and increase their odds as best as possible probably
Speaker 1: should just go to the fixed jackpot machines um. And
Speaker 1: also if there is the option that most machines have
Speaker 1: this where you can play multiple credits at once, So
Speaker 1: in other words, instead of playing one dollar, you're playing
Speaker 1: three dollars on a spin, which would increase your jackpot.
Speaker 1: That's also a smart move. And while you could play uh,
Speaker 1: there are some games that allow you to have multiple
Speaker 1: pay lines, like that pay line is that that horizontal
Speaker 1: line that we talked about that goes across the the machine, right,
Speaker 1: you can sail when it lines up that you are
Speaker 1: getting credit for that particular real right. There are other
Speaker 1: machines that will allow you to play multiple play lines
Speaker 1: for multiple credits. So in other words, there might be diagonals.
Speaker 1: It might be even more convoluted than that with some
Speaker 1: of the video machines that I've seen, but in general
Speaker 1: that means such your payolts tend to be lower. So
Speaker 1: a lot of the advice I saw was multiple credits
Speaker 1: are good, multiple pay lines not so good if you're
Speaker 1: looking for significant payouts. And again keeping in mind no guarantees.
Speaker 1: You could walk into a casino, follow all the guidelines
Speaker 1: and still walk out penniless. So yeah, they say that, um,
Speaker 1: these these new machines with the server in the in
Speaker 1: the back end of the machines basically will increase the
Speaker 1: take from what you call them customers, sino goers, gamblers, um.
Speaker 1: But they also there are also people who are afraid
Speaker 1: that the gambling addiction that it may cause will also increase. Um.
Speaker 1: So keep in mind that these these games are very addictive. Um.
Speaker 1: And you know, if you're the kind of person that
Speaker 1: that that might fall for something like this and fall
Speaker 1: in love with playing it, you know, keep that in
Speaker 1: mind because, uh, the odds are that you will not
Speaker 1: end up a winner over time, especially if you find
Speaker 1: yourself on a warm summer's evening on a trainbound to nowhere.
Speaker 1: That's one of my favorite songs of all time, and
Speaker 1: I am not ashamed to admit it. Alright, So anyway, guys,
Speaker 1: all right, So that's that's slot machines, the general rules
Speaker 1: of how they work. And yeah, I feel like there
Speaker 1: were a lot of things that we didn't even we
Speaker 1: didn't even get to this fascinating. It's really cool. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, again, it's all about the long play. Casinos
Speaker 1: are all about the long play. In fact, it's interesting
Speaker 1: to me, when you look at businesses today, how many
Speaker 1: businesses are very much focused on the short term gain
Speaker 1: and how that can hurt a business sometimes if they
Speaker 1: focus on short term gain and they sacrifice long term consequences.
Speaker 1: Casinos have got it figured out, man. They are looking
Speaker 1: at that long play and they are making bank. Oh yes, guys,
Speaker 1: So I'm just saying there are there are very solid
Speaker 1: examples you can point to and say, look, if you
Speaker 1: play plan for the long term, it can really benefit you.
Speaker 1: So anyway, that pretty much um wraps up our discussion.
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