How can slot machines truly be random if people lose more than win?

Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems obvious that when slot machines win more than lose, then they are not random.

7 Responses to “How can slot machines truly be random if people lose more than win?”

  1. truth_unadulterated says:
    March 2, 2010 at 3:02 am

    Absolutely wrong.

    Look at the odds of winning. If the odds indicate that winning is rare, then there is a higher probability that a loss will occur on a pull.

    To find out if the machine is actually random, the mechanism would need to be examined to see how it arrives at its outcome.

  2. Tav says:
    March 2, 2010 at 3:05 am

    Each time you press the switch on a slot machine is an independent event. So your odds of winning do not increase with each pull if you keep playing.

  3. KryptonNZ says:
    March 2, 2010 at 3:41 am

    they arnt truly random. some are progressive, so after a set amount of time they go off, this can be controlled by a computer chip nowadays. and sometimes its like the computer chip is set to how often it the player will win, and how much the receive. the more they win the higher the customer satisfaction but they dont get as much profit.

    the house always wins!!!

  4. LegFuJohnson says:
    March 2, 2010 at 4:29 am

    You are wrong.

    If all of the combinations would produce 50% winners and 50% losers, and still more people lost, then you could complain that it isn’t random.

    But when more combinations produce a losing result than a winning result, then more people should lose, shouldn’t they?

  5. John F says:
    March 2, 2010 at 4:32 am

    It’s all in the amount of the payout.

    Every form of casino gambling has what is called the “House Edge”.

    Every game has been studied to determine the mathematical probability of every possible outcome. Slot machines are built to provide a certain distribution of the possible outcomes.

    Once the casino knows how often each outcome will occur, it will set the payout levels for that event. The payout will be less than the actual probability of the event. This is how the house makes money.

  6. FAH-Q says:
    March 2, 2010 at 4:55 am

    lets assume a sot machine has a 5% house edge…..you bet $100 and lose it….another guy bets a hundred, wins, gets his hundred bucks back and turns a profit of $90…machine took in $200 and paid back $190…five percent…casinos make a profit off winners not losers…random means what appears on the line of a slot machine is fair….i am right and johnf is right..kryptonN is wrong

  7. Jay P says:
    March 2, 2010 at 5:31 am

    An individual slot machine can pay out more than it takes in but a casino, as a whole, sets up the machines to pay out a certain percentage of what they take in. The casino will always make a profit ( which is why they love slot machines and dedicate most of the gambling floor to them )*

    * This is at least the way it has been explained to me.

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