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Cheating Fruit (Slot) Machines

Posted by timothy on from the who'd-a-thunk-it dept.

ebbdr writes "Ever think that fruit machines cheat you? You would be right, at least in the UK. This article provides proof that fruit machine outcomes are predetermined and that the players inputs have little, if anything to do with it. And it lets you download the emulators and machine code required to test the hypothesis for yourself...."

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  1. Damnit! by bad_fx · · Score: 4, Funny

    It thinks it's running on a real physical fruit machine and acts in exactly the same way in all circumstances (except money doesn't actually come out of your PC).

    Whew, thank god they put in that disclaimer, or I would've wasted the next 7 hours sitting here waiting for that one big payout from my PC.

    1. Re:Damnit! by ainsoph · · Score: 4, Funny

      As you know, some people are so stupid they might actually think that they could somehow win money using it. The disclaimer protects them against such idiots. Count yourself lucky you knew better. Imagine if you were the person at the 7-11 buying a pre-packaged muffin in the morning and couldnt figure out the instructions.

      Directions: Unwrap muffin, place in mouth, chew.

    2. Re:Damnit! by nih · · Score: 3, Funny

      Chew?
      and thats all there was to it?

      fs

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    3. Re:Damnit! by b1t+r0t · · Score: 3, Funny
      Besides which, if there really were people that stupid, how did they get the money to come to 7-11 and buy a muffin?

      Welfare, of course.

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    4. Re:Damnit! by Blondie-Wan · · Score: 3, Funny

      Perhaps, but FWIW in my first job, as a summer hire working at a USAF base, I was issued work gloves that came with wearing instructions - I kid you not. Somehow I doubt the US government official or contractor who wrote them did so to be funny, either... :)

    5. Re:Damnit! by Alsee · · Score: 5, Funny

      Every year a couple of programmers try taking a shower for the first time and they are inevitable found dead a couple of days later.

      Instructions on shampoo bottles say:
      Lather; rinse; repeat.

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    6. Re:Damnit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Some are on welfare, some become the president of the US. ;)

    7. Re:Damnit! by limbostar · · Score: 4, Funny

      That bug was fixed in 1.1; it now reads "lather, rinse, repeat as desired."

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    8. Re:Damnit! by Wolfrider · · Score: 2, Funny

      --Gesundheit! :P

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    9. Re:Damnit! by Boss,+Pointy+Haired · · Score: 4, Funny

      I have a theory that boredom is actually a natural self preservation mechanism designed to prevent you from getting stuck in a life threatening recursive situation.

    10. Re:Damnit! by Zirnike · · Score: 2, Funny

      Was I the only one who saw 'fruit machine' and thought of this?

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    11. Re:Damnit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      "A lot" is two words. You wouldn't say "alittle", would you?
      Punctuation goes inside quotation marks.

      That's fine advice there, buddy, but it seems the rule is not a clear cut as you thought.

  2. Bad math by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Gambling is entertainment for people who are bad at math.

    If you play, you've already lost.

  3. can't say i'm surprised... by the_instigator · · Score: 5, Funny

    I keep telling people to play the change machines instead, at least you're gonna break even on each slot session.

    1. Re:can't say i'm surprised... by Drakonian · · Score: 3, Funny

      I love putting in a 20, getting a huge stream of quarters and just screaming "JACKPOT!" with tears running down my face.

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  4. Re:Reminds me of the lottery... by outsider007 · · Score: 3, Funny

    that's why we need an open source lottery.
    here's how it will work:
    everyone sends me a buck and when I have a million, I'll pick a name from the people who sent them in (at random)
    I won't take a cut because I'm such a nice guy.

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  5. Re:Reminds me of the lottery... by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 3, Funny
    People aren't excited while skydiving because they expect to plummet to their death, but most of them do know it's possible.

    I doubt if anyone in history who has ever won the lottery put more into it than they got out. It's this possibility which excites people, let them have their fun.

    Of course, if you drive a few miles to the store to buy a lotto ticket, your odds of dying in a traffic accident are similar to your odds of winning (both about 20,000,000:1).

    Maybe playing lotto has more in common with skydiving than most people think.

  6. Bah... by tomakaan · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's a good thing I play blackjack...

  7. Re:Reminds me of the lottery... by echucker · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've been in at least 6 car accidents in the last 30 years. I figure I'm past due to win the goddamn Lotto ;-)

  8. I Should be a slashdot subscriber... by mattyohe · · Score: 2, Funny

    because I just put away 180 bucks at a local casino, and I may have been able to see this article earlier.

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