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So i found this 100+ pages long thread in a swedish forum where they question the randomness of slots. In this particular thread NetEnt slots. After allot of discussion back and forth a new member makes a post claiming to have worked as a slot programmer. He even made some claims about physical slots in sweden and the swedish lottery comission and such. I have scissored out the part about how he claims slots work, and to be true it kinda makes sence to me. I google translated it so english is so and so: More technically about slots: For simplicity, i write "virtual reels," or "virtual wheel". ALL slots have so-called virtual wheels, though it is of course just numbers and not wheels. But to paint a picture of how one or more spins work, so we call it the virtual wheel. Virtual wheel consists of a few hundred to several thousand or more, "trade" or "spots". Each virtual wheel MUST (according to the Control Board) contain one of each EXISTING ICON (also called "game elements"). These "original" symbols must never be removed before any spin. It is allowed for slots programmers to change all other positions (change the game symbols RNG'n can pick) on the virtual reels, between each spin if desired. So this is how to determine when you can win anything. Among all these, its CHANCE who chooses (RNG). Unfortunately, the above is a smokescreen, because what you gain in money, is still controlled by the symbols that are placed or removed from the virtual reels, and it is no coincidence, but time-driven. It is also illegal under the rules of the "Control Board" to hard-coding, ie, program the "near miss" results, that is, where you see that you "almost" could win a bonus round, or a large profit, etc. This, my friends, they solve through the free placement of gaming symbols on the virtual reels. Now I exaggerate the example below, just to show how it may look ... VR = Virtual wheels BR = Bonus Round Position 2 WR 1 WR WR WR 3 4 5 VR 7 BR BR cherry orange BR 8 BR BR BR cherry cherry 9 BR BR BR cherry cherry 10 BR BR BR cherry orange etc .... Now that the random number generator randomizing the position of each virtual wheel above, there is no combination that can create a bonus round. However, it will be created "near miss" results. Of course, in the example, so it requires three consecutive "FF" to get a bonus round, this slot! To simply explain, as simple as that can: 1) Before you hit the spin button placed game symbols on the virtual reels. Selection of games symbols is done using time (time management). Time steering choice of game symbols, location, number, in turn determined by what will go to win the money, simply put. 2) When you press the SPIN selects random number generator which of the existing symbols that will constitute the outcome of the game round. Timing and time, it is important to remember when playing on SLOTS !!! So im going to just sum it up here in better english. What he says is the lisence says that all symbols in the game must be on the virtual reel strip. But the games cycles on a timer trough the outcomes that the RNG can pick. Even do all symbols are there it can go trough a cycle where they basicly remove some symbols from the possible RNG picks. And he also says that its illigal to program near misses, but they solve this by the changing of symbols. DOA example: SC= Scatter Ree strippl 1 Ree strippl 2 Reel stripp 3 Reel stripp 4 Reel stripp 5 K Hat K K K SC SC K K K SC SC K K K SC SC K K K As you can see if this is the symbols the RNG can pick its impossible to get 3 scatters because the RNG doessent have the third scatter to pick. But you would get allot of "near misses". So the game might go 15 minutes or half an hour with "bad" reel strips then maybe go a short periode with "good" reel strips. If his claim is real then basicly when a slot goes cold there is no point in playing it. Simply wait until it heats up again. And also if this was somehow proven or it came out that slots really work this way i think i would never play again because even tough its "random" because you dont know how it cycles or when. But still its not truly random and in my opinion unfair.