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Today, I was having a short session on one of BetSoft games, more of a refresher game for my fading memory, when I suddenly realised that I have found the game that I had always wanted to use to prove that those spinning reels aren't really spinning at all, but are merely a simulation, to replicate those spinning wheels, or reels, of the old mechanical slot machines. In those days, the reels of slot machines are actual wheels within the machine, with symbols pasted onto them, and each reel are inter-connected to one another via gearing cogs mechanism. And yes, those reels actually do spin when you pull down that one-arm bandit lever. The mechanism became more complicated with 5-reels slot machines, until one fine day, modern digital technology abolished all of those mechanical slot machines for ever! Needless to say, there are probably many players who still think that modern day digital slot machines still have reels that spin and spin until they come to a stop, as in those mechanical machines. When I said that those reels were not spinning at all, many found it hard to believe, hehehe. BetSoft's game, Enchanted, shows a simulation of spinning reels, as in all other games too, but what makes the difference is that the simulation is shown at a slow speed, so those symbols on each reel can actually be seen whilst they are 'spinning'. When those reels stop spinning, three symbols on each reel would stop into the rows positions, right? Wrong! Those 3 symbols appearing on each reel and on each row do not come from those 'spinning reels' as you saw them! Each symbol has been individually picked and positioned by the RNG's and Algorithm's mechanism in conjunction with the 'game display' program. Results of each spin are already calculated and known faster than a blink of your eye, but the game display program takes a little bit longer time to display the results graphically. At times, you can actually see how much has been won for that particular spin in your credits balance, even though the reels are still 'spinning'! Have you ever come across this yet? Here, I have 3 screenshots to show what I mean. In the first 2 screenshots, you can see the symbols on each reel as they go 'spinning'...those reels have not stop spinning when the screenshot was taken. The third screenshot shows the symbols after they have stopped 'spinning'. It took me more than 2 hours waiting, just to get this third screenshot, because it took that long for that particular symbol to appear on reel 5! For those of you are already familiar with this BetSoft's 'Enchanted' game, then you will know that the 'Golden Key' symbol can only appear on reel 5, and does not appear at all on reels 1, 2, 3 and 4. Meaning, that 'Golden Key' symbol isn't on those 4 reels at all, but you can actually see the key symbol as those 4 reels go spinning! Why is that? How can you see a symbol that shouldn't be on the reel in the first place? There you go...what you see as 'spinning' wasn't spinning at all. If they were, that Golden Key symbol would have landed on one of the reels sooner or later, which it won't at all. What you saw as 'spinning' was in fact a series of repetitive images being displayed, finely controlled to replicate a spinning effect of the reels! The final symbols that came onto the reels and rows did not come from those 'spinning' reels, but came from the display program, as determined by the calculated results of the game's algorithms. Nowadays, those spinning reels can go in any direction they want to, or as designed to. 'Turning Totems', by Thunderkick, shows the reels going round and round horizontally, and individually too on each reel and row! Gonzo's falling symbols do not go spinning, but that doesn't mean that they are falling one by one from a reel. Then there are also reels that go 'spinning' in opposite directions from the reel beside it. And what about symbols that fly out of nowhere and land onto the screen randomly, without having any apparent reels or rows, as in Fruit Warp? The possibilities are endless. That game display program can do whatever the game designer wants the reels to do! Hehehe.