Most of us who play slots enough will inevitably notice something that seems to happen more frequently. Our question today is an example of this, and this is a more optimistic take than some of the other versions we receive:
Do slot machines sometimes hit a second bonus soon after a really bad paying bonus? I feel it’s happened enough to me to make me wonder.
David R.
Slots aren’t designed to have specific outcomes follow specific outcomes, because any potential outcome has to be possible on the next spin, regardless of what came before it. That’s part of the design of slots as required by the various regulations in the markets where they’re offered.
Just like a slot isn’t “due” to hit after a losing streak, or designed to stay “hot” after a series of good wins, it’s not designed with scenarios where a better bonus will follow a rough one.
But it also means it can happen, because a better bonus is also one of the possible outcomes that can come out of things after a bad one.
Of course, we’ve had scenarios (and we’d guess you have too) where a few mediocre to bad bonuses are about all you can accomplish on a slot. That scenario tends to often happen at times that ultimately results in lesser casino return days where it’s hard to get much to happen.
We’ve had multi-hour casino sessions where the best bonus we could muster is 10x, including multiple bonuses on the same machine. A 10x bonus is often disappointing nowadays.
What this tends to be is a form of confirmation bias – the idea that you spot and remember the times that back up your hypothesis, and are more likely to forget the times when scenarios contradict it.
Slots don’t work on any sort of a pattern, but the frequency of things happening on them is enough for people to draw conclusions. But we can confirm slots aren’t designed with patterns, so the randomness will have it sometimes happen, and other times not.
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