The title of today’s post says it all really:
I don’t think it liked the bet. Can a machine get scared or tight on paying out?
Valerie S.
There’s a lot of articles about the future of AI and whether it can take on humanistic characteristics like emotions. It doesn’t appear we’re there yet, and we can presume that extends to the slots.
So no, the machine won’t get scared or tight on paying out. But a slot’s payouts are governed over the long term, and so a short term session can go well or go poorly. This is how we can get jackpots – if the pays were too even, it couldn’t pay out enough at once to make those scenarios possible.
And the reality is there’s games out there that are designed to never or almost never jackpot! One of our favorites is Hundred or Nothing. You pay one credit – $1 or $10 usually – and either you win 100 credits or you win nothing. The $10 version’s top prize is $1000 – you can never achieve a jackpot.
But winning $1,000 on a $10 bet is still an exciting proposition for some, and as a one-off attempt could still be fun.
But even on more complex slots that can get handpays, you can get a clump of losing spins or small wins without anything substantial, because there’s more losing combinations than winning ones on slots to begin with, and some “winning” spins will be false wins – wins that award something back, but not your whole bet.
Enough of those in a small duration and it can seem like the machine’s being shy. But a couple of bonuses in quick succession could also take things the other direction. So what you’re feeling here is just the randomness of slots in action.
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