Brian recently played Coyote Moon on a reel that led to this comment:
I like this one but you have to ‘read’ it. If it doesn’t pay anything in the first 5 to 7 spins, move on.
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There’s no way to predict a success on a slot from the first 5-7 spins.
Similar to attempting to identify whether a slot is “hot” or “cold” based on a slot’s previous wins or losses, this method doesn’t work because any outcome a slot can offer has an equal chance of happening on the next spin, regardless of whether a slot’s first 5-7 spins were good or not.
However remote, it’s possible for a slot to hit the top jackpot on back to back spins. More likely, because some percentage of a slot’s spins are losing ones, you could have two back to back losing spins. But that doesn’t mean because you lost on the first two spins that the third spin will therefore also be a losing one.
Slots need to be sufficiently random that a player has a chance of winning any prize on any spin. Slots also don’t need to factor in previous outcomes anyway, because as long as each spin has an equal chance of hitting on any spin, in the long term each outcome will come up roughly the same number of times, and the machine will therefore pay out what it needs to, while keeping for the casino what it is designed to keep.
So no method of “testing” the machine will give you any useful information to determine what the session will be like. But if you want to move on because you’re not happy with how things are starting out, that’s certainly up to you as someone playing with real cash. Just don’t stress that 5-7 spins will give you any meaningful information.
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