We’ve got to hand it to players and their creativity to find patterns and signs where there won’t be any. Here’s another recent example of a player trying to crack the code on return to player, or RTP.
It has been a while what you said about return to player. Sometimes I add up the grand the major the minor and see how much the total cost of the machine is to the casino and when it comes to a certain total, it should pay out. Does that make sense?
Jill B.
That particular method won’t give you any more help to find a winning machine than any other method players try. Unless a progressive is a “Must Hit By,” where it is getting very close to the number it must pay out at, progressives only help tell a story of how long it’s been, without offering any help regarding when it will pay next.
For one, progressives are generally only a small part of a slot’s overall payout over time, maybe a couple of percentage points. Most of the winning will happen on line hits or bonuses. But the other thing is standard progressives often don’t have an upper limit, and don’t have to pay out at any given point (those “must hit by” ones excepted, of course).
However, we do think as a general rule it’s smart to check progressives for an entirely different reason: If you’re going to ultimately win a progressive, it makes sense to win the biggest one you can! So we do recommend sitting at those big progressives to improve your payout if you happen to be the one that triggers them.
The fact that those progressives are bigger than others in a bank or elsewhere on a casino floor doesn’t make them any easier to win. It doesn’t make them any harder to win either. It’s just another indicator of time passing that is supposed to draw people in. And based on those who think big numbers or pots or whatnot mean a machine is due to hit, it seems like it’s doing its job well.
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