When playing traditional Vegas-style slot machines, each one has its own internal random number generator. It’s not the same when it comes to Bingo Machines, which calls out to a central game of bingo for the results. So how does that impact machine choice?
When playing class 2 (Bingo) Machines and say there’s a bank of 6 machines together with 3 each of a certain theme and all have the same progressive amount. Since they are probably working off the same server, does it do any good to hop around to each machine or just stay on 1 machine?
Steve
Just like on Vegas-style (Class III) slot machines, it won’t matter which machine you pick, because you’re placing the same wager (presuming all else equal) with the same chances of winning whether you’re on machine one or two in a bank.
Generally speaking, a bank of the same game is going to be linked to the same games of Bingo with the same odds of winning, so you won’t see any difference in the long term by moving from one to another.
Sure, you’ll have different bingo cards with different numbers to match, but the odds of matching them won’t change. So just like our advice on changing machines or changing timing elsewhere, it’s a neutral change, as it could be better or worse, and you won’t actually know which it is because you won’t know what outcome you missed out on by making the change (or not making the change, as the case may be).
So we encourage players in situations like this to do what feels best for them and keeps it fun, but don’t think too much about it as it’s something that’s simply outside our control. If changing things up makes you feel better, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t do it – just don’t expect it to suddenly change anything necessarily, and if it does, that’s a happy outcome.
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