That pesky random number generator is hard to understand for some.
Explain how the exact same line hits happen a lot. RNG my ass.
Shawn Z.
The question doesn’t indicate where you’re from, but it might be you’re in a market where games aren’t regulated by an RNG.
There’s a video floating around on social platforms of a guy in disbelief that the same bonus came up twice in a Bingo machine market. He claimed incredulously that it would be virtually impossible for this to happen, but depending on the type of game, it’s not necessarily even improbable if you play enough.
In New York, where racinos have video lottery terminals that work more like pull tabs or scratch tickets, we’ve had players send in examples of multiple bonuses on the same machine yielding identical results. Imagine playing Fire Link and getting multiple bonuses where the exact same value prizes land in the exact same spots multiple times.
So, when an RNG isn’t involved, that can certainly be the outcome. But even whe the RNG is involved, you could see certain line combinations come out more frequently, and that would be by design. Game designers can put more weight on certain symbols on the reels, having them naturally come out more often and award the same line hit more often.
The thing players often don’t understand is the RNG is random, but only within a predefined set of outcomes that the game is designed to offer. It isn’t an uncontrolled randomness.
This set of outcomes is how a game maker can ensure it will make money for the casino in the long term. It can also let them have control over, on average, how often a progressive is won or a bonus is triggered.
So, no, your gripe isn’t actually with the RNG, but the game designer, and how they have certain outcomes appearing more frequently than others.
