Ever wanted to be able to walk away from a gambling machine with more cash than when you approached it with, time and time again? Ever needed that can of drink or a chocolate bar but didn't have enough change? This section is for you...


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Tips and Tactics

Working out the system by which any given betting machine operates aids enormously in getting it to give you more money than you give it. Observing the running process of a machine and acting knowledge is quite legal. Newer fruit machines are computer controlled and rely on random number generation. The random numbers generated determine the position of the rotatingreels and thus the wins. The random numbers are typically generated from a real-time clock inside the machine, such digital machines can have thousands of patterns before repeating.

Most of the older machines rely on mechanical systems for the generation of a 'random' effect. This random effect can be observed to repeat itself regularly (say every 100 credits used) and one situation (say 3 grapes) can indicate predictable future results. Try wathcing someone on a heavy gambling spree and try to observe how the machine operates. If you can, jot down your findings - the result might be very profitable.

If you have good the fortune of knowinf someone with personal acces to a commonly found machine, you could ask to use it (offering them a small bonus) and try and get used to the machine's workings.

One case for which this is excellent is trivia machines; machines which pay out on the user correctly answering a series of randomly chosen questions. Such machines may have an inventory of 10000 questions or more, but if you're up to it, armed with a decent encyclopaedia, you can soon learn enough to win.


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