43 Million Dollar Slot Machine
So far we've talked about only one reel, though most slots have three or five, and each reel is actually weighted differently. If you saw a worker open up an electro-mechanical slot machine you might see a reel like the one on the right , if it were unfolded. By the third reel the higher-paying symbols are even less likely. So if someone hits a jackpot on a machine you were just playing, relax, you wouldn't have gotten it had you kept playing, because you would have hit SPIN at a slightly different time than they did. If it picks 75, then it tells the reel to stop on a cherry. We're really working with an invisible reel of like or so stops, controlled by the computer.
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