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The casinos know how much an individual slot machine returns but the players don’t. There is no way we can find out without being given privileged information. ” “

nomination of those machines.Therefore,we can find out what the five dollar machines return,what the dollar machines return,what the twenty five cent machines return and so on. Sadly, these are just averages. It may be true that the five-dollar ma chines are returning 95 percent of the money played in them but we don’t know if the particular machine at which we are gazing actually re turns 95 percent or 92 or 98 percent. But we can say with some confidence that a five-dollar machine will return more to the players than a dollar machine,whose average is about 91 percent. Is this an absolute statement? No. It is a guess; an informed guess, yes, but it is not absolutely a true statement. We are looking at averages and making our guess based on those. We just don’t have the figures available to us and we can’t figure every

thing out the way we can at games such as video poker,blackjack,roulette, craps, etc. We will always be guessing at individual slot machine percentages because the programming is a secret between the manufacturers and the casinos.The player is an outsider in this case and really has little ability to ferret out the correct percentages on any given machine. Guessing is the best we can do.We don’t have figures as we do with the other casino games so, okay, point to a machine and take your best guess! All the best in and out of the casinos! D

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