Have you ever played online slots? After
you place your wager, you click the Spin button, and the reels spin around and
then they slow down and stop, right?
WRONG! There are no reels in an online slot machine, and nothing is spinning around. All there really is, is a Random Number Generator doing its thing. The spinning reels is merely an illusion. Play free baseball games online.
So what is a Random Number Generator? It is a piece of
computer software that is programmed to replicate completely random events. In
a way, the name is a bit misleading, because it doesn’t just generate random
numbers, like the number 43. A Random Number Generator can generate random
spins of a virtual roulette wheel, random tosses of virtual craps dice, or
random deals of virtual blackjack cards. Whatever the computer programmers want
it to do, the Random Number Generator will do, and it will do it randomly.
If you are playing, for example, the Thunderstruck online
slots game, you will think you see reels with various symbols on them, such as
Thor, Thor’s Hammer, Thor’s Fist, the Ram, the Castle, Lightning, etc. You will
think you see the reels spin, and you will think you see the first reel stop,
and then the second, and then the third. Even if you know the reels are not
real, you cannot help but see them spin. That’s how powerful the spell of the
Random Number Generator is.
What does this mean to the online slots player? It means
you can go ahead and play your online slots game with complete trust that the
game is fair. A random game means a fair game, and the Random Number Generator
makes sure that the game is random.
A random game means that the outcome of the game does not
follow any predetermined pattern, and that each “spin” of the online slot
machine is independent of all the “spins” that came before it. In
Thunderstruck, you win the big jackpot – 10,000 coins – if you get five Thor
symbols lined up on a payline. If no one has hit the jackpot on the last 10,000
spins of the machine, don’t think that it is “due” to hit the jackpot on the
next spin. Or if someone hit the jackpot just before you started playing, don’t
think that it is impossible to hit it again so soon. Random means that every
spin has the same chance of hitting the jackpot as every other spin does,
regardless of anything that has happened in the past.
The logical conclusion of all this is to go ahead and enjoy playing online slots, enjoy the illusion of computer-generated virtual “reels” spinning around and then stopping, and play with confidence that online slots games are truly random. If you’re lucky, you could be the next jackpot winner.